{"id":11734,"date":"2012-05-23T06:26:38","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T11:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=11734"},"modified":"2012-05-23T06:26:38","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T11:26:38","slug":"this-does-not-constitute-a-recommendation-to-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11734","title":{"rendered":"This Does Not Constitute a Recommendation to Buy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/electricity-generated-from-water-blacklight-power-announces-validation-of-its-scientific-breakthrough-in-energy-production-2012-05-22\">Electricity generated from water: BlackLight Power announces validation of its scientific breakthrough in energy production<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;validation&#8221; here is that they got some money for further development, and this is reported on a business site.  Getting backers does not preclude them being, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cjr.org\/the_observatory\/weird_science_reporting.php?page=all&amp;print=true\">Bob Park has put it<\/a>, &#8220;investors with deep pockets and shallow brains&#8221;.  The purported mechanism is the formation of Hydrinos, which is a state in Hydrogen below the ground state.  Which is, needless to say, at odds with basic quantum mechanics.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>BlackLight&#8217;s continuously operating, power-producing system converts ubiquitous H2O (water) vapor directly into electricity, oxygen, and a new, more stable form of Hydrogen called Hydrino, which releases 200 times more energy than directly burning hydrogen<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If it&#8217;s &#8220;more stable&#8221; than regular Hydrogen, one has to wonder why we don&#8217;t see it everywhere.  Oh, wait, we apparently do:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The identity of the dark matter of the universe as Hydrinos is supported by BlackLight&#8217;s spectroscopic and analytical results as well as astrophysical observations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Except, of course, that spectroscopy means photons, and dark matter doesn&#8217;t interact electromagnetically, because if it did, we&#8217;d see it.  If you can get to this Hydrino state electromagnetically, why doesn&#8217;t it happen spontaneously?  We should be up to our armpits in Hydrinos.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electricity generated from water: BlackLight Power announces validation of its scientific breakthrough in energy production The &#8220;validation&#8221; here is that they got some money for further development, and this is reported on a business site. Getting backers does not preclude &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11734\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiscience","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}