In six separate, independent studies, leading scientists from academia and industry with PhDs from prestigious universities including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the California Institute of Technology, confirm that BlackLight has achieved a technological breakthrough with its CIHT (Catalyst-Induced-Hydrino-Transition) clean energy generating process and cell.  The Process is fueled by water vapor that is a gaseous component of air and present wherever there is any source of water.  The CIHT cell harnesses this energy as electrical power output and is suitable for essentially all power applications including transportation applications and electrical power production completely autonomous of fuels and grid infrastructure at a small fraction of the current capital costs.

“BlackLight’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,” said Dr. Randell Mills, Chairman, CEO and President of BlackLight Power, Inc., and inventor of the process.  Hydrogen is not naturally available and has to be produced using energy.  But, H₂O vapor is ubiquitous and free, obtainable even from ambient air.  Dr. Mills says that BlackLight has achieved critical milestones in scaling its new technology with typical electrical gain of more than ten times that which initiates the process, operating over long duration at the 10 Watt (W) scale.  A 100 W unit is planned for completion by the end of 2012, and a 1.5 kiloWatt (kW) pilot unit that can serve the residential power market, as an initial target commercial application, is expected to be operational by 2013.  (One kW is equal to 1000 W, and 1.5 kW is the typical, average power consumption of a US home.)

BlackLight has raised a total of $75 M for the development and commercialization of its breakthrough energy technology, and has license agreements with companies to use its patented commercial processes and systems in heating and electric power generation.  The new BlackLight Process validation reports, including full documentation and results of theory evaluation, replication and testing of the CIHT systems, and Hydrino characterization, are publicly available at http://www.blacklightpower.com/.  The website also includes links to validator resumes and to technical and business support materials, including recent presentations that further explain the BlackLight Process and a technical paper providing the detailed chemistry and identification of Hydrinos by analytical methods, which laboratories can follow and replicate.

Mechanism

Each CIHT cell comprises a positive electrode, the cathode, a negative electrode, the anode, and an electrolyte that also serves as a source of reactants to form Hydrinos.

A Hydrino-producing reaction mixture creates electricity from H2O as the reactants are constituted with the migration of the electrons through an external circuit and ion mass transport through a separate internal path through the electrolyte to complete an electrical circuit.

The mechanism may be broken down to interdependent steps:

1. Assume CIHT is similar to an alkaline fuel cell, except that an electric current is passed through it and an inert atmosphere with trace H2O vapor surrounds the cathode, anode, and electrolyte.
2. Current is introduced, which produces hydrogen and oxygen from the electrolysis of the supplied trace H2O.  Then, the cell is discharged for a much longer time than it was charged at essentially the same voltage maintained by the energy released from the hydrino reaction.
3. Nascent H2O is formed at the anode during discharge by oxidation of OH- and reaction with H.  Hydrinos are then formed at the anode during cell discharge as a result of the atomic hydrogen reacting with the nascent water that serves as the catalyst to form the hydrinos.
4. When the hydrinos form, energy is given off that causes spontaneous electrochemical reactions to occur at both electrodes that result in a self-propagating electrochemical cycle wherein H2O is converted to hydrinos, electricity, and oxygen.  Specifically, oxidation-reduction reactions of H2O involving oxygen and oxygen ion intermediates such as hydroxide, oxides, peroxides, and superoxides are involved in the spontaneous electrolysis of water powered by hydrino formation that in turn result in the formation of catalyst and hydrinos.  The equivalent of Steps 1 and 2 occur continuously, except that no electricity has been applied during this process.  Power is produced with a large net gain in electricity (e.g. 10X) over that to initiate the spontaneous electricity-producing process.
   
   
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Quotes from Academic and Industry Experts

• Dr. K.V. Ramanujachary, Rowan University Meritorious Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry. “BlackLight’s CIHT electrochemical cell harnesses this fundamentally new primary energy source as electrical output by using a catalyst to cause hydrogen atoms of water molecules to transition to a lower-energy, Hydrino state, resulting in a release of energy that is intermediate between chemical and nuclear energies, and a nonpolluting product,” said Dr. Ramanujachary, who conducted one of the validation studies.  “The CIHT cells constantly output stable, very high-gain electrical power for more than a month, with H₂O as the only source of fuel for the process.  The trace H₂O vapor was supplied by a water source, or alternatively, it was extracted directly from the air, resulting in generation of electricity from water alone.  This process and system that I have confirmed is truly exceptional.”

• W. Henry Weinberg, who was a professor of Chemical Engineering, Chemistry and Applied Physics at California Institute of Technology for eighteen years, a professor of Chemical Engineering, Chemistry and Materials Science at University of California, Santa Barbara for six years, and co-founder and CTO of Symyx Technologies for 13 years.  “It would be irrational not to be very skeptical, and I was extremely skeptical.  However, after having reviewed Dr. Mills classical theory, participated in experimental designs and execution, and having reviewed vast amounts of other data BLP produced, I have found nothing that warrants rejection of their extraordinary claims, and I encourage aggressive optimization and fast track development of a scaled up prototype,” said Dr. Weinberg.  “To be able to use hydrogen from water as a cheap and nonpolluting source of power would represent one of the most important technological breakthroughs in history.”

• Dr. Terry Copeland, former manager of product development for several electrochemical and energy companies including DuPont Company and Duracell.  “BLP has successfully fabricated and tested CIHT cells capable of producing net electrical output up to 50 times that input to maintain the process,” said Dr. Copeland.  “Some cells have produced steady power for over one month.  The power generation is consistent with Dr. Mills’ theory of energy release resulting from Hydrino formation.  No other source of energy could be identified.  The CIHT cell will use cheap, abundant, nontoxic, commodity chemicals, with no apparent long-term supply issues that might preclude commercial, high volume manufacturing.  The capital cost of the CIHT cell based on optimization of the cell dimensions is estimated to be under $100/kW compared to at least ten times that for fuel cells that further require a source of hydrogen or hydrogen gas and a fuel infrastructure.”

• Dr. James Pugh, Director of Technology at The ENSER Corporation. “Representatives from the ENSER Corporation witnessed the assembly and operation of multiple CIHT cells, and the results showed excess electrical energy, up to 100 times that used to maintain the process in cells run as long as sixty days,” said Dr. Pugh.   “There is no apparent difficulty in assembling single cell and multi-cell units, in a production scale environment.  By carefully designing and optimizing the CIHT cell, a one-liter volume could generate 3.3 kW.  This is greater than that necessary for motive as well as stationary electrical power applications.”

• Recently, the prestigious European Physical Journal D selected as a highlighted article, the Company’s results of the predicted characteristic high-energy light emission from hydrogen forming Hydrinos using a high-voltage pinched pulsed plasma source that further reported the replication of this signature by CfA spectroscopists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) under a study contracted by GEN3 Partners.  The Physical Journal D article and other supporting articles also are available on BlackLight’s website.

About BlackLight Power

BlackLight Power, Inc. was incorporated in 1991 and is based in the Princeton area of New Jersey.  It has received 62 patents including four in the U.S., and has more than 100 pending patent applications for its innovative processes, process applications, and products.  The BlackLight Process uses a novel catalytic process to generate energy from water vapor, releasing the latent energy of the hydrogen atom by forming a more stable form of hydrogen called Hydrinos.  The Process is applicable to essentially all power applications, including thermal, electrical, automotive, trucking, marine, rail, aviation, and aerospace.

For more information about the Company, please visit http://www.blacklightpower.com/.

Glossary:

BlackLight Process: A novel chemical process invented by Dr. Mills that causes the latent energy stored in the hydrogen atom to be released as a new primary energy source. 

Hydrino: A new form of hydrogen, which was theoretically predicted by Dr. Mills and produced and characterized by BLP.  Hydrinos are produced as energy is released from the hydrogen atom as the electron transitions to a lower-energy state, resulting in a smaller radius hydrogen atom.  (Note: The identity of the dark matter of the universe as Hydrinos is supported by BlackLight’s spectroscopic and analytical results as well as astrophysical observations.)

CIHT Cell: Comprised of a positive electrode, the cathode, a negative electrode, the anode, and an ion-conducting electrolyte that also serves as a source of reactants to form Hydrinos.  A Hydrino-producing reaction mixture creates electricity from H₂O as the reactants are constituted with the migration of the electrons through an external circuit and ion mass transport, through a separate internal path through the electrolyte to complete an electrical circuit.  The CIHT cell was invented by Dr. Mills to release energy from forming Hydrinos directly as electricity.  It uses water vapor as its sole fuel source.

Spectral Emissions: Spectral emission of an atom such as hydrogen is its unique signature that serves as a fingerprint of its characteristics.  Each line of the spectrum is characteristic of and identifies the energy levels of the atom.  The Hydrino signature is unique in that it comprises a continuum of wavelengths, as opposed to discrete lines, and the energy is in the soft X-ray region.  This indicates that hydrogen has more stable states than previously thought possible or accounted for by the historical theory of quantum mechanics.

Electricity generated from water: Major breakthrough in clean Free Energy confirmed

350 people have been injured, 12 of whom have been seriously injured. 8000 people are homeless in addition to the 6000 from the May 20th quake. It has also been suggested that around 8000 buildings have been damaged or destroyed as a result of the May 29 quakes potentially totaling 250-300 million euros just by building losses.

Moment of deadly Italy earthquake caught on camera

Northern Italy is still active and shaken by large nubmer of aftershocks. EMSC recorded 59 of them on Wednesday, May 30, 2012 by 11:00 UTC.

Images from air reveal dramatic aftermath of yesterdays deadly earthquake in Italy

The Dutch parliamentarians have opted not to wait for the EU’s vote on ACTA which is set for June, with consultations kicking off already this Thursday.

“The treaty should be taken off table, whatever the decision the European Parliament should take,” said MP Kees Verhoeven, a major sponsor of Tuesday’s motion in the Dutch Parliament.

Lisa Neves Goncalves, a spokeswoman for the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation, said the government had earlier this year stated it would not sign off on the treaty until it was clear it did not breach the Dutch or EU constitution.

As the controversial bill is making its slow way through the EU Parliament, the UK Pirate Party, the Open Rights Group (ORG) and the French La Quadrature Du Net are calling for more anti-bill rallies.

“The votes this Thursday, in three of the Committees responsible for offering ‘Opinions’ on the treaty, will really affect whether the European Parliament ultimately rejects ACTA or not. It is important that your MEP understand people’s concerns. And calling your MEP will help make this happen,” says the Open Rights Group in a blog post.

ACTA is an international agreement aimed at protecting intellectual property. It somewhat resembles the US’s Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), which was shelved by lawmakers after protests.

The European Union suspended efforts to ratify the treaty in February amid a storm of protest from activists who say the agreement would stifle free speech and access to information. Thousands demonstrated across the EU against giving big firms the power to ban people from using the Internet for illegally swapping files. Twenty-two countries in the bloc signed up to the agreement, with a vote on its ratification due this summer in Brussels.

The US, most of the EU, Australia, Canada, Japan and several other countries have signed the ACTA treaty, but none of these signatories’ parliaments have yet ratified it. This last step would make the agreement viable. As soon as ACTA is ratified by any six nations, the convention will come into force.

Source: RT

Featured image: ivpn.net

Dutch Parliament kills ACTA before EU vote: the government will never sign any such agreement

No impact or damage has been reported. The outburst came in the wake of a chain of seismic events arount the region.

The high, isolated massif of Shiveluch volcano (also spelled Sheveluch) rises above the lowlands NNE of the Kliuchevskaya volcano group. The 1300 cu km Shiveluch is one of Kamchatka’s largest and most active volcanic structures.

The summit of roughly 65,000-year-old Stary Shiveluch is truncated by a broad 9-km-wide late-Pleistocene caldera breached to the south. Many lava domes dot its outer flanks. The Molodoy Shiveluch lava dome complex was constructed during the Holocene within the large horseshoe-shaped caldera; Holocene lava dome extrusion also took place on the flanks of Stary Shiveluch.

At least 60 large eruptions of Shiveluch have occurred during the Holocene, making it the most vigorous andesitic volcano of the Kuril-Kamchatka arc. Widespread tephra layers from these eruptions have provided valuable time markers for dating volcanic events in Kamchatka.

Frequent collapses of dome complexes, most recently in 1964, have produced debris avalanches whose deposits cover much of the floor of the breached caldera.

Shiveluch sits at the intersection of the Kamchatka volcanic line, which runs northeast, and the Aleutian volcanic line, which runs northwest. Junctions such as this are typically points of intense volcanic activity.

View Shiveluch web cam.

Sources: chinadaily.com.cn, volcano.si.edu, earthobservatory.nasa.gov

Featured image credit: earthobservatory.nasa.gov

Following a series of tremors Shiveluch volcano in Kamchatka spewed ash 7.3 km above sealevel on May 29, 2012

At this point, there are no warnings or coastal watches in effect according to National Weather Service.

On May 29, the NHC warned that Beryl could produce total rain accumulations of 13 to 25 centimeters (5 to 10 inches), with amounts up to 38 centimeters (15 inches) in isolated areas. News outlets reported that, aside from rain, damage from the storm had been fairly minor, although winds had downed trees and briefly knocked out power to about 20,000 Jacksonville residents.

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this natural-color image of Beryl around noon local time on May 28. The main mass of storm clouds was west of Jacksonville, with spiral arms extending over Georgia, Florida, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Gulf of Mexico.

Weakened slow-moving Beryl producing heavy rains

According to its absolute magnitude (H=28.8) this asteroid has an estimated size of roughly 3-10 meters, so it is a small object. There is no danger of a collision according to the asteroid’s orbit. This small asteroid would be too small to cause significant damage to our planet. It would likely disintegrate almost entirely in the atmosphere, peppering the ground below with relatively small meteorites.

Orbit diagram (Source: NASA/JPL)

The asteroid was discovered by A. R. Gibbs of the Catalina Sky Survey in the course of Mt. Lemmon Survey with a 1.5-m reflector + CCD on May 28, 2012 at magnitude ~18.1. While there is no cause for concern, this is one of the closest approaches recorded. It ranks # 6 on the top 20 list of closest-approachers to Earth.

According to calculation made by P. Tricarico, 2012 KT42 has experienced a partial eclipse while approaching Earth on May 28, 2012 between 14:05 UTC and 21:45 UTC, before the flyby. See animation below (click on it for a bigger version). Probably the first case ever of an approaching asteroid experiencing an eclipse and a transit during the same flyby with Earth. More info about this on Tricarico’s website.

In this animation the observer is at the Sun position, looking towards the Earth. The asteroid 2012 KT42 first passes behind the Earth, causing the partial eclipse, and then accelerates under the influence of Earth's gravity, inverts its apparent motion (relative to Earth), and passes between the Earth and the Sun, causing the solar transit. (Credit: Pasquale Tricarico, Planetary Science Institute)

JPL Small-Body Data Browser 

Featured image: Discovery images of asteroid 2012 KT42. (Credit: Catalina Sky Survey/Mt. Lemmon Observatory)

Asteroid 2012 KT42 buzzes Earth

Local authorities have raised the alert level from yellow to orange following a report issued by the Manizales Volcanological and Seismological Observatory. An orange alert does not mean an eruption is imminent.

Web cameras in the area “show the emission of ash,” which “has been felt in the area surrounding the volcano,” according to Seismologic and Volcanic Observation director Gloria Patricia Cortes, who also noted the impact on city of Manizales and municipality of Villamaria.

Cortes said that relief agencies in the area are prepped for immediate action, in case of emergency. “The recommendation now is to use masks in the city of Manizales because of the persistent rain of ashes,” said Cortes, who also said that she did not expect a lava flow but did not rule out that the emission of ash could continue for some time.

According to officials, small amounts of ash could be dispersed from the volcano to remote areas depending on wind direction and strength. The volcano has been fluctuating at high activity levels for the past several months and was lowered to alert level yellow earlier this month. The last eruption of the volcano in 1985 killed an estimated 25,000 people and destroyed the town of Armero.

Source: RSOE

Featured image: INGEOMINAS

Colombian volcano Nevado del Ruiz on orange alert after Tuesday morning earthquake

While the amounts are not considered a health hazard, the detection reflects the magnitude of the nuclear disaster, which resulted in the release of massive amounts of radioactive materials into the atmosphere and sea.

A Stanford University researcher and two others wrote that they have found “unequivocal evidence” that the tuna transported across the Pacific Ocean radioactive cesium released in the disaster triggered by the powerful earthquake and tsunami in March last year.

“We were frankly kind of startled,” said Nicholas Fisher, one of the researchers reporting the findings online Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The levels of radioactive cesium were 10 times higher than the amount measured in tuna off the California coast in previous years. But even so, that’s still far below safe-to-eat limits set by the U.S. and Japanese governments.

The results “are unequivocal. Fukushima was the source,” said Ken Buesseler of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, who had no role in the research.

Bluefin tuna absorbed radioactive cesium from swimming in contaminated waters and feeding on contaminated prey such as krill and squid, the scientists said. As the predators made the journey east, they shed some of the radiation through metabolism and as they grew larger. Even so, they weren’t able to completely flush out all the contamination from their system.

Sources: english.kyodonews.jp, hosted.ap.org

Featured image: PACIFIC OCEAN (March 13, 2011) An aerial view of debris from an 8.9 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami that struck northern Japan. The debris was inspected by a helicopter-based search and rescue team from the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76). Ships and aircraft from the Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group are searching for survivors in the coastal waters near Sendai, Japan. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Dylan McCord/Released). commons.wikimedia.org

Radioactive cesium from Fukushima found in bluefin tuna caught off U.S.

INGV, the Italian seismological service is reporting a Magnitude of M5.8 at a focal depth of 10.8 km.

At 8:25 UTC magnitude 4.7 strong aftershock was recorded near the same area. At 8:40 UTC another 4.7 magnitude earthquake with depth of 10 km. Many aftershocks have occured by now with magnitudes between 2.9 and 4.0.

At 10:55 UTC a 5.6 magnitude earthquake struck the same area at depth of 9.9 km.

The head of the Civil Defense, Franco Gabrielli, announced that the present dead is now 15.

At least 20 people have been also injured.

Of these all have been in the province of Modena – 3 dead in San Felice sul Panaro: two workers and a technician who were doing some investigations on the static nature of the Meta Industry building, 1 death in Concordia (an elderly person killed by a falling cornice (a common way of death during earthquake, where fancy cornices and non-structural elements fall on people), 1 death in Finale, 1 death of the pastor of Rovereto nel Novi, Don Ivan Martini, the victim of falling debris, 2 women died in Cavezzo. 1 woman died buried beneath the rubble of Furniture Malavasi, 2 dead in the rubble of the factory Bbg San Giacomo Roncole in Mirandola, 1 male worker died by crushing through the collapse of the Haemotronic factory (they produce medical equipment).

There have also been a undisclosed number of injured.

The devastation of Cavezzo (from Twitter).

People in panic have been poured into the streets, leaving apartments and offices. Schools have been evacuated.

There were a lot of difficulties with Mobile Communications.

A lot of SAR (Search and Rescue) and Civil Protection is now in the area and will make rescue and damage assessments a lot easier than during the first mainshock.

People in the earthquake area are telling the press that the shaking can be called similar to the mainshock, which would not surprise as the Magnitude was approx. the same.

6000 people are homeless as a result of this earthquake.

Much damage has occurred to cathedrals, buildings and other infrastructure.

The price tag is expected to equal that of the previous quake on 20 May or even exceed it.

Sources: USGS, Earthquake-report

Featured image: Google Earth + USGS

Very strong and shallow earthquake with magnitude 5.8 struck Northern Italy

On May 28, 2012 at 21:47 UTC magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck Tonga. According to USGS epicenter was located 158 km (98 miles) NNW of NUKU`ALOFA, Tonga (19.861°S, 175.894°W). Recorded depth was 226.6 km (140.8 miles). EMSC recorded 5.4 magnitude earthquake with depth of 200 km.

On May 29, 2012 at 03:33 UTC a 5.9 magnitude earthquake struck south of Fiji islands. This one was even deeper than Tonga with recorded depth of 605.4 km (376.2 miles). Epicenter was located 171 km (106 miles) SSW of Ndoi Island, Fiji (22.010°S, 179.489°W). EMSC recorded 5.6 magnitude earthquake and depth od 626 km.

On the other side of the globe, Northern Italy is still shaking. EMSC recorded 5 smaller but shallow earthquakes there in last 8 hours. The strongest one being magnitude 2.7 with recorded depth of only 1 km. Southern Italy is also showing signs of unrest where 2 weak and shallow earthquakes were recorded during last 2 hours. During the whole 24 hours of May, 28, 2012 UTC we had 36 shallow earthquakes recorded in Northern Italy according to EMSC.

Other significant earthquakes today include two stronger earthquakes in Russia and one in Japan. At 2:40 UTC a 5.6 magnitude earthquake with depth of 17.8 km struck Komandorskiye Ostrva. This one was followed by 4.6 magnitude with depth of 19.6 that struck the same area only 2 hours later. Earlier, a 5.2 earthquake with depth of 40.6 km struck off the east coast of Honshu, Japan at 01:56 UTC.

May 29, 2012 has just begun by UTC and judging by what we have seen by now there will be more strong ones to come.

The following is a list of all 2.5+ earthquakes recorded by USGS in last three days.

Update time = Wed May 30 6:50:41 UTC 2012

Updates:

Very strong and shallow earthquake with magnitude 5.8 struck Northern Italy at 7:00 UTC. Recorded depth was 9.6 km (6.0 miles). Epicenter was located 40 km (25 miles) NNW (330°) from Bologna, Italy (44.814°N, 11.079°E).

INGV, the Italian seismological service is reporting a Magnitude of M5.8 at a focal depth of 10.8 km.

People in panic have been poured into the streets, leaving apartments and offices.

Detailed updates on this particular earthquake and aftershocks can be found at thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2012/05/29/very-strong-...

Update 13:35 UTC:

EMSC is mostly offline today and USGS is utterly slow on updates.

Two important earthquakes are mission on USGS charts. 5.5 magnitude and 5.1 magnitude earthquakes in Canary Islands, Spain. Both with depth of 10km. You can see them listed in Montenegro’s Seismological Observatory below.

Sources: USGS, EMSC, seismo.co.me

Featured image: Tonga and Fiji earthquakes on May 29. Credit: Google Earth + USGS

World shaking: Two strong and deep earthquakes struck South Pacific, Northern Italy still active… May 29, 2012