AND, today, after all these years, Blacklight Power, Inc., has finally gone commercial with its powerful new energy source. See
http://pesn.com/2008/05/29/9500481_Blacklight_commercially_ready/   29May08 news

There is apparently now even less need to build new coal-and nuclear fueled generators.

A somewhat obsolete compilation of "Advanced Technologies for Foreign Resort Project" is in http://www.icestuff.com/~energy21/advantech.htm and http://www.linux-host.org/energy/advantech.htm. GV wrote this about ten years ago. Below is what he wrote then about Blacklight Power, Inc.:

"PacifiCorp Holdings, Inc., an Oregon public utility holding company and the third largest power utility west of the Mississippi River, has already set a precedent by investing $1,000,000 in Blacklight Power, Inc., of Malvern, Pennsylvania. Blacklight Power is developing an exotic new source of clean energy from ordinary water. Either an electrolytic cell or gaseous potassium ions in a vacuum compress hydrogen atoms into lower-energy-state hydrogen atoms called "hydrinos". When the hydrinos are formed, energy is released which in magnitude is between chemical and nuclear energy. Blacklight has ambitious plans for retrofitting fossil-fueled and nuclear power plants.

Blacklight is developing a 100-kilowatt generator which can power a car 100,000 miles on a tank of water. Blacklight Power, Inc., also claims on its Web site that it is developing a 10-kilogram battery which can supply 150 horsepower for 1,000 miles. Parked in a garage, it would seem that the car¢s battery charger could feed electricity back into the electric power grid and help pay for the car. However, generators in homes and small businesses pose a safety problem for power company workers who normally assume the power is off from the central generating stations when there is a blackout.

The price of Blacklight Power¢s stock in private offerings has increased from $.75/share in 1991 to $1,500/share in 1996 (not publicly listed). A recent stock offering sold $5,000,000 in one week and may close at $10,000,000. Because energy is one of the world¢s largest industries, Blacklight Power offers an example of how lucrative a validated new source of energy can be."

I have not compared what I had written then with Blacklight Power's current web site. I am glad that they finally are about to take it to market with what is hopefully a well-engineered generator.

Gary Vesperman
Chief Operating Officer and Director of Research
Blue Energy Corporation
Henderson, Nevada