Eureka? by Erik Baard, December 6th, 2002
"Randell Mills has pledged for a decade to spark a revolution in physics that will not only overturn much of the atomic science that been taught and rewarded since the early 20th century, but will also provide a source of clean and nearly limitless energy"...(more)
Extracts from the Village Voice article (see http://villagevoice.com/issues/0250/baard.php):
"Something interesting, something unexplained is happening in those cells," Marchese told the Voice. For now, the energy appears to be just hydrogen atoms bouncing around randomly at extremely high speeds-to create thrust for a rocket, in his next phase of research, Marchese will have to find a way to direct them out of the nozzle. Still, his findings indicate that Mills may indeed be on to something. Meanwhile, Mills's research is getting another kind of validation, from a perhaps even more surprising quarter-the stringent academic press. A paper by Mills and BlackLight research staff on their plasma work is set to appear next week in the prestigious Journal of Applied Physics.
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Hydrino theory has been blasted as a crackpot idea, and a member of the Hydrino Study Group once wrote a comprehensive refutation of Mills' ideas in Skeptic Magazine. Astrophysicist Aaron Barth cited "errors in Mills- work which render the hydrino idea meaningless as a physical theory."
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"I was there quite a bit and really looked around, kicked the tires, talked at length with their engineers, observed their experiments, and did my own," Marchese says. "I'm really pretty confident as I'm ever going to be that there's no fudging going on. For me to not continue with this study would be unethical to the scientific community. The only reason not to pursue this would be because of being afraid of being bullied."
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The debate over Mills’s work has long since left the realm of pure science. Mills has won patents only to have them stripped away after public and private objections from people like Robert Park. Park even went so far as to falsely charge in Forbes magazine that Mills was claiming a cancer cure from hydrinos.
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Investors have been patient. Having garnered about $30 million from prominent backers since the founding of his company, Mills says he's close to wrapping up the fundraising phase . "We're almost completely done with the core science. We're getting to the point where we're not going to need a lot of money,” he explains. “Our focus is on scaling up for commercial applications." One likely early product is a simple space heater, he says. If true, that would finally put the revolution squarely in the corner of the room.
