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BlackLight Power, Inc. (BLP) of Cranbury, New Jersey is a company founded by Randell L. Mills, who claims to have discovered a new energy source. The purported energy source is based on Mills' assertion that the electron in a hydrogen atom can drop below the lowest energy state known as the ground state. Mills calls these hypothetical hydrogen atoms that are in an energy state below ground level, "hydrinos".〔 Mills self-published a closely related book, ''The Grand Unified Theory of Classical Physics'' and has co-authored articles on claimed hydrino-related phenomena.〔 (Self-published)〕 Critics say it lacks corroborating scientific evidence, and is a relic of cold fusion. Critical analysis of the claims have been published in the peer reviewed journals Physics Letters A, New Journal of Physics, Journal of Applied Physics, and Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics. These works note that the proposed theory is inconsistent with quantum mechanics, and that the proposed hydrino states are unphysical and incompatible with key equations that have been experimentally verified many times. In 1999, the Nobel prize winning physicist Philip Warren Anderson said he is "sure that it's a fraud",〔 and in the same year another Nobel prize winning physicist, Steven Chu, called it "extremely unlikely".〔 In 2009, ''IEEE Spectrum'' magazine characterized it as a "loser" technology because "()ost experts don't believe such lower states exist, and they say the experiments don't present convincing evidence" and mentioned that Wolfgang Ketterle had said the claims are "nonsense".〔 BlackLight has announced several times that it was about to deliver commercial products based on Mill's theories but has not delivered a working product.〔 == Company == The company, originally called HydroCatalysis Inc.〔 was founded in 1991 by Randell Mills 〔 who claimed to have discovered a power source that ''"represents a boundless form of new primary energy"'' and that will ''"replace all forms of fuel in the world,"'' In 2008 Mills said that his cell stacks could provide power for long-range electric vehicles,〔 and that this electricity would cost less than 2 cents per kilowatt-hour. BLP holds several patents based on graphic modelling software.〔 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「BlackLight Power」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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