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WTF-of-the-day: Friday 30th May ‘08

Started by Philippe Bradley · 1 year ago

A US cleantech company called Blacklight Power has raised $60m for a new, very clean form of electricity production. Nothing astounding there, really - cleantech is very much du jour. What’s “WTFotd”-worthy about this story is that the technology they claim ... Continue reading »

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  • Neil Ferguson

    1 year ago

    I would watch this. Dr. Mills has an M.D., but also studied electrical engineering at MIT. His B.S. is in chemistry. None of his detractors doubt his advanced mathematical abilities; they just think he has made fatal mistakes in his calculations. And besides, Quantum Mechanics is "proven".
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  • Philippe Bradley

    1 year ago

    I suppose I could rephrase - rather than say something along the lines of 'his maths is bad' to 'his maths isn't good enough for quantum physics and was riddled with errors', would that be more appropriate? I thought that was close enough.

    The optimist in me desperately hopes that despite the valid cause for scepticism here, the guy is right (and so are his backers), and the physics world needs to update its theory; this technology could be absolutely fantastic for humanity. Sadly though I think for the time being my cynicism has the edge on my general view of Mills' claims.
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