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Can BlackLight Power turn water into energy?

Medieval alchemists tried to turn lead and other common metals into gold and silver. It didn't work (as far as we know). Fortunately for BlackLight Power, the company is having much better luck converting water vapor directly into electricity and a "new, more stable form of hydrogen." BlackLight's "Hydrino theory" has, the company says, been confirmed as a technological breakthrough in six independent studies. I'll assume most of our readers don't have advanced chemistry degrees, so we'll skip the lengthy description of how the process works. But if scientists from top colleges and industry with lots of Ph.D. degrees say it works, we can probably take their word for it.

 

"BlackLight's continuously operating, power-producing system converts ubiquitous 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," explained Dr. Randall Mills, the process inventor and chairman, CEO and president of BlackLight. The company has raised $75 million for development and commercialization.

 

As unlikely as it sounds, electricity from tea candles – for way off the grid

Tellurex Corporation is trying to find funds and distributors for its soup can-sized electric generator. That's a soup can-sized generator that can provide bright indoor or outdoor light or charge cell and smartphones with its handy built-in charger – with power from a tea candle. The company's tPOD1™ (a Tellurex acronym for thermoelectric Power On Demand) can provide four hours of power from the heat of a tea candle, which costs pennies. Tellurex says the tiny generators are ideal for a variety of uses, from blackouts to campouts, and homes and schoolrooms in the developing world. The company says the generators have no moving parts and won't deteriorate in long-term storage.

 

Tellurex wants to market the tPOD1 throughout the world and is looking for money to launch it through KIckstarter.com, a crowd-funding platform.

 

Want more? Here are a couple of other interesting new technologies to take a look at:

 

Cheaper renewable energy using carbon dioxide emissions. Read about the University of Minnesota startup devoted to using carbon dioxide to extract heat from deep underground.

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PNNL's smaller, more efficient fuel cell. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's has developed a new, small-scale solid oxide fuel cell designed to be ramped up to provide enough power for 50 to 100 U.S. homes.

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