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  1. Jonathan Pugh

    I also wanted to reply to my own post with an exact list of components that I used for the experiment:
    -$20 facebook market place microwave
    -AdValue Technology Quartz crucible (FQ-2800) and lid (FQ-2800-C)
    -Birch wooden dowel http://bit.ly/4maLe7H
    -Bearing https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CMXD3GZN?ref=fed_asin_title
    -High Vacuum Grease https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01ES44RC0?ref=fed_asin_title
    -Gasket http://bit.ly/40G8SjF
    -Mica http://bit.ly/4fh2buk

    For this experiment I drilled a 1 centimeter hole in the back of the microwave in order to be able to record from inside the microwave. I simply held my phone up to the hole to record. I also drilled a 1/2 inch hole on top of the microwave down into the center of the microwave oven cavity. It should line up as close as possible to the center of the rotating carousel. The wooden rod should be cut to be as close to the exact length needed so you don’t have any extra lever going on with the weights you will stack on top.

    -Cut a circular shape in some aluminum foil and then shape it into a bowl and then slice the sides of the bowl. Make sure that the aluminum faces upwards.
    -Cut some mica square and place inside quartz vessel. Place your foil on top
    -Apply grease to your gasket and then invert the lid. Place lid on gasket on vessel.
    -Attach the bearing to the wooden rod and feed it through the hole in the microwave.
    -Put some weights on the gasket (I used a brick) and start the reaction.

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  2. Jonathan Pugh

    Update on my space drive piston experiment:
    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lK7-hK6X-40
    From the video description:
    In this test, I tried inverting the lid to see if I could get a better fit. Pushing against the lid to keep the gas tight was a wooden rod which extended out of the microwave oven. On the other end of the wooden rod was a bearing and a brick to add a little weight. Although the lid quickly slipped out of place, before it did so, a very noticeable force was heard and felt which slightly displaced the weight of the brick. This is a short clip of when the effect was observed.

    I am very excited to do a small replication of the space drive paper experiment. The lid slipping is a very real problem. Randy, do you think that I will still get plasmas if I disable the carousel? In email, I know you indicated previously that “It is better to let the carousel rotate to scan the field in the cavity.” but it is pretty hard to keep the lid aligned when the carousel is rotating.

    Randy, any advice on refining the experiment?

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  3. Jonathan Pugh

    How does the suncell feel for those that are standing near it? I understand that the blackbody is mostly in the white-to-blue spectrum so the infrared intensity will be lower. Do people feel like the device is pumping out a lot of heat or do they mostly just experience a great intensity of visible light? I saw the July 24th video they had a big fan setup during the low input power test:
    https://brilliantlightpower.com/july-24-working-on-instrumentation-station-1

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  4. Jonathan Pugh

    I was attempting to make the space drive quartz plasma vessel gas tight (as per Mills comment) following a similar structure as the space drive paper. Basic setup was this:
    https://photos.app.goo.gl/J2Lu7LFPgrDxcN5NA
    I would have mounted a wooden platform to the top of the bearing.

    I finally got my gasket in from Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0051XZJAW?ref=fed_asin_title) and applied some high vacuum grease to form the seal between vessel and lid. The first plasma that went up immediately caused the gasket to burn up:
    https://photos.app.goo.gl/vYjseLsBfMYAFCZW6

    Randy, any recommendations what kind of gasket to use? It is tough to find perfect matches. Is there a high temp material I should be seeking?

    Any recommendations on my general experimental setup? It would be nice to take this experiment a little further than the basic rattle test.

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  5. Jon Frey

    Here’s a short video showing “rattling” and noise from plasmoid formation, and a photo of another more stable plasmoid that kept its shape for about 5 seconds. Was done in a 1000W Vissani microwave oven at “High” setting, in an inverted ~500ml quartz lab ware jar using a crumpled and serrated piece of aluminum foil cut with scissors for more edges as an igniter, as described in
    https://brilliantlightpower.com/reactionless-propulsion/.

    https://millsianblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/IMG_9988-2.mov

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    • Robert Virkus

      How could the space drive effect be made to completely lift the beaker by a substantial height within the microwave so the lifting is obvious?

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      • Antony

        Hi Rob, what about the following (cheap) protocol? Using two ratchet straps (like for securing luggage on a car roof rack) around the microwave attach a hook or belay to the top of the microwave. Suspend the microwave off the floor using a fully extended bungy strap that is attached up high to a wireless dynamometer that measures any change in weight of the setup. (The point of this is to demonstrate clear vertical movement while measuring actual changes in weight while preventing any damage to the microwave from any up and down movement due to a transient space drive impulse.
        Inside the microwave, the lift must be safely transferred from the beaker to the top of the microwave. It seems it must also be airtight (for ion drag?) and somehow wedged firmly – I was thinking perhaps if the beaker was inverted and fixed in place by some kind of high pressure inflatable flat cushion that could be inflated and deflated between runs for ease of access for replacing the foil between runs? Alternatively, maybe a microwaveable safe board of some kind could be placed on top of the beaker and could be secured to the roof of the microwave with several of those cheap plastic adjustable legs for cupboards or cabinets from a hardware store.
        A question though – for the effect to work (using air), is it necessary to replace the air/oxygen lost to the formation of aluminium oxide and the subsequent pressure drop in the beaker? (As was done in the BrLP experiment using an external bladder for the Ar/H2 mix) From what Randy was saying (correct me if wrong) the pressure drop was not due to loss of gas escaping from the beaker which remained sealed, but solely due to Al + O reaction caused by microwave induced arcs in the foil.
        Other points – the impulse is very quick per run – how rapidly would the tension in a stretched bungee cord change in a ms impulse of 14kg of lift from air plasma to create observable lift of the microwave?

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  6. Jonathan Pugh

    I have run some tests with a quartz crystal with no lip.

    In my first test I inverted the beaker and noticed some pretty good rattle:
    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/O6epr_KokX4

    I had emailed Mills previously and he said that “If you seal the beaker by flipping it and placing a gasket and cover with a piston connected to weights, you’ll get a lot of lift with a sonic boom.” Rather than using a rod extending through the top of the microwave oven I thought maybe some high temp elastic bands might suffice. I ran a test with that and got a pretty disappointing result:
    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bZsJiJ-2FlY
    I don’t have a gasket on this thing. Can you observe the Sonic boom with just air? I would like to take this experiment to the next level to observe the sonic boom..

    Thoughts?

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      • Randy Mills

        An aluminum foil plasm initiator was placed on a mica sheet on the inside cover of an inverted 10.16 cm X 10.16 cm X 10.16 cm vacuum tight sealed container (2.75c Short Square Plastic Food Storage Container – Brightroom). The container was placed in the middle of the carousel of the microwave oven, and the timer was set to 15s. The space drive force drove the multilayer sealed cover open by an average of 5 mm during several runs. It required 3.5 kg of restoring power on average to reseal the container as determined by pressing the cover closed on a scale of 50g accuracy. The vessel was determined to be sealed and under a negative pressure compared to the original atmospheric pressure as determined by immediate post run water submersion tests. The negative pressure was also determined by observation that the walls were suck in during longer duration runs wherein the plastic became deformable due continuous plasma absorption of microwave power by the plasma confined at the top of the container.

        videos of experiments:
        https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/c6imeuhb5orm11ezs8pkk/ABfOUEsh5M9KRy-y_fYc89s?rlkey=fdjamdkcika40xnyju2v9srl7&dl=0

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        • Jonathan Pugh

          Was the negative pressure due to heating of the gases? When the plastic vessel was in the microwave you could hear a rattling. Is that caused by the vessel rattling against the bottom of the microwave or is it caused by the lid of the vessel rattling against the main body?

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          • Randy Mills

            Heating causes positive pressure not negative pressure. The vessel was sealed with air at atmospheric pressure. Evidence that negative pressure was created during operation was that the walls were deformed inward, and the vessel was tested by immersion underwater, confirming that it was sealed after the run. The multi-layer seal was pushed open by several millimeters and required required 3.5 kg to push it back into the original position from which it was partially pushed open. The drop in pressure was from the reaction of oxygen plus aluminum going to aluminum oxide, which is a solid such that there is less gas and consequently less gas pressure.

            The rattling was caused by the entire vessel, lifting up. It was completely sealed and never opened. It wasn’t that the lid was rattling on the vessel. Moreover, the seal is some type of multi layer elastomer, which doesn’t rattle against the vessel even if forced. It is just pressed in very hard and seals the vessel.

  7. Jurgen Sasse

    Dr. Mills:
    according to 3 recent publications, dark matter could be self-interacting, explaining some cosmological observations.

    1. Unexpected clustering pattern in dwarf galaxies challenges formation models
    https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08965-5

    2. Probing signals of self-interacting dark matter core collapse in Hi-rich galaxies
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dark.2025.101939

    3. The overconcentrated dark halo in the strong lens SDSS J0946+1006 is a subhalo: evidence for self interacting dark matter?
    https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2411.08565

    The above 3 publications were referenced in the following YouTube video:
    Strange New Observations Reveal Major Clue About Dark Matter
    https://youtu.be/cMvrFw5qIzA

    Could hydrino gas explain these cosmological observations, and thus add more evidence that hydrino molecules/atoms are dark matter?

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  8. Randell Mills

    Currently the SunCell invitational demonstration is planned for the week of the 25th in Washington DC.

    PV conversion is still a competing power conversion option. MHD seems to be less capital intensive, especially given the cooling challenges of PV dense receiver array.

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  9. Joseph Heer

    I’m working through GUT-CP-2020, and wondering if there is a typo.
    On p. 30, in the text after Eq. I.117, it states that “after t cycles of transition, the radius is a.H / (mt +1).” Shouldn’t this be “a.H / (m + t +1)”? Or am I missing something?

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  10. Joseph Allard

    I read about an upcoming BLP demonstrations in Washington DC. Does anyone have more information about this event, as when and where? I have two other questions below:

    1) It appears the newest business plan to generate electricity will use various conventional power generators or the 90% efficient MHDG. Is the reason for dropping the electric generating “solar “ sun cell due to thermal issues?

    2) Has BLP ever published any of it manufacturers / vendors names contracted to produce BLP’s thermal and suncell and MHDG products? I am interested in learning of these companies. I am an electrical engineering and I would like to both invest and/or work in this new industry.

    Finally, I have read as much as possible about the hydrino theory and believe in it. I also read Brett’s book. I am certain that BLP will revolutionize energy production and decimate the reoccurring environmental pollution. As well I look forward to Dr. Mills’s theories finally being allowed to simplify & correct the world’s understanding of classical physics from dark matter to the 5th force & curved space.

    Bless all the souls at BLP.

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  11. Peter Wolstenholme

    In the longer term, I see a great future in aviation. Perhaps a hybrid concept, as follows. A SunCell generates electricity, using the MHD process. This charges a battery, and electric motors drive the propellers for quiet take-off. Then, jet engines, using the immense heat available, take over to fly the aircraft a bit faster and a lot further. Note that if the jet engines need not operate at low air speeds they will be easier to design and optimise.
    End result, quiet at the airfield, no pollution, no need to carry vast amounts of fuel. Immense flight range in fact: potentially unlimited if the aircraft can get some water vapour and condense it. Very useful for military drones., although those might be less detectable if only electrical.

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  12. David Selke

    Good luck Dr. Mills and BrLP! Looks like some great progress, and a good decision to pursue thermal first. I will be patient waiting for commercialization, but in the nearer term hope to see many of the world’s scientists testing out a GUTCP paradigm. There’s nothing like having the right theory to inspire great invention.

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  13. LBJ

    Congratulations Dr. Mills! on your BrLP’s 56-hour SunCell® duration run.
    You and your team have made a huge number of Iterations to the SunCell® . After this Covid pandemic is over, it would be great if you could do another lecture like the one you did at Fresno State in California on Feb. 27, 2017. We have sooooo many questions and your lectures answer many more questions than you have time to answer on the BrLP website’s blog. Thanks and wishing the BrLP team much continued success.

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  14. LBJ

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcajheP1RSI&feature=youtu.be
    https://leonardpowers.com/
    It seems to me that generating electricity using a time tested steam engine is a much quicker method to bring a Sun Cell system to market than MHD, super concentrator photovoltaic cells, and other methods under consideration by the Brilliant Light engineers.
    With appropriate steam conditions the steam rotary vane motor ,shown in the youtube URL link above, can flow up to 20,000 lbs/hr. at up to 250 psig. and will produce up to 600 kw. of electricity or approximately 3X the inlet pressure.
    When Dr. Mills has a working Sun Cell boiler design, perhaps he could use this ready made system as a test bed to quickly test his Sun Cell boiler design. Once he has his boiler tweaked to it’s maximum performance level, he could then design his own steam plant. Comments anyone?

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    • Randy Mills

      We have a design for a micro-gas turbine system.

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  15. Mark V. Iverson

    Benjamin Franklin found electrical charge in clouds during a thunder storm. N.Tesla found that the earth was a spherical capacitor with the solar wind providing the charge to the clouds. Most science students determine the distance of lightening by the difference between the speed of light and the speed of sound. Lightening is a plasma state. From an airplane looking down, a lightening flash spreads in a small disk within a cloud. Rolling thunder from the shock wave continues for 30-60 sec.

    What causes thunder? Do hydrinos explode from the water vapor in the plasma?

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  16. Jamesfew

    You’ve astonishing information listed here.

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  17. Ilovethis

    Appropriate, right now I agree that those issue should find an outlet.

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  18. Corry Webster

    Hi Randy,

    Is this actually what it seems to be? I’m quite taken back by emotion and would just ask if this energy will be available by the end of the year… Is this a major part of the shut down currently? Meaning to aid in the transition of what is taking place with you and your teams work? God bless and thanQ

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  19. Mike Miller

    I wish you well Randell in this time of coronavirus epidemic. Recent European economic responses to the crisis caused by the virus indicate that they want their recovery to be “green” all the way through. Other countries like Japan and China, Poland etc are sticking to fossil fuels for energy in the projected recovery period. Again, I want to urge you to strike while the iron is hot and get a working reactor supplying electricity in the public sector. What about those contracts you had with towns in New Mexico? Can you tell us what the timeline looks like at this point for commercialization of hydrino power?
    Thank you and as always Best Wishes!

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    • Randy Mills

      We are working on the thermal market first. As an indicator of demand, thermal is an $8T/y market and electricity is $3.5T. Almost 100% of the thermal energy is utilized, and the systems are much cheaper, simpler, and easier to operate and maintain.

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  20. Pius Zaleski

    Topic: Power

    Is a 2T field in such a small nozzle as describe in MHD paper realizable?

    If so, permanent or electromagnetic field source?

    Was field strength investigated as a parameter and what proportional effect does it have on the results?

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    • Randy Mills

      The B flux can be much lower than in conventional MHD. Note the power density of 23 MW/liter. Lower field will lower the power density, but 23 MW/liter is many orders of magnitude that of any known power converter. Also, the channel dimensions are small which is permissive of a high flux relatively easily.

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  21. J. Harding

    Let’s focus on a thermal plasma system. No recovery of the oxy and silver contact me

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  22. William Wilson

    My recollection of the predictions of Sun Cell progress through late 2017 is that further developments and, perhaps, demonstrations of a commercial version that device might soon become reality. However, it appears that availability of suitable containers/environments have been challenging. Since the demonstration several years ago wrt destruction (melting and/or vaporization of Ti) I have been a bit skeptical as regards heat dissipation of containers for Sun Cells. The water bath experiments indicate that the problems remain, however, the BLP Business summary suggests that Dr. Mills’ research group may have found a/the solution to that challenge. It would be interesting/critical to know the answers.

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  23. Thomas Wamm

    Is there any hydrino-related hobbyist-scale hardware or science toy that I can buy right now for under USD$1000, to make it real to me, and as an early-adopter souvenir artifact? Enough reading already; now I want hands on experience.

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  24. Pius Zaleski

    With regard to the Topic of Power, I would like to suggest two dashboard items be created in 2020 on Brilliant Light Power’s website.

    1) Brilliant Clock Works
    A display of the Longest Number of Hours which a Hydrino Reactor has been
    continuously operated. It could offer best, historical and cumulative view options.

    2) Brilliant Performance Stage
    A display Indicating the COP of tests which measured Energy In and Energy Out.
    It could offer best, historical and cumulative view options.
    could have
    a cumulative or individual test view.

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  25. Cashmemorz

    James Bowery, on the GUToCp site, was asking if the Millsian app can be used to predict Hydrino compounds.

    The way I understand that the Millsian works is, it uses two formulas that describe in full detail, the heat of formation of only atoms as they exist with their outer electron at the more usual level

    The Hydrino is a form of Hydrogen that has different characteristics, by way of its electron being at a lower orbit than the lowest known, normal orbit. So that atoms with their outer electron at such lower orbits would require formulas that take such lower orbits into consideration, to be able to use such atoms for describing molecules in the Millsian app. Also to allow such atoms to be used in the Millsian, all of the atoms that had their electron at the many possible lower orbit would have to be reworked regarding the two formulas used in the Millsian.

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    • Tryantofindlight

      Good points, also was thinking about possibilities in molecular bonds with hydrogen in the lower/deeper electron orbits of certain metals. These special “pico-hydrides” and other hydrino compounds would be interesting possibilities for any person to peak into if genuine. Possible denser energy sources than hydrinos alone, without quite reaching nuclear shuffling. From 100s of eV up to 10s of keV possibly, still safer than fission PWRs and easier than thermonuclear fusion. Is this possible in Mills approach?

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  26. Stefan Reul

    Can you pleas comment the new results of the Parker sun probe regarding measurement of the corona ? Seems to confirm some of the GUTCP predictions.

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  27. Alright G

    I’m here to watch and see what goes down!

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  28. Szymon

    Dear Dr. Randell L. Mills

    I am following the development since Black Light Power times.
    Congratulation on your discovery.

    The year 2018 was marked by plans for commercialization.
    This year (2019) only R&D information seeped through.

    Can I ask some questions:
    – are there already any BLP-Devices producing continual heat/current?
    – “48 milestones achieved”. Out of?

    Greetings from Europe,
    Szymon

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  29. Ed W

    Welcome back, Randy!

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    • Michael Erickson

      Hi Ed! Looking forward to your comments about Randy and hydrino’s.

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  30. Tom P.

    Congrats on the progress to date! Looking forward to see what is discussed on this blog.

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