New Plasma Technology Combined with Photovoltaics

BlackLight Power of the US has announced that it achieved sustained electricity production from a new energy source by using photovoltaic technology to transform brilliant plasma, with power comprising millions of watts of light, directly into electricity. 

Using a proprietary water-based solid fuel confined between opposing roller electrodes of a Solid Fuel-Catalyst-Induced-Hydrino-Transition (SF-CIHT) cell, and applying a current of 12,000 amps through the fuel, water ignites into an extraordinary bright flash of optical power. The fuel is sequentially fed into electrodes to produce pulses of millions of watts of power in a volume that is one ten thousandths of a liter corresponding to a power density of over 100 billion watts per liter. As a comparison, the electrical output power of a central power generation plant is typically 1 billion watts from a boiler 100 million times larger. 

The non-polluting power-producing system catalytically converts the hydrogen of the H2O-based solid fuel into a non-polluting product, lower-energy state hydrogen called Hydrino, by allowing the electrons to fall to smaller radii around the nucleus, says the company. The energy release is 200 times that of burning the equivalent amount of hydrogen with oxygen. 

The plasma particles recombine to emit light that can be converted directly to electricity using commercially available, mass-produced photovoltaic or solar cells. Very high-power, high efficiency cells are commercially available to convert the SF-CIHT cell optical power directly into electric at its 100 billion watts per liter power density.

Blacklight Power says the technology is suitable for all forms of transportation: automobile, freight trucks, rail, marine, aviation, and aerospace, as the power density is one million times that of the engine of a Formula One racer, and ten million times that of a jet engine. 

Patent applications have been filed. A video of the system is available here.