OCTOBER 26, 1999 #229

Dear Friends, The Wall St. Journal has finally published an extensive article about Dr. Randell Mills and his Blacklight Power company after Dr. Mills spoke at length at a conference of the American Chemical Society. I spent hours calling all the media I could reach to try to get them to attend that conference and maybe that led to the Journal article. Here it is:

October 6, 1999 REPRINT FROM DOW JONES NEWSWIRES

By ERIK BAARD NEW YORK —

A researcher based in New Jersey is presenting to a gathering of chemists in

Ontario, Calif., Wednesday the science that he says will underpin a multi-billion dollar energy and materials company.

The catch is that his theory - that hydrogen atoms can be shrunk in a stable form - is an impossibility in the established understanding of quantum physics. Still, Dr. Randell Mills, a Harvard University-trained medical doctor who has done postgraduate studies in physics and chemistry, isn't going it alone. His start-up, BlackLight Power Inc. of Cranbury, New Jersey, has received support and advice from utilities Conectiv (CIV) and PacifiCorp (PPW) and from Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co. (MWD). Other major companies are waiting in the wings, Dr. Mills claimed.

"We have stayed supportive of this in the face of fairly significant scientists saying it can't be," a senior executive with Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, who asked that he not be identified, told Dow Jones Newswires. Pending further verification and commercial commitments, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter plans to usher BlackLight Power to an initial public offering within two years, the executive said. The investment bank will be an underwriter and hasn't put its own money into the start-up, the executive said, but another source close to the situation said Morgan Stanley Dean Witter had made an overture to that end.

Dr. Mills claimed the process of transforming hydrogen atoms into smaller "hydrinos" by chemical catalysis will provide "a virtually unlimited supply of energy" through distributed power turbines. The hydrinos themselves combine with other elements, he said, to make compounds that could be the basis for batteries to power cars 1,000 miles at highway speeds before recharging; a plastic that conducts electricity and shares magnetic qualities with iron; and super-strong coatings, among other things. There could be "potentially thousands, if not mil-lions" of novel compounds, he said. He also said that compounds such as the ones BlackLight Power is creating account for the more than 90% of the mass of the universe that scientists say is so far unobservable.

Dr. Mills hasn't made acceptance easy for himself or his sponsors by claiming he has found the holy grail of a grand unified theory of classical quantum mechanics and that the effect of his work on humanity will be "bigger than fire." Indeed, Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist at Stanford University, said in September "it's extremely unlikely that this is real, and I feel sorry for the funders, the people who are backing this." Dr. Michio Kaku, a theoretical physicist at City College of New York cited another time-honored law that might apply to BlackLight Power investors: "There's a sucker born every minute."

The American Chemical Society forum is the first open peer review of BlackLight Power's findings, while mainstream quantum mechanics, scientists point out, has evolved from decades of tests and analysis. BlackLight Power has sent its work out for numerous tests at independent laboratories over the past several years and has seen positive results, Dr. Mills said. Conectiv is "really on the optimistic side," albeit "cautiously" so, said David Blake, Conectiv vice president and BlackLight Power board member. "It's getting more and more difficult to argue with the results Dr. Mills is presenting and the validations he is starting to accrue," Blake said. Both Dr. Mills and Conectiv's Blake say "two major corporations" are currently testing crystals provided by the labs, but they declined to name them.

"These folks are spending their time and energy, and the money it takes to pay technical people, on this. You don't do that unless you've got some inclination that you'd better look at this," Blake said. But are Conectiv and PacifiCorp making a "Hail Mary pass" in a once stolid industry thrown into turmoil by deregulation? "Utilities...especially on the second tier, like Conectiv and PacifiCorp, are really looking for edges because they don't have the size and scope" of mega-utilities that are forming through mergers all around them, said Robert Rubin, a utilities analyst with Bear Sterns Cos. in New York. Shareholders will forgive managers for making a few odd bets because "the payoff could be huge," Rubin said. Still, "there's a difference between investing $2.5 million and $250 million." "Randy has had no trouble raising the funds he needs," the Morgan Stanley Dean Witter executive said.

Dr. Mills confirmed that the company had $10 million, largely from the two utilities, and equipment and property bringing its capital up to about $30 million. BlackLight Power will present about 10 compounds to the American Chemical Society and "five papers that give explicit details and is absolutely reproducible," Dr. Mills said. "I have a unified field theory that's absolutely testable at every stage and on every item." "Thank God we're getting our day in court," Dr. Mills said. Also speaking at the meeting about the reported hydrogen energy release, in the form of visible and ultra-violet light, is Dr. Johannes Conrads, who retired last week as the director of the Institute for Low Temperature Plasma Physics at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University in Greifswald, Germany.

The BlackLight Power research done at the institute was funded by the company, but "my research was completely independent," said Dr. Conrads, who has studied plasma since 1959 and has worked for NASA and taught at Princeton University. Dr. Conrads has flown to the society's meeting in California to report that he's seen "a few astonishing things" from the hydrino process, he said. "Something from the Mills cell is releasing energy, and remarkably high energy, that is clear," Dr. Conrads said. Equally compelling is that energy in the Mills cell decays at a rate independent of the removal of outside electricity, and the reaction works only with BlackLight Power's catalyst, he said. But Dr. Conrads stops short of vindicating the hydrino theory.

"None of my experiments so far is falsifying Randy's theory, but unfortunately none of my experiments is verifying it, either," Dr. Conrads said. Dr. Conrads said he's taking his time to examine Dr. Mills' theory because "this is not for sensation. I am an old professor in physics." Dr. Conrad, who emphasized his lack of credentials as a materials scientist, said he has sought Dr. Mill's permission to invite peers at DaimlerChrysler AG (DCX) to examine the hydrino crystals. Dr. Conrads parts with Dr. Mills somewhat by standing with traditional quantum mechanics as it applies to the ground state that the Mills theory claims to breach. But Dr. Conrads says he could see Dr. Mills work as a chemical approach to the new science of non-ideal plasmas. This unusual plasma is composed of charged particles at low temperatures and as densely packed as a solid, he said. Indications are that in such an environment, conventional quantum rules might not apply, he said. With more sensitive equipment, however, he expects to find stronger evidence for "fractional" hydrogen, he said.

"Everyone was telling us that heat was too nebulous," Dr. Mills said. To put his work on more solid ground, he manufactured hydrino-based crystals in mass, he said. "The hydride ion cracked the nut, right there, that did it," he said. BlackLight Power's laboratory cabinets are stacked with vials of crystals of varied colors and forms. Other scientists have been supportive. On the BlackLight Power board sits Dr. Shelby Brewer, a nuclear engineer and physicist who is also the former chief executive of ABB Combustion Engineering and an assistant secretary in the U.S. Department of Energy from 1981 to 1984. Dr. Melvin H. Miles, an electro-chemist researching batteries at the U.S. Navy facility in China Lake, Calif., said the BlackLight crystals put Dr. Mills "way ahead of cold fusion in that he has a tangible product to show people."

"Randy Mills impressed me that he may also be brilliant. He talks off the top of his head in a way that other scientists can't. But that doesn't mean he's right. I think his results are right, but doesn't mean his theory is right," Miles said.

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I spoke with a Blacklight staff member who told me the above article, though critical, had no serious errors — quite unusual in today’s papers.

At the Chemical Society meeting Black-light power put out their own press release to tell the public more about their discoveries. See this:

RESEARCHER UNVEILS UNIQUE NEW CLASS OF HYDRIDE COMPOUNDS

Discoveries Point to New Source of Low Cost Energy, Longer-Life Batteries, Magnetic Polymers, Lighter-Weight Materials; All Based on BlackLight Power's Application of Dr. Randell Mills' "Grand Unified Atomic Theory"

ONTARIO, Calif. - Oct. 6, 1999 - Dr. Randell Mills, CEO and chief researcher of BlackLight Power, unveils today, at the 1999 Pacific Conference on Chemistry and Spectro-scopy, the results of his research into the area of novel hydrogen chemistry.

The conference, with some 800 scientists and researchers in attendance, is co-sponsored by California-based sections of the American Chemical Society and the Society for Applied Spectroscopy. During the meeting, Mills and his colleagues are reviewing BLP's ongoing research which indicates the discovery of a vast new energy source and a new field of hydrogen chemistry.

Dr. Johannes Conrads, retired Chairman of the Board and past Director of INP, Greifswald, Germany, one of the world's foremost research centers for the study of low temperature plasma physics. Dr. Conrads will be discussing INP's independent study of Mills' theory, which has demonstrated the generation of extreme ultraviolet emissions at low temperatures from atomic hydrogen.

"We are pleased to have Dr. Conrads join us today to report on his findings. In his 40 years as a researcher, he says he has never before observed the phenomena associated with the BlackLight Process," says Mills.

Rather than heating hydrogen to extreme temperatures or using high voltage, Mills and Conrads have demonstrated the capability independently of using the release of energy from hydrogen by specific catalysts to cause a plasma in hydrogen which may be observed and recorded by its ultraviolet emissions. "Essentially, we have shown we can produce heat, and therefore electricity, in a hydrogen plasma without a power input. We have a chemical reaction that produces valuable products," said Mills. Conrads' findings support and underscore the potential for revolutionary applications of the Mills Process in the fields of chemistry and energy.

The world could have a new source of low-cost, renewable, pollution-free energy because these reactions can be harnessed to create electricity. When hydrogen transitions to these lower stable states, energy in the form of extreme ultraviolet light is released. Extraordinary compounds are formed as by-product. An early application of these products would be vastly improved high voltage batteries with at least 10,000 times the power of conventional batteries, charged and recharged with low-cost electricity. This could help usher in the age of the electric automobile. One new class of hydro-gen polymers generated using the BlackLight Pro-cess has been shown to be conductive and ferromag-netic. Plastics capable of conducting electricity would have far reaching implications in electronic packaging and magnetic storage media.

Compounds capable of having the flexibility, durability and lightweight properties of plastic but the strength and conductivity of metal would change how vehicles and aircraft are manufactured, producing lighter weight, more cost effective and more energy efficient modes of transportation. Mills and his colleagues from BLP are presenting four papers today at the conference discussing the synthesis and characterization of this unique new class of hydride compounds, and the experimental data proving their existence. Two of the papers have been accepted for peer-reviewed publication, one in the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, published by the International Hydrogen Energy Association, and the other in Fusion Technology, published by the American Nuclear Society.

Mills' work is based on his "Grand Unified Atomic Theory," published in 1995, stating hydrogen can exist in states lower than the ground state recognized by classical quant-um physics. Mills' theory challenges long-held principles of quantum mechanics, but Mills has the data, products, evidence and confirmation from outside labs that his breakthrough theory is in fact correct. "I have kept the nature of this work confidential until now because I wanted to ensure we had the proper supporting data and corroboration by other researchers, such as Dr. Conrads, so my theory and its implications would receive serious consideration," said Mills. This controversial theory has potential applica-tions reaching far beyond new hydrogen compounds.

BlackLight Power and Mills are now attracting widespread attention both within the scientific community and among serious inves-tors. BlackLight Power's most recent private offering was quickly oversubscribed, and the company has signed an agreement with Morgan Stanley to serve as its investment bank. Along with the financial backing of several major utilities and manufacturing companies, Black-Light is capitalized at more than $20 million.

Mills is president and founder of Black-Light Power, and inventor of the BlackLight Process. He also has started several other companies, including Luminide Pharmaceutical. Mills graduated Harvard University Medical School with an M.D. in 1986, and did postgrad-uate work at MIT in physics and chemistry. Mills' book, The Grand Unified Theory of Classical Quantum Mechanics, first published in 1995, details his theory which neatly stitches together quantum mechanics and relativity. "Most significantly, my theory and the research we've done gives rise to the possibility of an inexhaustible energy source," said Mills.

BlackLight Power is expanding rapidly, with a major 53,000 square-foot research and development facility slated to house more than 100 researchers and supporting staff located in Cranbury, N.J., near Princeton, N.J. Mills has been awarded patents by Australia and South Africa within the past year, and has several patents pending in the United States.

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Dr. Randell Mills is Chief Executive Officer and Chief Researcher of BlackLight Power, a company dedicated to discovering and developing new hydrogen compounds that are a by-product of a practically inexhaustible novel form of energy produced via the BlackLight Process. BlackLight Power is headquartered in Cranbury, N.J., near Princeton, N.J.

(A more detailed biograpohy of Dr. Mills is found in the Aquarian Research Website www.ic.org/aq so check it out.. Also available in print are the 20 pages of interviews with Dr. Mills that I did two years ago, and 35 minutes of that was heard on Radio For Peace International. That will also be on our website again in a few days.)

Nothing in the Journal article or Dr. Mills’ press release refers to Y2K, but as a generalist, I have to put all these issues in perspective. Randy gives no time lime to say when his discoveries will be affecting world markets, and that is wise as Y2K is likely to slow things down considerably.

However, news of these amazing discoveries can also have a very positive effect worldwide. I already have a letter from a scientist/networker in Romania asking how he can help and I suggested he translate these things into other languages so that more people world-over can be informed.

I remain committed to the notion that where people expect a positive future, they tend to cooperate a lot better. Y2K is sure to create grave emergencies in many places. The issue is most controversial and no one knows for sure. Some who seem to know a lot have told me that disruptions could cost even a billion lives!

I don’t know or represent that, but I do know that wherever there is good cooperation we can solve problems far better than by competition. Let us not forget that all humans have lived cooperatively or in tribes for about 99$ of our time on earth and the present systems of private wealth, male domination, sexual repression and wars are not the norm for humanity. Loving cooperation is the norm.

So the work of Dr. Mills and co. is far more than mere science. I believe it could be the start of a major spiritual transformation where the Y2K crisis will teach us (or force us) back to ways of cooperation and the positive future vision that Dr. Mills’ work engenders will combine with Y2K to change the world dramatically.

But for that to happen, the world has to be aware of these discoveries. My hope has been to put heaters based on his work on the market before year’s end, and then every one would know. That project is moving too slowly, so for now the best approach seems to be to spread the articles enclosed in this newsletter all over the world.

If you have other suggestions, please come forward. It would seem that folks like Mills would be right up front in all this, and I have given him a lot of Y2k information over the months, but with the fascinating things he is discovering and all the "happy talk" of the media, I can well understand that he puts that on a back burner. Or maybe not. Perhaps he is very concerned but wise in not coming forth publicly till enough facts were available. I respect that.

So, now that he has gone public we have the task of getting the world to know about it any way we can. It is my hope that many of you will come forth with suggestions and means to do just that.

World Take Over is the real meaning of WTO but the super-rich want us to believe it only means "World Trade Organization", a harmless business organization that will improve trade. NOT SO ! WTO is an organization of the world’s richest corporations who together have more power than any national government. True, they do not have armies and nuclear weapons, but they make everything those armies use, and they can sell it to whom they wish, even fomenting wars to sell their wares.

There is nothing at all democratic about WTO. Their decisions are made in secret and they can impose sanctions against any state or national government that goes against them. They can force the abandonment of any laws that protect nature or the environment and have been known to do just that whenever it increases corporate profits. They can force us to accept genetically engineered food and prevent it from being so labeled. They can also prevent the media from reporting the true nature of their corporate abuse of power, which may be why you hear so little abut it.

And yet, with all their brilliance the leaders of the WTO have made a great mistake. They set their world takeover meetings for Seattle, WA in the U.S.A. instead of in some dictatorship where public protest is impossible. The meetings will run till Dec. 3 and will be attended by some 5,000 top executives and their functionaries.

But they won’t be lonely. Seattle will also host thousands of anti-WTO nonviolent protesters who are well aware of this world takeover and ready to risk police attacks and jail to stop it. Hopefully the protests will be very creative and get enough news coverage that the world will find out the true nature of the corporate beast even though we know that most media is owned by large corporations.

Gov. Tom Ridge has set Dec. 2 (date of execution of John Brown —1861) to execute Mumia Abu-Jamal but today we hear Judge Yohn has granted a stay so appeals can be heard, and has said Mumia himself my be required to testify. He has never done that in 18 years since his arrest.

Mumia’s trial before Judge Sabo was so full of errors and criminal actions by the police as well as constitutional violations that it is amazing the courts have done nothing to correct this and re-try him. And that in spite of worldwide expressions of concern. I’m told that even the Premier of France called Gov. Ridge today to ask him to stop the killing. Yet, the system moves forward to kill this man regardless of all the evidence of his innocence.

If Mumia is re-tried, he is likely to be exonerated and then the state may have to pay huge sums. South African Pres., Nelson Mandela may help Mumia to create the kind of peaceful revolution he has always advocated.

Space here does not permit me to give many details but they can be found at www.mumia.org or by e-mail from smdc@ecn.org or by phone at 215-476-8812. Judge Yohn has invited both sides to write to him. Letters in defense of Mumia must be addressed:

Judge Wm. S. Yohn Jr.

c/o Leonard Weinglass

6 West 20^th St., Suite 10A

New York, NY 10011

Since judges tend to give more weight to police than others and the police are powerfully organized to kill Mumia, we need to send many more letters than the police do. We need to ask Judge Yohn to grant an evidenciary hearing so the real evidence which was barred by the former judge can finally be heard. I am warning the judge that allowing Mumia to die will certainly alienate many Philadelphians and could lead to the death of many policemen. Killing Mumia could start a war between people and the police.

E-mail is free. Why not free long distance ? Let’s make long distance calls like local calls so you can talk without being tense about the cost. We now have such a system called "Nutektel". I pay just $60 per month for long distance and call as I like. That includes my "local" long distance and also all directory assistance calls, all free.

There are three tiers. The lowest is Tier 1 at $60/month, but if you use a lot more than that you will be on tier 2 or 3 and pay up to $150/mo. We all start on tier 3 with a $150 payment of which $50 is a sign up fee that also gets you a free web site to sign up other members and eventually make money on the system. If you ony use $60/mo. you will be credited later for the additional $40.

If you have the web, you can sign up, get your service from: www.nutektel.com/id/10931 but if you don’t just phone Nutektel at (954) 785-9303 and tell them Art Rosenblum (ID 10931) told you to call. You will talk with a real human. If your calls exceed tier one, you will be notified. Let me know how you make out with Nutektel and feel free to call me anytime. I can call back for free.

Aquarian Research is presently located at the Love Israel Family Community, a cooperative since the 60’s with about 70 people. There’s a lot of skill here in all areas so we feel sure these folks will work through whatever Y2K emergencies may develop. However, I’ve been researching Y2K for about four years and introduced the subject to the group. Now, in the last 60 days of the 1900’s we are getting together all we can.

We have an 8 ft. high space under our yurt, about 450 Sq. ft. of area. We have 6 open top drums for food, and one closed barrel for fuel for our 42 mpg. diesel Rabbit which can also charge 4 deep cycle batteries. If the power is out we’ll have up to 800 watts of a.c. We also got a 500 gal. propane tank which will heat our yurt into Spring without a problem. We’ll store seeds to sprout as a pound of alfalfa seeds makes 10 pounds of sprouts, and water is all you have to add. However, an ounce of seaweed powder in each gallon of water is enough to assure that the sprouts get all the trace minerals they need and water with seaweed in it does not stagnate. Seaweed is a far healthier preservative than chlorine. My cheapest seaweed powder is from Midwestern Bioag at about $.85/lb delivered when you buy a 25 kilo sack of "Thorvin Kelp". You want it 70 mesh fine for best results. We plan to buy another sack and have plenty also for the garden. We keep it dry with silica gel under a plastic covering the drum.

We also plan to buy rice and beans and nuts and sunflower seeds and whatever else will keep well and be really nutritious in a difficult time. We’re checking out the best bulk sources of such supplies and may send it to our e-mail list.

In short, we’re planning not only for us but for as many people as need to crowd in here if there are problems elsewhere. Granted, there’ll be little privacy and we’ll need a special place for that, but we hope to arrange it. Our main concern is to build a community of people who love one another and can share from the heart.

We’re also developing an e-mail list we can use to send folks information between newsletters, and if you want to be on it, please send me e-mail with that request: artr@juno.com. Make ART the first word of the subject. I plan to send this newsletter to many of you that way. There is no charge, but donations to Aquarian will always help. I’ll try to send it both as text only and as an attachment with the photo.

With the new energy soon to be here for all it will not be possible for roads to contain all the traffic we could have so we’ll have to have a whole new class of much simpler helicopters that will be inexpensive to build and maintain, and easy to fly. I see that coming forth and folks who want to work on such a project can call me. My own idea is at the patent office already.

From time to time I send to my e-mail list the significant things that come to me from various sources and this includes the evidence for the col-lapse that may come as well as the new vision of a glorious future for our planet.

The possible collapse of many systems will lead those who dare to form cooperative communities of many kinds. It may be the only way to survive. We are even now looking for folks who want to help create that vision by daring to live together in an intimate community of lovers. We know it won’t be easy so are not looking for folks who want an easy life, but for those who can take the risk and share the adventure of building a new society from the ashes of the old. It will be very difficult, exciting and fun all at the same time.

To face the world in eager wonderment,

grasping the promise of life.

To sense the life behind each gathering cloud

and guess the meaning of the trees and grass.

Yours is the vision, yours the prophecy —

Stretch yearning arms toward eternity

And mould the dream into reality.

- John Brown