Excess Heat

 Dear Dr. Mills, Congratulations with the remarkable progress you have made with the SunCell.  You have obviously been working very hard and the rug-pull of getting evicted from NJ (the move alone was bad enough) months prior to lease termination had to be really tough, but you pulled through it well. This is being written a few days after the 2025 Shareholder Meeting .  From some conversation with others and comments during the meeting, it seems that there is frustration with the lack of recent quantitative data from the SunCell, which I share.  This is likely caused by the fact that your lab work has been halted by the grinding labor of relocating.   I am a degreed electrical engineer.  I worked for Dr. Eugene Mallove, who held a strong interest in your work.  The focus of my work was laboratory investigation of anomalous energy claims, so my experience may offer direct suggestions for you, despite that you are a far greater scientist than I wil...

Marc Andreessen is one of the earliest tech entrepreneurs of the information age, a Democrat and major league venture capitalist.  His many successes give reason to take his thoughts very seriously.  He has been quite skilled at recognizing value in the complex and competitive emerging fields.  Did all that recently change?  Probably not. This recent ZeroHedge article about a Joe Rogan interview of Andreessen is focused on the statements from Andreessen about meetings in Spring of 2024 with Biden officials.  Andreessen is influential for obvious reasons, besides being a fountain of capital to fuel the aspirations of tech innovators.  Influential people are those with whom politicians want to somehow join forces.  In this case, it backfired because of the policy that shocked Andreessen concerning startup businesses, which have been his 'bread and butter'. How does this differ from a merchant being approached by a mob made man who makes him 'an offer ...

I am an engineer.  Engines run on heat.  Sources of energy in any form are of basic interest to scientists and engineers.  Cold fusion experiments were supposed to be producing heat in quantities that exceeded what would be caused by the power used to drive them.  This was ridiculed as perpetual motion, but if a reaction of a type that was formerly unknown is occurring, it is not perpetual motion.  It is a discovery. My life during and since high school was in the shadow of the awareness that civilization consumes an extreme and steadily increasing amount of energy and that we live on a finite planet with an expanding population.  If we do not find a different way to power civilization, we may prove Malthus correct and discover a real need to reduce population by a large amount, or drastically decrease energy consumption per capita and that is potentially a very dismal prospect.  Even if we can get all the energy we need to live comfortably, the enviro...

Life is not a popularity contest for Randell Mills.  Yet, he is quite sociable and it seems that everyone who has had the chance to know him thinks highly of him.  He's not normal in the sense of being anywhere near average intelligence and I expect that made social interactions challenging many times.  His very intense desire to understand the world around him was evident at an early age and his high school chemistry teacher considered him to be of genius intellect.  His professor of physical chemistry, which is the subject that bridges the gap between chemistry and quantum mechanics, at Franklin and Marshall college, Dr. John Farrell , was deeply impressed with his student.  In a most extraordinary turn of events, the professor gradually became the student of the former student.  I know of no other example of a student convincing the professor that the understanding of the subject about which the professor is a recognized expert is mostly wrong.  Fer...

I was a young engineer, working for FAA in Albuquerque on March 23, 1989.  A news item caught the interest of myself and co-workers.  Some scientists claimed to have discovered a new source of energy, which had been a focus of my interest since I was a boy.  It was also a prime interest of my father, an electrical engineering professor.  The news was of a press conference .   Two professors at the U of Utah, Fleischmann and Pons were telling the world about something that would unfortunately become labeled as "cold fusion".  This was the beginning of confusion that has persisted.  They really had no good reason to assume that it was a nuclear fusion reaction, and they were careful to admit that it was an hypothesis.  Their evidence was from an electrolytic apparatus.  The analysis was primarily from calorimetry, the measurement of heat, one of the first tools developed for chemistry.  In the modern era, this tool is credited to Lavo...