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(10,960 posts)First, the piece is not a CNN article. CNN i-report online picks up weird stories for the heck of it. This one is from The American Reporter website and it is a flack piece for BLP, not any usual lind of journalism. Essentially a BLP press release disguised as a news article.
It does not note, for instance, that BLP has made the same predictions abut what they would do 'next year' for 20 straight years. And the hottest claims in the article are sourced to the BLP web-site.
The scientists quoted are not evidence of anything in particular... creationist websites usually have a couple of similar PHDs weighing in. Note that Dr. Weinberg's name links to the glowing bio of Dr. Weinberg on the BLP website.
The problem with hydrino theory is simple. We have never observed hydrinos. The most common element in the universe has a marvelous alternative form, and it is easy to get it into that form (as opposed to requiring temperatures equivalent to the big bang, or being on the surface of a black hole or something) but nobody has ever detected the form.
And this guy has never seen fit to show any hydrinos to anyone, nor any compounds formed with hydrinos. He says that is to protect his secrets... but what secrets? He has already published what hydrinos are, how they are formed, what unique compounds they make with other elements, the energy released in the formation of a hydrino...
It is all out there. Anyone who wanted to steal his work has been given all the information they need. They only thing nobody has been given is a sample of an actual hydrino... a thing that would not be giving away a secret, but that cannot be done because hydrinos do not exist.
Classic perpetual-motion con-man. These people are often self-deluded and end up faking data to show the bigger truth they "know" is out there... they think their fabrications are actually truer than the truth would be. They end up faking demonstrations to attract investors so they can get the funds to do the real demonstrations that they just know will work. Sad stuff.