I was going to post this in "Against the Mainstream," but it isn't astronomy.

The folks at Blacklight Power have a facility just up the road from where I live. I'd heard that that their technology is a bunch of snake oil, but according to this article, the guy running the show isn't an intellectual slouch and has convinced a number of smart people of its feasibility.

Is it possible that there is actually something to this hydrino stuff?

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I may have many faults, but being wrong ain't one of them. -- Jimmy Hoffa

I'm going to go out on a limb here, and with no knowledge of the issue beyond that statement and the fact that I've never heard of a hydrino, say "no, there is nothing to it."

Further research gives me
Ha ha ha.... I can solve all sorts of problems by changing the problem! I'm not saying that's what he did, exactly, but it sure sounds funny.

I don't know what to say, even....

No, nope. No way. Nohow. Reference the quotes from Tweedledee and Pauli below.

Check out Bob Park's Voodoo Science pp 132-135 for the story of Randall Mills M.D. and Black Light Power. Basically Mills rode the coattails of cold fusion and came up with his "hydrino" concept. There's absolutely no experimental evidence for any "below ground state" energy level in the hydrogen atom. He managed to bilk a couple of power companies out of about $10M by getting them to invest in his company. That's money down the toilet and the venture capitalists that funded that one should be fired. Park puts it this way.
Since you live nearby, might I suggest a couple of observations to make. Is the facility connected to the power grid? If so, why since they have such an abundant source of cheap power?

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"I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind." - William Thompson, 1st Baron Lord Kelvin

"If it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be, but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!" - Tweedledee

This isn't right. This isn't even wrong. - Wolfgang Pauli

Here's an earlier discussion (started by ToSeek, of course!). The short answer is that there's nothing to it, and here's a link from akirabakabaka to a nice paper explaining some of the problems with the idea.