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2026-10-09 brilliantlightpower.com (Brilliant Light Power, formerly BlackLight Power: the inventor's company)

Interested party: every document on this site is published by Randell L. Mills's company, which has a commercial stake in the theory and the SunCell. Reports by outside academics hosted here are listed by the company; several state they were hired (Tse: "was hired to observe tests"). Their contents are the authors' own statements, chosen and published by the company.

How searched: curl of the home page, /validation-reports/, /book-download-and-streaming/, /journal-publications/, /contact/; link extraction; PDFs downloaded to research/files/ (names start BLP-). Chrome Google searches led here (see 2026-10-09-google-search.md).

Inventor's own work (priority 1)

  • Newer edition of GUT-CP. The book page reads "January 2025 Edition - Updated August 2025" [web: https://brilliantlightpower.com/book-download-and-streaming/]. The download is still served at the old file name https://brilliantlightpower.com/GUT/GUT-CP-2020-Ed-Web.pdf, but the file is now 118,159,106 bytes, 1,888 pages, title page "February 2025 Edition", "Copyright (c) 2023", Library of Congress Control Number 2023905641, PDF modified 2026-04-28 [read: files/GUT-CP-online-2026-04-28.pdf p.1-3]. The project copy (90 MB) is the "December 10, 2018 Edition", LCCN 2015915593, 1,876 pages [read: project PDF p.1-3]. So the project reviews an older edition of a book that has since been revised; the same URL now returns the new edition. Bears on all claims; reviewers should know which edition they cite.
  • Publications list (company PDF, files/BLP-Publications-list.pdf, https://brilliantlightpower.com/pdf/Publications.pdf). Newest entries: (1) Mills, Hsieh, Sadman, "Reactionless propulsion" (2025, submitted); (2) Mills and Hagen, "Spectral identification of hydrino compound Fe2O3:H2(1/4) by five complementary spectroscopies" (2025, submitted); (3) Hagen and Mills, "General EPR pattern from molecular hydrino produced in various reactors" (2024, submitted; ChemRxiv doi 10.26434/chemrxiv.15002560/v1, posted 2026-04-29 per Crossref); (4) Hagen and Mills, Int. J. Hydrogen Energy 47(56) (2022) 23751-23761 [web: same PDF].
  • Hagen and Mills 2022 (IJHE), "Electron paramagnetic resonance proof for the existence of molecular hydrino", doi 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2022.05.156; company copy https://brilliantlightpower.com/pdf/Electron_Paramagnetic_Resonance_Proof-ScienceDirect.pdf (files/Hagen-Mills-2022-IJHE-EPR-proof-of-molecular-hydrino.pdf). Received 15 March 2022, accepted 18 May 2022. Affiliations: Hagen, Department of Biotechnology, TU Delft; Mills, Brilliant Light Power, Cranbury NJ [read: p.1].
  • The Bruker replication is stated with more detail than in the book: "The spectrum has been reproduced completely in duplicate on two different spectrometers in a lab of the spectrometer's manufacturer (Bruker, Billerica, MA, USA) [13]"; ref [13] is R. Mills, "Hydrino states of hydrogen", submitted, a company PDF (files/BLP-Hydrino_States_of_Hydrogen.pdf, not yet read). Also: spectrum stable "for at least two years", "reproducible over 11 samples produced in 11 reactor runs", empty tube gives a straight baseline [read: files/Hagen-Mills-2022 text, Bruker paragraph].
  • Competing interests (as printed): Mills is founder, CEO and President of BLP, "which provided the samples for independent analyses except for the gas chromatography which was performed in house"; Hagen "has no financial or personal relationships and did not receive and financial support from Brilliant Light Power" [read: declaration of competing interest]. Author contributions: Mills produced and analysed samples and developed the theory; Hagen did the EPR experiments, analyses and software [read].
  • The paper's own list of third-party evaluations of GUT-CP, "both positively and negatively ... thus far only on the basis of theoretical arguments", refs [71-84]: Reichhardt (Nature 2002), Rathke (New J. Phys. 2005), Connett and Zimmerman (Phys. World 2005), Naudts (arXiv 2005), Rodgers (Phys. World 2005), Dombey (Phys. Lett. A 2006), de Castro (Phys. Lett. A 2007), Bourgoin (Adv. Stud. Theor. Phys. 2007), Guizzo (IEEE Spectrum 2008), Phillips (IJHE 2009), Loureiro and Amorim (Phys. Rev. E 2010), Phelps and Clementson (Eur. Phys. J. D 2012), Lawler and Goebel (Eur. Phys. J. D 2012), Selke (Appl. Phys. Res. 2015) [read]. This is a ready-made list of the critical and supportive literature for Step 2.
  • Ref [66], Conrads, Mills, Wrubel, Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 12 (2003) 389 (Juelich group) is the paper the company describes as independent EUV work [read: ref list].
  • Hagen and Mills 2024/2026 "General EPR pattern..." abstract: besides the sharp multi-line spectrum of H2(1/4) in Ga(O)OH, H2(1/4) "produced in multiple reactors of different type" gives broad powder patterns 0-8000 G, "anti-Curie behaviour and a magnetic phase transition around 107 K", resonances identified in L-, S-, X- and Q-band [read: files/BLP-General_EPR_pattern...pdf p.1]. New measurements by the same outside EPR laboratory; bears on claim 2.
  • Mills and Hagen 2025 FeOOH paper: hydrino index now "p <= 126" ("limited by the energy in the electric field of the proton to 126 whereafter the proton and electron decay"), whereas the project book uses p up to 137 [read: files/BLP-FeOOH_Hydrino_Paper.pdf p.1, line "p <= 126"]. Address given: 105 Terry Drive, Newtown PA. Repeats "The EPR spectrum of GaOOH@H2(1/4) was replicated by Bruker using two instruments"; X-band at about 9.86 GHz on a Bruker EMX-plus with ER4119HS resonator [read]. Bears on claim 2 (the p limit changed between editions).
  • Company summary (Aug 2025, files/BLP-Company-Summary-2025-08.pdf): "After over $150 million invested and more than three decades"; "100kW light-emitting prototype"; "Hydrino confirmed by 24 independent methods at leading universities and companies"; cost claim about $0.001/kWh [read: p.1]. Company's own characterization.

Supporting information by others, hosted by the company (priority 2)

Validation page (https://brilliantlightpower.com/validation-reports/, text saved in pages/blp-validation.txt) lists, newest first: - 2021-04-11: Dr. Mark Nansteel (PhD, UC Berkeley, heat transfer) "validated 210 kW" of hydrino plasma power in a SunCell by steam mass balance, "4.2 times gain" [web]. Report: files/BLP-Report_on_Water_Bath_Calorimetry_031621_rev.pdf: single water-bath test, 16 March 2021, at BLP Cranbury, 10-inch dual-electrode cell above 700 C; "PPlasma = 169 kW"; "210 kW (based on 50 s energy release period)"; electrode power about 65 kW, "local power gain is about 4.2" [read]. Nansteel is also a co-author on earlier Mills papers (refs [48], [59] of Hagen-Mills 2022) [read]. - 2020-12-04: 100 kW continuous steam (Nansteel). - 2020-02-07: Prof. Stephen D. Tse, Rutgers Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, "Consultant Report on Onsite Molten Gallium Metal and Water Bath Calorimetry", prepared for Mills; Tse "was hired to observe tests and protocols" and was later given the data [read: files/BLP-Tse-Validation-Report... p.1]. - 2020-01-11: Randy Booker, PhD, Physics, UNC Asheville, "Report on the Power Output of Liquid Gallium Suncells"; concludes "excess power levels of 194-218 kW" [read: files/BLP-Randy_Booker_Report.pdf]. - Earlier: Joseph Renick (former chief scientist, Applied Research Associates); 2016 redacted summary reports (Booker, Jansson, Chary, Renick; files/BLP-Summary_Validation_Reports_6_6_16...pdf claims "1 MW+" in less than a coffee-cup volume); 2014 DSC reports: Nick Glumac (UIUC; April 2014; Cu(OH)2/FeBr2 101-148 J/g and FeOOH 125-135 J/g exotherms, "far more exothermic than the predicted thermochemistry") [read: files/BLP-GlumacReportwithGraphics2014.pdf p.1]; Gilbert Crouse (DSC replication; files/BLP-CrouseDSCReplication.pdf); Weinberg, Ramanujachary (Rowan), Copeland, F500 study, ENSER (not downloaded). - Jansson redacted report: files/BLP-Jansson_Redacted_Report.pdf, 194 pages, image-only (no text layer; needs OCR). - Theory reviews: https://brilliantlightpower.com/wp-content/uploads/theory/Theory-Reviews.zip (files/BLP-Theory-Reviews-Booker-Nansteel.zip; link found in a Substack post). 54 PDFs: Randy Booker's chapter-by-chapter checks of GUT-CP (Chapter 1 report dated 2017-08-07 on the "September 2016 version"; chapters 2-42 and Appendices I-VI, 2017-2022) and three Nansteel summaries (Ch.14, 18, 19, 2018). Booker Ch.1: "I replicated all of his results in these tables, to a very high degree of accuracy" (Tables 1.1-1.5, g factor) [read]. Booker Ch.7: replicated Tables 7.1-7.2 [read]. Booker Ch.32: verified Eqs. 32.1-32.114 and 32.169-32.172, about half the chapter [read]. These are arithmetic and derivation checks by a physicist who also wrote company power-validation reports; they bear on claims 1, 4 and 6 (whether the book's numbers follow from its equations), not on whether the postulates are right. Compensation is not stated in the pages read.

Leads not yet followed here

  • files/BLP-Hydrino_States_of_Hydrogen.pdf (ref [13] of the 2022 paper: the Bruker statement's source).
  • files/BLP-Validation_Presentation.pdf (23 MB, not read).
  • The Hagen-Mills 2022 electronic supplementary information (ESI) on ScienceDirect: reactor, controls, Fig. S6.