Mills-Randal: Investigator site log

Run 2026-10-09 (first run, STEP I)

Web time used: 9.5 minutes (571 s wall clock from the first search to the last query; timer started at epoch 1791531245). Cap 10 minutes; stopped at 9.5 minutes as the instructions require. Not a deep dive. Browser: Chrome (claude-in-chrome) for Google, Google Scholar, FindLaw, IOPscience, the UK IPO PDF and Rowan; curl for sites that serve files to scripts. One own tab, closed at the end. Stance: leads, not verdicts. Interested parties are marked. Notes per site are in research/2026-10-09-*.md; downloads in research/files/; saved pages (evidence trail, never published) in research/pages/.

Keywords tried

• Hagen Mills "molecular hydrino" EPR Research Square journal
• "In re Mills" hydrino OR "BlackLight Power" Federal Circuit patent withdrawn 6,024,935
• Rowan University Jansson BlackLight Power validation report heat hydrino 2008
• hydrino EUV continuum Harvard Center for Astrophysics BlackLight 2013 Kirby OR Smith independent replication
• Bruker hydrino EPR Billerica GaOOH H2(1/4) replicated
• Pala Sharma "Hydrino" compounds light water electrolysis Electrochemical Society abstract 2026
• "Hydrocatalysis" Mills Thermacore OR Lancaster OR "Franklin and Marshall" excess heat 1991..1996 (did not render)
• "Hydrocatalysis Power" Mills Thermacore excess heat
• "BlackLight Power" v Comptroller EWHC 2008 Patents Court hydrino Floyd
• getcaselaw Blacklight Power Comptroller 2008 EWHC 2763
• NIAC Marchese Rowan hydrino rocket propulsion final report pdf
• "Wilfred Hagen" hydrino 2025 OR 2026 Delft
• "BlackLight Power" Navy OR "Office of Naval Research" contract OR trials hydrino 2000
• "Brilliant Light Power" "Terry Drive" Newtown
• Google Patents: inventor="Randell L Mills"
• Google Scholar: hydrino (since 2022), pages 1-2
• arXiv API: all:hydrino OR all:hydrinos OR abs:"Mills theory" (too broad); all:hydrino OR all:hydrinos OR all:"fractional quantum states of hydrogen" OR all:"BlackLight Power"
• NASA NTRS: light water potassium carbonate nickel excess heat; Marchese hydrino; hydrino; BlackLight Power; Mills lower-energy hydrogen
• SEC EDGAR full text: "Brilliant Light Power"; "BlackLight Power"; entity blacklight
• Crossref: hydrino (from 2023); bibliographic "hydrino Mills" (from 2015); doi 10.1093/jiplp/jpr010
• Wayback CDX: niac.usra.edu/files/studies/final_report/ (prefix), grep Marchese
• Keywords not yet used (for next runs): "Hydrocatalysis Inc" 1991; "Randell Mills" Franklin and Marshall / Harvard Medical School 1986 / MIT; Kneizys; "William Good" BlackLight; Noninski Mills excess heat; Notoya Enyo potassium carbonate; "Chalk River" light water nickel excess heat; Westinghouse Melissaratos BlackLight; "MIT Lincoln" Mills electrolysis; INEL pulsed electrolysis Mills; Conrads Wrubel Juelich; Phelps Clementson; Lawler Goebel; Kepplinger BlackLight; "outside inquiry" Park hydrino patent; GB0521120.6; GB0608130.1; EP1628909; PL380865; GaOOH H2(1/4); SunCell gallium; "Theory-Reviews" Booker; German and French queries ("Hydrino Wasserstoff", "hydrogène hydrino").

Leads for review

1. The inventor's own work

• Newer GUT-CP edition: "February 2025 Edition" (book page: "January 2025 Edition - Updated August 2025"), 1,888 pp, LCCN 2023905641, served at the same file name; the project copy is the December 10, 2018 Edition (1,876 pp). Bears on all claims: Step 2 should know which edition it cites, and changes between editions are themselves evidence (files/GUT-CP-online-2026-04-28.pdf; research/2026-10-09-brilliantlightpower.md).
• Hydrino index limit changed: the 2025 Mills-Hagen FeOOH paper states p <= 126 ("whereafter the proton and electron decay"); the project book uses p up to 137. Bears on claim 2 and the p = 137 dark-matter/gamma chain (claim 3) (files/BLP-FeOOH_Hydrino_Paper.pdf p.1).
• Hagen and Mills 2022 IJHE paper now in hand (claims.md listed it as missing): adds the Bruker detail ("two different spectrometers in a lab of the spectrometer's manufacturer (Bruker, Billerica, MA, USA)", source ref [13] = Mills preprint), reproducibility over 11 samples from 11 reactor runs, empty-tube baseline, stability two years, competing-interest statement (BLP supplied the samples; Hagen received no support). Bears on claim 2 (files/Hagen-Mills-2022-IJHE-EPR-proof-of-molecular-hydrino.pdf).
• Hagen and Mills 2024 (ChemRxiv 2026) broad-line EPR of H2(1/4) from other reactor types, L- to Q-band, anomalous temperature dependence and a transition near 107 K; Hagen and Mills cosmic-neutrino-background EPR paper (not downloaded). Bear on claims 2 and 3.
• Mills's full patent record (115 Google Patents results): 1989 "Energy emission process" and antigravity filings, Hydrocatalysis Power Corporation 1993, US 6,024,935 (2000), bond-computation software patents (patent form of claims 1 and 4), fifth-force propulsion (2007) and "Reactionless propulsion" paper (2025) (claim 6) (research/2026-10-09-google-patents.md).
• Mills's 165-page 2008 reply to Rathke (files/Millsian-Mills-response-to-Rathke-2008.pdf): his answer to the main theoretical critique (claims 1, 2, 5).

2. Supporting information by others

• NASA Lewis TM-107167 (Niedra, Myers, Fralick, Baldwin, Feb 1996): apparent excess heat up to 11 W at 60 W input, gains 1.06-1.68, in a cell on loan from Hydrocatalysis; authors say recombination of dissolved H2/O2 is an ordinary explanation they could not exclude and call for further investigation (files/NASA-TM-...pdf). Bears on claim 2 (energy release).
• Thermacore SBIR Phase I for USAF Wright Laboratory, contract F33615-93-C-2326 (Gernert and Shaubach, 1994), with Mills and Good consulting: 25 W anomalous heat in a pressurised Ni-tube K2CO3 cell; Lehigh ESCA reported the predicted 55 eV signature (files/LENR-CANR-Gernert-nascent-hydrogen.pdf). Bears on claim 2 (heat and hydride-ion signature).
• IIT Kanpur, Pala and Sharma, ECS 2026 abstract: an academic group announcing replication of hydrino-compound syntheses (aqueous and molten-salt electrolysis); results not yet published. Bears on claim 2. Highest-value recheck.
• NIAC Phase I "The BlackLight Rocket Engine" (Marchese, Jansson, Schmalzel, Rowan, 2002): NASA-funded engineering study that took the plasma anomalies (fast H, inverted populations, VUV, calorimetry) as warranting propulsion work "regardless of the theoretical explanation" (files/NIAC-752-...pdf). Bears on claim 2.
• Company-hosted validation reports (interested-party hosting; several authors hired or co-authors): Nansteel 2021 (169-210 kW plasma power, local gain about 4.2, one test), Booker 2020 (194-218 kW), Tse 2020 (Rutgers, hired observer), Glumac 2014 DSC (UIUC, exotherms 101-148 J/g "far more exothermic than the predicted thermochemistry"), Crouse DSC, Jansson redacted report (194 pp, image-only), 2016 summary claiming "1 MW+". Bears on claim 2 (files/BLP-*.pdf).
• Booker's chapter-by-chapter verification of GUT-CP (Theory-Reviews.zip, 2017-2022, all chapters and appendices) and Nansteel's summaries: he reports reproducing Tables 1.1-1.5, 7.1-7.2 and Eqs. 32.1-32.114 "to a very high degree of accuracy". These test whether the numbers follow from the book's equations, the same question our deep readers asked; compare with the deep-read findings (g-factor alpha dependence, muon input circularity, field-energy (4 pi)^2 factor). Bears on claims 1, 4, 6.
• Jansson 1997 Rowan thesis under a HydroCatalysis service contract (calorimetry), not yet saved.

3. Closely related work

• Relativistic and Dirac-equation "hydrino" states within quantum mechanics: Naudts 2005 (Klein-Gordon), Khelashvili and Nadareishvili 2015 (Dirac) and 2012 (self-adjoint extension for inverse-square-like potentials), Giri 2008 (graphene with Aharonov-Bohm flux). The same idea (a deep sub-ground state) reached from standard wave equations with singular solutions; Dombey 2006 and de Castro 2007 argue such states are unphysical (files/arXiv-*.pdf). Bears on claim 2.
• Phillips 2008/2009 "Selective atomic heating in plasmas: implications for quantum theory" (co-author of Mills); Loureiro and Amorim 2010 (Phys. Rev. E) on whether hot H atoms exist in discharges. Bears on the "fast H" evidence for claim 2.
• Selke 2025, classical force-balance ionization energies up to calcium-like uranium (extends claim 1's method).
• Speculative relatives recorded as found: Zhigalov's LENR review placing hydrino beside Baranov-Zatelepin "dark hydrogen", Nevolin's subatoms and erzions; Surmont 2025; Wulf 2026; Magnitskii 2025.
• EarthTech 1997 negative replication of the Ni-H2O-K2CO3 cell (with recombiner): no excess within about 10 percent. Bears on claim 2; stated beside the NASA and Thermacore results.

4. The historical record

• USPTO 2000 withdrawal of allowed application 09/009,294 ("Hydride Compounds") after the examiner had allowed it on experimental results and samples; prompted by an "outside inquiry"; Federal Circuit 2002 upheld the Director's authority; no one had reviewed the application before the withdrawal notice (research/2026-10-09-findlaw.md). Records to get: the file wrappers, the identity of the inquiry, the fate of the four related applications.
• UK IPO BL O/114/08 (17 April 2008) refused GB0521120.6 and GB0608130.1 on "contrary to generally accepted physical law" grounds; appeal [2008] EWHC 2763 (Pat) since read: allowed and remitted (see arbiter correction 1) [corrected 2026-10-09 after QE: was "not yet read"].
• Company and money: HydroCatalysis Inc. 1991 (Lancaster/Malvern PA) -> BlackLight Power (Cranbury NJ) -> Brilliant Light Power (now Newtown PA); Form D raises 2009-2018; more than $25M by 1999, more than $60M by 2006 (press), "over $150 million" (company, 2025); NJEDA grant 2013; Pepco/Conectiv exhibit listing; board members over time (Brewer, Kalleres, Melissaratos, Good, Doyle, Gillen, Nabial and others).
• Absence-of-evidence item for the reviewers: thirty-five years of filings, reports and demonstrations, but the record found so far has no product sale and only one non-company group (IIT Kanpur, 2026) announcing a replication. Competing explanations to weigh (commercial delay, trade secrecy, the effect not being real, institutional refusal to test after the 2000 USPTO and 2008 UK rulings); the records that would decide are the outside laboratories' own reports (AECL Chalk River, Westinghouse, MIT Lincoln, INEL, Hokkaido, Brookhaven, Lehigh, Harvard CfA, Bruker) and the IIT Kanpur results.
• Press record: Harvard Crimson 17 May 2000 (board, Navy-trials claim, 30 staff); Village Voice 10 Dec 2002; NYT/VentureBeat 2008; CBS 2009; IEEE Spectrum 2008-2009; Scientific American 2014 (Mills said hydrinos had not been isolated).

Corrections to earlier documents

• claims.md, "Not in the project folder": "Hagen and Mills (EPR of molecular hydrino, Research Square 2020 / 2022)" is now obtained: research/files/Hagen-Mills-2022-IJHE-EPR-proof-of-molecular-hydrino.pdf (IJHE 47(56) (2022) 23751-23761, doi 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2022.05.156). Crossref dates the Research Square preprint (rs-144403/v1) to 2021-02-10, not 2020 as the book prints [web: Crossref doi 10.21203/rs.3.rs-144403/v1].
• deep/GUT-CP-2020-Ed-Web-b290db.md (pdf pp.1228-1232 section): "The Bruker 'replication' is stated in one sentence with no reference attached ... documented only in this book's sentence; no second source is cited." Addition, not a reversal: a second statement exists in Hagen and Mills 2022 (IJHE), which names the place (Bruker lab, Billerica MA) and cites Mills's preprint "Hydrino states of hydrogen" as its source. Both statements come from papers co-authored by Mills; no Bruker-authored record was found.
• claims.md and facts.json describe the project PDF as the "December 10, 2018 Edition" and cite p up to 137. Not an error for the project copy, but out of date for the inventor's current position: the current edition is the February 2025 Edition, and the 2025 Mills-Hagen paper gives p <= 126.