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MineralMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 01:02 PM
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4. It's almost certainly bogus.
Blue sky outfits like this are everywhere these days, with some new "undiscovered" technology that will "revolutionize" something. Gullible investors who aren't knowledgeable enough to understand the "technology" read the websites and invest in this stuff to "get in on the ground floor."

Well, that's the only floor, and it soon collapses into the basement, with the promoter disappearing with the cash and starting something new.

When you see things like "previously unknown form of hydrogen," now aptly named "Hydrinos" by the promoter, it's time to think. Hydrogen has been studied for a long, long time. It's unlikely that some new form of it is possible.

Lots of fancy graphics, and technical-sounding papers you don't really understand...because heaven knows you're not some scientist...convinces people like the real estate company mentioned in the first posting to put some money into this "can't lose" proposition.

There is no new field of hydrogen chemistry. There are no "hydrinos." What there is is an ample supply of smoke and mirrors.

It's a lot like the alternative health industry. Most of the stuff it sells won't actually harm you, but it won't do what they say, either. So people buy it, feel better, due to the placebo effect, for a while, then move on to another "cure" when their symptoms return. Sadly, some folks die through their gullibility.

BlackLight Power will reappear as something else, once this Hydrino business maxes out the possibilities of fleecing people. Then it will be BlueSky Technologies or something else. Same faces...different lie.
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