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Overview

BlackLight Power, Inc., incorporated in the state of Delaware, has discovered and filed patents on a class of novel chemical compounds that are likely to be of extraordinary commercial value. The company believes that the chemical process it has developed (the "BlackLight Process") causes the electrons of hydrogen atoms to drop to lower energy states (or orbits around each atom's nucleus) than conventionally thought possible. The lower-energy atomic hydrogen product ("hydrino") produced by the BlackLight Process reacts with an electron to form a hydride ion which further reacts with elements other than hydrogen (e.g. K, Ti, etc.) to form novel compounds which are the proprietary property of the company. The company has contracted with 20 independent labs to perform 25 types of analytical experiments to confirm the existence and properties of a number of these novel compounds. The analytical experimental results indicate that the properties of hydrino hydride compounds (HHCs) have unique characteristics due to their extraordinary binding energy (the energy required to remove an electron that determines chemical reactivity and properties). This new class of matter may become a base material for the manufacture of many commercially viable chemical compounds.

The compounds already identified may impact a variety of industries including the chemical, computer, defense, energy, battery, propellant, munitions, surface coatings, electronics, telecommunications, aerospace, and automotive. For example, the company has identified a compound with ionization properties that would enable a 10-kg battery to supply up to 150 horsepower and run 1000 miles before recharging. A battery of this type would allow automobile manufacturers to offer electric vehicles with superior performance to conventional automobiles with zero emissions. The impact of such vehicles on the automobile industry would be transformational.

A by-product of manufacturing these compounds is heat, which can be easily converted to electric power. This by-product represents a diversified source of income, since electric power is a well-defined commodity that can be sold to electric utility companies at about 3 cents/kWh. The potential value of some of these products is discussed below.

Business Units

The company has two basic business units - chemical and power generation. For a given plant, the company estimates that the potential chemical business eclipses that of the power generation unit by a factor of 20 to 1; however, both offer extraordinary potential revenue and profit. Since enormous heat (easily convertible to electricity) is a by-product of the BlackLight Process, the two units can operate in tandem seamlessly.

In terms of development strategy, the company has decided to focus on developing the chemical business unit as a first priority. In addition to the much larger potential revenue, the chemical business offers several other initial advantages. A power generation plant would have to be scaled-up while maintaining current or higher levels of power density before it could be commercialized. Scaling up to a power plant of very large proportions has engineering risks. While there are engineering risks associated with the scale-up for chemical production, they are not as daunting. Some potential product areas such as electronics are projected to have very high value in small quantity. Moreover, in terms of gaining widespread scientific and commercial acceptance for the BlackLight Process, it is much easier to validate the properties of a chemical compound than to measure the power density in gas cells. A solid chemical compound is a product that can be examined directly and its existence proven unequivocally - it either exists or it doesn't. This also means that its patents are well defined and easy to defend. The products are much more diverse, so industry acceptance is more likely. For these reasons, the company's primary focus will be to develop its chemical business unit.

Chemical Unit Overview

The unprecedented properties of the Hydrino Hydride Compounds (HHC's) establishes an entire new field of chemistry that offers the promise of countless applications to most, if not all of the commercial industrial markets for chemical products in use today. A short list of applications for which BlackLight Chemical will seek to develop, patent, and license products include:

BATTERIES (both automotive and consumer)	ETCHING AGENTS	OPTICAL COATINGS
POLYMERS AND SYNTHETIC FIBERS	MASKING AGENTS	OPTICAL FILTERS
ISOTOPE SEPARATION	AGENTS TO DOPANTS IN SEMICONDUCTOR FABRICATION	FIBER OPTIC CABLES
REFINING METHODS	NEGATIVE ION OF THE ELECTROLYTE OF A HIGH VOLTAGE ELECTROLYTIC CELL	SUPERCONDUCTORS
XEROGRAPHIC COMPOUNDS	PHOTOLUMINESCENT COMPOUNDS	EXPLOSIVES, PROPELLANTS, AND SOLID FUELS
MAGNETS AND MAGNETIC COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIA	PHOTOVOLTAICS	CATHODES FOR THERMIONIC GENERATORS
CORROSION RESISTANT COATINGS	PHOTOCONDUCTOR	INDUSTRIAL CUTTNG MATERIALS
HEAT RESISTANT COATINGS	PHOSPHORS FOR LIGHTING	LIGHT WEIGHT, HIGH STRENGTH STRUCTURAL MATERIALS
PROTON SOURCE	LIGHT SOURCE
PURIFY SILICON	THERMIONIC GENERATOR

Chemical Unit: Potential Revenue - Battery Market

One of the largest and most logical applications for HHC compounds is in the battery industry, especially the automotive electric vehicle market. A lightweight battery that can replace the conventional internal combustion (IC) engine would represent a potential market of $100 billion in annual revenue with a very high profit margin. Automobile manufacturers are currently at a cross roads and are being forced to consider any number of options for the next generation of automobile. Environmental legislation along with concerns over the long-term supply of hydrocarbon fuels have provided both incentive and opportunity for the major automobile manufacturers to seek totally new approaches to vehicle technology. HHC compounds offer the central component that has been missing to make the automotive electric vehicle commercially viable and the clear technological favorite among the current competing technologies.

At commercial scale, a modest sized chemical plant producing HHC's would have a capital cost of approximately $50 million. It is expected that a plant this size could generate annual revenues in excess of $300 million. It could manufacture approximately 200,000 batteries per year, a small number when compared to the current level of world automobile production - 60 million units. Production levels equalling those in the world automobile market today could generate revenues in the range of $90 billion.

Power Generation Unit: Potential Revenue

The modest sized chemical plant described above would not only produce HHC, but also 100 Mw of electric power as a by-product. At 3 cents per kWh, the company could generate an additional $22 million in annual revenue. As production levels for battery chemical reached automobile market saturation, that number could grow to between $4 to $5 billion annually.

Clearly, power generation in and of itself is an application of the BlackLight Process that offers enormous potential revenue. If the entire coal plant power generation industry in the United States representing approximately 40% of the U.S. electricity market were to be replaced with the BlackLight Process, power generation for the company would represent gross annual revenue of $72 billion. There would undoubtedly be other market opportunities in offering solutions for the distributed power market.

The power generation unit will play an important role in the development of the company. First, it offers a diversified source of income that lessens the risk of investment. And secondly, it can be developed initially as a by-product of chemical production. This means that the capital investment needed to begin producing electricity will be lower at the outset. The company estimates that $10 million will be required to build the infrastructure necessary to convert the heat produced by the modest sized chemical plant discussed above to electricity. These costs can be recovered in less than a year of operations.

BLP is also patenting the process of charging its batteries and plans to license utilities to energize cars. Existing electricity generation infrastructure could be used to charge car batteries at off-hours at a cost to the consumer that may be less than that of gasoline. BlackLight could earn significant indirect energy revenues until a major market share of electricity is generated using the BlackLight process in chemical plants and also in power plants.

BlackLight Process: Theory & Scientific Validation

The theory behind the BlackLight Process was first developed and published by BlackLight's founder and president, Dr. R. L. Mills in 1989. Dr. Mills has extended his breakthrough work since that time. Its key implication has remained constant: that hydrogen atoms can achieve stable (fractional) energy states below the ground state (one) that is generally accepted by conventional atomic theory. In fact BlackLight laboratories have definitively demonstrated that hydrogen atoms can be induced to achieve these fractional energy states by a catalytic reaction that releases energy that is intermediate between chemical and nuclear energy. In the process of achieving these lower energy states, energy is released as heat via the catalyst and a new composition of matter is produced in the form of lower energy hydrogen, called "hydrinos." These lower-energy atomic hydrogen products ("hydrinos") produced by the BlackLight Process react with an electron to form a hydride ion which further reacts with elements other than hydrogen (e.g. K, Ti, etc.) to form novel compounds. These compounds are the proprietary property of the company and provide the basis for what will certainly prove to be a revolution in the chemical and physical sciences.

The company has contracted with 20 independent labs utilizing 25 different analytical methods to verify its own experimental work. A number of these labs and tests are summarized in the table below.

Analytical Laboratory	Analytical Test Performed
Lehigh University	X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS)
Virginia Tech	Raman Spectroscopy
Charles Evans & Associates East	TOFSIMS, XPS, EDS, Scanning Electron Spectroscopy
Charles Evans & Associates West	TOFSIMS
Xerox	TOFSIMS, XPS
Physical Electronics, Inc.	TOFSIMS
Spectral Data Services	Proton & K NMR
Surface Science Associates	FTIR
IC Laboratories	XRD
Ricerca, Inc.	LC/MS
PerSeptive Biosystems	ESITOFMS
INP	EUV Spectroscopy
Galbraith Laboratories	Elemental Analysis
Franklin & Marshall College	XRD
Pennsylvania State University	Calvet calorimetry, XRD
TA Instruments	TGA/DTA
Northeastern University	Mossbauer Spectroscopy
M-Scan Inc.	FABMSMS, ESIMS, Solids Probe Magnetic Sector Mass Spectroscopy
Micromass	ESITOFMS
Southwest Research Institute	Solids Probe and Direct Exposure Probe Magnetic Sector Mass Spectroscopy
BlackLight Power	UV and EUV Spectroscopy, Cryogenic Gas Chromatography, Thermal Decomposition/Gas Chromatography, Solids Probe Quadrapole Mass Spectroscopy, MS of Gasses, Calvet and Heat Loss Calorimetry

The company believes that the compiled data offer definitive proof of the existence of a number of compounds whose existence can only be explained through the presence of "hydrino" derivatives. As the company continues its work to synthesize and identify "hydrino" compounds, it is clear that it is only a matter of time before there is wide scientific acceptance of Dr. Mills' theory.

Licensing

The core of BlackLight Power Inc.'s business model is to become an "intellectual property" factory that seeks to identify applications for its revolutionary technology and license that technology to significant players in those application markets. The company's primary source of revenue will come from licensing agreements. To that end, the company has identified several applications that are characterized by huge revenues, high profit margins and to which the BlackLight technology offers a revolutionary impact. An example of this type of application, the automotive battery, has been discussed in brief above. Other applications that offer similar promise include semiconductor applications, polymer applications, munitions and explosives. The company is planning to enter negotiations with a number of large chemical firms in the near future to begin the licensing process.

In addition, there are some applications that require small amounts of compound and may provide a market that the company can enter in the near term to provide a source of revenue.

To enhance the company's research effort, BlackLight has purchased a new corporate headquarters and R & D facility near Princeton, New Jersey. This 53,000 square foot building, located on 11 acres for expansion should allow the company to grow its technical and administrative staff to any appropriate level. Currently the company has 23 full time employees, the majority of which are scientists including 8 Ph.D.'s. The company is looking to employ 80-100 Ph.D. scientists within the next 1-2 years. This scientific staff will be the engine that drives the company's ability to expand and develop its intellectual property.

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