In my assessment Bob Lazar possesses scientific literacy and knowledge appropriate for his claimed education. Most notably, in his book he writes about analyzing E115 using standard lab equipment I am familiar with. They try GC-TCD, then GC-MS, then NAA (a nuclear method I have never used). So it's clear Bob knows the proper sample preparation techniques and other details of the method. Did he learn all of this for the purpose of deceiving us and selling his book? Barry had taken the fuel disc and set it on a small piece of filter paper. With a very fine file, he scraped its surface, collecting a minute amount of the filings on the paper. He added them to a liquid solvent and prepared to inject them into a gas chromatograph where it would be vaporized and analyzed. I joined him at the machine and watched as he inserted the material into the sample port using a microsyringe to get it through a rubber septum and into the vacuum chamber. Helium (nitrogen is also often used) began to flow as the carrier gas. I checked the pressure regulator to be sure it was within parameters. It was and that gas joined the vaporized material we had injected in passing through a glass column packed with silica coated with a liquid. Since the material we placed in the solvent was insoluble—in other words it didn’t dissolve into the liquid but was suspended within it—the whole process took a matter of seconds. We were using a thermal conductivity device (TCD) and helium provided a shorter analysis time due to its higher flow rates and low molecular weight. The detection system in the device converted the property changes of the substances heated and vaporized into electrical impulses that a computer could analyze. Basically, it took an analog reading of the reactions taking place within the glass column and converted that reading to a digital one. The digital was less susceptible to interference and has a better signal-to-noise ratio. When we looked at the display the device provided, the chromatogram itself, literally a graph of the results, we noticed that there were no spikes, which would have indicated the presence of various elements. The x (horizontal axis) reflected the amount of time while the y axis measured the abundance or absorbance of the chemicals present. For example if you put a drop of water in the device, you’d find a spike indicating the presence of hydrogen and oxygen. What we saw was nothing at all except at the very far right of the graph indicating that something was in there, but it wasn’t composed of any other known component elements. (Lazar, Dreamland) Example output from TCD detector with annotations Anatomy of a GC inlet port including rubber septum and He carrier gas The other tests documented in the book are the famous candle, watch, and 'black hole" demos measuring for thermal losses in the reactor measuring radiation within the reactor building a pressure sensor array to measure the shape of the emitted field In all cases where the test results don't match expected physics, Bob is appropriately confused. In the candle demo, he asks how can the candle be frozen while I can still see the photons? For those demanding equations to explain the science, there is famously no unification for QFT and GR, so to expect Bob to emerge with an equation for quantum gravity with only master's level education and 6 months on the job is entirely unreasonable. Outside of UFO claims, Bob modified his car to run on a hydrogen fuel cell and used a lithium hydride material as a low pressure sorbent for the H2 gas. Lithium 6 deuteride is a legally restricted material (used for thermonuclear weapons), so he built a backyard particle accelerator to manufacture the material. My best guess is that he is using a spallation reaction where he is bombarding C, N, or O nuclei with alpha particles to break them down into smaller Li6 nuclei. This would be a good question to ask him. This level of knowledge about nuclear reactions is consistent with his alleged education at MIT working on a classified weapons system. Hydrogen Car Video Lazar's hydrogen Corvette submitted by /u/McChicken-Supreme [link] [comments]