How HSG Began
My name is Luke Setzer, founder, moderator and webmaster for the Hydrino Study Group (HSG). I am a licensed mechanical engineer with a day job in the Space Station program.
The HSG began in March 2000 as the result of my frustration with finding no substantial amount of third-party information of value on the Internet regarding Dr. Randell Mills’ theory of the hydrino, or “shrunken” hydrogen atom.
I became interested in Dr. Mills’ theory back in 1998 as a result of reading a forum letter in the Mensa Bulletin. The letter described a new process of power production that involved extracting energy from the orbits of hydrogen electrons and their resulting drop to below “ground” state. I ordered Dr. Mills’ book and found the concepts intriguing, but the mathematics baffling.
I showed the book to some degreed physicists at work. They rebuffed Mills’ work for being “very different from the approach of the scientific community” and called his proposed energy release method “fictional” rather than “hypothetical”. Annoyed, I pressed forward with my quest for some answers.
To my surprise, there were no established forums for the exclusive discussion of this contentious theory or its many supporting experiments. To fill this void, I formed the HSG in early March 2000 and forwarded invitations to join to various relevant newsgroups that discussed Mills’ theory to some small degree.
The initial format was very loosely moderated for civility. But by early June 2000, the membership had mushroomed to over 100 members, and the mail volume became horrendous. To maintain group focus, I implemented new procedures to maximize productivity while minimizing volume.
That is where HSG stands as of this writing.