The company, originally called HydroCatalysis Inc. was founded in 1991 by Randell Mills who claimed to have discovered a power source that ""represents a boundless form of new primary energy"" and that will ""replace all forms of fuel in the world,"" On April 25, 1991 at a press conference in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Mills first announced his hydrino state hypothesis which rejects the idea that "cold fusion" was occurring in studies surrounding the Fleischmann–Pons experiment. According to Mills, no fusion was actually happening in the cells, and all the effects would be caused by shrinkage of hydrogen atoms as they fell to a state below the ground state. Experimental evidence offered by Mills was in contradiction to known chemistry and was dismissed by the scientific community.