Posted on 09/18/2008 10:24:42 AM PDT by Red Badger
What was meant is that new advances in turbine efficiency and availability could make such a scheme more cost-effective and environmentally-friendly (important considerations in these worrisome times) as seen by those who might consider investing and adopting their findings.
I'm not certain of patent status but they do seem to have originality in the critical structure of the scheme.
Maybe he was using thin film superconductivity, vortices and magnetic flux gates.
Maybe the solar panels are intended to replace the current outside power input. New solar panels that are paper thin, and are very efficient.
The best solution would be something that combines several technologies in a consolidated and highly efficient system.
Maybe the solar panels are intended to replace the current outside power input. New solar panels that are paper thin, and are very efficient.
The best solution would be something that combines several technologies in a consolidated and highly efficient system.
Please tell me that you forgot the sarcasm tag : )
Sadly, that isn't the case is it? I know you have a problem with laws, the Constitution in particular, but the Laws of Thermodynamics don't have any exceptions. There is no such thing as a perpetual motion machine. Entropy will not be denied.
Without adding anything? Sure I want to know the trick : )
I think you are missing my point.
: )
What I am talking about is a combination of technologies that can make one self-sufficient, power-wise.
This guy only has part of the components of such a system, so he has a long way to go.
Those other things I mentioned were just a snippet of some upcoming technologies. My point was there are new and as yet unexplored technologies, so don’t go discounting every new invention because you didn’t invent it.
I agree with you that any idea that his invention can achieve ‘over-unity’ in one ‘component’ or ‘phase’ is ridiculous.
“Without adding anything? Sure I want to know the trick : ) “
STEP 1: Get your party guests really, really drunk.
Whew, I was worried about you for a second : )
The real problem isn't energy. The problem is energy conversion and storage. That and the fact that oil is cheaper than alternative sources (for transportation anyway).
Hmm, you do know that you can never achieve 'over-unity' no matter how many components or phases?
That’s not what this guy is trying to do.
What he’s trying to do is provide his own electrical needs, and get off the ‘net’.
4H>He & D+T>He may not be as far off as you expect............
What he’s trying to do is provide his own electrical needs, and get off the ‘net’.
Yes he is trying to get off the grid by attempting to get more energy out of the hydrogen that he is liberating, than he is putting into the process to liberate the hydrogen.
I sympathize with his motives too, but I laugh at his attempt. I could be off the grid tomorrow but staying on the grid is cheaper.
http://www.aip.org/fyi/2008/004.html "Despite being fully funded in the President’s and in the House and Senate Appropriations measures, the Fiscal Year 2008 omnibus funding measure contains $0 for the U.S. contribution to the ITER Project. ITER is the key breakthrough project for magnetic fusion energy."
I'm not certain as to the current status of the funding, but I know that the ITER schedule has been slipped at least two years partly as a result of Congress' stupidity here.
The Demodog Congress hasn't been very kind to Inertial confinement fusion either.
They WERE, however, able to find a way to subsidize $5 BILLION dollars worth of ethanol, and $500 Million worth of projects to bury CO2.
Fools.
At the very end of the article he fesses up: what he's really building is a solar electricity system with a hydrogen buffer.
Someone needs to educate reporters on "hydrogen is no more an energy source than an extension cord."
Actually, I think that he may be building what is called a “Bingo Reactor”. It’s not some ignorant perpetual motion device, or some equally ignorant “Hydrogen Generator”. A Bingo generator is a poor mans Plasma Gasifier. It doesn’t create Hydrogen by electrolysis, it generates a 5000 Degree C arc that dissociates organic matter into its component molecules: H, C, and O mainly. These recombine into H2, CO, CO2, N2, and O2. The CO combusts easily into CO2 and is the source of most of the energy, not the Hydrogen. Any inorganic material in the biowaste fuel vitrifies into “clinkers”. This is a similar chemical path as that used by the WoodGas Gasifiers of WWII.
The only thing that really makes the Bingo reactor work well in pure water is the carbon electrodes. The electrode are slowly eaten by the arc if there isn’t any other carbon in the working fluid. Magnegas, Aquafuel, and other commercial waste treatment processes are based on the same technology. Perdue University delivered a portable biowaste power generator to the military for testing in 2007 using Plasma Gasification.
Most of the systems look like carbon arc lights driven by pulsed Tesla coils, and are based on US Pat. 603,058 by Hilliary Eldridge on April 26, 1898.
“Yeah yeah but the secret ingredient in the tap water is di-hydrogen-oxide”
It’s the Betty Crocker recipe!
Dehydrated water in the package.
Instructions: Just add water, mix and bake!
Knew a man poisoned with that stuff..
He got too much of it.. couldn’t breathe..
And how much electricity is he using to run the electrolyzer? (I skimmed through the article and didn’t see any mention of that...)
Are you claiming that he is getting more energy out than he is putting in?
It’s possible. Reports indicate that energy requirements for continuous operation are normally 2/3 of the output. So yes, there could easily be an energy surplus. The water (organic waste is better) is simply the fuel, like gasoline. The only difference is that instead of simple combustion, the fuel first goes through a pyrolysis stage to prepare it. The process is valid, and is the basis for several multi-million dollar industrial processes (hazardous waste disposal, waste stream sterilization, etc..) There are several instances of small-scale implementation. I know of one vehicle in Thailand powered by an onboard plasma gasifier (videos on YouTube).
Energy for nuthin and your chicks for free! I have a bridge for sale, hardly used at all, interested?
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