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Former Governor Jesse Ventura doesn't have anything to hide, but because of the metal in his body from various surgeries, he always sets off the scanners and is subjected to additional screening. Yesterday he vowed off public flying as long as this TSA obscenity persists due to their mistreatment. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVKmMD-_QuA I love his quote: "I'd rather face the dangers than lose my freedom." http://peswiki.com/index.php/Review:Jesse_Ventura:American_Concentration_Camps_Conspiracy_Theory Don't touch my junk or you're going to jail.

I think I would rather have a car with that MYT Engine in it running off Bio,... or hell air even,.... ^_^ http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Massive_Yet_Tiny_(MYT)_Engine#Videos I'm surprised this isn't in anything yet,...

cost ?
http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Cents_Per_Kilowatt-Hour

http://www.ewea.org/fileadmin/ewea_documents/documents/publications/factsheets/factsheet_economy2.pdf

The con-
stancy of wind power costs justifies a relatively
higher cost per kWh compared to the more risky
future costs of conventional power due to volatile
oil, coal and gas prices.

Whatever the truth is : MASSIVE investments in windpower is being done by big energy companies, so it can't THAT expensive methinks.

http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Cents_Per_Kilowatt-Hour

Well, the distinction may have been a little silly all along RF can split water, so who knows what is being ionized by non-ionizing radiation in complex systems like a body.

FTA The following article was written by my associate, by Paul Noel with some editing and input from me.

Paul (Noel) holds three bachelor degrees and one associates degree, in Business Administration, Computer Science, and Applied Science, respectively. His study included: Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Microbiology, Nursing, Business, Statistics, Economics, and Computer Sciences. Paul Noel

Not the best of credentials there.
The site the profile of Noel is posted on had an article about "Free energy" and "former CIA directors" on the front page, so there may be a signal to noise problem there as well.

The article keeps referring to this Free Energy community and that the "reporter" is a sincere member in it.

I noticed that as well, apparently the blog is here. It'd be laughable were it not so sad. The human capacity for clinging to ignorance in spite of well-known facts really is an amazing thing.

Is this realy news? there are already a prodjects in Norway and in Dutch where thay are building power plants using this consept More info can be found here: http://peswiki.com/energy/Directory:Mixing_Sea_and_River_Water Allso there is this post "Russians were First On Oct. 7, 2007, Wesley Bruce wrote: Statkraft's press release is, I believe, incorrect. I believe the Russians have an osmotic power plant running near Vladivostok. The plant may have only been experimental but it did sell power. I saw it on a TV report, Beyond Tomorrow I think, It had a web site in Russian but its since disappeared. Statkraft may be the first big plant but I don't think it counts as the first to sell power. The Russian team may even be working for Statkraft now " from http://pesn.com/2007/10/07/9500451_Statkraft_osmotic_power_plant/

No, I didn't read them. I wasn't even going to glance at them, until I decided to reply. Why not? Nobody can do a detailed debunking of all the crap out there. You failed the first line of filters, for all the reasons I listed in my reply. Note that NONE of them involved whether or not your idea is or is not likely to work.

If you want to be taken seriously, drop the conspiracy theories, and drop the Tesla worship.

Now, as for your "references." Shall we go in order?

1. http://www.tfcbooks.com/tesla/1892-02-03.htm [tfcbooks.com] - no problem, it's only a quote from Tesla talking about what he thinks might happen someday. Tesla did some useful work, backed up by actual experiments. But this is purely a speculative quote. It has no relevance at all, except as an appeal to authority, a classic logical fallacy (which also hurts, not helps your argument).

2. http://www.energeticforum.com/renewable-energy/3545-konstantin-meyl-scalar-faraday-vs-maxwell.html - a web forum (already not a good start) run by an organization that features a "Statement of Faith" on their home page. This also hurts, not helps, any scientific argument you might have.

3. http://www.wbabin.net/physics/turtur1e.pdf - this appears to be a site designed to look kind of like a scientific journal. Of course, it's not indexed or recognized by any actual scientific authority. Again, the site itself features a revealing statement of purpose:

"Submisssion of papers by authors on a variety of scientific subjects identifies the major purpose of the site; an opportunity for public presentation of theories, etc. without prior and arbitrary assessment, criticism or rejection by the recipient. Judgement by the few runs counter to the spirit of scientific exploration. The internet provides a potential world of criticism and support. Authors who make their theories known in this manner will probably find both."

Ah, so there's no assessment, criticism or rejection. That's definitely an excellent, trustworthy source!

4. http://peswiki.com/index.php/Site:LRP:The_Deliberate_Curtailment_of_Nikola_Tesla's_Primary_Energy_Source - Some random wiki someone stuck up, again with no review of any kind. Oh, did I mention "someone" is none other than the guy who's paper it is? So basically it's just a web site that this guy put up to promote his own, entirely unreviewed, ideas. Complete with testimonials about what a genius he is!

5. Same as 4.

I'm sure any number of people who've skimmed over your post and (wisely) chosen to ignore it completely could dig into the details, sort out the purposefully confusing language and demolish them. But it would be a complete waste of their time.

Unlike most people, I have studied the subject of "free energy" quite substantially the past 2 years or so, and since I know quite a bit about the field, it is astonishing to read that people simply disgard the possibility of finding a clean, endless energy source because of "the laws of thermodynamics forbid perpetuum mobile". Yes, you can't create energy out of nothing, but that does not mean there aren't any energy sources that are free for the taking.

As a matter of fact, it has been known for more then a hundred years that in principle we can tap all the (electrical) energy we need out of the environment, or the vacuum, to be more precise. You see, mankind has known about a free energy source ever since JP Morgan financially crushed the great Nikola Tesla, who already wrote in 1892 (!):
http://www.tfcbooks.com/tesla/1892-02-03.htm

"We shall have no need to transmit power at all. Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe. This idea is not novel. Men have been led to it long ago by instinct or reason; it has been expressed in many ways, and in many places, in the history of old and new. We find it in the delightful myth of Antheus, who derives power from the earth; we find it among the subtle speculations of one of your splendid mathematicians and in many hints and statements of thinkers of the present time. Throughout space there is energy. Is this energy static or kinetic! If static our hopes are in vain; if kineticÃf"and this we know it is, for certainÃf"then it is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature."

It turns out that the basic theory our electrical engineers work with, the Maxwell equations, have been deliberately curtailed such that they won't allow "over-unity" devices nor the so-called "scalar waves" or longitudinal waves, which can be both electrical or magnetic.

Today, the German Professor Konstantin Meyl shows some remarkable experiments, based on a.o. Tesla's "magnifying transmitter", which show that scalar waves *do* exist and are much more effective then Herzian type of electro-magnetic waves:
http://www.energeticforum.com/renewable-energy/3545-konstantin-meyl-scalar-faraday-vs-maxwell.html

He also explains that the currently used Maxwell equations are actually a special case of his complete theory, based on vortexes. His theory can do without postulates like "black matter" and the like and also allows over-unity devices operating with scalar waves. Very interesting videos...

Another interesting researcher is Professor Claus Turtur, who a.o. calculated the energy density of the vacuum in his paper "Verification and Conversion of the Energy of the Zero-point Oscillations of the Vacuum" to be about 1 * 10^29 J/m3:
http://www.wbabin.net/physics/turtur1e.pdf

That's an awful lot of energy present in every qubic meter of space! If we can only retrieve a fraction thereof, we have all the energy we need.
Now that does not mean it's easy to do, but it's certainly waaaay to short around the corner to call this "impossible", "foolish" or anything like that.

Furthermore, Thomas Bearden shows how and why the Maxwell equations have been deliberately curtailed in order *not* to allow over-unity devices:
http://peswiki.com/index.php/Site:LRP:The_Deliberate_Curtailment_of_Nikola_Tesla's_Primary_Energy_Source

"Tom Bearden and Leslie R. Pastor discuss how the present electrical engineering model (and practice) was severely curtailed to exclude overunity (COP>1.0) electrical power systems that take their excess electromagnetic energy directly from their interactio

Oops. f***ed up the layout..

Too bad nobody seems to realise that we can our all the energy we need right out of the vacuum. The reason we don't do that is because we are being taught that that would be against the laws of thermodynamics, which isn't the case, and that has been known for over a hundred years, first of all by the mostly forgotten genious Nikola Tesla, as he wrote in 1892 (!): http://www.tfcbooks.com/tesla/1892-02-03.htm [tfcbooks.com]

"We shall have no need to transmit power at all. Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe. This idea is not novel. Men have been led to it long ago by instinct or reason; it has been expressed in many ways, and in many places, in the history of old and new. We find it in the delightful myth of Antheus, who derives power from the earth; we find it among the subtle speculations of one of your splendid mathematicians and in many hints and statements of thinkers of the present time. Throughout space there is energy. Is this energy static or kinetic! If static our hopes are in vain; if kineticÃ"and this we know it is, for certainÃ"then it is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature."

It turns out that the basic theory our electrical engineers work with, the Maxwell equations, have been deliberately curtailed such that they won't allow "over-unity" devices nor the so-called "scalar waves" or longitudinal waves, which can be both electrical or magnetic. The German Professor Konstantin Meyl shows some remarkable experiments, based on a.o. Tesla's "magnifying transmitter", which show that scalar waves *do* exist and are much more effective then Herzian type of electro-magnetic waves:
http://www.energeticforum.com/renewable-energy/3545-konstantin-meyl-scalar-faraday-vs-maxwell.html [energeticforum.com]

He also explains that the currently used Maxwell equations are actually a special case of his complete theory, based on vortexes. His theory can do without postulates like "black matter" and the like and also allows over-unity devices operating with scalar waves. Very interesting videos... Furthermore, Thomas Bearden comes to the same conclusion, and he shows how and why the Maxwell equations have been deliberately curtailed in order *not* to allow over-unity devices:
http://peswiki.com/index.php/Site:LRP:The_Deliberate_Curtailment_of_Nikola_Tesla's_Primary_Energy_Source [peswiki.com]

"Tom Bearden and Leslie R. Pastor discuss how the present electrical engineering model (and practice) was severely curtailed to exclude overunity (COP>1.0) electrical power systems that take their excess electromagnetic energy directly from their interaction with the active medium (vacuum/spacetime). "

"The purpose of this paper is to reveal the iron suppression of Tesla and his dream of giving the world free electrical energy extracted directly from the active medium (the active vacuum/spacetime itself). The electrical engineering model taught and studied in all our universities, beginning in the 1890s, was also ruthlessly curtailed to cast out all asymmetric Maxwellian systems and to also discard HeavisideÃ(TM)s odd and nearly incredible giant curled EM energy flow component actually accompanying every far more feeble Poynting energy flow in every EM system or circuit. Following the decimation of Tesla around the turn of the century, similar tactics have continued against follow-on inventors who discovered overunity systems and attempted to complete them and bring them to market. The suppression continues to this day, as can be attested by several living overunity inventors and inventor groups. For more than a century there has

Too bad nobody seems to realise that we can our all the energy we need right out of the vacuum. The reason we don't do that is because we are being taught that that would be against the laws of thermodynamics, which isn't the case, and that has been known for over a hundred years, first of all by the mostly forgotten genious Nikola Tesla, as he wrote in 1892 (!): http://www.tfcbooks.com/tesla/1892-02-03.htm "We shall have no need to transmit power at all. Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe. This idea is not novel. Men have been led to it long ago by instinct or reason; it has been expressed in many ways, and in many places, in the history of old and new. We find it in the delightful myth of Antheus, who derives power from the earth; we find it among the subtle speculations of one of your splendid mathematicians and in many hints and statements of thinkers of the present time. Throughout space there is energy. Is this energy static or kinetic! If static our hopes are in vain; if kineticâ"and this we know it is, for certainâ"then it is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature." It turns out that the basic theory our electrical engineers work with, the Maxwell equations, have been deliberately curtailed such that they won't allow "over-unity" devices nor the so-called "scalar waves" or longitudinal waves, which can be both electrical or magnetic. The German Professor Konstantin Meyl shows some remarkable experiments, based on a.o. Tesla's "magnifying transmitter", which show that scalar waves *do* exist and are much more effective then Herzian type of electro-magnetic waves: http://www.energeticforum.com/renewable-energy/3545-konstantin-meyl-scalar-faraday-vs-maxwell.html He also explains that the currently used Maxwell equations are actually a special case of his complete theory, based on vortexes. His theory can do without postulates like "black matter" and the like and also allows over-unity devices operating with scalar waves. Very interesting videos... Furthermore, Thomas Bearden comes to the same conclusion, and he shows how and why the Maxwell equations have been deliberately curtailed in order *not* to allow over-unity devices: http://peswiki.com/index.php/Site:LRP:The_Deliberate_Curtailment_of_Nikola_Tesla's_Primary_Energy_Source "Tom Bearden and Leslie R. Pastor discuss how the present electrical engineering model (and practice) was severely curtailed to exclude overunity (COP>1.0) electrical power systems that take their excess electromagnetic energy directly from their interaction with the active medium (vacuum/spacetime). " "The purpose of this paper is to reveal the iron suppression of Tesla and his dream of giving the world free electrical energy extracted directly from the active medium (the active vacuum/spacetime itself). The electrical engineering model taught and studied in all our universities, beginning in the 1890s, was also ruthlessly curtailed to cast out all asymmetric Maxwellian systems and to also discard Heavisideâ(TM)s odd and nearly incredible giant curled EM energy flow component actually accompanying every far more feeble Poynting energy flow in every EM system or circuit. Following the decimation of Tesla around the turn of the century, similar tactics have continued against follow-on inventors who discovered overunity systems and attempted to complete them and bring them to market. The suppression continues to this day, as can be attested by several living overunity inventors and inventor groups. For more than a century there has indeed been a giant, unwritten conspiracy of some of the most powerful cartels on earth, to continue the curtail

Wikipedia is not a good place to publish cutting-edge stuff. They only allow well-entrenched stuff. If it hasn't made it into the Wall Street journal, you're wasting your time there. They'll just delete it.

That's why I founded http://peswiki.com/ for breakthrough clean energy technologies back in 2004. Most of our stuff is cutting edge, and not safe from deletion at Wikipedia. Wikipedia is "old wine", we are new. New wine can't be put into old bottles.

>could we harness this "force" and convert it into useable energy

Well, the Jovion corporation apparently has a method do do this- http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Jovion_Corporation_and_Zero_Point_Energy

Mike.

There is a lot going on in Thermal Solar right now as it has the greatest potential to meet base load power needs when coupled with molten salt storage.

There was a product announced by Barnabus Energy called the SunCone back in 2006 that more or less did what you describe. Sadly, it has gone MIA; I can find no recent news about the technology or its deployment.

hydride based car by United Nuclear? See http://peswiki.com/index.php/PowerPedia:United_Nuclear:Hydrogen_Fuel_System_Kit

Infinia Corp should be going commercial with their Solar Stirling Engine soon - http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:InfiniaCorp They started 20+ years ago working on vehicles and migrated to putting power generating systems on Mars. The early versions are still running without maintenance after 17 years in service. They already license the technology to a few combined heat and power outfits in Europe and Japan. They expressed no current interest in trying to replace the Internal Combustion Engine with the Stirling Engine in vehicles.

EEStor is another interesting electric-car-related Kleiner Perkins investment http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/dealflow/archives/2005/09/kleiner_perkins_1.html. They have patented technology for super capacitors with over ten times the energy density of lead acid batteries. Being capacitors without electrochemistry, the power density (charge/discharge rates) is also very high.

The trick is that they use a doped barium titanate dielectric with a very high permittivity structured as a sub-micron grain composite interspersed with thin Aluminum oxide and glass layers to lower the breakdown voltage. http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:EEStor. The big gain over normal capacitors happens because the energy content of a capacitor goes as the voltage square, and the overall relative permittivity exceeds 10000.

The internal combustion engine is obsolete.

Skip making it complex and costly. This guy has the easy to build and maintain system. Simply uses gradiants rather than mechnical. As such, not likely to die when need most. Also, it would be useful if they put up several of these. They are going to need back-ups and the ability to grow.

I only have listings for some other fields, partially related:

http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Suppression#Statistics

http://home.comcast.net/~typezero/Links.htm

Apparently, the story can be summarized as:

"But, back to our electric automobiles - in 1931, under the financing of Pierce-Arrow and George Westinghouse, a 1931 Pierce-Arrow was selected to be tested at the factory grounds in Buffalo, N.Y. The standard internal combustion engine was removed and an 80-H.P. 1800 r.p.m electric motor installed to the clutch and transmission. The A.C. motor measured 40 inches long and 30 inches in diameter and the power leads were left standing in the air - no external power
source!"

http://uncletaz.com/library/scimath/tesla/teslacar.html
http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Tesla's_Pierce-Arrow
http://www.evworld.com/article.cfm?storyid=1062
http://waterpoweredcar.com/teslascar.html
http://www.tfcbooks.com/teslafaq/q&a_016.htm
http://keelynet.com/energy/teslcar.htm
http://keelynet.com/energy/teslafe1.htm

"What utter rubbish"

He was definitely on to something, e.g.:
http://home.earthlink.net/~drestinblack/generator.htm

I am only saying what I said because I am talking about Tesla. If there's one person who could have done it, it is him.

I believe in this case that the extra energy gained from adding hydrogen and oxygen is actually because of combusting the fuel more completely. This also has the effect of reducing emissions. I remember reading an article about this a while ago.... aha, here we go: http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Fuel_Efficiency_Hydrogen_Injection

Basically, the downside is increased complexity and cost, increased weight, and having to occasionally refill the water tank with highly pure water. There are real energy and emissions benefits to this, and it is being commercialized right now.

posted at http://pesn.com/2008/02/19/9500471_Gravity_Lamp/

(for a better, more exciting lighting solution, see: http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:MPK_Co's_Litroenergy )

From: Clay Moulton
To: Sterling D. Allan
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 5:59 AM
Subject: Re: re Gravia clock by Clay Moulton

Good morning Mr. Allan,

If there's any question as to the legitimacy of the competition now, I have offered to graciously concede the 2nd place win, as well as any winnings. My job now is to figure out a better design, plain and simple. I made an estimation based on feedback I got during the design process, and that estimation was shown to be incorrect.

see remainder of comment at http://pesn.com/2008/02/19/9500471_Gravity_Lamp/

http://peswiki.com/index.php/Talk:Directory:Perepiteia_Generator_by_Potential_Difference_Inc#Improper_use_of_an_AC_induction_motor

On Feb. 11, 2008, DMBoss added:

There is one thing I neglected to mention in the above commentary. That is this Heins fellow may also get this apparent anomalous rotor speed up entirely due to the improper use of an AC induction motor.

His related demonstration of putting a strong NIB magnet near the steel shaft of this induction motor, with said motor's front "C" plate removed and having it's speed increase is telling.

That is removing the C plate leaves the AC motor's fields rather open to external influence. And it's steel shaft is magnetically connected to the AC rotor, comprising steel laminations and several heavy turns of short circuited windings.

The AC induction motor [in this case a split phase motor] works by making the stator fields produce a rotating field, which induces currents and then fields in the rotor windings/core. These rotor fields try to couple to the 60Hz stator field rotation, and tries to synchronize with them. An AC motor never completely syncs though, and some rotor "slip" occurs. The more the slip the more current the stator coils draw, and this tries to lessen the slip this it automatically "throttles" the current to meet the drag torque causing the increased slip.

Anyway these things should never use an AC motor as they are inherently unreliable and non linear regards their power signature vs the output torque. But this chap is going wildly out of the normal operating envelope for an AC induction motor on top of that.

That is a 2 pole AC motor tries to run at 3600 rpm, and a 4 pole at 1800 rpm. And he is running at 50-200 rpm. So he has massive slip between rotor field and stator field. (you can allow a split phase motor to run at low speed by simply plugging it into a Variac and turning down the voltage after the rotor's turning, or give it a shove by hand as he does)

Now the force/torque on the rotor is proportional to the B^2 in the air gap. Yes it's alternating, but it is still proportional to the square of the flux density. Adding an external magnetic field from permanent magnets could very well provide a DC offset in this magnetic field - as a path is formed from the motor case to return to the magnet, and from the magnet's other pole to the shaft, through rotor, across air gap to stators, and into the motor case. (C plate is removed so you can make a complete flux path out to the magnet)

This small change in flux levels would make no difference if force was proportional to flux density. But it is proportional to flux density squared. So it is plausible that this small offset, applied to the motor in this very unusual running mode of extreme amounts of slip - has caused an imbalance in the amount of rotor torque.

In a sense this addition of external flux has made the coupling coefficient of the rotor to stator higher due to the DC offset and squared condition. No absolute power gain has occurred, but you have gotten more of the power applied to make rotor boost torque.

His own numbers belie this - his AC motor if the two stacked power meters are to be trusted, is drawing some 250 watts to run at this low speed. While the shaft friction of such a sized device is reasonably estimated to be below 20 watts, probably below 5 watts of shaft power to meet friction etc. So his coupling is below 10%. Adding the magnetic path from external magnets to the AC motor system, could cause say a 15 or 20% coupling to occur. Making the shaft speed up, but this is NOT a gain in energy!

My initial comments are correct - you can engineer a system which produces a shaft speed up when you have massive core loss and you short the generator coils - as this negates much of this core loss - so if the coil heating upon shorting is low, then the rotor can spe

We posted a feature page about this here: http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Perepiteia_Generator_by_Potential_Difference_Inc#In_the_News

The following are a couple of the better comments we received.

No Useful Output
On Feb. 6, 2008, Peter Lindemann, DSc, writes:

I have reviewed all seven video links. In all fairness, I would like to say that Thane has built some nice demonstrations and spent a lot of time running experiments. That said, the films show nothing important. First of all, the films do not show enough detailed information to evaluate the demonstrations. Second, no free energy is shown. In fact, the generators are never shown producing any useful outputs. They are either shown producing voltage in "open circuit" mode, or they are shown in "short circuit" mode, where the generated voltage drops below one volt. So, ZERO WATTS are produced in either case.

The changes in mechanical drag are due to changes in inductance and hysteresis. Back in the 1980's, both John Bedini and I independently worked with "variable reluctance" generators. We both saw that these designs work like an inverse to a standard induction generator. That is, they produce maximum drag in "open circuit" mode, and minimum drag in "short circuit" mode. John found that the point of maximum benefit in this situation is to charge a battery, where the impedance of the generator "sees" the battery as a "near short circuit". Under these circumstances, the generator free-wheels and the battery charges quickly.

Unfortunately, Thane is not showing any useful benefits from the generator output. So, there is no "efficiency" to calculate because there is no output!

The real problem with these demonstrations has to do with his motor drive. The motor driving his system is a single phase induction motor. This type of motor has almost zero starting torque, and only produces its rated power at rated speed. So, the rated speed of his motor is probably in the neighborhood of 1725 RPM. Running this motor in the 100 RPM range converts 98% of the input electric power to HEAT. He says he has a capacitor in the input circuit to the motor, but this is never shown in schematic, so we don't know how it is hooked up. If the capacitor is connected in SERIES with the motor winding, it will act as a current limiter, and skew the power factor of the motor towards reactive power. This is fine, IF you want to limit the mechanical power of the motor as well. If the capacitor is connected in PARALLEL with the motor winding, it will act to produce reactive power for the motor locally, and reduce the amount of power it draws from the wall. But again, this would only be significant at rated speed.

The effect he shows when a magnetic field is applied to the motor shaft would be undetectable if he was operating the motor correctly. It is a very weak effect. It is probably caused by the external magnetic field interfering with the induced magnetic field of the rotor. This would not happen if the motor coils were not being severely current limited and the rotor was not "slipping" severely in the rotating magnetic field of the stator.

My GUESS is that the capacitor is in SERIES with the motor winding. This will limit the current to the motor to a specific maximum. At the speeds he is running these motors, the only other mechanism to hold back the input current would be the resistance of the wire in the motor coils. If that is all he had, the motor would quickly over-heat and melt the insulation right off the wire. The fact that the motor is running hot is proved in the seventh film where a large black fan is shown blowing on the motor!

From the data presented, my best estimate of the efficiency of the demonstrations is that over 90% of the energy going into the motor is converted to heat. The changes in drag of the generators is standard behavior for variable reluctance topologies

... if alternatives to GR got some more attention.

http://www.plasmacosmology.net/spec.html

http://peswiki.com/index.php/PowerPedia:Tesla's_Dynamic_Theory_of_Gravity#Dynamic_theory_of_gravity

Personally I'm getting the feeling that we're getting more and more off-course with the dark energy, dark matter, 10 dimensional 'string thingy' theories.

Yes, I am saying that this is a feeling.. I'm not a(n) (astro)physicist... but somehow I have the idea that the universe just has to be more elegant than our currently collection of exotic and unwieldy theories.

All good programmers should be able to understand what I'm saying in the previous paragraph.

I didn't think about using existing oil wells - thanks for the info. I googled around and found this to be a great starting point on the topic:

http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Geothermal_Oil_Wells

Apparently the wells can be used without extra drilling. Just uncap and re-use, as you say.

I think GP talks about Producing hydrogen with radio waves. It's working, but it's NOT generating energy. It just uses RF energy to split water to oxygen and hydrogen and then burn it.

This story makes reference to a slashdot story about Focus Fusion I submitted a couple of years ago.

Unfortunately, the website (I'm no longer associated with it) referenced in that article is not in good shape, and that link is now dead.

The identical story, which was composed by myself, was also published at PESN.

Whoever has the necessary access might want to update the link at Slashdot.

I might point out that the Slashdot community gernally belittled to story. I take some satisfaction in seeing that two years later the subject is featured at Google Tech Talks.

Focus Fusion is the first technology we reviewed when I founded the New Energy Congress a couple of years ago. It has remained in our top 100 since that time. See our feature page: http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Focus_Fusion (second return for a Google search on 'focus fusion'.)

Its not that new of an idea this wiki has many ideas, some of which are crap.
I was referring (generically) to an oscillating wing which doesn't work that well, but has a few potential special case uses (maybe).
Using a strip as a poorman's airfoil exploiting harmonics and distortion which themselves will be altered and dampened by the power extraction is not going to work that well.

I wonder if the inventor has been accosted by men in black suits yet ;)

Yeah. No doubt that the batteries are currently in the lead WRT to energy density. But that may change:

Running 31F at 3500V in 336 pounds gives them 350Wh/kg.
And for LI-ION: High energy density that reaches 400 Wh/L (volumetric energy density) or 160Wh/Kg (mass energy density).
Of course, the source has to be considered, but if the peswiki article is true, the capacitors is 2x better.

As to the discharge, yeah, that is an issue. The better super capacitors are losing something like 1% / day. But with the rapid charge/discharge rate, it is possible that this can be turned into an advantage. In particular, when you park at night, the car is plugged in and the power is drained for the house use. Late at night (say 2am when loads on the grid are low), the capacitor is recharged again.

Even in batteries, there are loads of applications where a small discharge is ok. If this is really double the capacity of li-ion, then it would be useful, for cameras (coming from a hot stand), mice, mpg players, or even emergency lamps plugged into the grid. Obviously, it will not be used for regular car batteries or even normal AA/C/D for something like a flashlight, stand alone cameras, etc.

That's right. As an incurable optimist, I'm still holding onto faint hope that EEStor will prove me wrong and not actually be a total scam. Slashdot previously covered EEStor.

As I was reading reviews, I found that several reviewers recommended getting a nice charger. The recommended one to get is the Maha Powerex MH-C401FS. Each of the slots charges independently so you can charge any number instead of 2 or 4 at a time only, supports AA and AAA, or NiMH, it can charge in fast mode (100 minutes) or slow (5-8 hours), gives the best charge, and seems to be the gentlest on the batteries while giving the best charge, which makes it a great investment for battery purchases. It costs $40, but it looks like a great investment if it will save me that much money on disposable batteries the first year I own it.

"The idea of a completely spinning engine is very seductive, but the actual results of forty years of careful research has not delivered a spinning engine that's better than the 'tossing potatos'."

http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:StarRotor_C orporation

http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Massive_Yet _Tiny_(MYT)_Engine
-Animation: http://www.angellabsllc.com/animation.html

Two highly innovative, extremely efficient rotary engines...

"The idea of a completely spinning engine is very seductive, but the actual results of forty years of careful research has not delivered a spinning engine that's better than the 'tossing potatos'."

http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:StarRotor_C orporation

http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Massive_Yet _Tiny_(MYT)_Engine
-Animation: http://www.angellabsllc.com/animation.html

Two highly innovative, extremely efficient rotary engines...

Personally, I am betting that the UltraCacpacitors will kill the batteries. Two that I am intrigued with are EEStor and MIT. EEStor is horribly sketchy, but backed by KliensPerkins (a major silicon valley VC). They have a long history of backing some major players. In addition, MIT's work appears headed in the right direction. The advantage of all this, is that this would allow home owners to recharge their cars at night and then use these cars either for driving OR for powering the home. This would give us the electrical storage capacity that we need for handling alternative power.

BioEthanol is rather silly when compared with BioButanol.
BioButanol works almost perfectly in existing cars and pump infrastructure.

And it performs much better too, offering comprable mileage to gasoline.
Rather than Ethanol which offers about 30% less mileage.

Overall it shares all of it's benefits, and almost none of it's weaknesses.

http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Butanol
http://butanol.com//images/Bubbles%20with%20gas.JP G

So far DuPont and BP are big backers of the tech.
http://www2.dupont.com/Biofuels/en_US/FAQ.html

look at the very thin "contrails" that trail behind the wingtips of a jet pulling a high-G manueuver.

This is a wingtip vortex and the pressure drop in the core of the vortex is so strong that moisture in the air condenses out, like a string of fog. But pay attention: the strength of this vortex was achieved under very unusual conditinons in free air and by the application of perhaps a thousand horsepower engine....where on earth is a little breeze, however amplified by mechanical advantage, going to achieve such conditions. Also, if you stick your soda straw in such a vortex, how much horse power does it take for you to pull out the condensate?

[yes, you COULD create such a vortex in a wind tunnel, its done all the time in aeronautical reseach. but again you could drive to the store in your Hummer to bring back bottles of perrier and get more water for the fuel expended.]

there is now a wiki page up on the patent inolved...it won't produce more than you could sweat.
  http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Max_Whisson 's_Gust_Water_Trap_Apparatus

Who needs caps or a fancy battery when you can just drop a pill in the tank.

http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:BioPerforma nce_Fuel

http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/ripoff179058.h tm

http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Using_green _algae_to_produce_hydrogen_from_sunlight_and_water _via_photosynthesis
http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1029553& CatID=5

A much smaller electric engine and shorter range. The Tesla car has a 185kW motor and it's a Ferrari killer. Reasonable range is more like 300 miles at far less than full power. IIRC, the Porsche 924 was supposed to maintain 55mph with 15HP (11kW in a direct conversion, presuming they meant 15hp at the wheel). If power requirements are 20% greater because of your lead foot and 20% greater because of some math error I just made, you're still at 16kW sustained. Driving 5 hours then requires 80kWH, not 2,000kWH, and only 0.96MW. That's about 400amps at 2400 volts for 5 minutes, still nothing to sneeze at. A little inefficiency in the system could easily melt the asphalt beneath your feet. Better not wear Crocs.

http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Tesla_Motor s%2C_Inc.

Anyone else notice how the Steorn web site (appears to be the main site for the company), has no products or services to offer the world? The closest portion of their web page to resemble anything like that is their "Our Technology" section which only talks about their "revoutionary technology", i.e. the free energy stuff, that doesn't seem to have it's own name (after three years?), or any photos directly accessible. There are photos though:

This being an article with a few
A discussion I started on their forum to find pics
and finally
PES Wiki

http://www.steorn.net/images/sean5_small.jpg
http://www.steorn.net/images/sean4_small.jpg

As an Irish person, I'd surely love for something scientifically significant to be invented here, if only so I don't have to endure racist comments for the rest of my life.
Sadly I think this is an elaborate marketing stunt or a bunch of marketing people who don't know their causality laws from warp-engine field theory.

Read the Irish state media coverage here.

http://www.rte.ie/business/2006/0818/steorn.html

More pictures

http://pesn.com/2006/08/21/9500298_Steorn_free_ene rgy_gauntlet/

Patent application

http://www.peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Steorn_ Free_Energy?coral-no-serve

1. The technology has a coefficient of performance greater than 100%.
2. The operation of the technology (i.e. the creation of energy) is not derived from the degradation of its component parts.
3. There is no identifiable environmental source of the energy (as might be witnessed by a cooling of ambient air temperature).

Well, there are claims that acetone both reduces emissions and improves mileage, supposedly by causing the fuel to have more surface area or something (better atomization.) Seems like it's not a bad idea to use some of it, but I'm not sure how much you could use without causing problems with seals and such - they do say it causes swelling in some components. I see no reason why new vehicles couldn't be designed to run on this mixture, as you say.

How about a gun engine or a Bourke Engine? Now That is an alternative...

http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Bourke_Engi ne
http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Gun_Engine

Trying to tweak an already inefficient engine is futile; the time and energy outweighs the product...

Just a few pennies from my head...