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Many reported that Dr Mao was successful in growing teeth back in 2010.

http://www.rexresearch.com/mao...
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Interesting, the original press release ( http://cumc.columbia.edu/news/... ) has been scrubbed from the university site.

The Star Trek tricorder was in part informed by the ideas of Royal Rife where everything under the sun had a characteristic resonant radio frequency.
You could not only identify the virusiod that caused cancer, you should blast it with the right combination of frequencies so it would shake itself to bits like Ol' Galloping Gertie.

As Fort said, "It's steam engines when it's steam engine time". In the 20's and 30's, radio was all the rage. (Likewise, at the turn of the century, it was thought everything could be understood in terms of electricity. 1860's, steam engines.) These days, it's computators all the way down.

Maxwell's equations force E=0 inside perfect conductors, which means that vacuum fluctuations with a half-wavelength longer than the separation between the plates can't exist between the plates.

By the way: If you are going to refer to Maxwell's equations, you should use caution. Because often what are referred to as "Maxwell's Equations" are actually just Maxwell's simplifications of Heaviside's and Hamilton's quaternion equations, with introductions of arbitrary "constants" to cancel out inconveniences, much like Einstein's "cosmological constant". There is a good deal of modern evidence that Maxwell's attempt to simplify things may have been wishful thinking, and that Heaviside and Hamilton had it right all along. We rely much on Maxwell, but his conclusions are assumptions. Not only are they not proven, there is significant counter-evidence. [Jane Q. Public]

Good grief. Electric fields are zero in perfect conductors. I explain this fact to freshman physics students by asking: what would happen if we tried to place an electric field across a conductor? Electrons would move opposite the field, and positive electron holes would move with the electric field, exactly enough to cancel out the original field inside the conductor. Better conductors cancel out faster, so electric fields are zero in perfect conductors.

Mentioning that this fact can be derived from Maxwell's equations is meant to be helpful, because all physics students should be familiar with the first theory that emerged in a Lorentz-invariant form. In other words, Maxwell's equations were consistent with special relativity before relativity even existed. They're the basis of all radio equipment, and the correspondence principle checks that quantum electrodynamics (one of the most accurate theories in history) is identical to Maxwell's equations for large systems. If your reaction to hearing "Maxwell's equations" is to spray chaff about quaternions, you'll be disappointed to find that core classes based on junior-level Griffiths and graduate-level Jackson are almost exclusively about Maxwell's equations.

Quaternion notation is useful when desribing 3D rotations, but it's not used in electrodynamics because vector notation is more intuitive. That doesn't stop crackpots from insisting that Maxwell's equations are wishful thinking.

Physicists use Maxwell's vector equations despite the fact that we're well aware of quaternion notation. John Baez even wrote a paper on octonians. As Baez quips, if the noncommutative quaternions are like a shunned eccentric cousin, then the nonassociative octonians are like the crazy old uncle nobody lets out of the attic.

In fact, look at p542 of Griffiths 3rd edition: "Equation 12.136 combines our previous results into a single 4-vector equation-- it represents the most elegant (and the simplest) formulation of Maxwell's equations."

Page 555 of

You might check out Rex Research for odd (and usually, but not always, wrong) ideas on heating and cooling (among other things).

There are many, many cranks and perpetual-motion machines on this site. There are also some workable devices mixed in. The former are sometimes entertaining and the latter are often fascinating. The ones which I can't tell if they're brilliant or just cranks are my favorites.
Some relevant bits, (no guarantees, but less flaky than most):
Heat / Cold [section]
Appropriate / Low Technologies [section]
DAVEY : Sonic Resonance Boiler
SCHAEFFFER : Steam Generator [maybe just cavitation]
GRIGGS : Hydrosonic Pump
LEIGHTON, Tim & BIRKIN, Peter : Ultrasonic Nozzle
COTTELL : Ultrasonic Fuel-Water Burner
KENT, Anthony : SASER ~ Sound Amplification by Stimulation Emission of Radiation - TeraHz generator
MARKS, Alvin : Aerosol Electric Generator / MagnetoThermoDynamic Power Converter
LaVOIE, Eric : Burner Booster
AVEDON : Thermal Equalizer
CUPPETILLI : Heating System
KAMEN : Power Generation / Water Purification System
LINSON-SMITH : Water Flow Control System
MAIER-LAXHUBER : Zeolite Adsorption Heating/Cooling
MAISOTSENKO : Indirect Evaporative Cooling [++, definitely the sort of thing you're looking for]]
SINGH : AirTap Water Heater
HOLLIS, Tom : MileageMatrix Thermostat
KALINA, Alexander : Ammonia-Steam Cycle
MINTO, Wallace : Freon Power Wheel
POTTER, Jared : Hydrothermal Spallation Drill
RANQUE, G. : Vortex Tube
ROBAR, Sheldon : Freon Engine
ROSOCHA, Louis : Plasma-Assisted Combustion
VATISTAS : Vortex Cooling [heat exchanger]
WEBSTER / HEISE : Valve
Water / Steam [section, though much nonsense here, too]
ZINN : Combustor ["Coal Burns Best in Pipes that Hum", another GA Tech project]
There are several other pumps and engines and improvements to conventional forms of the same in there that are workable (and hundreds that aren't).
Many other interesting areas at this site also, e.g. mechanical, aircraft,

http://www.rexresearch.com/vaux/vaux.htm

This engine uses a scotch yoke mechanism to take capture the energy of gasoline in an engine that is intentionally detonating. I toured Denner's lab back in the 90's.

It looks like it is a combination of that and the prolate cycloid aero propeller (1934 Modern Mechanics and Popular Science illustrations)

Balloons and gliders predate powered flight.

Alexander de Seversky proposed an ionic drive that would need most of that altitude to work.

http://www.rexresearch.com/desev/desev.htm

the best multi-tasker i ever heard about was Harry Kahne. he wrote a book that he claims could help anyone do lots of feats simultaneously. he's worth reading about if you want to be impressed! http://www.rexresearch.com/kahne/kahne.htm

It's also possible they've assembled one of Bussard's whiffleball fusors. Not tremendously complicated, and if you threw a couple hundred million at it (assuming the theory behind it were correct) you might get a practical reactor.

Do you have physics to back you up? No, I didn't think so.

Take a new Toyota Tacoma. Assume weight savings in replacing bumper with foam metal is used elsewhere so you have the same mass vehicle. A Tacoma weighs approximately 4000 pounds, which is approximately 1800 kg.

Kinetic energy is given by:
e=0.5*m*v^2
m = mass
v = velocity (or speed for our purposes).

The kinetic energy of a Tacoma moving at 28 miles per hour is approximately 141 kJ.
The kinetic energy of a Tacoma moving at 5 miles per hour is approximately 4.5 kJ.

That is, the foam bumper only has to absorb 31 times as much energy as the solid bumper to perform to the quoted standard.

See quote below, which is from here: http://www.rexresearch.com/rabiei/rabiei.htm
We see they estimate a factor of 80 improvement of energy absorption over the foam metal's equivalent bulk material. They don't say, but let's assume (reasonably) that they are talking about linear compression. Let's assume for a second that the stock bumper is made of a block of solid steel that doesn't absorb any energy. It's not, and it does, obviously.

If their estimate is correct, and a foam bumper of the same size will absorb 80 times as much energy as its solid counterpart, then the passenger in the 28 mph impact would feel 1-2 kJ of energy instead of ~140 kJ of energy. Obviously the bumpers are not solid metal, and they already have some energy absorption capabilities built into them.

Based on the factor of 31 between the kinetic energies of the vehicle at different speeds, I think their claim is the opposite of bullshit. It's reasonable.

Researchers at NC State have developed, processed, and tested a new high-strength ultra-light material that combines the advantages of metal matrix composites with metallic foams. Dr. Afsaneh Rabiei has produced a new generation of metal foams showing 5 to 6 times greater strength to density ratio and over 7 times higher energy absorption than that of currently available metallic foams. As a result, the energy absorption of these materials is estimated to be over 80 times greater than the bulk material from which the foam is made. Dr. Rabiei was interested in maintaining the advantages of metallic foams (excellent rigidity/ weight ratio, durability, isotropic absorption of energy at low and constant stress) while improving the mechanical properties under cyclic compression loading. The performance advantages of this metal foam are based on improving foam cell structure and reinforcing the cells with a metallic matrix. The resulting novel, closed-cell, metallic foam composite is made from preform hollow metallic spheres and exhibits a strength of over 130 MPa in compression. The densification for the new foam occurs at strains of approximately 50-65%.

http://www.rexresearch.com/rabiei/rabiei.htm

I mean for fucks' sakes, this stuff was in use by the German navy during WW2- 70 years ago. All this kid did was apply the obvious, and apparently, it's so obvious, someone thought of it 40 years ago.

This stuff was used in World War One:

http://www.rexresearch.com/rogers/1rogers.htm

James H. ROGERS

Underground & Underwater Radio

( Static-free Reception & Transmission Underwater & Underground )

Methods for Recovery of Atmospheric Humidity by Robert A. Nelson Copyright 2003

http://www.rexresearch.com/airwells/airwells.htm

This is a really interesting website.

http://www.rexresearch.com/pringle/pringle.htm it already starts to make sense.

Brilliant yes, new no...

http://www.rexresearch.com/boats/1boat.htm#wave

rj

http://www.rexresearch.com/chentoth/chentth.htm

Color me skeptical, but it would be nice if it worked. Or you can always become a Shane McGowan and just not care about your teeth.

Ahem. *Cough*. Hello?

Plants can also be beneficial for each other. For instance aphids are insects that love to feast on roses along with some food crops, however strawberries and a few other plants repel aphids away. Here are some more examples of plant combinations.

Dr. Robert Bussard has made demonstrable progress in doing this very thing. To quote him, "We are probably the only people on the planet who know how to make a real net power clean fusion system, and we are out of support! Somewhat ironical!" Indeed.

http://www.rexresearch.com/bussard/bussard.htm
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1996321846673788606

For $200M in funding, Bussard can build his final prototype and change the entire world.

Oh, this is just too much fun!

Everybody is cranking out lots of criticisms and such, but you just know everybody is still going to be paying attention on July 5th!

Typically with over-unity claims which actually make the news, there is a big press release and gab-fest, and then a few weeks later the inventor vanishes from view never to be heard from again.

I recall one gentleman in Japan, Kohei Minato, three years back who had managed to garner a lot of positive press with his funky spinning wheels. He had an Irish minister of some sort pay him a visit and descriptions of his free-spinning wheel are really cool. (The coolest item is in the last fifth of the page at the bottom.) He generated some modest interest in 2004 when a journalist was significantly impressed with his work and published an article (copied at the link above). I wonder what happened to Mr. Minato. I've not heard a peep about him since then. If he's in jail, it's not the kind you get put in for fraud, because then there would be some record of his being prosecuted. Perhaps its one of those special prisons they have for people who dare to tap into some forbidden energy source the petrochem companies don't want anybody to know about. There are tales of inventors being kidnapped at gunpoint. I know a guy who worked for an agency whose job it is to kill scientists. But hey, shhhhh. Stuff like is entirely not real. I'm only joking. Really. Joking. Shhhh. Plausible deniablility. Cuz the guy is just gone. There's nothing on the man that isn't three years old.

Well, actually, I did hear one peep. There was a fellow inquiring after Minato, claiming to have last seen him in Japan in December of 2006. Apparently, Mr. Minato has been offered a production facility in another country. But that could be just the background noise of the grand ol' internet. Who's to say?

Anyway. . , if this Orbo thing is a scam, you can bet it's a great one. Their showing has been really patient and well-crafted thus far. I'm so happy they're still around a year after their first announcement. I mean, think about how much effort is being expended here; it involves a large number of people who are all towing the line. Scientists, and production staff, and PR people. If this is a scam, it's much, much larger than any other over-unity claim, which usually only involve one or two people working in a garage. According the the wonderful world of wikkipedia, Steorn invited a democratically selected member of a forum to visit their facility, and they wowed her with a bunch of smoke and mirrors. This is so rich! Damn, I'm excited!

I wonder, if it's all scammy, how they've worked out how to not go to jail for fraud? Is it illegal to lie to your investors? Maybe they'll all claim it was just an elaborate test of the PR abilities, a cosmic joke to see who they could fool, and that really, no money changed hands. Who knows?

Or if they've got some kind of device on their hands which draws energy from somewhere else, like the Earth's magnetic field as some have suggested, then. . , hey, is that cool or what? They've done enough high-profile press work to perhaps not get vanished. (Though I wouldn't count on it.) Either way, Steorn is putting on a helluva neat show. This is pulp science at its best! It reminds me of my favorite period in fiction; the late 1700's, early 1800's, when steam and flying contraptions and "Watson, get the pistols!" was the way science was conducted. A showing of a revolutionary new technology in an art gallery? Are you serious?! Well, damn, let me get my top hat and cane! These days are sorely lacking adventure in science. Too few pith helmets and too much slick corporate chrome.

So, rock-on, Steron! I can't wait to see what you pull out of your hat! And if you actually have something genuine, a word of advice: Opensourcing it would keep you from getting killed by the Bad Men. If you don't have

If you cared, you could easily find many pages debunking the "electric universe" theory. e.g. http://www.tim-thompson.com/electric-sun.html

There are no shortage of crackpot physics theories supported by allegedly upstanding scientists. Often it's not even anyone's fault. Someone sees a sliver of evidence for some wild theory and latches on to it, wildly grasping at straws to support it. It's human nature, but most scientists manage to overcome the desire to selectively interpret evidence for their own purposes.

http://www.steorn.net/
http://www.rexresearch.com/coler/coler2.htm
http://www.blacklightpower.com/
http://www.relativitychallenge.com/
http://www.thefinaltheory.com/

If you want to debunk current science, start by learning modern physics and the experiments used to defend modern physics. You can't effectively criticize theories when you don't know what they say or how past experiments have validated them.

The above crackpot sites might not even be wrong. It could be that the scientific establishment is corrupt, misinterpreting evidence, and unreasonably trying to squash competing theories. However, the way those crackpots are going about trying to disprove currently accepted physics is simply the wrong way to go about it. If any of them would design a repeatable experiment that conflicts with existing theories, they'd become instantly famous. Why don't they? Either they're lazy or they're frauds. In either case, they have no business calling themselves scientists.

I'm now convinced that America has no friends in the middle east- only trading partners controlled by the enemy of us all, the petroleum corporations.

Bring on the Magnetic Over-Unity devices!

Here we are, as promised. About a third of the way down the page. Ignore the Reichian weirdness, the wells were built near the ancient Byzantine city of Feodosiya. There were 13 large conical tumuli of stones, each about 10,000 feet square and 30-40 feet tall, on hilltops. Russian engineer Friedrich Zibold calculated they would each produce more than 500 gallons daily. These theories have been disputed by some archeologists (who don't seem to like it when engineers discover cool archeological stuff and make up theories about it) but the mounds do all have numerous terra-cotta pipes around the base, presumeably to collect the run off

Good comment - ~4kV on the caps makes it a lot easier.

I'm not really sure why the Slashdot article links to the Wikipedia "Supercapacitor" article - that hasn't had anything useful on EEStor since July 26, when this section with all the important claimed numbers for EEStor's capacitor was removed:

"As of spring 2006, EEStor Inc. claims to have a supercapacitor with a barium titanate dielectric nearing production. The company claims a unit with 31 farads capacitance and an operating voltage of 3.5 kV, capable of storing up to 340 Wh/kg (1232 kJ/kg)and charging or discharging at up to 3.5 kW/kg (52 kWh = 187 MJ and 520 kW - 6 minute charging time - for the 152 kg unit), lifetime of over 1,000,000 discharge cycles and leakage of less than 0.1% per month [[4] US Patent 7,033,406] with a cost of $40-$60 per kWh ($3,200 - $2,100 per unit). [BusinessWeek, 3 September 2005]. The technology is scheduled for third-party verification during the summer of 2006."

(This had links to Barium Titanate Ultra-Capacitor (Richard WEIR / Carl NELSON). That page seems to include copies of essentially all the professional articles on EEStor.)

So the charge rate on a car-size capacitor is 520 kW at 3.5 kV which means the current is a bit under 150 amps. According to American Wire Gauge (AWG) Current limits the necessary diameter for each wire of the pair is between 0.25 - 0.33 inches (5.83 mm - 8.25 mm) depending on the wire length.

The solution to the high peak power demands of an electrical "filling" station is to have a large (MWh -class) Ultracapacitor bank at the station to level the load over the course of a day.

The car range estimate also seems reasonable - the relevant figure is not the full-cycle efficiency (which includes charging losses), but the efficiency based on the energy actually stored in the capacitor. The EV1 had an efficiency on that basis of about 0.18 kWh per mile, so even without adjusting for the lower weight and losses of the capacitor compared to the EV1's batteries, a 52kWh capacitor should have a range of about 290 miles.

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I think he most interesting things about the EEStor capacitor are not just the energy and power densities but the amazing durability and low cost. If it works as advertised this is going to allow lots of businesses that aren't
practical today such as solar, wind, and tide generation far from the grid - with energy shipped out in boxes. Utilities could use these for load-levelling. With the right setup in the cars, the vast number of cars hooked up to the grid and any given time could itself be the utilities' supply buffer.

Gobs more information on wht they have is here:

http://www.rexresearch.com/weir/weir.htm

Dean Kamen's stirling generator is more interesting. It produces potable water, unlike the DoD monstrosity, and can also run on any fuel. Several of them could fit in a pickup truck, which strikes me as an advantage in disaster relief situations. The air-conditioning feature of the DoD turbines is interesting, but electricity = A/C, so it's not a big deal.

As of spring 2006, EEStor Inc. claims to have a supercapacitor with a barium titanate dielectric nearing production. The company claims a unit with 31 farads capacitance and an operating voltage of 3.5 kV, capable of storing up to 340 Wh/kg (1232 kJ/kg)and charging or discharging at up to 3.5 kW/kg (52 kWh = 187 MJ and 520 kW - 6 minute charging time - for the 152 kg unit), lifetime of over 1,000,000 discharge cycles and leakage of less than 0.1% per month [[4] US Patent 7,033,406] with a cost of $40-$60 per kWh ($3,200 - $2,100 per unit). [BusinessWeek, 3 September 2005]. The technology is scheduled for third-party verification during the summer of 2006.

Electrical-Energy-Storage Unit (EESU) Utilizing Ceramic and Integrated-Circuit Technologies for Replacement of Electrochemical Batteries

April 25, 2006

Weir, Richard D. (Cedar Park, TX); Nelson, Carl W. (Austin, TX)

Abstract:

An electrical-energy-storage unit (EESU) has as a basis material a high-permittivity composition-modified barium titanate ceramic powder. This powder is double coated with the first coating being aluminum oxide and the second coating calcium magnesium aluminosilicate glass. The components of the EESU are manufactured with the use of classical ceramic fabrication techniques which include screen printing alternating multilayers of nickel electrodes and high-permittivitiy composition-modified barium titanate powder, sintering to a closed-pore porous body, followed by hot-isostatic pressing to a void-free body. The components are configured into a multilayer array with the use of a solder-bump technique as the enabling technology so as to provide a parallel configuration of components that has the capability to store electrical energy in the range of 52 kWh. The total weight of an EESU with this range of electrical energy storage is about 336 pounds.
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SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION:

None of the EESU materials will explode when being recharged or impacted. Thus the EESU is a safe product when used in electric vehicles, buses, bicycles, tractors, or any device that is used for transportation or to perform work. It could also be used for storing electrical power generated from solar voltaic cells or other alternative sources for residential, commercial, or industrial applications. The EESU will also allow power averaging of power plants utilizing SPVC or wind technology and will have the capability to provide this function by storing sufficient electrical energy so that when the sun is not shinning or the wind is not blowing they can meet the energy requirements of residential, commercial, and industrial sites. ...

The EESU can also be rapidly charged without damaging the material or reducing its life. The cycle time to fully charge a 52 kWh EESU would be in the range of 4 to 6 minutes with sufficient cooling of the power cables and connections. ...
FIG. 1 indicates that a double array of 2230 energy storage components (9) in a parallel configuration that contain the calcined composition-modified barium titanate powder. Fully densified ceramic components of this powder coated with 100 .ANG. [10 nm] of aluminum oxide as the first coating (8) and a 100 .ANG. [10 nm] of calcium magnesium aluminosilicate glass as the second coating 8 can be safely charged to 3500 V. The number of components used in the double array depends on the electrical energy storage requirements of the application. The components used in the array can vary from 2 to 10,000 or more. The total capacitance of this particular array (9) is 31 F which will allow 52,220 Wh of energy to be stored as derived by Formula 1.

These coatings also assist in significantly lowering the leakage and aging of ceramic components comprised of the calcined composition-modified barium titanate powder to a point where they will not effect the performance of the EESU. In fact, the discharge rate of the ceramic EESU will be lower than 0.1% per 30 days which is approximately an order of magnitude lower than the best electrochemical battery.

A significant advantage of the present invention is th

http://befreetech.com/suppressed_inventions.htm has more listings, including Canadian patents (Charles N. Pogue was Canadian).

Pogue seems to have been bought out by the oil companies, and he did well for himself. Other inventors and tweakers have seen their offices/labs trashed and I have heard of disappearances and foul-play. Of course, you cannot believe everything you read, but considering what is at stake for the major movers-and-shakers, I wouldn't put it past them to do whatever it takes to keep what they have.

Sorry to bust any bubbles but I know I submitted the prior art over a year ago as an article (that was turned down) as this was and is actually an invention of a Japanese Gentleman who has been working on it most of his life. The original inventor is a Mr Kohei Minato who has a number of patents already on this motor.

Here are some links

article 1
article 2
google search

Hemp Biodiesel

Hemp stalks can be converted to ethanol (with about 20% efficiency by fermentation of hydrolyzed cellulose), into methane (by digestion of the stalks, with 50% efficiency), into producer gas (by thermal gasification at 85% efficiency) and into methanol (by pyrolysis of the stalks, or from producer gas). It is estimated that hemp biomass can yield an equivalent of 1,300 gal/acre of vehicle fuel. Chopped stalks also can be used directly as a boiler fuel.

I think it would be better not to remove the natural Algae fields of the world's oceans because of the rather unfortunate environmental consequences that could occur. But planting new crops in already cleared fields, especially nice dense high-yielding ones, sounds good to me.

Rather, mining the atmosphere for water is done by capturing water that woudl have condensed anyway, and preventing it from re-evaporating, which is what happens to most dew.

here are some examples. The "dewponds" of Britian are the most well known.

Hundreds of scientists spend millions of dollars of money on an incredibly expensive
method of detecting gravity waves when cheap ones somehow already exist.

Build your own gravity wave detector:
http://www.rexresearch.com/hodorhys/remag86/remag8 6.htm

Dr. Bogdan Maglich came up with an interesting idea that he dubbed the Migma reactor, which involves high energy particle beams that are bent by magnetic fields to constantly loop around the center of a chamber, where they would undergo high energy collisions and enable fusion of elements at much higher temperatures than Tokamaks and related concepts. This kind of fusion can occur without neutron emission, which would be much cleaner than the radioactivity-inducing fusion reactors now under development.

Some URLs are at: http://www.rexresearch.com/maglich/maglich.htm,
with a good bio page on Maglich at: http://www.hienergyinc.com/company/bio_maglich.htm

I've noticed that lithium batteries sometimes degrade so rapidly (after 18 months or more of reliable service) that people sometimes associate the battery performance problem with some event -- a software upgrade or application install -- which was coincident with the battery demise. Sometimes they are so certain of the causality of the association that they won't buy a new battery.

Once they finally do, they are thrilled to discover that it's like having a new laptop again, with nice long battery life. Well, long by today's standards. I'd like a battery that could last a year, but I'm concerned by my own temptation to disassemble things to see how they are made...

*must* ... *not* ... *open* ... *nuclear cannister* ...

"Good news, everyone!"
- Professor Hubert Farnsworth

Farnsworth Fusor. More on Wikipedia.

Buildable and safely operable by any grad student. A non-fusing version (using only hydrogen) that serves as a proof-of-concept could be built and safely demonstrated by a group of bright, mechanically-inclined, and well-equipped high school student.

If, by "working", you mean "produces more energy than it takes to operate", the Farnsworth Fusor doesn't work. If, however, you mean "produces a neutron flux whose presence can only be explained by fusion", it works just fine.

a Guy named Paul M. Brown, of Peripheral Systems, did this back in like, the 80's, but he used Strontium-90 as the 'fuel' because it also goesnt give off gamma radiation, but only alpha and beta particles, his battery could put out something crazy like 7500 watts per gram of SR-90.

You can read about it here http://www.rexresearch.com/nucell/nucell.htm [rexresearch.com], his battery design was patented under the company Nucell or something.

To bad he died back in 2001, mysterious hit n' run. Auto/Oil Industry Conspiracy!!!!

a Guy named Paul M. Brown, of Peripheral Systems, did this back in like, the 80's, but he used Strontium-90 as the 'fuel' because it also goesnt give off gamma radiation, but only alpha and beta particles, his battery could put out something crazy like 7500 watts per gram of SR-90.

You can read about it here http://www.rexresearch.com/nucell/nucell.htm, his battery design was patented under the company Nucell or something.

To bad he died back in 2001, mysterious hit n' run. Auto/Oil Industry Conspiracy!!!!

... how the pump actually works (it's magnets! doesn't count) ...

It's probably a sea engine:
http://www.rexresearch.com/emships/empship.htm

It works like magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) in reverse. Another way to think of it is as a rail gun with a liquid projectile.

A magnetic field is applied to a tube full of liquid, and electrodes are used to cause current to flow perpendicular to that. The result is a net force perpendicular to both the magnetic field and the electric current.

The actual sea engine uses alternating current, but the principle is similar.

In 1903 a French professor of physics, Rene Blondlot thought he had found a new form of radiation. He and many others did experiments and published papers on these new rays until an American physicist, R.W. Wood, came by and proved that N-Rays did not exist. Some what like cold fusion, but in a less media crazy time.

It would be funny if dark energy was another example of too little data and too big a theory.

Controlled hydrogen fusion has been possible for decades. So what?

Thank you.

Or then there is always this however pretty strange for him to die in a car crash before anything happened with this technology. link

"It ain't warp speed, but it's exciting new technology at work!"

Ion propulsion isn't "new" technology at all. It's been around for fourty years or more, in one form or another. The only "new" thing about this ion propulsion is that it is being used as the motive power for a spacecraft.

See this article from the August 1964 edition of "Popular Mechanics".

A story in the Fall 1990 WHOLE EARTH REVIEW #68, pp. 101-104, documents a 1984-1987 USGS study which showed a 70% correlation between radio signals on 200 Hz - 100 KHz. (the signals which BPL, if permitted by the FCC, will largely block).

Multiple citations are included to other research at the end of the article.

I think I will build one, even though when I bought my new home, it was built in Zone Green.

Is there any more information about this on the web? The only link I could find was on rexresearch, which while very interesting, does unfortunately taint it with associations with less plausible technology.

How much strontium-90 is currently being produced in commerical electricy-generating nuclear reactors? (and how expensive is it to extract?)
This sort of technology has huge potential, not least of which being that it can be used to extract energy from other alpha- and beta- emitters (ie a fair chunk of nuclear waste.)

Strontium-90 isn't completely benign (it is a beta source after all, and its one radioactive decay product, Yttrium-90, I think is an even more energetic beta emitter.) It behaves chemically much like calcium, so if it's inhaled or ingested, it can be incorporated into bones, etc.

On the other hand, I get the impression that it is less dangerous than oven cleaner. You wouldn't eat that either, and like strontium-90, bare skin exposure is ill-advised.

That's funny, because I never used the word "reactor". I said "nuclear generator". Check my original post if you don't believe me. Of course, it would be even cooler if we took a few of these up with us. 7.5 kW, here I come! That is, if I can get the damn oil companies to leave me alone.

I managed to grab a couple videos from the (lagging from the start) site before the webserver came to a grinding halt. The R/C models fly nicely, they have impressive stability, especially at low speeds (in fact, it looks like speed matters less than with traditional wings).
They make buzzing noises, a tad like mosquitoes.

From the article title, I thought this was about the "rotating fans" lifting-body aircraft I had read about a few years ago in specialized press... At least the one in this article does not look like a UFO.

the Nuclear Resonant Battery

The idea was to create a high-Q resonant circuit, then drive the oscilation with a beta emitting isotope, and pull power out of the system via inductive coupling.

The inventor claimed to be able to pull about 100 watts out of a soup-can sized power system.

Was this later proven to be BS, or did it just die because it had the "n" word in it's name?

This Multiple Mentalism course is a revised version of the course originated by Harry Kahne in the early 1920s. At that time he was billed as The Incomparable Mentalist and The Man with the Multiple Mind.

He often demonstrated his ability on stage by doing six different mental operations simultaneously. His platform performance entailed standing in front of a large blackboard with a piece of chalk in each hand while conversing with the audience. There was a newspaper on a music rack in front of him. He began reading the headlines while writing upside down and backwards with one hand and mirror language with the other hand.

At his left was another small blackboard on which appeared the number 28,642,981,673 --- which was being divided into five unequal parts --- these figures he began computing at the bottom of the large blackboard. To his right was another small blackboard on which appeared seven columns of figures which ran into the millions. These were being added and notated as well at the bottom of the larger blackboard in front of him.

This was Harry Kahne's demonstration of doing six things at one time, i.e., reading, transposing, writing backwards and upside down, holding a conversation, adding and dividing. These six separate processes actually involve fourteen distinct operations, i.e., hearing questions, answering questions, reading a newspaper, transposing what is read, transposing spelling, writing with right hand, writing with left hand, writing upside down, carrying six different thoughts in mind, retaining questions, retaining figures for addition, retaining figures for division, proving previous work and controlling all other physical actions of the body --- such as walking, bowing, etc..

At the end of Harry Kahne's demonstrations, people often asked him, "Do you really believe that nearly everyone can learn to perform the amazing mental feats you demonstrate? Is my brain capable of carrying on four to six independent functions at one and the same time, as yours is? Isn't the ability to master your training confined to well educated people?" When answering, Harry Kahne admitted he had only an average brain to do things no other man in history had done. Education had no bearing on it.

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