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Free Energy and the Open Source Energy Movement (Part 4)

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The Open Source Energy Movement provides that edge. It gives a free energy device inventor the power of many: Added security from suppression, “free” R & D help for the technology, and the very important advantages of having the work replicated and proven by others all around the world. Thus the concepts are proven, the device improved, the skeptics silenced, and the way for success left open. THIS is the only current answer to getting free energy devices into our homes and vehicles: By doing it ourselves. And this is exactly what is happening today, as we read this… All over the world by the tens of thousands of people actively working in the Open Source Energy movement…. In a way that is effective and unstoppable.

The Open Source Energy community is “recruiting”… If you have technical knowledge, mechanical skills, an electrical or electronics background, a keen and inquisitive mind, or just a strong desire to end the use of oil and coal as fuels: Humankind could use your talents; and perhaps it could be argued that they are needed more now than ever before in our history. There are very few things most of us can do as individuals to change the world for the better: This is one of them. There are many ways to contribute, not all of them by performing experiments, building new devices, and replicating designs at home. Simply taking the time to study these technologies, to judge their validity for yourselves; and then telling your all friends, family, and coworkers about them; is doing an important service.  If 10,000 of us tell ten people about them… And they tell 10; that is a million people who now know there are cheap, clean, and available alternatives. Then soon there will be ten million… And a hundred million… And that will spell the end of our using fossil fuels for energy… The end of most forms of pollution, the eventual end of hunger and end of fighting wars for energy. The deserts will be turned into farmland via cheap desalinization of water. “Third-world” countries will become able to develop safely without polluting the planet, to feed and educate their people, which is a proven means of controlling population via increased education and prosperity.… Until that “Third” term is no longer even valid. But what it will do for a society presently based on “scarcity” and highly-centralized and hierarchical control of energy is perhaps even more dramatic… It could change the way we all think.

 

Plasma: An Important Potential Energy Source, in Many Ways

Plasma” can be described as a unique state of matter; similar to but not exactly gaseous, in which excited gasses will freely emit large amounts of electrons (and have several other unusual characteristics); that could not otherwise be seen or extracted. In the Earth’s atmosphere Lightening is a form of plasma arc, as are the related strange and less common phenomena called “Sprites”, “Jets”, and “St. Elmo’s Fire”. Other examples of plasma include it’s use in fluorescent lighting and computer / TV video screens. Matter in a plasma state often does not have any significant electrical resistance, and it’s conductivity can approach “infinite”. It also does not adhere to many “Maxwellian” laws, and very unique waves and energy potentials can be generated which can be seen nowhere else in science. When in a plasma state, ionized gasses will emit photons (light), and have a much larger percentage of their electrons available for “use” or manipulation… These are the reasons it has become an important subject for study, and why it has very great potential for producing usable “free” energy.

M.I.T. has a large and well-funded program studying various aspects of plasma, as do several other universities. Recently M.I.T. has announced success with converting hydrocarbon fuels with plasma, to disassociate them into constituent elements in order for Carbon-based fuels to burn with much greater efficiency (… Something already well-known for nearly 90 years before). But again, as we see so often with free energy type devices; individuals and groups not working within the scientific mainstream are doing the really groundbreaking research when it comes to inventing new energy-producing technologies… While the scientific mainstream community may work on the periphery but not directly tackle the politically “dangerous” subjects smacking of “perpetual motion”… Which “coincidentally” also compete with the use of coal and oil as fuels. 

One highly-respected scientist outside of the mainstream who has had great success creating energy from plasma in recent years is Dr. Kiril Chukanov. In his vacuum plasma chambers, he has been able to create perpetually-sustained balls of plasma “as big as a man’s head” which are then bombarded with microwave and other forms of energy. This system produces direct electricity, as well as large amounts of heat and Hydrogen which can also be converted to usable energy. His latest systems can generate over 1 Megawatts of output for 100 Kilowatts input (COP > 8 ; or eight times energy input-to-output efficiency once 130kW is fed back in to make the system self-sustaining); and Dr. Chukanov claims that eventually over-unity figures in the “thousands” are possible. He is apparently currently working with Canadian energy concerns in a project shrouded in secrecy to cheaply process heavy oil from the Alberta Oil Sands fields; on a project using his plasma generators to extract the oil in a much more energy efficient and environmentally-friendly way (the heat and Hydrogen creation by-products are especially useful for this). He is also said to be working towards commercializing the technology to create mid-sized self-powered electrical generators to power neighborhoods or factories. Dr. Chukanov believes that in the near term, his system can also be used along with coal to create synthetic oil fuels and methane as a short-term answer  (similar to what Germany did in the later part of World War Two, but in a much cheaper and more energy-efficient way).

Dr. Chukov’s website, with photos, videos, and extensive and detailed audio interviews of the scientist: http://www.chukanovenergy.com .

Other successful examples of generating energy from plasma can be seen by the “PAGD” Pulsed Abnormal Glow Discharge experiments of Dr.’s Paulo and Alexandra Correa, the Blacklight Corporation’s work in this field (which has commercialized it for production of highly specialized molecular compounds as well as energy); and the “Papp Engine”, a unique invention by Josef Papp. All three of these devices/technologies were embraced by Dr. Eugene Mallove for being very worthy of further study and development by the mainstream, before his murder over four years ago (see article #3 of this series for further details).

The history of the Papp invention tells a strange and fascinating tale. Josef Papp fled Communist Hungary in 1957 ; coming first to Canada and the then the U.S. where he worked on a very unique device that used noble (inert) gasses in a closed system and ignited with plasma spark to power a reciprocating piston engine. In the mid 1960’s he first announced his discovery (along with some bizarre claims of it powering a super-fast submarine that could “cross the Atlantic in less than a day”), and had got some press coverage as well as much scientific interest. Over the years, many witnesses saw the Papp engine run… Self-powered and producing large amounts of torque (the last version producing over 100 horsepower); using a mix of purified noble gasses locked inside the engine that were continually recycled; supposedly being able to last for years without needing to be renewed or changed. Also, there have been working replications, most notably by a former associate of Papp; James “Jimmy” Sabori. Shortly before Mr. Sabori’s death, he claimed that besides the large amounts of horsepower torque, huge amounts of electricity were also directly generated from his noble gas–plasma engine. With the successful replications, media coverage, many witnesses, government and academic involvement….There really is no doubt that the Papp Engine was a “real” and working device.

By 1968, enough interest was generated for the government and several military contractors to become involved, and it was being tested successfully by independent sources…. Running without any fuel other than the constantly re-used noble gasses in the piston cylinders, operating at full power indoors for many hours at a time with no pollution output (proving there was no “hidden” source of chemical fuel). However, there was a tragedy: While being tested in the California desert under the auspices of California Institute of Technology (“Caltech”). on October 27th 1968 ; the engine suddenly exploded as it was turned on, killing one person and injuring several others. The amount of inert gas that was injected into the cylinder of the device prior to the event was only a few cubic centimeters… And the device was sealed and witnessed by Naval Research Lab personnel who were there to observe and insure there was no other motive power or energy source involved except the usual high-voltage plasma spark ignition powered by a starting battery. Yet the converted Volvo engine exploded with much more violence than any internal combustion engine ever should have… Proving there was indeed huge power being created by the plasma ignition of noble gasses. After this event, and a subsequent court battle where Caltech settled out of court for liability, there was mainly silence about the device.

Josef Papp died in 1983 , without ever seeing his engine make it into commercial production despite it’s successes. Yet there was no question that the device, and the concept of using inert gas exploded by plasma spark, certainly did work as promised. The Papp Engine is perhaps one of the most striking and interesting examples of free energy suppression that have happened in the last 40 years: Because it did have significant press coverage and successful independent testing overseen openly by universities, defense contractors, and government agencies prior to the accident.

An article by Dr. Eugene Mallove on the Papp Engine (from his magazine Infinite Energy): http://www.infinite-energy.com/iemagazine/issue51/papp.html

The use of plasma to create energy in an internal combustion engine is now being rigorously studied again outside of the mainstream: But this time in combination with water as a fuel… And not by a lone inventor; but by a whole host of independent researchers in the Open Source Energy movement. 

 

Plasma Spark Explosion of Water: Could This End Oil as a Fuel?

What is currently happening in the Open Source world is generating a great excitement and buzz of interest. It has to do with the fact that water can be “exploded” using a big enough radiant spark… A spark large enough that it is “plasma” in nature, and similar to the strange phenomena known as “ball lighting”.  In fact, the phenomena has been described as “Thunder and Lightning”… Happening on a tiny scale inside of an internal combustion engine: The violent “explosion” of water droplets when pulsed with high voltage arc.

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