Another bit of news from Defkalion:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/07/defkal ... nergy.html
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- Tue Jul 19, 2011 11:22 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: 10KW LENR Demonstrator?
- Replies: 3678
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- Tue Jul 19, 2011 7:28 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Where does innovation come from?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2811
Where does innovation come from?
Recently, in another venue, someone made the statement:
"Innovation doesn't come from the private sector. It comes from governmental means."
What do people here think of this?
"Innovation doesn't come from the private sector. It comes from governmental means."
What do people here think of this?
- Sun Jul 17, 2011 9:54 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Mach Effect progress
- Replies: 2707
- Views: 1586390
No, you can't. I explained this. You need to accelerate up the propellant to the speed of the engines. If the engines are moving at less than the exhaust velocity, then some energy is wasted in the exhaust stream. If they are moving at more than the exhaust velocity, it takes more energy to acceler...
- Sun Jul 17, 2011 9:30 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Mach Effect progress
- Replies: 2707
- Views: 1586390
Oh, and both you and Carl miscalculated the rocket problem. His is worse, but they're both pretty bad. Has either of you ever heard of specific impulse? What does it matter? So long as there is net thrust, according to how you calculate it, you can pick parameters to make it over unity, right? Try ...
- Sat Jul 16, 2011 4:24 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Mach Effect progress
- Replies: 2707
- Views: 1586390
Let's leave the M-E device out of the picture for a moment and try something else: Take our flywheel, rotating at 600 rpm = 62.8 m/s at the rim. Say there's a liquid-oxygen/hydrogen rocket attached to the rim of the flywheel (okay, there should be at least two for balance but let's ignore that). 1g ...
- Thu Jul 14, 2011 6:26 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Mach Effect progress
- Replies: 2707
- Views: 1586390
Quit trying to use conservation of energy as if it were a separate physical law. It's inherent in Newtonian mechanics. And I just used Newtonian mechanics to CONCLUSIVELY PROVE that a locally over-unity device is possible using Mach-effect thrusters as a black box. Read it again. The problem I see ...
- Wed Jul 13, 2011 6:02 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Mach Effect progress
- Replies: 2707
- Views: 1586390
You've confused momentum and energy again. Force and power are two different things. A Mach-effect thruster uses power. It outputs force. Therefore it is not sensible to say that an M-E thruster puts power into a flywheel; what it is doing is applying a torque. And the power input to the flywheel b...
- Wed Jul 13, 2011 6:19 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Mach Effect progress
- Replies: 2707
- Views: 1586390
A flywheel with radius R, with Mach-effect thrusters of thrust efficiency E positioned tangentially on the edge. Power (P) is torque (T) times angular velocity (w), so given a thruster power p, the output power of an ideal generator hooked to the flywheel is P = Tw = (pE)Rw, and if ERw > 1, well......
- Tue Jul 12, 2011 6:04 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: 10KW LENR Demonstrator?
- Replies: 3678
- Views: 1266914
Piantelli discovered the cure for cancer... oh yeah, and it also makes heat! He's been investigating the effects of electromagnetic fields on cancers. I haven't read anywhere that he claims to have "the cure for cancer", only that he's observed some positive outcomes when applied to early stages of...
- Tue Jul 12, 2011 4:51 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: 10KW LENR Demonstrator?
- Replies: 3678
- Views: 1266914
- Tue Jul 12, 2011 3:40 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: 10KW LENR Demonstrator?
- Replies: 3678
- Views: 1266914
- Sat Jul 09, 2011 3:39 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Brillouin Energy Corporation
- Replies: 41
- Views: 37385
Link to an article posted in "Cold Fusion Now": http://coldfusionnow.wordpress.com/2011/07/07/funding-dam-breaks-for-brillouin-boiler-that-uses-water/ An interesting quote: "... venture capital has finally taken notice of the potential. Brillouin Energy is fielding calls from new investors and will ...
- Wed Jul 06, 2011 3:21 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Brillouin Energy Corporation
- Replies: 41
- Views: 37385
More information about Brilluoin Energy, including a link to some technical discussion of their approach to testing.
http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/07/brillo ... ially.html
http://www.brillouinenergy.com/Brilloui ... d_Data.pdf
http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/07/brillo ... ially.html
http://www.brillouinenergy.com/Brilloui ... d_Data.pdf
- Tue Jul 05, 2011 9:36 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: 10KW LENR Demonstrator?
- Replies: 3678
- Views: 1266914
This seems like a fairly compelling argument, to me. The degree of collective idiocy required to establish and build a $200 million manufacturing facility without having tested beforehand whether the proposed product actually works would just have to be beyond the ludicrous. Who ever would do such ...
- Tue Jul 05, 2011 5:14 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: 10KW LENR Demonstrator?
- Replies: 3678
- Views: 1266914
I must say that these guys appear to have done a lot of engineering on the E-Cat to incorporate the reactor technology into viable commercial systems. It could just be a false front I guess, but the tone and content of their answers does not seem to comport with the rather amaturish demos conducted...