Kevmo, your first course of study should be to read about energy vs. power.
Power is not energy. I doubt Nifster can discharge his static collection of electricity at a rate to give a MW power output, using his finger and doorknob. But that’s not to say that a capacitor bank charged to the same level couldn’t deliver that power level, given the right bank voltage, good conductors, awesome triggering mechanism. Energy is power * time.
When these con men give power in to power out ratios, I just immediately think: SCAM. Because no one in that industry (the industry of power generation), thinks of energy in Watts. Because Watts ARE NOT energy. No way, no how. It’s all about Watt-Seconds or the basic Joule.
This is not to say that in certain conditions, efficiency is well measured by power in to power out. Like a audio amplifier, but this is simplified only because the measurements are of steady state power conditions. But this fuel cell “tech” is not a power amplifier, it is supposed to be a power reactor. Power reactors are measured in watts to the casual observer (and evidently con men, too). But really what a megawatt reactor means is that it can supply a megawatt of power continuously, which is directly translatable to a joule capacity.
In these cons, they pulse their reactors, one shot, and then give us the output wattage numbers. Given this measurement technique, you can generate any power output you want (given the right circuits), if you don’t reveal the time of the output pulse. Theoretically, if you had the best switches ever devised, a very efficient switching boost power supply, and a nice capacitor bank, you could get a megawatt pulse from a cellphone battery! It would’t be a very long pulse at all, but it could be at the megawatt level for some nanosecond or so...
In actuality, the scammer’s press releases are accurate in a legal sense, but otherwise viscously misleading, since it tells us nothing of substance.
Because no one in that industry (the industry of power generation), thinks of energy in Watts.
***Well, now, ELFORSK is the INDUSTRY consortium for Power Generation. They beg to disagree with you.
When I go into a lab, I measure a resistor in Watts, not Joules. You simply do not know what you are talking about.
In these cons, they pulse their reactors, one shot, and then give us the output wattage numbers.
*** That’s just because they have crappy PR people. I’ve dealt with PR people who change units on press releases without knowing jack about what they’re doing. So, watch the demo on Jan 28 and inform all of us how far off these guys are. You’d be doing everyone a favor. And at the same time, it would make sense to explain why you, of all the people involved, found out how to root out such frauds with your Amazing Insight while everyone else was so Deceived.