I can generate million of watts also if I spend a lot of time dragging my socked feet across the rug and then discharging little lightning sparks doesn’t mean much in the big scheme of things.
***Gee, for someone talking about eigenstates and all that fancy scientific jargon, you don’t seem to know your physics very well. You can generate millions of VOLTS by dragging your socks, but not millions of WATTS. If what you say were true, most of us would be dead.
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.
notice the volts are the build up…. the discharge has power enough to in fact ionize the air (hence the spark)
now go back to sleep
“most of us would be dead.”
what nonsense… your mind is more DC than AC which explains why you live in the era before Tesla and Westinghouse electrified the country