Posted on 11/07/2005 10:19:55 AM PST by Scythian
It seems too good to be true: a new source of near-limitless power that costs virtually nothing, uses tiny amounts of water as its fuel and produces next to no waste. If that does not sound radical enough, how about this: the principle behind the source turns modern physics on its head.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,3605,1627424,00.html
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
I want one.
Months away from unveiling an actual device that can harness this energy, or months away from revealing some esoteric math equatiuon that "proves" this can be done? Show me a heater that will heat my home for $400 a year instead of $2000 a year and that's something. Show me the schematics for such a heater and you can go pound sand.
Reminds of something my father told besides keeping you mouth shut even if they think your an idiot.
Hmmm, interesting.
Semper Fi
Doubtful.
Almost certainly bunk. By default, hydrogen would seek its lowest energy state, which means that if you could push an electron closer to the proton, it would already be there.
The only possible way this would not be true is if the activation energy were incredibly high.
Of course, if it were possible to get hydrogen to drop to this lower energy state in a sustainable reaction, you're looking at the ultimate doomsday weapon. Just get it started and drop it in the ocean. Good-bye planet Earth.
BINGO! I have seen very detailed schematics for a Star Trek warp engine, but that does not mean that someone can actually build a working one.
Our heat/cool bill averages $70/month.
Right.
The only possible way this would not be true is if the activation energy were incredibly high.
Even if it were, *some* small fraction of hydrogen atoms would have already been naturally subjected to the proper conditions (e.g. in the core of stars), and such "modified hydrogen" would have been observed or detected in nature *somewhere* by now.
I call BS on the story. It sounds a lot like those frequent announcements of things like special "pills" that when added to water converts it into something you can run your car on. It always turns out that all the "inventor" needs is a few more million dollars of investment capital to make it commercial...
yep. power too cheap to meter...
haven't we heard this bunk before?
Oh yeah? These guys did:
Every generation of scientists always thinks that its current existing body of knowledge encompasses the truth, until someone comes along and makes a discovery that proves that their knowledge was either incomplete or wrong.
I'm not saying that will be the case here; either the guy will be able to prove his case or he won't. But the condescending and arrogant attitude scientists often display can be rather offputting at times.
Good point. I formally retract my "probably bunk" and replace it with "definitely bunk."
I have a Klingon to English dictionary. Wanna borrow it?
No, I'm pretty sure I saw the Professor do this with two coconuts and a fan belt that time the killer hurrican was on a direct collision course with the Island.
In our house, we follow the rules of thermo dynamics!
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