Has anyone heard of any news on this “discovery” since last week?
My guess is the power input/output will make perfect sense with better measurement of the input power - but one can always hope!
Color me 100% skeptical. I predict it will come to nothing.
Tungsten, potasium carbonate, water and platinum…I’ll wait this one out thanks. Besides
what the hell does a chemical catalyst have to do with a mythical metastable quantum energy level?
Indeed - the “metastable quantam energy level” seems the most likely “handwaving” and bogus explanation compared to error in energy in measurement due to arcing.
Now, if they can take a battery with known energy content and get more energy into the water than the battery starts with, then they are cooking.
The company that is investing 300,000 pounds must have lots of money for speculative ventures or figures that the free advertising from news coverage will pay for itself.
Until this is proven via multiple experiments and peer review, it is nothing at all.
Don’t hold your breath. Remember cold fusion?
If a new metastable form of Hydrogen existed in nature there would be evidence of it from cosmology.
There exists in space such a wide variety of environments, from near-vacuum to the centre of supernovae- somewhere in all that a metastable state which yields energy would be noticed pretty quickly, surely .
don’t call me shirley.
SF worldbuilding at
http://www.orionsarm.com/main.html
Not to mention that lightning out to set off a huge explosion every so often:)!
According to the article - the university folks did repeat the experiment - using the exact same kind of setup (meaning if there is error in the input power measurement it would also repeat).
I also doubt anything comes of this, but it is fun to dream sometimes of “cheap energy” .
Of course, if it did work, wouldn’t this create a new category of WMD? Imagine lots of terrorist folks carrying briefcases with potash water and batteries!
Wait a minute … a tungsten cathode and a platinum anode?
In an electrolytic solution?
Gee … I wonder where the extra energy could be coming from. :rolleyes:
Water pixies. There damn near impossible to get rid of though.
Classic hoax; here’s the clincher:
Since your average light bulb is more complex, I found the 2 year wait to make a production model illogical.
I have a friend who worked on making fuel cells for his doctorate’s degree at Penn State. The fuel cells worked but were incredibly inefficient. However, Platinum/Gold and Potassium were used as a catalyst for ionization or something like that. I am not a chemical engineer and what he was saying went well above my head, but the theory that the link talks about sounds much the same with similar “ingredients” to what my friend was doing.
Perhaps but your friend was likely working on strippign electrons from hydrogen and using them as regular current. These guys are tapping a yet to be discovered low energy state of the hydrogen atom which release energy thereby heating the surrounding environment.
Nah, they’re just tapping into Orgone energy. Everyone knows that.
Heh – even Reich himself claimed to have invented an orgone energy powered motor.
I read about these types of things for kicks. As I’m sure you can guess, they all come to nought. Some inventors get overly attached to their creations, and think they’re better than they are. This guy’s planning public cell sales in 2 years, when they haven’t even thought up a way this thing could be working? It might not be a hoax, but it’s sure not good science.
I’m not throwing away my NiCads just yet.