BlackLight Power, Claims Game Changing Achievement of the Generation

[TinselKoala]

Imagine having a MW of free electricity.... for a microsecond.

Then imagine having to pump up your capacitor bank..... yet again...... over many seconds, using more "free electricity" _energy_ than you get from the other end in that microsecond.

Then figure in the energy cost to keep your MHD magnet superconducting.


Power is not energy. Energy is conserved, even in the latest "world changer" from BLP.

[tim123]

Imagine having a MW of free electricity.... for a microsecond.

According to the patent, it's a continuous process, and while it does take a big whack of amps to 'ignite the fuel', it's supposed to return much more...

Then figure in the energy cost to keep your MHD magnet superconducting.

True, they use some power, but it's all relative...

Power is not energy. Energy is conserved, even in the latest "world changer" from BLP.

Sure, but this is like a 'state-change' - from hydrogen to hydrino. Energy is released from one form into another... He's not claiming energy from 'the vacuum' or anything like that. He seems to have accounted for every bit of energy in the system - in some seriously tedious detail...

[tim123]

A good page on water explosions:
http://tesla3.com/free_websites/water_explosion.html

"At MIT (6,7). It was shown that the discharge of 3.6 kJ of stored capacitor energy would create pressures in excess of 20.000 atm. In 7 ml of water. 3.6 gm of water was ejected from an accelerator barrel at a velocity of the order of 1000m/s, sufficient to penetrate a ¼" thick aluminium plate."

"While not in all, but in many discharges under differing experimental conditions of varying capacitance, initial voltage and water volume, the kinetic energy of the water jet was larger than the electrical energy that had been stored in the capacitor bank."

"... A 2 mf capacitor was charged to voltages in the 1-10 kV range and discharged into a water column through a 38 mH inductor. At voltages up to about 6 kV, the water acted as a relatively high resistance and the circuit decayed as an overdamped RLC circuit.

Resistance decreased with time. When the resistance dropped below about 10 W (Ohms?), the water would explode if the capacitor still had sufficient energy."

[e2matrix]

Imagine having a MW of free electricity.... for a microsecond.

Then imagine having to pump up your capacitor bank..... yet again...... over many seconds, using more "free electricity" _energy_ than you get from the other end in that microsecond.

Then figure in the energy cost to keep your MHD magnet superconducting.


Power is not energy. Energy is conserved, even in the latest "world changer" from BLP.

Nope ... not buying that anymore.   Energy is NOT conserved.    From physics Professor Pappas: 
http://www.papimi.gr/another.htm
http://www.papimi.gr/cases/
Search the pages for "energy is not conserved" once on those pages.   He makes some compelling cases with a lot to back it up.   You just need to realize he's Greek and his typing and spelling in English isn't the best but it's understandable.   Judging from the sheer quantity of info on that web site I can imagine him pounding away at a keyboard fast and furious all day without ever using backspace to correct anything.
At least that's my view for today after pouring over his web site most of yesterday.   
I've followed Blacklight for many years and think they have the brains but I'm not sure what's holding things back from getting a product to market.  Hopefully this will really be the 'game changer'.   

[tim123]

I've followed Blacklight for many years and think they have the brains but I'm not sure what's holding things back from getting a product to market.  Hopefully this will really be the 'game changer'.

Brains for sure...

I think it's technically really difficult, and that's holding things back...

They were aiming for a solid state fuel cell, but I guess they had problems scaling up, and this new arrangement kinda has the opposite problem - of being difficult to scale down...

'Sod's Law' is one of the laws of physics after all, eh...

The patent goes on about various ways of managing the ongoing destruction of the electrodes - due to the KiloAmp currents... There are other challenges there too - like fuel supply, and energy harvesting... None of it's easy.