by Doug Coulter » Wed Aug 22, 2012 10:39 am
Yeah. I have real trouble with all these vids that spend 10-15 minutes "teaching" 2nd grader type stuff. No schematic. No numbers. No proper nomenclature. No proof of anything other than that yes, if you dump a ton of energy into a gas, it gets hot and if contained increases pressure. I simply could not make myself watch that grade of crap for very long, one of the few things I can't stand is being talked to as if I'm a complete idiot and the talker only minimally above that. Who knows, maybe they have something - I really really truly doubt it. If you can get gain with that simple level of stuff - show me that boiling cup of tea, that go kart doing 40 mph driven by it and not trailing #2 wire for the power input. I see what they are putting in - one heck of a lot of electricity, and some apparently non-reacting substances in a pretty wierd mix.
So, what's getting used up? Even with E=MC^2, something's gotta go bye bye for energy to be produced. Not one word on that, though you know at the power levels they're putting into the electrodes, they are evaping some tungsten etc. Sure, I can make a piston rise with enough arc energy to make a bang. Hell, one of my 6kj capacitors could send that thing into the next county, or make a 6 foot diameter ball of plasma out of a copper tubing coil. That's just releasing energy that came from elsewhere.
Instead, they seem to be going quite far in the direction of making sure no one who does know physics can even watch their presentation without breaking out in hives. Tells me something right there.
Come on - if there's real energy production going on, I'd bet anyone real could reduce it to a single sentence or paragraph, then go into the "teach you physics basics explanation" which is what you see for 100% of things that are actually real. Even if you're not sure of your theory, you tell what it is. Plasma isn't magic, it's just plasma. A plasma exists on every firing/power stroke of any conventional IC engine too. So?
Bottom line, if they had something...they wouldn't be talking to me (or much dumber people who seem to be the audience they want) about it - they'd be selling the crap out of it and being very wealthy and not nearly as talkative. On the other hand, people who seek out dumb audiences to show them "Amazing things" that are well outside the dumb recipients experience, are generally trying to "raise money to take it to market" ... it has scam written all over it.
Does GM go all wild about their little tricks with variable cam timing? No, they don't, they barely mention they do it, the results speak for themselves. Because that is real...and they are selling it as a working thing. It's not like they couldn't stand to raise some money themselves either, but the way they do it is sell cars that contain these nice little tricks.
Maybe Rossi's E-Cat can make enough power to run this? <joke>
Posting as just me, not as the forum owner. Everything I say is "in my opinion" and YMMV -- which should go for everyone without saying.