BlackLight’s physics-defying promise: Cheap power from water – Jul. 2, 2008.
“For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.”
— G. K. Chesterton
It would seem that the same is true regarding our worship of fossil fuels. As fuel prices skyrocket there has been a run on alternative energy ideas. [...]
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Any fan of the film The Hunt for Red October will remember a discussion about the ‘Caterpillar Drive’ or Magneto Hydrodynamic Drive (MHD). It’s sort of a jet engine for the water which electrifies the water (creating ions) and pushes them along using magnets.
You can build a simple MHD using nothing more than a battery, [...]
In 1979 Jimmy Carter delivered a televised speech bemoaning the increasing US dependence on foreign oil. In it he outlines his Energy Policy for the coming decades.
“[Foreign Oil is] a cause of the increased inflation and unemployment that we now face. This intolerable dependence on foreign oil threatens our economic independence and the very security of [...]
