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. [...]
Browsing Posts in Technology
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 [...]
There has been a lot of discussion on my blog about the concept of ‘over unity’ or free energy. Thane Heins claims to have developed a device that produces more than it consumes:
http://mwiner.wordpress.com/2008/02/19/thane-heins-perpetual-motion-free-energy-or-simply-releasing-a-brake/
http://mwiner.wordpress.com/2008/02/08/perpetual-motion-claim-if-its-a-hoax-its-a-good-one/
This device is an interesting water heater.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh_-DUKQ4Uw
It is a cavitation water heater. What it does is basically bash and mash up water to the [...]
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, [...]
There has been a spate of activity in the nanotech realm lately. Over the past few months I’ve tracked several new developments. Here they are in no particular order: spine, ram, solar cell, ca
1) Solar Power: The problem with solar technology is the high cost of the solar cells. The [...]
