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Infinite Energy Device Update
Published in IE Volume 4, Issue #21
September 1998
Get an 1,800 square foot warehouse condominium,
add tons of stacked back issues of Infinite Energy magazines waiting
to be delivered to the unenlightened, add many more tons of research
equipment, add many tools and supplies from the plumbing and electrical
trades, scientific instruments and weird devices and processes to
be tested, then mix into this "toy store" two relatively
sober engineers linked to the wilds of the Internet, and what do
you have? Why, the New Energy Research Laboratory (NERL) here in
Bow, New Hampshire.
When we outgrew our previous publication office
and acquired our new two-floor facility in the adjoining building
of the Bow Technologies Center, we decided to make the first place
a dedicated laboratory. We had been limping along with a less than
dedicated full-time approach to testing machines and cells, although
Chris Tinsley in the UK had been fairly dedicated to that mission,
until his untimely death a year ago. Sure, we had the occasional
part-time volunteer help, and no dearth of gape-mouthed visitors,
but the lab had previously been under serious time-sharing stress
with the publication schedule of the magazine. It still is.
Since last issue, ex-Federal Aviation Administration
(FAA) electrical engineer Ed Wall has arrived and is now working
a full-time (80-hour) week in the NERL. We joke that he is having
so much fun working in Wonderland that we should have him insert
his credit card into a meter at the door to pay Cold Fusion Technology,
Inc., rather than the other way around! Work expands to fill up
time. More and more devices keep appearing on our doorstep and both
Ed and I (mostly Ed), struggle to do each of them justice.
This report should be taken as a modest interim
discussion of some of the activities with which we are engaged.
The NERL is in a period of readjustment to the working paces of
a combined team of engineers and consultants. Some day the team
will be larger. We hope it works as well as it does right now. We
never want to be a Really Big Company that does not have first and
foremost Fun doing what it is is doing. On the other hand, we are
impressed with the seriousness of our mission and don't want you
to think that we are not hell-bent to tie up loose ends and button
down the validity of some apparently potent over-unity technologies.
We multiply our efforts, as we have said before,
by relying on others to perform those testing efforts for which
we not have immediate access to the right equipment--or to engage
in parallel testing. We appreciate the fantastic input we get from
the Vortex-l electronic discussion forum. In particular, Scott Little
and Dr. Hal Puthoff of EarthTech International in Austin, Texas
have been very cooperative and helpful.
For now let us provide a brief run-down of what
is going on hither and yon on the testing front:
1. Kinetic Furnace of Kinetic Heating Systems,
Inc. of Cumming, Georgia
(Featured in Issue #19):
At NERL we have further tested the second unit
of the Kinetic Furnace that we received. Again, we obtained disappointing
results that are in the range COP= 1.01 to 1.15— too low to call
guaranteed over-unity. We still do not understand the differences
between conditions in Bow and those in Georgia. So, we attempted
to use various different sources of water, so far without seeing
increases in COP.
Kinetic Heating Systems has acquired a more
professional air-flow monitoring system than its Dwyer pressure
gage. Still, the company reports significant over-unity power production.
The particular device is an Air Data Multimeter (ADMA60), made by
Shortridge Instrument Company, Inc., of Scottsdale, Arizona. The
following are three tests that Kinetic Heating Systems has recently
performed:
Test #1: August 17, 1998
• 200 V, 16.5 amp without blower fan, 19.5 A with blower fan
on
• 3.6 kW-hour input energy = 12,287 Btu
• 1,059 CFM air flow
•  T
= 18.5 °F (Tin = 87 °F, Tout = 105.5 °F)
• Output energy = 21,159 Btu
C.O.P. = 1.72
Test #2: August 18, 1998
• 200 V, 16.5 amp without blower fan, 19.5 A with blower
fan on
• 3.6 kW-hour input energy = 12,287 Btu
• 1,059 CFM air flow
• T
= 22.2 °F (Tin = 83 °F, Tout =
105.2 °F)
• Output energy = 24,671 Btu
C.O.P. = 2.0
Test #3: August 20, 1998
• 3.6 kW-hour input energy = 12,287 Btu
• 1,049 CFM air flow
• T
= 23 °F (Tin = 79 °F, Tout = 102.0
°F)
• Output energy = 26,077 Btu
C.O.P. = 2.12
Ralph Pope informs us that he intends to put
a working Kinetic Furnace in an RV and drive it up to our lab in
Bow, NH. He wants to see if he can find out first hand what kind
of changes might be happening along the way to make the system performance
degrade.
2. Catalytic Fusion of Dr. Les Case, of Fusion
Power, Inc., Newfields, New Hampshire
(Featured in Issue #19):
In a major development, Russ George in California
in collaboration with Dr. Les Case, has reported the build-up of
helium-4 (4He) levels as a function of time time in an active cell
based on Dr. Case's design. The helium-4 level apparently exceeded
by at least a factor of two the possible background helium contamination
from any conceivable leakage into the active cell--the cell with
deuterium gas. There was no such build up of helium-4 in the ordinary
hydrogen control cell, which required nominally more heater power
to maintain the small temperature. It is disappointing that Dr.
Case has still not succeeded in making a self-heating, self-sustaining
cell. But he continues to try.
3. Mizuno-Ohmori Effect
(Featured in Issue #20):
At NERL we have done no testing of Ohmori-Mizuno
process since Issue #20. We were called by Prof. John Dash of Portland
State University in Oregon, who had tried the experiment, but not
to generate excess heat in the intense plasma discharge regime.
Professor Dash, an expert materials scientist who has observed transmutations
on cathodes in other experiments, tried the Mizuno-Ohmori system
with tungsten cathode. After running, he found deposits of chromium
on the cathode that he could not explain by environmental contamination.
Scott Little at EarthTech International was
unable initially to obtain excess power with his set up of the Ohmori-Mizuno
experiment. However, as we went to press he was finding some startling
differences in heating of his tungsten electrode when he switched
to thoriated (2% thorium content) material! In addition, engineer
Jan Roos of Massachusetts came up with a simpler circuit for generating
the DC power input to the cell. Stay tuned for further developments
to be reported in Issue #21.
4. Nuclear Augmented Combustion, of Crystal
Energy, Inc.
(Featured in Issue #18):
Tom Knudson of Crystal Energy Technology, Inc.
has told us that a U.S. trucking company in Tennessee has agreed
to a licensing agreement to use its mileage-enhancing and pollution-reducing
lithium-additive in its truck fleet. The company had earlier tested
the additive and found it beneficial and potentially cost effective
to use.
A large U.S. corporation involved in the power-generating
gas turbine industry is still scheduled to test the Crystal Energy
additive.
3. CarboHydrogenTM Gas of DW Research, Colorado
Springs, Colorado and AquaFuelTM of Toups Technology Licensing Corp.,
Largo, Florida.
(Featured in Issues #9, #10, and #19):
The carbon underwater arc technology of these
two companies, which generates a gas that combusts with very low
pollution, is potentially an over-unity technology. Preliminary
measurements made by DW research, published earlier in IE suggest
this strongly. With the encouragement of our company, DW Research
has developed a commercial demonstration unit for generating the
gas for laboratory studies --not for large volume production. The
beautifully assembled device, which DW Research intends to market
for about $9,500, has a highly stable computer-controlled arc and
a calibrated gas metering collection chamber. It can be used in
conjunction with a coiled copper tube calorimeter for measuring
the heating value of CarboHydrogenTM gas. Wilbur Dammen of the company
visited our laboratory for several days to explore the functionality
of the device with us.
For its part, Toups Technology Licensing Company
has provided NERL with several cylinders of compressed AquaFuelTM,
which we will also test for its gas heating value, but in an air
tunnel that can accommodate larger flames than the smaller coiled-tube
calorimeter.
4. HydroSonicTM Pump of HydroDynamics, Inc.
of Rome, Georgia:
Installation of an expensive modification to
the NERL building electric power supply system is nearing completion.
This will allow us to test the COP of the Griggs hot water-producing
HydroSonic Pump. The particular model that we obtained had a COP
of 1.15, as measured by Griggs before it left the factory. It is
powered by a 75 HP electric motor. We intend to accurately measure
the mechanical input power to the rotor, as well as the electric
input power. Conservative measurement of the output power is obtained
by simple flow calorimetry.
5. Thorium Transmutation Cell of The Cincinnati
Group, Cincinnati, Ohio.
(Featured in Issue #13/14):
Though this cell has been amply evaluated as
a confirmed transmutation unit, we want to see the effect here in
Bow, now that we have the people power to measure it. The Cincinnati
Group intends to send us a newly modified version of their commercial
cell for our testing.
6. Brown's Gas Investigations (Proprietary
Technology):
We have taken delivery of a Brown's gas generator
built for welding applications, on which we are performing various
tests for a company that is interested in studying the technology.
For the time being, this work is proprietary and very time-consuming,
but we will be happy to publish our findings. Yes, it does weld
steel to ceramics and it a very lovely technology. We are interested
in the various anomalies that may be observable with our generator
of this unusual gas.
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