At 02:41 PM 1/2/2013, Ruby wrote:
While this is not cold fusion, I had an opportunity to video a new
energy lab, and took it.
I will continue to create portraits of new energy researchers, if it
comes my way.
Sure. However, be careful. What is the purpose of Cold Fusion Now? Do
you aim to be politically effective?
I see cold fusion as the most probable breakthrough for the near
future, but the Papp engine may not be far behind, and is a
technology that could operate alongside it.
There are quite a few people working on Papp devices. There is no
sign of any confirmation coming soon. Sure, it could happen.
However, "Papp Engine" and "Cold Fusion" should not be associated.
Cold fusion is an established scientific phenomenon. Papp Engines are
not. Papp was crazy, that's obvious. "Crazy" doesn't negate his
having found something, but it does mean that what he showed can't be
trusted, because *he did fake things*. Some have been pointing out
that he set up red herrings, claims that this or that was necessary,
that wasn't. Maybe.
This is the sixth movie I have made this year, all by my lonesome
since my cameraman/editor left me to pursue more lucrative
endeavors. I'm getting better with each edit, with the goal of
entertaining and educating. As a Clean Energy Advocate, I do not
grill or snake scientists.
Nobody is suggesting you become a Steve Krivit clone. However, you
would not have to be Steve Krivit to be informed, in advance, of what
questions to ask to get the actually important information. You did
ask Kolstermann about energy production. He gave you an answer. The
answer actually means, if true, that *he has nothing*, that his
conclusions that the noble gases were not necessary are
*speculation*, because he hasn't actually shown energy production,
which Papp supposedly did. Papp actually ran engines with
dynamometers and expert engineers, if certain documents are correct,
and I've heard private testimony that I trust. It certainly *looked
like* he was producing energy! Were there hidden wires or a fuel supply?
Ruby, all these things have happened before. There *have* been
frauds, sometimes very convincing.
I am not a detective (not yet anyway). I ask, they answer. I am
grateful for all the help I continue to get in learning to ask the
right questions.
The problem that I see is associating *highly speculative*
technologies, that have a high probability of not being real, with
cold fusion. Cold fusion is real, it's testable, and it's been
tested, over and over, with results reported in scientific journals.
It has problems with reliability, but that's an entirely different
issue. If the reliability problem cannot be solved, it's possible
that cold fusion will never be practical.
But it's real, and the chances are quite good that, with better
understanding, the reliability problem can be solved. Reliability
cuts two ways. Pons and Fleischmann started with a cm. cube of
palladium. The thing melted down in about 1984, destroying their
apparatus, burning a hole in the lab bench, and down inches into the
concrete floor. That was not chemistry. After that happened, they
scaled down, and most cold fusion experiments deliberately work with
low quantities of materials, because "unreliable" can mean that one
unexpectedly gets *much more* heat than expected.
What is needed is basic research. This is not going to come from
"entrepreneurs," people who keep their work secret. It's going to
come from scientists, and that takes money that is not about profit,
though some funding may come from corporations doing background investigation.
I cannot categorically state that the Papp engine is impossible, but
I will state is that we do not know if it's possible, and the
Klostermann video takes us no closer to knowing. If you want to cover
every possible alternative technology, there are many. I was the
administrator of the L-5 Society, over thirty years ago, and we were
working on, among other projects, satellite solar power. That is a
whole approach to solving not only the energy problem, but ultimately
the whole problem of polluting the earth. But I'd not expect Cold
Fusion Now to get involved. Having a page that links to other clean
energy projects, great. But the level of focus on Kostermann seems
too much to me.
Cold Fusion Now wants to remain positive, and rated G for the
kids! I want to show the kids, the students, and those who are
looking for inspiration: What does a new energy lab look like? How
do researchers in this field operate? What kind of research is
going on? What kind of energy solutions are being pursued and, what
is the level of development?
Klostermann's shop does not look like a lab to me, it looks like a
nice workshop. It doesn't actually look like an energy solution. It
looks like an electric cannon, that doesn't do anything more than
convert stored power from a capacitor bank to kinetic energy of the
projectile. Klostermann implied that it would be difficult to measure
the output energy. To *completely measure it*, yes, but if this is to
be an engine used in a generator the only relevant energy would be
the work done on the piston, and in a cannon, that's the whole show.
How much energy is imparted to the projectile -- if the design is
appropriate -- will tell you how much power could be generated. He
talks optimistically about a 50 KW generator, but what's the basis
for this? That he wants to do it? With what?
No real results were shown from his investigations. He claimed that
he found that air worked as well as noble gases. Great. How did he
know that he had actually set up any Papp effect at all? Yes, the
problem of leakage of gases from a piston engine is real. It would be
a serious problem with a real Papp engine. But ... if there is no
excess energy with a single stroke of a piston, there will be no
excess energy with a many-stroke engine. One is multiplying a loss.
Klostermann gave you evasive answers.
That's okay, the video still serves a purpose, but what purpose?
Light entertainment?
This video shows one team's engines in development, an explanation
of its operational principles, however incomplete, in their own
words, and what they plan to do next. It has a light-science
background for the general public.
In any real political campaign that Cold Fusion Now becomes involved
in, association with Free Energy claims will damage the credibility
of the organization. PESN does some good work, and the flaky stuff
keeps them from being widely seen as credible. I'd actually suggest
leaving the Free Energy stuff to PESN.
While the video does not appear to show over-unity by examining the
speed of the piston, I would not dismiss this whole technology
through Youtube analysis.
Nor should you. However, the rough analysis that was done from
watching the video was basically sound, if very rough. Essentially,
that cannon may *look* impressive, *but it is not.* If Klostermann
has not done better analyses than the analysis here, he more or less
denied it. But he had that checkered pattern up, precisely, I'd
think, so that he could, with higher-speed video or triggered camera,
measure velocity and droop.
From the velocity and trajectory of the projectile, kinetic energy
can be calculated. That is the *only useful energy output* from the
device. Where is it at?
I am convinced by what I've read that Joseph Papp had something
going on. Now, a handful of teams are trying to reproduce it.
People have been working on this for years, and there is definitely
secret work that has been done, again for long. But anyone who knows
the results is not talking. Yes, Papp had *something*. But what? What
he may have had was a willingness to play a big joke on all those
"smart people." He extracted a lot of money from investors. Where did it go?
I've mentioned that a highly credible source informed me that he'd
seen a Papp demonstration. That means? It means that someone was able
to set something up that looked credible. That can happen in many ways!
There is a real science, no faking, available, called Cold fusion.
*If it can be developed* -- which probably requires understanding it
-- it could, in fact, lead to a future of abundant energy. We need
Cold fusion now, but what we actually need "now" is cold fusion
*research.* Real research. I might play with this or that in my
apartment, but ... that's not what we need. We need the
investigational tools of science, the real thing. Have you visited SRI, Ruby?
For all our sake, I only hope they succeed.
I certainly am not against their success, but they are looking for
funding. For what? What preliminary results do they have to justify
further investment?
Please direct your technical questions about the Pulser to Heinz
Klostermann at <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected].
Pseudo-skeptics have held the power of position, but now they are
irrelevant - irrelevant I say!
They are. But don't forget about *real skepticism.* It is an
essential scientific tool.
Maybe I don't have the right to say that, but the fact is, the noisy
din of useless information does not carry their protestations far,
nor does their message have penetration or "staying power", as they
did pre-Internet.
Yes, the after-image of their sad, destructive paradigm still
prevents the MSM from reporting on the developments in cold fusion
and new energy; legislators and policy-makers are woefully
uninformed and do not fund this research; pseudo-skeptics have
chosen to be die-hards, and they will, as all old paradigms do.
We are building a new house, so when the old one collapses, it'll be
ready to move in!
Let's hope it doesn't collapse on top of anyone. Be safe, Ruby.
After a short break over the next couple weeks, 2013 projects for
Cold Fusion Now include:
* more cold fusion video interviews as dictated by my geographic
location on the west coast,
* a possible mini-conference in Los Angeles,
* activist visits to schools and colleges in the So Cal area
(Caltech look out!),
Haven't been there for, what, a bit short of fifty years? Maybe I
drove by about thirty years ago, I forget. I'd love to visit it.
There are a few people I'd like to talk with. And to see where I
lived for two years, when I was taking physics with Feynman.
* attendance at ICCF-18 to conduct one-on-one interviews,
I hope to be there.
* putting next year's 2014 History of Cold Fusion Calendar
together with a an awesome new theme (not tellin yet!) but it's really cool.
You can help support my efforts by purchasing a Calendar here:
<http://coldfusionnow.org/store/2013-history-of-cold-fusion-calendar/>http://coldfusionnow.org/store/2013-history-of-cold-fusion-calendar/
Thank you for all the feedback.
Your comments help to make my art more communicative.
I'd like to see *you* in the videos. You may need help, then, with
the camera, though you could use a tripod. Your voice is engaging and cheerful.
