Jed Rothwell wrote:
Edmund Storms wrote:
So I ask, what is the basic process in the PAGD effect? For example, how can moving ions extract energy from their surroundings? Why must the ions and/or electrons only move in a certain way, as caused by the unique applied voltage?
I think the point is that the Correas themselves do not know yet, so the only way to investigate this phenomenon is to build a slavishly exact copies of the original gadget, and then begin experimenting with it.
The problem is that it is almost impossible to build an exact duplicate of a complex device. Without guidance based on even a crude model, it is impossible to know which of the many variables are important and which can be ignored. For example, using the cold fusion effect about which I have some experience, it was impossible to duplicate the F-P work exactly because F-P did not know most of what was important, even when they finally revealed what they had done. Even after years of work, attention was still directed to the physical and chemical properties of bulk palladium. Only recently has it become clear that the action is in surface deposits. Now the number of variables can be reduced and redirected to those that really matter.
At this point, we do not know whether the energy extraction process in the PAGD apparatus occurs in the plasma, in the electrode surface, or in the attached components through which unusual waveforms pass. If, as Mike suggests, the apparatus acts as an antenna that picks up energy from aether waves, then where is this antenna located within the apparatus. What aspect of the apparatus is important to allow such extraction? Suppose the plasma is only required to create the required waveform experienced by elections passing through the connecting wires, similar to the way "normal" antenna work. Too many variables are available to allow an exact duplication, even using the patents. That is why the Correas must show that their apparatus actually does what they claim, because only that device has achieved all the known and unknown features that are important.
Regards, Ed
