At 03:43 pm 05/06/2006 -0400, Terry wrote: [snip]
> Oh, and I came across a .wmv version of the > Horizon show "It Runs on Water": > > http://waterpoweredcar.com/stanmeyer.html > > Stan the Man is in Part III. Very interesting. I found the 'Stan the Man' bit entirely plausible. The secret is obviously in the box of electronics. Stan is hitting the water at some high power differential of dnL/dtn and possibly even transferring strain energy from some higher level d(n+m)L/dt(n+m) to the "splitting" level. Think of the Carnot cycle and the fact that one can move from isothermal (power 1) to adiabatic (power 5/3) merely by increasing the rate of compression. Increasing the rate by orders of magnitude will reach even deeper structures in materials than the acceleration and jerk of the classic Carnot cycle. I doubt that it's very difficult to relicate what Meyer did. The prime requirement is belief that it can be done. The only problem is, if this Group does finally understand exactly what is happening in Stan's device, we might all finish up being Malloved - or perhaps that should be Meyered since mired better conveys the impression of being dropped in the merde. <g> Cheers, Frank
