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Mechanical free energy devices => mechanic => Topic started by: doyouknowyourdead on January 09, 2008, 09:10:52 PM
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Somewhere in the sleepy mountain village of Linden , Switzerland lays the possible solution to the world?s energy problems. Much visited and well documented on the internet, the Methernitha movement laid claim to having one of the world?s first working ?Free Energy? devices, that they call the Testatika machine. Click here for a short clip about the device: http://youtube.com/watch?v=cucq06deYXA
Designed and built by the Methernitha community?s research department some 30 years ago, headed by Methernitha founder and inventor Paul Baumann, the Testatika is reported to deliver a staggering 240volts at 10 amps of electricity from a small tabletop device that is said to create this useable energy from nothing more than fresh air.
The machine apparently works with 2 rotating disks that create electrostatic electricity by mimicking the relationship between the earth and the clouds. This electricity is then stored in 2 capacitors before being converted to usable electricity by some form of magnetism.
Having demonstrated this device to over 30 of the world?s respected scientists in the late nineties, the Methernitha community has remained quiet and still refuses to share this device with the rest of the world to date, claiming that mankind was, and is still not ready for this kind of technology.
We decided to take it upon ourselves to head to Switzerland and find out just what the deal was with all this. We couldn?t understand how a revolutionary device like this was being suppressed, and by its creators at that.
. Finding ourselves somewhere up a snowy mountain, lost as to where we might find these hermit-like, Christian scientists and struggling to locate the community?s exact whereabouts, we asked the first local we came across for directions. She promptly flagged down the first car that came along. The driver turned out to be an American member of the Methernitha community, and before we knew it, we were following behind her as a very weird set of circumstances began to unfold.
The American lady led us to Methernitha?s headquarters quite eagerly, and for one reason or another she seemed to think that our arrival was planned and that someone there was expecting us. The ?headquarters? of this religious movement surprisingly turned out to be quite a plush and well organized industrial warehouse. In fact, it turns out that the self sufficient Methernitha movement makes most of its income from this fancy filing cabinet manufacturing facility.
Having been shown inside, the American lady introduced us to the receptionist before rushing off to a doctor?s appointment. We were introduced as two English people that someone was expecting to see today, which seemed strange to us as we had arrived completely unannounced and had made no prior arrangements; there was definitely a strange feeling about the events surrounding that day. One minute we were out on the street looking for directions to this mysterious religious community with claims to a free energy machine, and the next we were in the board room of a filing cabinet manufacturer being served coffee and biscuits.
The receptionist who greeted us was a young German lady named Beah. She informed us that ?Trigonorm? was the business ?front? to the Methernitha movement. Beah had this weird way of laughing like a little child after most things she said. It seemed odd and we wondered just what she might be hiding. She asked us what we were there for and how she could help us. We cautiously mentioned that we came to learn about the Testatika energy device. We were not quite sure how to mention it to her, in fear of seeming a little bit too straight to the point. But she came right out and told us that it was a very important part of the community, that the device was not just for electricity, but that it also had certain spiritual uses. She also informed us, by a matter of sheer co-incidence that Paul Baumann, the machine?s creator, turned 90 the very day we showed up to visit, and the following day they would be holding a celebration for him.
It seemed almost that fate and destiny may have brought us here on Paul Baumann?s 90th Birthday for a reason; we sensed we were about to gate crash the celebration party and get to speak to the inventor himself, but in the end it wasn?t to be. We tried our damndest to get invited to the birthday party, but it was all in vain. The group certainly has what one might call a ?cult? like feeling and a strong sense of secretiveness surrounding it. Despite dropping several well timed hints it became apparent that we weren?t going to get an invite to the party. As Beah?s father put it, ?People will be here for many, many years and will never get to see the Testatika once.?
The question arose soon after as to whether or not Paul Beumann was actually alive, because we had read one internet report that claimed that the inventor had died some years ago. Having witnessed the eerie closeness of this community, all be it very briefly, the overwhelming feeling that surrounded this place did have us wondering, was Paul Baumann really alive? Or were the members of the Methernitha movement going to perform some strange religious ceremony around some ?Remnant remains? of him? If so why weren?t we welcome? No, in all seriousness, we are quite sure Paul Baumann is most certainly alive and well. We heard it on good account from Victor Bosshard, the Methernitha member of whom we had a meeting with the next week, and we have no reason to believe otherwise. But I would not be at all surprised to find out that there is some strange twist to this.
Anyway, we didn?t get an invite to the party. I don?t know? Maybe the Testatika device was going to be there or something. Soon after this we were told we must go away, that business was too busy for any more discussion, and that we should call next week if we wished for an appointment to speak further. We called a few times, and soon we got through to the office of Mr. Viktor Bosshard, the unofficial public relations man of Methernitha who could speak to us with a good English vocabulary. He told us in a briefly worded email that he only had time for us 6 days later. So we hung around in the mountains close to the Methernitha community for a week, eating nothing but a variety of tinned beans and Swiss chocolate. Finally we were able to speak to someone of official Methernitha rank and hopefully ask them some very serious questions about a device in their possession which potentially, could have a colossal effect on the future of mankind and the entire world as we know it.
We began the day meeting Viktor Bosshard at Methernitha ?HQ? Trigonorm. Viktor suggested that this business place wasn?t so nice and so he led us to another Methernitha building that was further down the road. This building looked like a typical big Swiss house and housed the Methernitha laundry facility (I say ?the? but maybe there is more than one laundry. There are over 180 members living in the Methernitha community). We sat down around a table which had an empty round bowl on it and were offered some well water. We chatted briefly about such things as the weather and where we came from before Viktor began talking to us about the religious background and ideals of Methernitha. This went on for the next hour or so and the footage can be seen by clicking here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=eIrXw_Ustc8
The quality isn?t the best but its well worth a listen so you can see for yourself what was said. The footage is raw and was filmed undercover (hence the horrible angle) but the footage is pretty much as we actually heard it. In the middle of our meeting we ran out of tape and memory sticks so unfortunately we missed the bit where Bosshard talks direcly about the Testatika.
After the meeting, we were asked if we would like to eat lunch and Viktor Bosshard quickly telephoned through to the main kitchen, after which we set off by car to yet another big Swiss house owned by Mathernitha (Vicktor Bosshard did tell us that the Methernitha movement own millions of Swiss francs in real estate and we certainly believed him from the standard of the properties that we saw). This building housed one of the communal kitchens. We sat at the end of one of many long tables and ate a meal of soup, pasta, salad, braised artichoke, and tinned creamed mushrooms. Beah was sat at a table on the other side of the room and said hello and laughed a lot. The American lady who directed us here also passed by briefly. There was something definitely strange about this environment though, as nice as it seemed, everybody sat in near silence. They all wore the same, presumably home made, bright colored, wooly sweaters with leather pads on the elbows and everybody put there dishes away in a clinical orderly fashion to be washed after there meal. There weren?t any young people in the room at all though, which concerned us. In a community at lunchtime one would expect to see children, maybe they were somewhere else? Who knows? But we got the impression there weren?t too many children to be found in this community. Apart from ourselves and Beah, it would be safe to say there wasn?t anybody less than the age of forty five in the room.
Being a ?self sufficient? community we presumed that all the food eaten would have been grown locally, by the community. However, Mr. Bosshard didn?t hesitate to tell us that they buy most of there food from the same companies that supply hotel chains, that one of the benefits of being a community is that they can buy food in bulk, at much cheaper rates than an individual could. This is all very well, but to be honest we were more than a little bit surprised by this. For an organization that claims to be so closely in touch with nature, so much so that nature gave them a free energy device, it didn?t seem right that they would buy food that is most probably genetically modified, almost certainly non-organic and without a doubt corporately distributed and cultivated. This really did concern us, when you consider the fact that this organization refuses to share a potentially world saving device with mankind because ?They? aren?t ready for it,? and yet on so many levels, the food they eat being one of them, they are hypocritical to there own ideas and beliefs. It was beginning to look like the same old story, Money and Religion breed corruption. Money definitely plays a big part in this community?s religion.
. After lunch, Viktor had arranged to have us watch a video about the Testatika, the same one that was made for a Swiss science convention, when Methernitha was asked to publically demonstrate the Testatika. We were led to the community?s day school, which housed no children. Outside there were some fairly major construction works going on.
We were sat down in front of the 40 inch plasma T.V in the lounge and we watched the video. I got that same pain in my neck as I?d gotten in the kitchen. How was it right that on the one hand these folks possess a media lounge with a 40 inch plasma screen on the wall yet on the other, the world isn?t ready to accept free energy yet, because of their desire for money and material wealth? I remember Viktor telling us that they couldn?t allow the Testatika device to go to mankind because if they did, man would use it for materialistic, money-driven reasons, and that Methernitha would be just as guilty and morally accountable for any wrong doings by giving this to ?them?. It seems very strange that a community based around selling filing cabinets to corporate businesses (and God only knows what is on the paper stored in their cabinets) could take such a moral high ground. Taking Methernitha?s views on keeping the Testatika private into account, is this community not just as responsible as their customers for the ill deeds caused by what is stored in the filing cabinets they sell? Also I couldn?t help but wonder just how much blood was sat up there in that 40 inch T.V. How many Ugandan orphans sweated in the crystal mines for that to be there? Is Methernitha not morally accountable for that as well? It just seemed really strange to us that the main reasons given for not allowing the Testatika?s release was that they did not trust the world?s practices and orientation toward money, and that they did not want to be responsible for betraying their ?friend Nature,? by giving it to this described world. It was blatantly obvious that the Methernitha community?s own lifestyle is not much different. There is a lot of good things going on within Methernitha, but at the same time there is an awful lot of moral compromising (or to put it bolder, ignorance) and out right hypocrisy.
I guess the biggest matter for us is the fact that, despite originally deciding a ?free energy? device was necessary for this community?s energy needs, despite nature ?giving up her secrets,? despite building and demonstrating this device on several occasions, and despite withholding this technology from the rest of the world for over 20 years on moral issues, the simple fact that the community doesn?t even use the device poses some very baffling questions! All their electricity needs are met by a couple of wind generators and they buy whatever else they need from the grid, just like everybody else! The big question of this machine?s capability still remains satisfactorily unanswered.
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Our proposal is, whether the Testatika exists or not, that the information we have uncovered be used to barrage the Methernitha community with more direct questioning. Their whole philosophy is there, plain to see on the footage we got, and there are huge gaping cracks in their reasoning for denial. This needs pointing out to them. We would like to follow up this story with more questions and to open up a debate, argument if you like, with the people of Methernitha. As many people as possible should visit them and email them but with genuinely well thought out ideas and arguments. If you would like to email us with questions to bring to Mr.Viktor Bosshard and the rest of the community, email us at everyday.neverforget@doyouknowyourdead.com.
You can contact Methernitha at methernitha@bluewin.ch
Please leave comments as this story is far from over!
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For some reason I'm not surprised.
I've been watching the hard work many intelligent folks are putting into replicating the Testatika and have almost come to the conclusion that no one can replicate an overunity device that doesn't actually work as advertised.
I had planned to drive through Methernitha next time in Switzerland to see if their homes were wired to the grid, many thanks for saving me the time.
I think that we can probably throw the Testatika into the dustbin of internet free energy hoaxes.
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1)when is this 40 inch plasma screen meeting supposed to have taken place if the video is from 1990?
2)if u lot are supposed to be from the u.k., why is your youtube useraccount country u.s.a.?
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My My we really are investigators in here ;D
Mysterios company? no just two kids out there trying to make a difference and search out the truth, did you read anything about us on our site? We are far from a company
The spy cameras we used were purchased from ebay from china and we apologize for the wrong date. you will have to take our word for it that it was filmed on december 7, 2007.If we knew how to change the date once it was filmed we would have. As far as the american account, yes, one of us is american and the other from the U.K. we appreciate the critical investigation but do understand we are just trying to do our bit in the world.
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Methernitha: a secretive organization with front companies, large industrial facilities and offices all over Switzerland and a mysterious, rarely-seen cult leader. This sounds almost like one of the evil organizations in a James Bond movie.
All that is required to complete the picture is a movie scene something like this.
Paul Baumann is seated on an ornate throne near a control panel in the secret underground base. A white Persian cat rests in his lap, and a shiny monocle gleams in his right eye. He is preparing to broadcast malevolent Methernithan mind-control messages.
The camera pans, revealing a warehouse-sized room filled hundreds devices that resemble giant pimped-out Wimshurst machines, light glinting off the meshwork sectors of their slowly-turning disks. Heavy cables lead from each machine to a network of gleaming copper bus-bars overhead,
which all run towards a distant wall bearing a "transmitter room" sign.
(For posting this, I will probably find myself on the pointy ends of a squad of Swiss pikemen.)
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@doyouknow. Thanks for the report on Methernitha. I am reminded of Lafayette Ron Hubbard. He used to be a science fiction writer. A character in one of his stories says" If you want to be really rich, start a Religion" or words to that effect. Taking the characters word as gospel, he went on to found scientology[ I wont distinguish it with a capital s]. I think that the Testatika is just a gimmick to help enslave peoples minds. I once built a small machine with 2 rollers that appeared to change blank sheets of paper into banknotes. Had I been immoral, I could have used it to enslave minds.
This attitude, Mankind does not deserve it, but of course we do because we are superbeings,blows my mind. When it comes to Free energy, the technical problems are as nothing compared to the Psychological ones. There can be no Golden Age for Mankind whilst we still embrace theTyranny and superstition of religeon. Martyrdom anyone?
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mmm good skeptisim is ok, but fairy tells make good books. just a lot of crap to keep people dummied down. Ok I realy dont'e care if it works or not just look at the great information I'm getting just building it and figure out how it works , if at all. mmm wonder what you other folks are building or accomplishing ? You can hold onto the dragons tail or... try not to get toasted on the other end when you piss him off , har har har ;D
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@ Motorcoach1. It was not my intention to discourage you in your research, which, like all research brings its own rewards. Who knows, you may discover some thi g new. I hope so.
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Hi,
when I was there in 1989
they showed me their big battery station,
where they charge up big lead acid batteries
from their wind generators and also
it was said, that the 3 KW Testatika machine
was used to charge up their battery station
but I did not see the Testatika machine there and it also
was only shown me the video of the Testatika
machines.
But I did know for instance Stefan Marinov,
with whom I was in telephone contact and he
was shown all the Testatika machines
and he verified them that they were working.
Yes,but it is too bad, that mainly Mr. Bosshard,
with whom I also had long conversations,
and mainly Paul Baumann still keep it all
a secret.
This does not make sense if you look at their
spiritual goals, well it seems its just their
egoism to keep it under wraps and
renders their spiritual goal to not much trust
in my opinion.
How can they sit on such a unit,
if they want to get a free spiritual mind and want to help mankind ?
Its just their egocentric attitude that keeps
it under wraps and they want to be in control,
so no free minds...
They told me ,
each member is quiet during taking their meal
to "just think about God and thank him"
But I think this is rather a moral supression not to talk
to other members about the community and their goals.
So in my opinion it is more a mind control than a real community.
Maybe I am wrong, but with this mind control
this is just another cult community.
Okay, if one wants to find itsself and is out to
find nature and oneself and God, maybe this is the right place to do it
in this small mountain village Linden, where it seems they just live
their life without any outside influence,
but then you are also invited to share all your posessions with the community
and live there in a non-materialistic condition and all your money belongs then to the community.
Also you have to work there in their facility and the work you have to do
is changing weekly or monthly,
so you get to learn all work which is to be done over there,
from making these hospital cabinets to office or kitchen work..
but if you prefer one job you can also do this longer if you wish.
Nobody is forced to stay there I was told...
I also saw younger people living there and also kids, whos parents
lived there.
As their main goal is
"one for all, all for one",
everybody seems to care for each other
and so also the work is being shared by each other..
which is not a bad thing,
but all things related to the Testatika machines
is still egocentric mind control in my opinion
and not compatible with their spiritual goals...
Regards, Stefan.
P.S: I stayed for 3 days at Linden at Methernitha in 1989
as a guest
and was shown their daily life and discussing their spiritual goals.
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P.S: The really strangest feeling you get,
if you experience about 50 persons sitting in a kitchen room taking
their meal silently and not speakig to each other.
It is hard to lean this and not ask somebody something during this time
or speak to somebody...
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I have nothing to say for or against Methernitha.
I asked them if I could go to know them and see the machine and they refused.
No problem for me, their choice.
Baumann gave us one important message anyway: there can be 'free energy', and I would like to thank him for this if it's true.
In the meanwhile maybe I reversed the principle.
Here, english:
http://utenti.lycos.it/fischerconsulting/testatpu.html
Here, an italian explanation by words:
http://energierinnovabili.forumcommunity.net/?t=2829236&st=30
Good luck,
F_dyne
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thanks for the discussion, particularly to hartiberlin. we still plan to get back in touch with Mr. Bosshard, but if he refused showing the Testatika in 89 and also now in 08, it seems like we will only be able to speculate from the outside for ever. how can we lobby these people? we agree that it seems inhumane or "unchristian" and also egocentric to withhold free energy. to that end, we should be telling them this and lobbying fullstop until something gives. so
a) what is the consensus, does it work or is it a mind control myth?
b) if it is agreed that it does exist, how can we convince methernitha to share it, short of sending a guerilla army??? :) ???
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I think as long as Mr.Bosshard and Mr. Baumann rule the Methernitha community, nothing will change.
There are still other nice people who live there and are more open, but I guess they either dont know the full secret or are sworded not to speak about it by Bosshard?s and Baumann?s command.
I think one can only learn by reverse engineer a self built Wimhurst machine and use the High voltage high frequency discharges to pulse light radioactive mountain crystals to excite it and release more beta radiation which is then captured in the Leyden jars.
This is the most logical explanation how the Testatika works.
All other methods would not deliver this huge amount of power relative to its size
and Bosshard always told me, that the secret lies in the used minerals.
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Before one can apply conservation of energy laws to any thing, one must define the system. Purely mechanical systems are easy to define because everything is visible. We can not, however, so easily define an 'electric, magnetic, radiant--plasma' type of system because much of what happens is unseen. Unlike purely mechanical systems, the process of having a look will impart some changes upon the system itself.
Any machine that appears to be violating the CoE laws, is only interacting with the surroundings in a way that we do not yet fully understand. Maybe it was properly grounding, instead of balancing, all of our closed electrical circuits in the past that caused them to behave like mechanical system analogues with regard to energy usage. Our defined system for 'free energy' devices is incomplete; our cosmology may be flawed for such high energy open loop systems. Tapping energy from the vacuum sounds plausible from a quantum mechanical point of view, anyway, (show me a system at rest.)
Given all that, a claim of an actual working free vacuum energy device today is, by our everyday experience, a fantastic claim. Fantastic claims require fantastic proof. I will be so happy and grateful when we finally receive both of these things in a simple, easily replicate-able device.
Once free energy is truly free then the free-energy despots will lose their iron-grip of control in their little worlds and we can finally have a decent dinner conversation.
Cheers! ;)
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If the Testatika uses a triggered radioactive decay mechanism, there might be a risk that the rate of energy release could be made very high, allowing the rapid manufacture of large, glass-lined craters. Such a hazard might make one reluctant to release the secret. (Trinitite carpeting is generally considered unfashionable, especially when installed in large cities.)
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enjoyable reading guys, thanks.
I was very involved in trying to figure out this machine back in the early 1990s I have long moved on.
However, I never gave much credence to the radioactive crystal theory, Stefan. It's interesting that you were told such information. Makes me wonder now.
To me the Testatika machine was simply a Wimhurst machine that was modifyed a bit to create free energy.ÂÂ
There have been a number of patents along these lines and they don't involve crystals. anyway, that's what I was thinking.
I'm currious if people up there have INTERNET access?
Do they have a police force?
Can you wonder on their property dressed like them and gain acess to any building?
Can you bribe somebody to give you access to the machine?
What's the initiation to get in? Maybe one of you guys can go over there and live in silence for a while. LOL :D :D
Anyway, what I found very informative is the fact that they are using grid power.  Why wouldn't you use your machine if it works? Possible reasons would be it's not powerfull enough, or it uses DC and for most industrial equipment (that you can buy for the factory like, motors) you need AC.  They might have a free energy source but what's the use. I guess the only use they get out of it is to attract people's curiosity.   What a depressing comunity, I already don't want to even go near that place. No children, no hot looking babes, no talking, .... no, not for me.
Keep those stories coming guys, if you go there again.
Also, anybody know what the best web archive is for the photos of this machine?
EM
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However, I never gave much credence to the radioactive crystal theory, Stefan. It's interesting that you were told such information. Makes me wonder now.
I don't like the crystal theory because that would involve limited lifetime (albeit a long one) and a non-reusabe resource, assuming they get used up over their lifetime. However, lately on examining this unfinished version:
http://rimstar.org/sdenergy/testa/misc/test.jpg
it looks like there might be a cylinder of crystals in the center of some of the unfinished cans. And those cans happen to correspond to the three rectangular blocks (crystals?) on this single disk small machine:
http://rimstar.org/sdenergy/testa/misc/testabig.jpg
So one power source may just be radiation from electromagnetically stimulated crystals. Yuck!
I'm currious if people up there have INTERNET access?
Do they have a police force?
Can you wonder on their property dressed like them and gain acess to any building?
Can you bribe somebody to give you access to the machine?
What's the initiation to get in? Maybe one of you guys can go over there and live in silence for a while. LOL :D :D
On some frustrating days I half heartedly think about sneaking over :-).
Also, anybody know what the best web archive is for the photos of this machine?
It's probably not fair to Stefan to say this, but since the overunity.com forum doesn't really have the concept of folders for photos it's probably okay. The best collection is in the Photos section of:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/testatika/
I've also tried to make a good, complete summary of machines in photos on:
http://rimstar.org/sdenergy/testa/overview.htm
-Steve
http://rimstar.org
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Hi Steven,
well done with your Testatika pages.
I was told once, that these small diameter but long and tall lyden Jars
in the back of the machine
visible in
http://rimstar.org/sdenergy/testa/misc/TESTA9.JPG
contain the lightly radioactive mountain crystal materials.
Regards, Stefan.
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In:
http://rimstar.org/sdenergy/testa/misc/TESTA9.JPG
you can also see, that these "Tasters-Abnehmer" ( capacitive charge puller stator collector square-plates)
directly connect to these tall small diameter Lyden jars.
So you can see, that the High voltage pulses are directly pulsed from these capacitive collector
plates to these mountain crystall containing lyden jars, where they will
excite the radioactive Beta-decay and charge up these Leyden jars much more
than alone from the capacitive coupling.
Interesting is then also the black resistors ?, which go to the "Diode-device"
ontop the machine.
Maybe this is somehow a sparkgap load or it is even another
mountain crystall wound with coil(s) and mesh capacitors,
so it might just excite this device too and deliver even more radioactive
Beta-Decay in the next bigger Leyden Jars.
At least it must be clear, that such small machines, with so low RPM
rotating discs could never produce 300 Watts to 3KWatts just on
magnetic and electric interaction forces...
It can only be radioactive Beta decay, that is coming
out as this high power from these machines.
Regards, Stefan.
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Hi Stefan,
In:
http://rimstar.org/sdenergy/testa/misc/TESTA9.JPG
you can also see, that these "Tasters-Abnehmer" ( capacitive charge puller stator collector square-plates)
directly connect to these tall small diameter Lyden jars.
So you can see, that the High voltage pulses are directly pulsed from these capacitive collector
plates to these mountain crystall containing lyden jars, where they will
excite the radioactive Beta-decay and charge up these Leyden jars much more
than alone from the capacitive coupling.
Actually, http://rimstar.org/sdenergy/testa/misc/test.jpg further supports that as the tall small diameter jars there also seem to have crystal-looking material cylinders in their center.
At least it must be clear, that such small machines, with so low RPM
rotating discs could never produce 300 Watts to 3KWatts just on
magnetic and electric interaction forces...
It can only be radioactive Beta decay, that is coming
out as this high power from these machines.
Well... I can hope for ZPE too.
-Steve
http://rimstar.org
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Thanks for all the info guys. The machine is certainly complex at face value, however, if approched with a theory in mind, it can seem quite familiar with a few modifications.
The principle experiment is certainly not based on exotic crystals from what I read. It has to do with friciton of air and some sort of triboelectric phenomena. I never saw those early models before, interesting.
I do want to illustrate something that will shed some light on how the energy can be increased. The Whimhurst machine operates in a balanced way, I will draw up a picture later. That concept of balanced means a lot. Electrostatic INDUCTION playes a big part. There was a time when I had very wild ideas about how to increase energy with electrostatics and moving plates around etc.. I even built a machine after a patent very simular.
EM
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Hi EM,
even the smallest Testatika machines output about 270 Volts at around 1 amps.
You would not get this from so slow running discs with just the forces of electrostatics
or permanent magnet interactions...
I have read somewhere on the net about a guy,
that used americum pills from smoke detector devices and put them
into a selfmade capacitor and every time he energized the capacitor
with a high Voltage RF burst, the americum pills released huge
radioactive decay energy bursts and charged up the capacitor some more...
Also some other guy posted, that he used burned ash from radioactive coleman
light bulb gaze and could also energize it with magnetic RF bursts,
so he could trigger radioactive decay with a coil which was wound around this material
and was pulsed with RadioFrequency magnetfield bursts...
So all in all I think the Testatika uses the same principle in exciting the
radioactive decay in the mountain crystals inside the Leyden Jars.
This is also the most logical explanation for so much
power from so small devices using so slow RPM rotations.
The Wimhursts machines are only there to
produce the High Voltage electrostatic Voltages to excite the
crystals via corona discharge RF bursts.
It could have been done also by a solid state TV flyback transformer
circuit only.
The same is true with the Morray device.
It also worked on excited radioactive decay.
Morray just used a strong local radio transmitter and
Resonance in his first LC tank circuit to get the required
RF bursts to excite his swedish stone radioactive diode crystals.
He then used several stages in series as "passive amplifiers" just powered
by the beta decay electron generation of the swedish stone material
to buildup more power up into the KWatts range.
But all the power came from the radioactive beta decay of his swedish stone
diodes.
It is probably a very simple process, but you have to know the
right lightly radioactive materials which you can "excite" via high Voltage
RF bursts..
Regards, Stefan.
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Stefan,
I have thought of the americium trick and have even collected and extracted 5 of the capacitors from within the smoke detectors that contain the pills. However, I'm too afraid to try it. The level or gamma and alpha rays from americium without the RF is pretty safe to work with, only a piece of paper is needed to block it, but once you start increasing its radioactivity with RF, how much shielding do you use?
Steven "scaredy cat" D.
http://rimstar.org
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Stefan,
I have thought of the americium trick and have even collected and extracted 5 of the capacitors from within the smoke detectors that contain the pills. However, I'm too afraid to try it. The level or gamma and alpha rays from americium without the RF is pretty safe to work with, only a piece of paper is needed to block it, but once you start increasing its radioactivity with RF, how much shielding do you use?
Steven "scaredy cat" D.
http://rimstar.org
Exactly that is my concern...
I still have a smoke detector lying on my balcony, so it stays away from my bedroom.
We really have to get a good radioactive detector first,
if you want to try radioactive experiments...
Maybe someone can comment on a brand which is not too expensive
and can be bought on cheaply on Ebay and can detect all sorts
of radiation ?
Also Bruce from nuenergy.org said, that natural stones which are
lightly radioactive are not so dangerous than chemically treated materials to enhance
the radioactivity like americum pills in smoke detectors...
but I don?t know, if this is right.
You can also buy pretty hot radioactive mine stones on the net
which are normally only for stone collectors.
Also you could try to put these stones between
2 graphite rods sparkgap, so then you can excite them even
more via the high voltage arc discharge.
Be careful with this, as the smoke could also be radioactive...
don?t breath any of it !
Put a big coil and a 12 Volt battery and 2 graphite rods in series
and put a tiny piece of the radioactive stonedirectly into the arc at
the graphite rods sparkgap.
This is also a way to see on the scope at a shunt,
if there are any negative back current pulses into the battery
to test for other materials.
If you can get big backcurrent pulses during the arcing,
you have found a material that decays wellinto Beta decay
and thus works as an electron dontator that charges up your battery
with these huge back current pulses...
In some Newman machines this is also the case,if you have the
right graphite material that has lightly radioactive carbon isotopes
and which are excited to decay into Beta radiation during the sparks..
Regards, Stefan.
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Do you guys know of any web links to people experimenting with this beta decay RF excited crystals?
EM
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Yes,
have a look at these:
http://www.betavoltaic.com/betavoltaic.html
http://peswiki.com/index.php/PowerPedia:Beta_voltaic
Regards, Stefan.
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thanks Stefan, interesting reading.
Ok, I finally found my photos with the Testatika machine.
Take a look at this simpler model. At the time I had it all worked out.
I'm working on putting together a diagram.
EM
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Here's a typical Wimhurst machine (off the net from google images)
Notice they all have the two big condensers.
EM
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thanks Stefan, interesting reading.
Ok, I finally found my photos with the Testatika machine.
Take a look at this simpler model. At the time I had it all worked out.
I'm working on putting together a diagram.
EM
This was a nice fake a few years ago from Italy, when I remember correctly...
;) ;D
You really have to pulse the moutain crystalls with high voltage pulses
or corona discharge RF bursts to get the excited Beta Decay.
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Now I finally found it again here
from Tim?s site:
http://www.americanantigravity.com/plasmavolt.html
The same principle the Testatika and the Morray devices are based off.
Betavoltaic's PlasmaVolt Technology
By Tim Ventura, August 7, 2003
World Exlusive from American Antigravity: Batteries that run for years on end, promising endless energy from a clean, safe, environmentally-friendly fusion technology. This is the one man's incredible journey into a branch of physics that isn't supposed to exist - low energy transmutation of elements.
It's the middle of August and I'm standing in the basement of a house a few miles outside of Redmond, grateful to be in a cool area. The room itself is as large as the main floor of the aging brick house above it, but it's a completely separate entity - the only entrance is a semi-hidden door with a tarnished padlock hanging off the edge of it.
I hadn't seen the entrance to the basement I was now in from the street, due to an abundance of sun-bleached weeds blocking the view through the short driveway. The house itself hadn't been much more visible, as the bricks on the outside had aged enough to make it seem almost invisible next to the other houses in this middle-class suburban neighborhood. This house was only a few miles outside of Redmond, and just a few blocks away from my own home, but as I'd entered through the door I'd realized that this was an entirely different world than anything in the surrounding area.
From what I can now see of the basement's interior, it appears that this house was built in the 1960's or 70's - it certainly doesn't appear new, but I'm also not smelling that thick damp musk that accompanies the interior of a lot of older homes in the Pacific Northwest when they begin to age.
A series of metal racks fill the wall space along most of the interior of the basement - a few of the racks have recognizable objects in them, such as a set of 30 or 40 large glass jars containing what appears to be herbs - I can read names like "Ginseng" and "Gotu-Kola" scrawled in magic marker on the screw-top lids. Not everything down here is immediately recognizable, though - several pieces of large equipment are strategically placed amidst the racks, and while I recognize one of them as a gigantic oscilloscope, the rest are unknown. Most of the equipment in the lab can be identified as electronics equipment, but there is so much of it that it tends to blur together into a gigantic collection of parts and gizmo's - a visual collage of technology in a very raw form.
This basement is the "secret lab" of experimenter Merlin Del Orion - a white-bearded gentleman in his late 60's that bears more than a little resemblance to his namesake from the age of Camelot. In addition to the physical resemblance, a slim pair of spectacles adds a bit more to his personal mysticism. I suddenly realize that perhaps I'm projecting - in addition to being a former Boeing employee and long-time electronics experimenter and engineer, Merlin is also one of the few practicing alchemists in the modern world. While in many ways a wizard, he is also well versed in contemporary science.
Merlin pauses to adjust his spectacles and frowns slightly, with one eyebrow curling up just slightly. "Betavoltaic cell?" he asks, questioningly. I've just finished telling him about my encounter with businessman and inventor Michael McDonnough, and a remarkable new technology that I've been building a page for on the American Antigravity website. "It's a nuclear battery," I tell him, "using a method of stimulating the decay of a nuclear isotope to produce abundant, safe and clean electric energy. I don't know if it's for real or not, though, because I haven't actually seen one yet."
Merlin walks over to a shelf in one of the racks covering the entire back-wall of the basement. I can recognize an electric typewriter and several other pieces of electronics test-equipment on the shelf, but what he pulls out of a shadowy area is unrecognizable. "Oh, they work," he says, "Here's one that I've been tinkering with for the last few months".
The device that Merlin is holding is obviously a piece of electronics equipment, but I can't really place many of the parts on it. Mounted on a 1-foot square epoxy circuit board, I recognize the familiar dull-green plastic case of a high-voltage flyback transformer, and after realizing what that component is I then recognize the multi-vibrator circuit that feeds it - a set of two transistors set to pulse at a specific frequency through the flyback to power the device.
Flyback transformers are used in television sets and HV-experimental equipment to step up a low-voltage input current to a high-voltage output, and can be further connected either directly to a rectifier diode or instead to a Cockroft-Walton voltage multiplier, which then steps the voltage up even further. These devices are almost always used in circuits with a high-voltage direct-current output, probably because it's much easier to simply use a neon-transformer than go through the trouble of putting together a flyback circuit if high-voltage AC is required.
In this case, I can't recognize the circuits that the flyback is connected to - they're utterly meaningless to me, and they appear to connect to an even stranger device - a round metallic post with a metal ball mounted on the top of it, which gives the entire board and its apparatus the appearance of being a scale-model of an airport traffic-control tower assembled by a deranged electronics technician.
"Wait a second", I tell him, "this nuclear battery technology is totally new stuff - even Michael McDonnough doesn't have a prototype that he can demonstrate for me yet. You're actually telling me that this device is a working model of a nuclear battery?"
Merlin responds by launching immediately into an explanation of how the device works, and explains to me that the flyback transformer powers a circuit that provides the stimulating charge to the nuclear isotope, which in this prototype is contained in the metal ball located at the top of the post. It turns out that this isn't a strange model of an airport traffic control-tower after all, and I can see what he's talking about in more detail as he twists at a seam in the middle of the metal ball and lifts off the top portion for me to look inside. The ball contains a collection of maybe 20 or 30 small pellets. From their dull-gray metallic color, these might as well be made of lead or pewter, but I know better as I realize that they are the Americum-241 pellets used to provide ionizing radiation in smoke detectors. "I had to pry these out of the little epoxy cases that they're normally housed in within the smoke detector", Merlin tells me, "and they're safe as long as you wash your hands after touching them."
Merlin explains to me that this device must be primed initially by being connected to the flyback transformer. After external power has been applied and a static-charge initiated through the special control-circuits running into the isotope chamber, the isotope becomes self-sustaining for a period of time and generates its own electricity as the decay-rate of the Americum-241 accelerates and releases a steady stream of high-voltage electrons. Merlin's device isn't perfect though - it won't self power indefinitely after it has been initially activated. "I put it on the oscilloscope a while back," he says, "and it basically rings. It doesn't generate enough electricity to completely self-power, and that's mostly because of inefficiencies in the feedback-circuits that I've designed. The result is that as the power winds down the overall static-charge in the device decays very slowly when compared with an inert test-sample, which provides a ring-curve on the oscilloscope. I'm planning on modifying the circuitry to allow it to completely feedback the electricity that the isotope generates through the stimulation circuit in the near future - that should let it run indefinitely, and after that I can attempt to draw high-voltage electricity from it to power other projects. For the moment, though, it just rings ..."
Merlin's nuclear-battery does more than just ring, though - and both he and I know it. After spending a good 4 hours earlier in the week on the phone with Michael McDonnough, I know that the electricity given off by Merlin's Americum-241 battery when it 'rings' is accompanied by an enormous surge of nuclear-energy in the form of high-energy neutrons and protons. I know that Merlin also realizes this, because the inside of the reflective metal-ball that the isotopes sit inside is lined with at least 1/8th inch thick lead-shielding. After taking into consideration the possibility that I might want to actually have children in the future, I decide not to ask him for a demonstration of the device - at least not today.
Betavoltaic's Two-Stage Process
It's August 2003 - almost exactly one year after Merlin's demonstration of the stimulated decay cell, and I'm sitting at a desk in the basement of my home on the phone with Michael McDonnough. At 40 years old, he's old enough to be experienced in business, but still young enough to follow his dreams. The dream that we're discussing is his vision of environmentally-friendly stimulated-decay technology in the commercial marketplace, and he seems sensible and motivated enough that he just might pull it off.
""Hold on a second", he tells me. I can hear him talking to somebody else on his end of the phone, but it's difficult to tell what he's saying. After a moment he's back, "Sorry about that, Tim - I'm in the living room because it's not as hot here, but this is a busy area." In my location in the Pacific Northwest it's a cool 55 degrees outside and raining, but at his residence in Tulsa it's 11 o'clock at night and still sweltering from the August heat wave.
I've been telling McDonnough about the article that I'm putting together on the stimulated decay technology and the Americum-241 battery that Merlin's shown me. "You know," he says, after a pause, "devices like that just aren't commercially feasible at the present time. For instance, nobody is going to be able to get onto a plane with a cell-phone powered by a Strontium-90 nuclear battery. It would set off alarms all over the place -- that's what makes our new PlasmaVolt technology so remarkable - when its not in operation its basically inert."
The basis for Betavoltaic's technology is a clean, safe version of stimulated nuclear-decay technology based on the theoretical research of Dr. Ruggero Santilli and the experimental research of Ted Gagnon. Dr. Santilli's research had shown that with a specific static-charge applied to a nuclear isotope it can be made to break down at a sustained rate in comparison with a control sample.
What this means is that a beta-emitting isotope (one that emits primarily electrons as it decays) can be forced electronically to emit the same number of electrons in an hour as it ordinarily might emit in a year or more. Therefore, instead of a scant-few electrons being emitted from the isotope under normal conditions, the same isotope in a charge-stimulated environment may emit enough to actually comprise a current - perhaps micro amps or even milliamps worth of electricity.
This is what Merlin had shown me - a first generation Betavoltaic cell. The device operates by placing a high-voltage waveform on a small sample of beta-emitting isotope, which then emits electricity as the rate of decay increases.
Michael McDonnough has taken the research of Dr. Santilli one step further, by combining it with the experimental work of Ted Gagnon to create a two-stage process for a Betavoltaic commercial product line. Thus, the PlasmaVolt was born. This device comprises the second part of the Betavoltaic technology base - an environmentally-friendly fusion device, built to deliver electricity reliably for years on end without any harmful byproducts.
The PlasmaVolt is a device developed by inventor and experimenter Ted Gagnon that uses a plasma-vortex to allow the generation of electricity in a low-pressure reactor cavity. While the details of the PlasmaVolt are still proprietary, the device is covered under both US and International Patents, and McDonnough tells me that they have a prototype device on site that has been delivering a constant 50-watt electrical output for several months. In addition to generating electrical energy, the PlasmaVolt generates K40, which McDonnough plans to use in Betavoltaic's nuclear-batteries, due to its high-level of safety and very long decay times.
"Ted Gagnon's technology utilizes inverse quotient potential envelopes," McDonnough said, "This involves loading frequencies (the envelope) corresponding to quantum potentials into a proprietary liquid formula in which the Betavoltaic material is suspended. Once the quantum potentials have been applied to the liquid by the means of a caduceus-coil acting as a tuned antenna, the beta-emitter in solute is perpetually stimulated to emit electrons as a result of these quantum potential states."
The result of Gagnon's technology being utilized in conjunction with the low-energy transmutation research of Dr. Santilli is that isotopes can be utilized with such a normal low decay rate that they are considered for all intents and purposes to be "inert materials". McDonnough tells me that "The primary isotope is K40 (an isotope of Potassium), with a half-life of approximately 1.7 billion years. It has an 89% ratio of calcium formation, featuring a double beta-decay with energy levels of 1.311 Mev (Million Electron Volts)."
Essentially this means that K40 takes so long to decay under normal circumstances that its basically an inert substance - but when it does decay it releases an enormous amount of energy. "It's the perfect fuel for beta-decay because if the Betavoltaic cell is accidentally ruptured during operation K40 goes back to being extremely low in activity," McDonnough tells me, "K40 allows us to throttle the isotope decay. It's a nearly perfect process, because it only releases energy under stimulation, and in the event of a critical failure it immediately ceases energy production." In science, K40 is stable enough that it has little scientific use other than in studying biological systems using a highly bio-available and generally stable isotope. Betavoltaic expects to not only be the only market for this substance, but also expects to be the only supplier - it turns out that K40 is a byproduct of the contained PlasmaVolt power-systems that they plan on manufacturing this year.
The PlasmaVolt
The PlasmaVolt is a device developed by Ted Gagnon that creates a sustained plasma-vortex for a unique method of energy production based on the low-energy transmutation of elements. "The PlasmaVolt Technology will allow us to produce unlimited amounts of K40 isotope as per Santilli's low-energy transmutation theory," states Michael McDonnough, "Our existing prototype PlasmaVolt has already produced over 6 grams of nearly pure K40 this year." He begins to get excited while telling me this, then elaborating, "with the exception of K40 deposited on Earth from distant supernovae events, we've got the only source for this isotope on the planet! The K40 produced as a byproduct in commercial nuclear reactors is thoroughly contaminated with heavier isotopes, and produced only in tiny quantities. We've got 6+ grams of the stuff, and it's almost perfectly pure!"
One of the reasons that McDonnough is so excited about the production capability of Potassium40 is due to the sheer energy storage potential of the isotope. He tells me that "A kilogram of K40 has the same energy content as 35,000 gallons of gasoline"....assuming, that is, that it can be made to release that energy using the proprietary Betavoltaic technologies. Michael McDonnough insists that this is not only theoretically possible, but that its been demonstrated in the lab, "Ted Gagnon has already reached 200% stimulation using a very initial and inefficient frequency envelope, and he is currently conducting research on our behalf to create a much more efficient envelope for commercial use."
The PlasmaVolt almost looks like a tall, skinny blender in appearance -- it consists of a long, thin quartz tube that rises up from a square-black base containing control electronics. A coil of wire is wrapped around the upper-most portion of the tube, and obscures the interior of the otherwise transparent container from view. Located underneath the coil of wire, out of sight from my prying eyes, is the cathode at which transmutation occurs and energy is created. McDonnough tells me that the PlasmaVolt is impossible to replicate without knowing the shape of the cathode and composition of the anode.
Functionally, the PlasmaVolt operates in many ways as a conventional low-pressure plasma-reactor. The elongated tube is pumped full of Hydrogen, and the pressure is then reduce with a vacuum-pump to the desired operating pressure to maximize energy production. A unique electromagnetic charge is used to stimulate the hydrogen into a rotating column of energetic plasma, and the exterior coil is then used to reclaim that energy to prevent excessive loss. The energy input and reclaimed through the electromagnetic coil apparatus wound around the tube occurs nearly without loss, because the low-pressure of the gas allows energy input and extraction from the kinetic rotational energy of the hydrogen without many of the normal friction problems occurring in a higher-pressure container.
Main power from the PlasmaVolt is drawn from the cathode at the top chamber. Obscured from view by the coil apparatus, the cathode facilitates low-energy transmutation of Hydrogen into K40 by a unique and innovative method. What McDonnough claims is occurring inside the device is that Hydrogen molecules are first split from H2 into single atom by the high-voltage ionizing charge, and are then reduced even further by having the same ionizing energy strip the electron from the Hydrogen atom -- leaving only a single proton, which is all that an ionized Hydrogen atom consists of. The transmutation process is supposed to involve these single protons descending into the seed-material of the cathode to build it up, which eventually results in the production of K40. Most people are aware that the heavier elements consist of both protons and neutrons -- from what I've been able to gather protons are added easily via the addition of ionized hydrogen to the cathode structure, and the neutrons are supposedly created through an extra reactive-step in line with Santilli's low-energy transmutation theory.
The idea behind the PlasmaVolt seems similar in a very general sense to what is believed to occur during the infamous Pons and Fleischman "Cold Fusion" process so rigorously investigated during the 1990's. While the scientific community in general remains very skeptical about the Cold Fusion concept, a growing body of scientists is now convinced that putting Hydrogen-ions in close proximity with heavier metals can allow low-energy transmutations to occur that release energy in the process. In the case of Cold Fusion, the method involves immersing an anode and cathode in a body of water made conductive through the addition of specific salts - the PlasmaVolt takes this idea one step further by allowing the effect to happen in a plasma chamber, where the higher energy-levels of the ions and increased reactance should facilitate the production of larger amounts of power.
The PlasmaVolt is currently patented under both US and international patenting authorities, and Betavoltaic is in the process of having both of those sets of patents assigned from the current holders to themselves prior to the launch of their initial product offerings.
McDonnough indicated that the PlasmaVolt technology will reach the market much sooner than the K40 Betavoltaic technology will, mostly because Betavoltaic Incorporated plans on recycling used PlasmaVolt cells as their primary base for obtaining K40 for the Betavoltaic cells. It's a two stage process: McDonnough expects commercial PlasmaVolt systems to begin going on the market in early 2004. The K40 isotope that these cells produce as a byproduct will be extracted during recycling for use in powering the Betavoltaic power-cells that BVI intends to launch commercially within the next 18 months.
The initial product launch utilizing the PlasmaVolt power-cells is targeted towards the computer-industry - more specifically, McDonnough tells me that the best market segment to target is Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS) systems for commercial computers. He believes that the 400-watt PlasmaVolt will serve in this capacity well, as it should be capable of providing continuous operation producing 400-watts of power for up to 2 years. "The Plasmavolts will look like oversized vacuum-tubes", he tells me, "They're going to look really cool....imagine the engine-core from the Starship Enterprise, and you start to get the idea." Despite the look of the device, he figures that the 400-watt PlasmaVolt should measure about 19x14x4 inches - small enough to fit inside a suitcase sized device, and weighing in at only 8 pounds. This is important for products like backup power-supplies, as space is at a premium, and McDonnough hopes to also come up with a rack-mountable version of the device for direct storage in data-center server-racks. In the rack mountable version of this concept, he envisions the tubes being pluggable into the rack, meaning that by simply opening the rack and removing the tubes one at a time you can maintain constant power and still swap out old Plasmavolts.
Soon to follow on McDonnough's product list is the planned development of a self-powered "luggable" supercomputer. "This would be great for military applications", I told him, keeping in mind the news footage of server-farms and remote power-stations currently being toted around the Iraqi countryside by US personnel. He envisioned something like a machine incorporating a 19-inch TFT-LCD monitor, 8-gigs of RAM, 500-gigs of hard-drive space, and twin 2.6 gigahertz Xeon processors. "With the PlasmaVolt providing power for up to 2 years continuously," he tells me," power-intensive computing device like this suddenly become much more portable." I guess that he has a point - in my experience with the Mil-Spec "toughbooks" that AT&T Wireless relied on for field-operations computing, a lot of performance ends up being sacrificed in order to get every once of use out of the ever-too-small battery packs.
Non-Stimulated Nuclear Batteries
Betavoltaic's two-stage approach isn't the only approach to providing electrical energy directly from beta-decay, although admittedly it may be the safest. In December 2002 I had the opportunity to find out about conventional nuclear beta-decay batteries during a call to inventor and scientist Bob Lazar, formerly of Area 51 fame. Bob became a media sensation when he went to the press in 1989 with a story about being an employee at Area 51 hired to reverse-engineer captured UFO's - Lazar now runs the United Nuclear company in Arizona, which specializes in (among other things) manufacturing Geiger counters for use by the government and several commercial organizations. The United Nuclear website features a collection of naturally-occurring radioactive rocks on the front page that Lazar has collected from trips to the desert, which prompted me to ask Bob if he'd ever considered building a nuclear battery with any of them. "Sure," Lazar replied, "using a piece of radioactive rock to build a simple nuclear battery is easy. You simply get a glass vial and run a wire into the glass until it touches the rock - this is your positive potential. You then suspend another wire inside of the glass vial, but not touching the rock - current will flow between these two wires, although it won't be a large amount, and you can't use it for much."
Lazar told me that he'd actually built two or three batteries like this, and it's a relatively simple and inexpensive process to do (assuming that you have a radioactive rock to start with). A nuclear battery built in this manner is a non-stimulated device, and has several drawbacks. The major drawback is that they don't produce an appreciable amount of power, and use a substantial amount of isotopic rock in the process. Another drawback is that the naturally-occurring radioactive isotope that Lazar had used emits not only electrons, but also a fair amount of neutron and proton radiation - which means that its probably not suitable for a cell-phone battery, even with shielding. The final drawback is something that Lazar mentioned to me nearly on accident. "You know," he said, "I can send you one of them. I can send you one of the nuclear batteries that I've built - I think that you might get at least a couple of milliamps of high-voltage current from it. But now that I think about it, the major problem with mailing it to you is the fact that you can't turn these things off.....it'll be producing a high-voltage trickle of charge all the way through the postal system, which will set off all sorts of alarms."
Biefeld-Brown Applications
My interest in Betavoltaic cells began primarily with regard to the Lifter technology. The Biefeld-Brown effect levitation technology requires a high-voltage direct-current electrical output, which just happens to be the native-output for Betavoltaic cells. Under stimulated decay conditions, electrons are emitted from the isotope at extremely high-voltages, and as they build up on the gold-plated internal collectors, the resulting charge is also a high-voltage electrical potential.
The conventional power-source for Lifter technology is based on a Cockroft-Walton voltage multiplier, which literally just an array of high-voltage diodes and capacitors that are charged and discharged cyclically by a flyback-transformer. The 50,000 volt power-supply that I use from Information Unlimited utilizes an almost textbook approach to a Cockroft-Walton voltage multiplier: a two-transistor multi-vibrator provides 250-watts of power to a heavy-duty flyback transformer, which converts the electricity from an initial voltage of 115 VAC to 3,000 VAC out of the flyback. It also increases the frequency of the charge, from the normal 60 Hz of the power-line on the input side to 13,000+ hertz on the output side of the flyback. This is because flyback transformers are designed to operate more efficiently at higher frequencies - the overall result is a 3,000 volt, 13 kilohertz waveform that comes out of the flyback and is pumped directly into the Cockroft-Walton voltage multiplier.
As I mentioned before, the Cockroft-Walton voltage multiplier is a very basic array of diodes and capacitors, connected to the output of the flyback. During the positive (+) cycle of the flyback's output, the CW multiplier charges the internal capacitor-bank in parallel - perhaps 16 capacitors charging at 3,000 volts each. On the output side of the duty cycle, the CW multiplier then discharges the entire array of capacitors in series - which steps up the voltage from 3,000 volts to 48,000 volts. The only drawback to this process is that the output current of the CW multiplier is reduced by a multiple at least equal to the increase in voltage - hence, voltage is multiplied sixteen-fold, but the output current is 16-times weaker.
As you can see, Cockroft-Walton based high-voltage power-supplies have some very definite limitations. In addition to low output current, these devices are a bit on the heavy side for Antigravity research - my 'lightweight' GRA-50 supply contains at least 5 pounds of parts and shielding. Finally, the kiss of death for the CW-based power-supplies is the fact that they require a "wall-socket umbilical cord" at all times - in other words, unless you have a really lightweight 115 VAC battery your CW multiplier won't be very useful unless you have a really long extension cord. While experiments such as Saviour in Belgium have been experimenting with building stripped down "ultra lightweight" versions of the CW multiplier for use in Lifters, the entire concept has some glaring limitations - perhaps limitations that Betavoltaic technology can readily overcome.
Unlike a CW multiplier, Betavoltaic cells produce a high-voltage stream of electrons as a natural by- product of the stimulated decay process. Betavoltaic cells are also readily adaptable to producing a variable amount of current, and have the possibility of readily exceeding the limitations of the CW multiplier in terms of power. By simply varying the amount of energy that's put into the feedback loop through the stimulation-circuitry, it may be possible to produce all the high-voltage direct-current that you would ever need for an onboard Lifter power-supply.
Michael McDonnough isn't waiting around for Biefeld-Brown technology to mature before beginning his aerospace efforts - in fact, he already has a tentative plan for a high-output plasma drive based on the PlasmaVolt technology. "You know", he said, "We can scale these things up to a Gigawatt without any real difficulties." A gigawatt of power is substantially greater than the largest plasma-drives that NASA has experimented with, which are bulky and generate only kilowatts of energy.
McDonnough's vision of the PlasmaVolt as a tool for space exploration involves connecting the device to an acceleration chamber to create a stream of Plasma out the back end of the device. Therefore, whether or not the Lifter is the tool that the PlasmaVolt ends up powering, it seems doubtless that this device will make its way into space in one way or another.
Conclusion
Certain nuclear isotopes emit electrons when they break down - these are called "beta-emitting" isotopes. The electrons that are released during this natural decay process can be collected to provide a useable stream of electrical energy. According to the research of Dr. Ruggero Santilli, the rate of the decay process can be increased to provide electrical energy on-demand. The experimental work of Ted Gagnon has further shown that by providing an 'envelope' of harmonic electrical impulses into a liquid medium, this process of stimulated decay can be further increased to provide useable power from isotopes that would otherwise have a very low rate of decay.
Building a nuclear battery isn't hard to do - Bob Lazar's comments indicate that generating electricity in this manner can be as simple as putting a rock inside a glass jar, but doing this safely is another thing entirely, and that has prevented the commercial marketing of nuclear batteries for commercial applications up until now.
Over the course of the last year, the Betavoltaic Corporation has moved from a theoretical approach to a successful prototype for a unique power-generation process. They don't have the only technology to deliver electricity from nuclear isotopes, but they do have what appears to be the safest process.
Electron-emitting beta-isotopes are capable of storing incredible amounts of energy in a tiny package - this makes them suitable for a variety of applications that require the delivery of electrical power over a long-term period of time without interruption or recharging. In addition to applications such as microelectronics that require conventional power, the high voltages inherent in beta-decay make them suitable for Biefeld-Brown technologies, or at least allow the possibility of high-voltage energy production with lighter-weight apparatus than the Cockroft-Walton voltage-multipliers currently popular among experimenters.
Time will tell as to the commercial viability of this product. With a non-stimulated half-life of 1.7 billion years, it would appear that that the K40 solution under development by Betavoltaic is the 'perfect' process for liberating energy in a controlled manner from the breakdown of this material.
Whether the PlasmaVolt devices that generate the K40 isotope can penetrate the market enough to successfully launch the large-scale generation of this isotope remains to be seen, but the Betavoltaic Corporation is doing excellent work both in the short- and long-term planning for commercialization of this technology. They've succeeded admirably in the first step towards commercialization, which is demonstrating that the PlasmaVolt can generate power and create the K40 isotope -- the next step requires demonstrating that the K40 can actually power a Betavoltaic cell.
Once Betavoltaic makes it work, they'll be holding the key to an entirely new energy technology that has the potential to revolutionize our world through an inexpensive and efficient method of creating and storing electrical energy.
References
Betavoltaic Industries, http://www.betavoltaic.com
United Nuclear, http://www.unitednuclear.com
Pons & Fleischman Cold Fusion,
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion
Dr. Ruggero Santilli, http://www.i-b-r.org/santilli.htm
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thanks for that info Stefan,
so that particular model was a fake? I never knew that. :-\
EM
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If somebody wants to begin experimenting with pulsing
radioactive rocks inside a LeydenJar,
maybe you could start with these samples:
http://www.unitednuclear.com/low.htm
These are just 15 US$ each and
maybe it would be a start to see, what power
could be got out of them, if one excites them with High Voltage
pulse inside a Layden Jar capacitor.
Be sure to put a lead shield around the aparatus and use
a Geiger counter to see, if the radiation level will increase.
Regards, Stefan.
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I just studied the Kalium 40 isotop a bit more and found out,
where to get it from.
One German page told me:
Pottasche ist Kaliumcarbonat, der Kaliumanteil ist in der Hauptsache f?r die emittierte Kernstrahlung verantwortlich, genauer ist es der Anteil von K-40, einem Beta-Strahler. Neben der Beta-Strahlung ist die Aktivit?t von K-40 auf den K-Einfang und der Emission einer charakteristischen Gammastrahlung zur?ckzuf?hren. Kalium ist ein primordiales Nuklid, das es seit der Entstehung der Erde gibt. K-40 hat eine Halbwertszeit von 1,28 Mrd. Jahren (=1,28 Ga) und ist im nat?rlichen Kalium zu 0,0117% vorhanden. Ein P?ckchen Pottasche von 15 g Inhalt bringt ca. 450 CPM
So PottassiumCarbonat seems to be a good source to contain also K40 isotopes of Kalium,
which is the perfect Beta-decay material.
It is said that a pack og 15 gramms K2CO3 has a radioactive Beta-Decay of 450 counts per minutes.
So with High Voltage Excitation you could enhance this very much.
Also K40 is inside Glimmer and as you can see, in the Testatika demo cell,
which was shown to Hanz Holzherr and his group
and also between the horseshoe magnets we see some transparent quarz like
plates, which surely could be Glimmer plates containing a lot of K40 isotopes.
Has anybody yet tried to pulse Glimmer plates with High Voltage burst pulses ?
What does it do ?
Maybe you need the mesh metal as the cap plates, so the Gamma-Decay goes through it
and does not discharge the Beta-Decay charge from the mesh capacitor plates ?
Sounds all pretty logical, if you think more about it and know, that it is an excited
radioactive process.
Regards, Stefan.
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This was a nice fake a few years ago from Italy, when I remember correctly...
;) ;D
You really have to pulse the moutain crystalls with high voltage pulses
or corona discharge RF bursts to get the excited Beta Decay.
Hi Stefan and you all,
I don't know if you have seen my (complete) theory on Testatika.
I demostrated that Testatika power can be generated through electromagnetic devices means only.
Energy should come from air electrostatic energy, an indirect sun powered source.
I have to test it well yet, but I just made some succesful partial experiments.
The theory seems quite easy at first but it is really a bit difficult to grasp, it seems.
Please ask, if you are interested but you don't understand immediately.
http://utenti.lycos.it/fischerconsulting/testatpu.html
F_dyne
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This was a nice fake a few years ago from Italy, when I remember correctly...
;) ;D
You really have to pulse the moutain crystalls with high voltage pulses
or corona discharge RF bursts to get the excited Beta Decay.
Hi Stefan and you all,
I don't know if you have seen my (complete) theory on Testatika.
I demostrated that Testatika power can be generated through electromagnetic devices means only.
Energy should come from air electrostatic energy, an indirect sun powered source.
I have to test it well yet, but I just made some succesful partial experiments.
The theory seems quite easy at first but it is really a bit difficult to grasp, it seems.
Please ask, if you are interested but you don't understand immediately.
http://utenti.lycos.it/fischerconsulting/testatpu.html
F_dyne