In an ancient Sanskrit manuscript knows as the Agastya Samhita, there are in depth descriptions of a battery that electrolyzes water to free up hydrogen. This hydrogen is then used to fill up a balloon, which was used to carry man into the air.
Upon my own research into electrolysis technologies, I came across these references and mentioned it in my presentation on Water Fuel Secrets at the 2014 Energy Science & Technology Conference.
Check out this headline from 1917…
Agasthya was a sage who is credited with inventing the dry cell battery, electrolysis, electroplating, and balloons. This dry cell battery has actually been replicated according to its description in these texts and does indeed produce a voltage.
Which means, “Place a well-cleaned copper plate in an earthenware vessel. Cover it first by copper sulfate and then by moist sawdust. After that, put a mercury-amalgamated zinc sheet on top of the sawdust to avoid polarization. The contact will produce an energy known by the twin name of Mitra-Varuna. Water will be split by this current into Pranavayu and Udanavayu. A chain of one hundred jars is said to give a very effective force. ”
This cell gives an open circuit voltage as 1.138 volts, and short circuit current as 23 mA. That doesn’t sound like a lot of this text describes putting around 100 of these cells in series for some serious hydrogen production!
The long anticipated by book by Eric Dollard, Vesor Algebra as Applied to Polyphase Power Systems, is finally available.
Take note that this book reveals that Eric Dollard’s understanding of Polyphase Power Systems their rotating waves is actually more advanced than either Tesla or Steinmetz’s original understanding.
This is a historically important book not just for electrical engineers, but eventually for music theorists because it allows them to finally have the simplified sequence algebra necessary to fully analyze polyphonic music.
Proceeds from this book go to supporting EPD Laboratories so Eric Dollard can continue his work on the Advanced Seismic Warning System, other projects as well as continuing his writing.
VERSOR ALGEBRA BY ERIC DOLLARD – WHY IS IT IMPORTANT TO THE TESLA SCIENCES?
At the 2013 Energy Science & Technology Conference, Eric Dollard presented Four Quadrant Representation of Electricity – that presentation and the book that followed it went deeper into Eric’s mathematical concepts than he has ever taken them. But he gave the presentation in a way with a lot of diagrams, analogies, etc… to make it as simple as he could for the layman to understand.
Charles Proteus Steinmetz
Way back in Tesla’s time, Charles Proteus Steinmetz was hired by General Electric to analyze Tesla’s polyphase systems. Most people are familiar with today’s three-phase systems, but Tesla’s was actually four phase. Although Tesla conceived of all of this, it was Steinmetz who was the real builder and adapted the four phase system into a three phase system that is in use today.
Steinmetz was the one who first used Versor Algebra in his analysis of Tesla’s polyphase systems – it is also known as or possibly more accurately known as Sequence Algebra.
This left a huge complication because the three phase system didn’t have the normal pluses and minuses in the mathematical analysis so there was this gap for all of this time that did not make it possible to really analyze three phase systems with conventional math.
Dr. Fortescue is someone that most people have never heard of, but he developed a system known as “Symmetrical Coordinates” and that made it possible to analyze systems of any number of phases thereby closing the gap.
Where Eric Dollard’s Versor Algebra book comes into play is that Eric is presenting a General Theory of Versor Algebra for the first time in mathematical history tying all of this together and bringing it to the simplest form possible.
Once again, Eric Dollard demonstrates his genius mastery of the Tesla Sciences like nobody else has been able to do. Whether or not you have an interest in the math, we hope when it is released on March 22nd, Sunday, that you’ll help support Eric and his work that is very important to the electrical sciences by getting your own copy.
If this were 100 years ago, Eric Dollard would be a world wide celebrity for developing this Versor Algebra book for the electrical sciences along with Tesla, Steinmetz and others who were genuinely involved in researching the very foundation of the electrical sciences. Let’s show Eric that his monumental efforts are genuinely appreciated!
In some third world countries, when the sun goes down, there is no light for the people. If there is, it is usually a kerosine lamp that burn indoors. The light is useful, but some claim that one night of breathing in the fumes is the same as smoking 40 cigarettes. And to top it off, 20% of a family’s income every week pays for the fuel.
The folks at LEDsafari are doing some great work using a very simple method. They use a cell phone battery with the electronics removed, an LED, a switch and a small solar cell to build a low cost solar lamp.
Little by little their method is getting a bit more sophisticated. LEDsafari is now adding a diode to keep the battery from sending power to the solar cell and burning it up. Also, a resistor is added to limit the current the battery delivers to the LED so it lasts longer. Total cost is about $2.00.
There are some simple ways to improve upon these methods. But for now, this project has been a blessing for thousands of people. Without LEDsafari’s solar lamp program, many would be sitting in the dark or spending money just to breath unhealthy fumes. This just shows that something so small and simple really can make a huge difference in people’s lives!
Saving Money, Reducing Fuel & Increasing Health
The income savings and health benefits are obviously priceless. It is important to understand this isn’t a hand-out. LEDsafari holds workshops to teach people how to empower themselves by learning how to build their own solar lamp! Just look how happy those kids are in the picture up above. This is not just a technical skill, but a way to increase their self-esteem and build confidence in the fact that they can help themselves.
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A classic three-phase 7 horsepower motor can easily be over 100 pounds and is designed to run around 1800 rpm. This higher power density motor delivers this kind of horsepower at almost 5 times the speed. It has different applications and windows of operation so it isn’t an apples to apples comparison. However, the developers do appear to win the bragging rights for the most energy dense motor commercially available.
Launchpoint Technologies website says, “With a total weight of only 1.4 pounds, this motor produces 7 horsepower at 8400 rpm with 95 percent efficiency. At 5 horsepower per pound, this motor has a higher power density than any other motor on the market.”
There are countless applications for this kind of motor such as improvements in battery life in electric cars, electric bikes, electric-powered aircraft and the list goes on.
What makes this advancement possible is the use of the Halbach Array, which is a clever organization of the polarity of multiple magnets to create a very strong field on one side while almost totally negating the field on the other. Here is an old discussion on the Halback Array on Energetic Forum with some references: Halbach Array
Here is an early demo of the Launchpoint Technologies Halbach Array motor:
A very interesting benefit of the Halbach Array is that it defeats Earnshaw’s Theorem which says, “states that a collection of point charges cannot be maintained in a stable stationary equilibrium configuration solely by the electrostatic interaction of the charges.”
For example, if you took a ring magnet and had another magnet on a shaft in side of that ring magnet, you wouldn’t be able to get it to stay right in the middle even if you spin it – if you were trying to create a magnetic bearing for example.
However, with the Halbach Array, you can. With the clever arrangement of the polarities of various permanent magnets, you can indeed get a magnet to spin inside of this field and maintain stability in the middle without it sticking to any particular spot.
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A local Ceour d’Alene company (right next to Spokane) has created a lighting technology where they can print a paper, put electricity to it and it lights up.
Essentially, it is a printed LED – the world’s thinnest LED that is and it is quite revolutionary because it opens up a lot of possibilities.
A refrigerator uses a traditional heat pump. A compressor is powered usually by electricity and that circulates a “refrigerant” like freon or some synthetic version through some tubes that go through heat exchangers – the bottom line is that is pulls the heat out of the fridge to make it cold.
An AC is just another variation of this as is all other heat pump technologies such as heat pump hot water heaters. Some give you cold while expelling the heat and some give you heat while expelling the cold.
Heat pumps are a really great technology and are very reliable and have made our lives much easier. There are a few drawbacks such as the noise and occasional maintenance due to moving parts.
Phononic is a company, which has eliminated these problems by building a completely silent and solid state refrigerator using hundred year old Peltier junctions…they’re semiconductors basically that get hot on one side and cold on the other.
Peltier’s definitely work but their drawback is that they are very inefficient…it takes a lot of watt hours to produce any substantial heating or cooling, but Phononic has scaled them up and have made them more efficient than ever. Normally, they’re under 10% efficient, but now they’re over 30%!
Even at 30%, they can’t compete with heat pumps in terms of Coefficient of Performance (COP), but being that they are much smaller than normal compressor heat pumps and they’re silent, they do have their place.
While this advancement in Peltier technology isn’t going to get anyone off the grid, it is a very welcome improvement as a three times increase in efficiency in anything doesn’t happen every day.
To put that into perspective – the automobile engine was commonly under 20% efficient and the newest cars on the road today are lucky to achieve 30% efficiency – and that is over many, many decades of automotive advancements.
I received literally hundreds of emails about the Eric Dollard interview video on YouTube going private. Before that happened, there were literally thousands of views. Eric Dollard exposed a few people in that interview and they retaliated so the producers of that video, Union Features, made it private but re-uploaded an edited version here:
Even if you already saw the video, please play it for a moment and click the THUMBS UP button at the top right of the video to show Eric Dollard your support!
DOWNLOAD THE UNCUT VERSION HERE: Quite a few people downloaded the original and they’re already uploading it to multiple places to preserve it. Click the following link, click the button that says Download This File, enter the captcha code and hit the button and it will download in a zip file. In the zip file is a high resolution mp4 of the entire uncut interview – there is no Copyright notice in the video but that doesn’t mean it isn’t copyrighted – check with Union Features if you have any questions: http://www.filedropper.com/tesla20mp4
It’s difficult to say who developed the first electric car that charges it’s own batteries by coasting down a hill and having the motor become a generator.
One thing is for sure, in the 1950’s, Bob Sewell, of Spokane, Washington, retrofit a 1947 Crosley Station Wagon with an aircraft starter motor that exactly accomplishes these regenerative methods and he did it as an Electrical Engineering student at the University of Idaho.
It made national news and was even featured in a full page story in the November 1957 issue of Popular Mechanics. See it here: November 1957 Popular Mechanics
In a popular article about electric cars back in 1960, which was published in the Saturday Evening Post, Bob Sewell is even mentioned in the same paragraph as the legend Charles Proteus Steinmetz. Apparently, Steinmetz had worked out the regenerative electric car back in 1913.
“As the subject heats up, ideas keep popping out: Why not put electric chargers on parking meters, an extra dime giving a parked car ten miles of recharge while it waits? Why not design the motor to become a generator going downgrade, recharging the battery and helping to brake the car? Charles P. Steinmetz, the electrical wizard, had that worked out in 1913. Robert Sewell, an engineering student at the University of Idaho last year, now with Washington Water Power, has applied this idea to an electrified Crosley station wagon.”
Bob recently passed away so there is a lot we’ll never get to share with each other in regards to some fun and exciting electrical experiments. He definitely had a sparkle in his eye when I told him about some of the work of Eric Dollard, Jim Murray and others we’re involved with. Whenever Eric Dollard stayed at my home, he parks his car in perfect view for Bob to see all the antennas on it – something Bob could appreciate as a Ham Radio operator. Bob Sewell was my neighbor.
I’ll always remember him waving at me every time he drove by my house in his little maroon PT Cruiser, literally driving about 2 miles per hour. Happy travels Bob!