Mainstream News Site Announces Energy Breakthrough

this is era pf peak oil so these types of discoveries have to be announced.
global oil supplies are in severe decline despite all the claims.
nobody have verified oil fields of saudi arabia,iran etc.
nothing can replace crude oil,nothing.
even coal is not perfect anwer because you have to burn huge quantities of coal to produce energy
nuclear power is 10-100 times costly than crude oil..so it will not be economical
start planning your future

there could be free energy for everyone on earth, there have been talks about it since the 70's, the sheeple have no idea about it.

the only problem is, governments would not make money
electric companies would not make money.

so its not going to happen this lifetime....

surely they will come up with some way to make money off this...

Good, start burning off these oceans. More land & fresh water.

And they will all be dead by the end of the month. Oil companies don't like competition.

LOL, did any of you actually read it?

"operating over long duration at the 10 Watt (W) scale. A 100 W unit is planned for completion by the end of 2012, and a 1.5 kiloWatt (kW) pilot unit that can serve the residential power market, as an initial target commercial application, is expected to be operational by 2013. (One kW is equal to 1000 W, and 1.5 kW is the typical, average power consumption of a U.S. home"

This thread is like an intelligence test. If you responded to it, assuming that it was true, that a "Mainstream News Site Announces Energy Breakthrough" then you've failed the test.

In case you're confused, and I assume if you believed this you are frequently confused, this was not a bit of news, but a "Press Release".

Websites like Market Watch (and ADVFN and a million others) publish corporate press releases without in fact testing that they are true. For extremely obvious reasons.

To protect themselves they clearly label them as "Press Release".

So how'd you do? Did you pass or fail?

As much as I'm for free energy, I just can't see how it can work in the current economy-

Think of all the millions of people that work for big oil, where will they go?

Think of all the tax revenue generated from the oil economy....

Think of the impact on the stock market....

It takes energy to turn water into hydrogen and oxygen. So theoretically we could have solar power plants that partly powered the electric grid, and stored energy in the form of hydrogen, to be transported. (gravity storage systems are the most efficient, safe, clean, etc for storing power. Almost 1-- percent efficiency)

However, its REALLY dangerous and uneconomical to transport hydrogen. That's the problem. It blows up. That's it.

So cars can't really run on water, or hydrogen.

Theoretically, all these claims about guys running cars on water... what they are claiming is that they did something to the water to make it burnable. Basically turning water into water-gasoline.

Why is this useful? Because its easy to transport.

However, it still takes energy to change the water into water-gasoline. You don't just magically get all this energy out of water. But the conversion process could happen at solar power plants.

There's another theory going around for using water. Catalyst theory. Basically there's LENR (colf fusion) claiming they use a catalyst to get some kind of energy from water. And then other people claiming if they could find the right catalyst and electrical resonance, then it actually takes less energy for hydrolysis than you get back.

I think the Catalyst theories hold a lot of promise as well. Catalysts are awesome. We use them in almost all useful chemical reactions anyway.

A catalyst is something that makes a reaction occur or occur better, without any detectable change to the catalyst.

Think about this. Saw a weather channel satellite photo of the air pollution over China caused by "big oil", the "oil economy". Think about the impact of that pollution on the lives of the Chinese people, and all the other people in large cities where they breath in these toxic chemicals from the combustion engine economy created by "big oil"! Number one cause of breathing related diseases in big cities is related to the "big oil" economy! How many people have suffered and died as a result of this wonderful economy? The air pollution from China drifts all the way over the Pacific Ocean and ends up where? Right here in the good ole USA! Gives meaning to the phrase what goes around comes around! Killing ourselves to live is what the human engineered economy does best!

every new technology needs time to reach its full potential. Look at the cost:

[link to www.blacklightpower.com]

sounds pretty good to me...

Uh huh....

and not to change the subject, but if someone could answer..

What has happened with the e-cat fusion thing-a-ma-jig promoted by the Italian dude and his public demonstrations last year?

Uh huh....

and not to change the subject, but if someone could answer..

What has happened with the e-cat fusion thing-a-ma-jig promoted by the Italian dude and his public demonstrations last year?

I don't know how viable any of this stuff is, but to those of you saying that hydrogen power can't work because it blows up....well, so does fucking gasoline.

It takes energy to turn water into hydrogen and oxygen. So theoretically we could have solar power plants that partly powered the electric grid, and stored energy in the form of hydrogen, to be transported. (gravity storage systems are the most efficient, safe, clean, etc for storing power. Almost 1-- percent efficiency)

However, its REALLY dangerous and uneconomical to transport hydrogen. That's the problem. It blows up. That's it.

So cars can't really run on water, or hydrogen.

Theoretically, all these claims about guys running cars on water... what they are claiming is that they did something to the water to make it burnable. Basically turning water into water-gasoline.

Why is this useful? Because its easy to transport.

However, it still takes energy to change the water into water-gasoline. You don't just magically get all this energy out of water. But the conversion process could happen at solar power plants.

There's another theory going around for using water. Catalyst theory. Basically there's LENR (colf fusion) claiming they use a catalyst to get some kind of energy from water. And then other people claiming if they could find the right catalyst and electrical resonance, then it actually takes less energy for hydrolysis than you get back.

I think the Catalyst theories hold a lot of promise as well. Catalysts are awesome. We use them in almost all useful chemical reactions anyway.

A catalyst is something that makes a reaction occur or occur better, without any detectable change to the catalyst.