Prime Ideas

I have just finished the 3rd biography of Tesla’s life.  To say the man lived on the very edge of excitement would be under estimating his very existence.  He did things that even today no one has dared duplicate.  His shop was lit with bulbs that had no wires and no filaments.  He allowed millions of volts to travel across his body to light bulbs he held in his hand.  He invited friends and media on numerous occasions to visit his shop where he awed them at every moment with his tiny electric friends.  He even did these things in front of the very scientific community that spent so much time ignoring him. 

Tesla never married and to the best of anyone’s knowledge never even had a girlfriend.  He claimed that to have one would remove his very ability to think and create and he dare not meddle in such a sacred area of his life.  Tesla understood his abilities and worked as hard as possible his entire life, trying to get as much done as possible.  He socialized when possible, mainly for raising more funds for his experiments, and had only a handful of true friends.  Even with them however, he spent very little time. 

In every biography I’ve read, you don’t see him mention a single family member, nor do you read any letters written to them after the death of his mother.  He had what some would consider close friends in Robert and Katharine Johnson, yet he hardly ever spent time with them, despite numerous letters from her requesting he come and visit.  All of his spare time was spent in his workshops experimenting. 

As time went on, he grew more and more leery of everyone,  yet he never turned his back on the media.  Every year on his birthday, he’d hold a big press conference to describe his latest inventions.  Some of which were so far out, that one questioned why he uttered the words.  Death Rays, Talking to Marians, destroying planes and ships from hundreds of miles away and creating great barriers around the country to protect it from attack. Yet with all these claims, not a single mention of free electricity.  Even to his death he was trying to perfect the ability to delivery electricity to the masses without wires.  He made several attempts to do just this, but all failed due mainly to noone being interested enough to give him money.  Why he would spend so much time trying to build a monstrous device to send electricity to remote parts of the world without wires, when he knew how to dig it from the aeither itself would make one wonder. 

Yet, none of the talk of the electric car seems to have originated from Tesla, who everyone knew, spoke of wondrous inventions in all areas of science.  It is said that he became sick of everyone and didn’t want to share any more inventions with anyone, yet there is not a point in time this is true.  He did become tired of being used and never having funds to do his real experiments, but at no point did he stop talking about what he was doing.  Also, at no point did he talk of any communications with his immediate family. 

The story goes as such: Mr. Sava, Tesla’s nephew who reportedly lived in New York in 1931, was contacted by Tesla to participate in an experiment involving aetheric power.  He traveled to Buffalo with Tesla and Tesla would not speak to him during the trip.  That once arriving in Buffalo, Tesla had a Pierce Arrow waiting that’s engine was replaced with an 80HP electric motor. The car had no batteries and had its engine cables sitting freely in the air.  It should be noted that Tesla wrote thousands of letters to all sorts of people requesting funds and describing his creations.  There are no papers mentioned in any of his serious biographies that describe him requesting a Pierce Arrow, or an electric motor from GE.  In fact, they had all but cut him off from any further funds long before this time period. 

The story goes on to say, that a 6 foot antenna was positioned in the rear section of the car, and that Tesla went and purchased 12 special tubes and some wire and built a box of some 1ft x 2ft x 1/2ft high.  Another story says he brought the box with him and that he had simply assembled the tubes in it.  The two stories vary quite a bit between each other but the point is, he inserted this box, which had 12 tubes, and 2 metal contact rods that stuck out of it.  Once the rods were pushed in, the car had electric power and they traveled for days. Once finished, Tesla took the box out and they traveled back home, with not a word said and nothing ever reported of the tests again.  Only his loving nephew who was never mentioned in any letters or communications was allowed to participate.  And he himself kept his mouth shut until after Tesla’s death. 

Now, while I will leave a very small door open for this being true, here are a few things that I think show it to be absolutely false. 

1) Tesla never included people in his experiments that he did not absolutely trust.  The chances that he’d include a young man that he had no obvious connections to other than blood, seems very strange to me. 

2) There are absolutely no records of Tesla ever going to Buffalo during the time mentioned, nor him purchasing an electric motor and car.  Tesla had very little money most of his life, so any experiment that would have been this expensive would have required financing.  Therefore, it would have been accompanied by some sort of letter requesting the funds, the car and the motor. 

3) Tesla was very much in with the press.  If the man spoke of death rays and building protective barriers around the country, why on earth would he hide the possibility of free electricity? 

4) Tesla spoke constantly about his ability to provide electricity to the masses without cable, but he never once mentioned that he could do it without a power plant. The facts seem overwhelming to me that what really happened here, is that Tesla was a genius, his nephew was not.  His nephew perhaps made the story up to get attention, or more likely had nothing at all to do with the story and it was manufactured by someone else.  I find it very interesting that his nephew’s name is never mentioned in any of the reports.  He’s always referred to as Mr. Savo throughout the stories. 

So in my opinion after a good bit of studying the man named Tesla, I conclude that this story about the electric car is fiction, but I leave a small door open for the possibility nonetheless… 

–glenn hancock

I hate that I’m even writing this post but I see no way out.  I have been participating on many different forums on the Internet where many people are honestly trying to get information on running their cars off hydrogen.  I’ve tried to share my experience with testing some of these designs in order to prevent people from wasting their time and money on devices that will not work.  Yet time and time again, I have gotten kicked off the forums and all my posts removed.

Not because I was wrong, and not because I started fights or was ugly to people, but simply because I stated experimental facts instead of trying to sale bull shit devices that will never work.  Its become obvious to me that this site and its content will eventually be alone in providing an open forum for people to discuss these issues.

So far the yahoo group for hydroxy@yahoogroups.com and OUPower com have both performed this sad form of moderation.  Neither took the time to explain to me why they did it, or what exactly I said that was so wrong.  In fact, they removed the threads in the middle of honest conversations so that their own forums and discussions don’t make sense any more.

Its actually quite funny at how thick, ignorance is on this subject, and how the few crooked people are able to guide others, trying to learn, into spending time and money on things that won’t work.  The few of us that actually test what they are saying, and try to share the truth, are cut off at the knees, unable to help anyone out.  So the only hope that exists is for us to keep testing and sharing information here.  Hoping that others in search will happen upon this site in order to gain more valuable information and of a more honest nature.

–glenn hancock

Before I start let me say that I’m not giving up.  I also still believe that Hydrogen can be used in conjunction with your current gas engine to improve mileage by 10-20% if that interests you.  However, for those that claim they are running their car off Hydrogen while splitting it using electrolysis.  Well, they are just FOS!

The current requirements for a 4 cylinder engine are greater than 100L of Hydrogen gas per minute and the best performing cells are producing around 2-3L / minute.  There are those claiming to get 15-20L per minute but I’ve not seen any real proof of these claims.  I’m still investigating the claims to see if there exists any merit, but lets not hold our breath.

Lets just say you were capable of producing 100L of gas per minute.  Can you fathom this quantity?  This is a massive amount of gas and it needs to vary from second to second.  Idle versus 3000rpm versus 4000rpm and back to idle.  So the system required to manage all of these processes would be extensive.  You’d have to have a regulator of some sort, a pressure tank and some type of delivery system to sense pressure on the gas peddle to deliver gas to engine in appropriate amounts.

Hydrogen burns much much faster than gasoline does, so you’d have to advance your timing quite a bit which is all doable.  In fact, let me say, that running the system off of hydrogen is absolutely possible.  I’m not trying to say that you can’t do that part.  However, if you go back and review all of the designs currently available on the web for sale and for free, you’ll noticed none provide any workable solution to the delivery problem.

Stanley Myers magic was in his death.  I honestly believe, that had he not died, he’d be a serious joke by now.  I wish this were not true but after the amount of serious testing I’ve done and serious attempts at getting anything at all to work, I’m more than ever convienced that he wasn’t doing what he stated.  The fact that he had to give back investor money because he couldn’t show the court that his device worked speaks volumes for what he was about.  The fact that NO ONE has built a system based on his patents that works, screams even louder.

Am I giving up?  Absolutely not!  My only point to writing this entry is to state that I am going to be changing my direction soon.  I have a lot of other ideas and am going to start looking into some of them.  The main thing at this point is building a series cell Hydrogen generator that has been said to produce hydrogen gas in greater volumes than that allowed by the current laws of Physics. 

But more importantly I believe, is that I’m going to start working on a design of the Tesla turbine engine and looking into whether it works first of all, and secondly whether its possible to power it with hydrogen combusion.

Another prospect that I’m looking into, that I”ve been thinking about for some time is that of static electricity and whether its possible to harness any of it for the purposes of powering an AC Generator.  There are plenty of other areas we can look to for power.  The fact is, we’ve been shoe horned into cars and their Internal Combusion Engines (ICE’s) and no ones has tried to break the mold to look at other possible means of transportation.

Can it be done?  I’m not sure in the least, however, that is half the fun!  Searching for the imposible.  What do you think people said when Tesla started working on his first AC electricity concepts?  The fact is that our universe has more unexplained than explained phonemena and for us to even think for a second that we have it all figured out is beyond stupid.  To move to the next step, Tesla stepped into uncharted ground and look where we are.  Over 100 years later we’re still using his electricity. 

Is it not time to take the next step?

–glenn hancock

Today I did a series of tests with KOH and the same cells as the previous tests.  Each recorded and calculated using identical methods.  The results were almost identical and in fact were so close that you might as well say they were.  Just as an example, the first cell had a ml/W/hr of 67 with plain tap water and 64 with KOH.  Now of course, the volume was much better but having an amperage of over 19A makes for a problem in and of itself.  So while we did create a massive amount of gas comparitively speaking relative to time, our efficiency was almost dead even.

The point is, KOH and most likey any electrolytic solution should be added as needed to improve time to generate KOH, but do not expect your efficiency to improve.  Its also worth mentioning that my 2004 F-150 V8 charging system couldn’t keep up with an almost 20A requirement on the cell and the voltage dropped to around 11V constant.  I’m sure that, with that kind of load it would only be a matter of time before the alternator began to complain.

At the present moment I’m thinking that anyone using simple plates and claiming to drive their car off of them are not being very straight forward.  So the next tests I plan to run except to verify these are going to be on the new series capacitor idea to see if they are any better.  I have to get a bit of metal first so it may be a few weeks before I can do any more testing.

–glenn hancock

Over Unity is a concept that would allow for a perpetual motion machine.  For example: an engine running off a magnet that needed no input, but would run forever.  But is this an example?

Now that we think we understand what the term Over Unity means, I will dispatch with why I think it is one of the most over used and least understood terms of our day.  There are literally thousands of people all across the world that use this term to talk about Hydrogen production, engines running off magnets and on and on and on.  It is my opinion that these people need to take a serious look at what the word really means, and then ask themselves if they somehow think they have accomplished it.

Before we get that far however, lets start with a basic Physics lesson to describe what science believes to be the clock that makes the universe tick.  At its most basic level, every compound ( or every thing you see, touch, breath and sense ) is made up of very basic elements.  Each element is made up of protons and neutrons in its nucleus and electrons that flow around the outsides.  The protons are always constant in these elements and there are a total of 112 known substances and some are man made and don’t actually occur in nature.  But using these 112 things and combining them, we can make every known substance known to mankind.

An element of these atoms are their electrons.  Electrons are what flow and provide the negative potential to every element.  In a balanced element we have equal numbers of protons and electrons.  However, in this state, the electrons (depending on how many electrons they have) may not be so happy.  All atoms seem to want their outside shells, called valence shells, to be full of electrons.  From what we understand about the tiny things we can’t see, is that they will do almost anything to have this happen.  But the electrons are where most of the magic happens.

Electrons can be free to fly through space, or they can be grabbed up and used by atoms, either as free electrons or perhaps borrowed from another atom to combine and create another substance.  So an atom with less electrons than protons has a positive charge and one that has more electrons than protons would have a net negative charge.  And as we all know, negative and positive charges attract towards each other.

So work is performed by setting up an environment in which we have a negative and positive potential, and then supplying some means for those potentials to be solved.  Some way for them to join hands and unite.  Using a battery as an example, we setup through whatever means a group of atoms on one side of the battery plates that have a mostly positive charge and another side that contains mostly negative charged electrons.  These two charges sit unhappily until they either all escape, or until you supply some means for them to flow.   They have no care of what you are doing while they move, they are only concerned with taking care of the difference in potential.  However, mankind has learned to take advantage of this movement of electrons and we perform work with it.  We light bulbs in our homes, make our computers tick and so on.

There are all sorts of these types of energy, heat and magnetism are a few other examples.  All of which setup some type of difference in pressure, and cause electrons to flow from one place to another while we use that movement for work.

So as an example, we’ll look at Hydrogen production to try to solve this misused concept of Over Unity. Water is formed because Oxygen only has 6 electrons in its valence shell and would like to have 8.  Hydrogen happens to have only 1 electron in its valence shell and would like to have 2.  So if you get 2 Hydrogen atoms to hook up to 1 Oxygen atom, you have a water molecule. 

So as an example, mankind many years ago, discovered that if they ignited Hydrogen gas it explodes violently.  Its around 3 times more powerful than gasoline and we have 2 of the little guys in every molecule of water.  Not to mention our entire universe is made up of Hydrogen with it being one of the elements found in greatest order throughout the universe. Keeping in mind of course that upon igniting it, you have to have Oxygen present and that it’s this phase of the two joining hands again that makes the bang.

So rock man comes along and says man, I wish I could get that there Hydrogen out of that liter of water so I could burn it in my stove.  So he starts to beat the water violently with a stick.  This method after an hour and a lot of trouble releases a few atoms into the air and he captures them and burns them.  His neighbors are quite impressed.

However, a few years go by and another local rock man decides that he’s sick of beating the water because it takes too much time.  He decides that he’s going to use the heat of the sun and try to release it that way.  This continues through many years of people trying to get this hydrogen out of the water.  To the point that eventually someone figures out that if you direct a single electron at a certain angle towards the bucket of water, that a single Hydrogen atom will be knocked off and freed.

So the question then becomes, if we figured out, how to use a more efficient means of releasing the oxygen hydrogen bonds, have we accomplished Over Unity?  If I devised an AC motor that would run off the ether of space, have I created Over Unity?

To answer these questions we must first ask ourselves, have we created something from nothing?  Have we created the flow of electrons to power our electric motor out of the vacuum of space?  Or were they already there and we figured out how to harness them?

People state forever that you can’t power a car off of Hydrogen while creating the hydrogen as you drive down the road.  Is this true?  Why?  Why can’t I figure out a way to possibly harness the air itself to burn as a gas and not need to perform the functions of digging up oil?  In fact, if this were an example of Over Unity, then could we possibly be driving cars down the road today?  If this were a valid example then we must determine that the energy required to dig, drill, pump, ship, pump again and ignite in our engines would have to be more the amount of input, and we should have nothing left over to burn in our cars.  But this is not the case! 

People need to accept the fact that the brightest people on this earth do not understand magnetism.  They can explain how it flows and they can do really cool things with it, but at the end of the day, they can not supply a workable solution to the “What”.  We know how electrons flow through and around things and can do all sorts of cool things with them, but we don’t know what they are.  What created them and how exactly do they move?  We can even cause atoms to hook together and break apart, but we don’t know exactly what they look like or how they interact exactly.  And lets not even start with gravity.

The point is, there are many things in our universe that we do not understand and quite possibly never will.  Because I run my car next week off of air, does not mean I’m creating magic, nor does it mean that I’m getting something for nothing, which is behind the very statement of Over Unity.  What it means is that I’ve determined how to do something with what exists today that we didn’t know how to do yesterday.
It could be quite possible to burn water itself and not even break it apart to begin with.  But in the end, we’d be using water, which already exists.

When you show me someone that can work in a vacuum and create a water molecule when they started with nothing at all.  Well,  then we’d have some serious Over Unity happening.  Until that day, lets let this term be used where is should and think about our Hydrogen already being here and we’re just trying to determine a more efficient way to release it.  After all, if we better understood the atoms we might just figure out a more efficient way to have them let loose of each other, requiring less electrons to do the work.  Again, not “Over Unity”, its proper definition would be “More Efficient”. 

Anyone ready to go for a ride in a sail boat?

–glenn hancock