Next Big Future: Blacklight Power Providing Info and Assistance in Understanding their Work
enantiomer2000
· 1 year ago
hope its real. imagine filling your 'gas' tank up with water and running on it. It seems like the energy density is way higher than gasoline (by a factor of a thousand) if I read the last post about that correctly (volumetric energy density). Does that mean that you could drive a thousand times further on the same volume of fuel compared to say a gasoline car?
Brock
· 1 year ago
No, it means you could drive forever, because you can suck enough water out of the air with your A/C compressor to just keep going.
One of the things that I think hasn't really sunk in regarding BLP (if it works) is that fuel costs are (essentially) zero. As I noted, you can suck water out of the air (even in Arizona or Iraq) with simple technology. Which means that once the hardware is depreciated, free energy. Not in the physics sense, but in the financial sense, and that's almost as good. I expect that big installations (like baseload power stations) will continue to have meters to pay BLP a licensing fee for each Kwh generated (and man, isn't that sweet business to be in), but for independent small generators (cars, boats, campers, off-grid power at the hunting cabin, etc.) they can't use that strategy. It'll be "buy the generator once, run forever." That changes society a great deal. To say nothing of developing nations.
nextbigfuture
· 1 year ago
The BLP generator would be twice the volume of a gasoline combustion engine, but as Brock notes you could run the thing until it wears out by replacing water at a sufficient speed.
Does that mean that you don't think that a car running off this would be feasible due to size constraints? I like the idea of running my car off this, but maybe we would have to settle with EEStor type of technology powered by ridiculously cheap electricity.
nextbigfuture
· 1 year ago
Making this thing small enough and tough enough to bounce around in a car is tougher than replacing electrical power generation. There are trillions of dollars to be made replacing utility and other power systems first. For mobile power, the next step would be ships, then trains, then buses and then cars. Of course it all has to work at all first.
JLawson
· 1 year ago
Video is up over at Blacklightpower.com on main page... kept trying to put the link in but it failed.
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One of the things that I think hasn't really sunk in regarding BLP (if it works) is that fuel costs are (essentially) zero. As I noted, you can suck water out of the air (even in Arizona or Iraq) with simple technology. Which means that once the hardware is depreciated, free energy. Not in the physics sense, but in the financial sense, and that's almost as good. I expect that big installations (like baseload power stations) will continue to have meters to pay BLP a licensing fee for each Kwh generated (and man, isn't that sweet business to be in), but for independent small generators (cars, boats, campers, off-grid power at the hunting cabin, etc.) they can't use that strategy. It'll be "buy the generator once, run forever." That changes society a great deal. To say nothing of developing nations.
MAking water from air
Humidity in the Sahara desert?
rarely exceeds 30% and is normally in the range of 4 to 5%
Humidity wikipedia
Absolute humidity table How many grams of water in a cubic meter of air.
Homepage for Dr. Peter Jansson, who was in the video. http://users.rowan.edu/~jansson/
Might be a scam - but I sure don't see where the hook is.