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Re: Blacklight Power Providing Info and Assistance in Understanding their Work

Brock — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:24:21 -0000

Interesting. Some people are poo-pooing Rowan University, but this guy has his B.S. from MIT and Ph.D. from Cambridge, so clearly he's not a moron.

Re: Blacklight Power Providing Info and Assistance in Understanding their Work

JLawson — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 03:21:43 -0000

Video is up over at Blacklightpower.com on main page... kept trying to put the link in but it failed.

Homepage for Dr. Peter Jansson, who was in the video. http://users.rowan.edu/~jan...

Might be a scam - but I sure don't see where the hook is.

Re: Blacklight Power Providing Info and Assistance in Understanding their Work

nextbigfuture — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:15:08 -0000

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.

Re: Blacklight Power Providing Info and Assistance in Understanding their Work

enantiomer2000 — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:59:30 -0000

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.

Re: Blacklight Power Providing Info and Assistance in Understanding their Work

nextbigfuture — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:37:07 -0000

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.

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.

Re: Blacklight Power Providing Info and Assistance in Understanding their Work

Brock — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:51:42 -0000

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.

Re: Blacklight Power Providing Info and Assistance in Understanding their Work

enantiomer2000 — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:10:49 -0000

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?