The worlds biggest mobile concrete pumping machines are on their way to Fukushima. It looks like they have decided to smother the facility with concrete now. It’s good to know that the machines were built in Germany and will be delivered by Russian airplanes.

However we still have over 10 days to wait before they will be operational and then their is the issue of getting enough hardened nuclear proof concrete to cover the facility and surrounding area.

That also doesn’t solve the issue of the fuel going critical or burning through the bottom of the containment chambers. It will be interesting to see what they come up with as a plan for dealing with that issue. We have some suggestions for that problem here.

The operator of the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan has purchased two truck-mounted concrete pumps from U.S. construction firms and is modifying them to pump water to cool the facility’s damaged reactors.

The Putzmeister 70Z pumps are the largest in the world, and there are only three in existence. They have a 230-foot articulating boon that can be controlled remotely from more than a mile away. It weighs 95 tons and has a list price of over $1.5 million.

The Putzmeister 70Z will be used to help cool down damaged Fukushima reactors in Japan.
To get the pumps to Japan, they will be loaded onto the world’s largest jet plane, the Antonov An-225, of which there are only two in existence. Produced in Russia some 20 years ago, the planes have six engines each and a 290-foot wingspan — nearly the length of a football field — and can carry up to 200 tons, according to company that built the monster plane.

Afterwards the pumps will likely be scrapped due to radiation exposure.

Tags: corporations, disaster, Engine, machine, nuclear, transport by Sparky
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Someone clever decided to put a camera on top of the water crane next to Reactor 4. This is the result…

Tags: Components, disaster, Engine, environment, Fuel, nuclear by Sparky
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Given that we are fast approaching the end of accessible energy positive fossil fuels and that there is a significant problem with existing infrastructure to make up the energy deficit there is one quick solution that no one seems to be actually discussing in earnest.

With the recent events in the Middle East, Egypt in particular, it seems prudent to take on the thorny subject of nuclear powered vehicles being used as power stations for the major cities of the world. We already know that it is possible to track nuclear powered vehicles from their radioactive emissions of neutrinos even from one side of the globe to the other with the correct equipment and physics knowledge. That effectively means that all nuclear powered subs are naked when it comes to stealth purposes. Everyone has got their pants down, no one is more stealthy than anyone else.

So, given that there is no stealth and the energy needs to the major metropolises are much more of a security issue than the possibility of a “surprise military attack” doesn’t it make sense for all those vehicles to be docked and connected to the grid?

In one foul swoop we rid the world of the extremely dangerous and careless potential of a massive environmental disaster due to one of those vehicles suddenly expiring while at sea, we reign in the military weapons that they use to hold the world to ransom and we make efficient use of all the nuclear power that is now being wasted on pointless war games and in the process secure the energy supply of the major metropolises of the world thereby ensuring that the transition away from fossil fuel is as painless as possible.

With all this talk about “orderly” transition with clearly defined objectives in the political process why not actually take the same advice and apply it to the energy crisis. The time for talk and posturing is over. If the Military have any self respect and care for their fellow humans and the world we live in then they should be prepared to make this sacrifice by giving up their toys for the betterment of humanity.

What say you Navy boys and girls? Are you marines up to the task of securing the energy supply of the world or are you unable to open your minds and see a future society where weapons of mass destruction are not a constant threat to humankind but instead provide the power we need to get to through the next 200 years?

The ball, as they say, is firmly in your court…

Tags: e=mc2, Energy Storage, Engine, Fuel, nuclear, oil, unrest by Sparky
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The blest plastic reformer machine which converts waste plastic to fuel oil requires more energy from the electric power source than it creates once the plastic has been converted to fuel oil. This is a pity as it means that converting plastic to fuel is an energy negative process and as most of the energy to do the conversion will come from coal sources or fossil fuel power supplies that makes it fairly pointless to use in a non renewable infrastructure. At which point there may be other less energy intensive uses for the plastic waste.

However we still have a very big problem with waste plastic in the worlds oceans. It would make environmental sense to have the a few big cruise ships and such like collecting the waste plastic as they travel and converting it on board as an addition to their fuel supply. The big ships can burn very low grade fuel down to wet coal dust (coal slurry) so low grade fuel oil attained from converting waste plastic dredged from the ocean is not a problem for those big engines.

The benefits from this will be an effective attempt at cleaning up the plastic waste that is already in the ocean and the costs will be relatively minor as those ships have massive redundancy and can certainly afford a few kilowatts of electricity to be channeled into an onboard processing station. The water is already in abundant supply as they are on the ocean and already have the heat to create steam for a constant supply of distilled fresh water to use as the base of the fuel. In addition the bulk of the plastic has already been conveniently sized into tiny pieces which will increase the efficiency of the convertor. Not to mention that they would be able to recycle all of their onboard plastic waste and further increase their green credentials.

Effectively by taking a cruise you could be contributing to the cleaning and greening of the ocean.

Now that would be a nice bonus to get the global elite contributing without having to drastically change their lifestyle.

Tags: Engine, Fuel, oil, recycle by Sparky
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What constitutes an ocean?

On earth it will have water in liquid form. On Titan it is methane in liquid form. It is generally accepted that liquid is the basic building block for life. Combined with a heat source and some other base elements we have the ingredients to get physical objects growing and the process of evolution can begin.

The Hubble space telescope has captured many beautiful images of deep space. Many of the most amazing are the various Nebulas. Floating clouds of gas as big as several galaxies and much much much bigger than our own solar system.

This image is a mosaic of the Carina Nebula assembled from 48 frames taken with Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys. The Hubble images were taken in the light of ionized hydrogen. Colour information was added with data taken at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. Red corresponds to sulfur, green to hydrogen, and blue to oxygen emission.

Now the obvious logical next step is what happens when you have a vast floating cloud of gases whose constituent parts are hydrogen, oxygen, sulfer that are enveloping and contributing to the raging inferno of star birth? We have all heard about the habitable zone or so called “sweet spot” that earth and planets like Gliese 581 c inhabit. How about the possibility that we don’t even need a planet. What if all we need is the right combination of gases with liquid density in the sweet spot.

The mind boggles with the possibility that life really is abundant throughout the universe. After all if we can’t even count how much life there is in the ocean here on Earth then we are surely going to have some trouble with cataloging the abundant life in oceans the size of 5 solar systems feeding off the energy of multiple suns.

Tags: Aliens, e=mc2, Energy Storage, Engine, Fuel, Fundamentals by Sparky
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This has been known about since 1967 but still has not made it to market. Purdue University Professor Jerry Woodal has found a way to use Aluminium and Gallium to split water. No electricity needed!!! Well, except for the energy required to extract the metals from the earth and form them into the composite in the first place… Jerry is most excited about the possibility of using it as a fuel multiplier so in conjunction with a plasma spark plug or plasma fuel reformer the hydrogen could be used to increase the efficiency of the gasoline used in hybrid or standard ICE cars. What’s the delay?

View the lectures below.

THE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF ALUMINUM-GALLIUM ALLOYS AS A MATERIAL FOR ENERGY STORAGE, TRANSPORT AND SPLITTING WATER

THE ALUMINUM ENABLING HYDROGEN FUEL ECONOMY

From 2007 lecture

2,7lbs of Al will produce the same amount of energy in the form of hydrogen as 1lb of gasoline. i.e 19K BTU

It takes 20 gal x 6.5 lbs/gal = 130 lbs gasoline to drive an average car for 350 mi or 350 lbs Al

At $3/gal for gasoline and $0.8/lb for Al the trip costs $60 using gasoline and $280 using Al

If an Al recycler is built next to a nuclear power plant with and on-site power cost of $0.02/KW-hour Al can be recycled from alumina back to Al for 9 kW/hr/lb x 350lbs x $0.02/kW-hr = $63

The cost of 2.7 lbs would be about 49 cents

At $3/gallon, 1lb of gasoline costs 46 cents

Tags: Engine, Fuel, Fundamentals by Sparky
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Here’s an interesting little promo for a book from Hypnow.fr chronicling water engines over the past century. Worth a read for anyone who doubts the long term research that has been suppressed or otherwise delayed from getting to market.

Tags: Chronology, Engine, Fuel by Sparky
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Here’s a lost Revizal video showing him running his generator on an 80:20 water:gasoline mix using the plasma spark and the Geet system. Recall that Robert Krupa also claimed upto 80:20 ratio for the Krupa sparkplug too.

When is this tech going to make it to market? Surely the remaining oil is worth more to us as a long term resource and we should conserve as much of it as possible now that it is running out since we passed the worldwide peak in 2003/4. What makes the oil companies think it is a good idea to use it all up as fast as possible? Is it just greedy shareholders that demand they make as much money as possible as quickly as possible? If that is the case why is it publicly acceptable for this to happen let alone legally possible.

Where is the governmental oversight? They can print money as much as they want but they can’t make new oil to replace the dwindling reserves. Surely it is in everyones interests for the oil reserves to last as long as possible than it is to consume it all as quickly as possible?

Tags: Circuits, Engine, Fuel by Sparky
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What ever happened to the Arvin Meritor Plasma Fuel reformer? It was billed as the revolution to help meet 2010 emission standards. Now it seem to be almost completely shelved if you look around the internet.

Press Release 2004

This product has all the promise of the plasma spark plug but with the backing of a large well respected automotive parts manufacturer and MIT science too boot.

Initial development of a Plasma Fuel Reformer required as much as 2,000 watts of electrical energy to operate. A measure of the progress is that today’s unit uses an average of less than 100 watts. Full production systems are likely to be even lower. Early systems took many seconds to produce hydrogen from cold exhaust, an important disadvantage in real-world use, as emissions are highest at this time. The latest versions are running in less than a second. And the first prototypes only produced hydrogen at just one flow rate. Today’s prototypes manage transient or varying flow demands equally well.

Almost the same principal as the plasma spark plug concept really. Strange that this hasn’t made it to market yet. You would think people would be very interested in having it on board to cut emissions and save on consumption.

The Plasma Fuel Reformer stems from work done by and licensed from MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center . Seven years in development, the Plasma Fuel Reformer — or Plasmatron as MIT called it — could have an enormous impact on emissions and fuel efficiency. From MIT in 2003:

The team is finding that the device could make vehicles cleaner and more efficient, with a potentially significant impact on oil consumption.

“If widespread use of plasmatron hydrogen-enhanced gasoline engines could eventually increase the average efficiency of cars and other light-duty vehicles by 20 percent, the amount of gasoline that could be saved would be around 25 billion gallons a year,” [Daniel] Cohn [one of the leaders of the team and head of the Plasma Technology Division at MIT’s PSFC] said. “That corresponds to around 70 percent of the oil that is currently imported by the United States from the Middle East.”

The Bush administration has made development of a hydrogen-powered vehicle a priority, [John] Heywood [John Heywood, director of MIT’s Sloan Automotive Lab] noted. “That’s an important goal, as it could lead to more efficient, cleaner vehicles, but is it the only way to get there? Engines using plasmatron reformer technology could have a comparable impact, but in a much shorter time frame,” he said.

The work was funded by the Department of Energy’s FreedomCAR and Vehicle Technologies Program and by ArvinMeritor.

MIT PRESS RELEASE – from 2003!!!

The researchers and colleagues from industry report that the plasmatron, used with an exhaust treatment catalyst on a diesel engine bus, removed up to 90 percent of nitrogen oxides (NOx) from the bus’s emissions. Nitrogen oxides are the primary components of smog.

The plasmatron reformer also cut in half the amount of fuel needed for the removal process. “The absorption catalyst approach under consideration for diesel exhaust NOx removal requires additional fuel to work,” explained Daniel R. Cohn, one of the leaders of the team and head of the Plasma Technology Division at MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC). “The plasmatron reformer reduced that amount of fuel by a factor of two compared to a system without the plasmatron.”

Tags: Components, e=mc2, Engine, Fuel by Sparky
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Over the past few months there have been many great steps forward. There are now a couple of people building replication Krupa plugs and distributing them to the other experimenters for testing.  Without even using the plasma circuit there was a reported 6% fuel efficiency increase over 1051 miles of driving.

Several people have also been testing fuel/water vaporizers. In combination with the new spark plugs we are starting to get somewhere that the large companies in the auto industry have been unable to or unwilling to pursue.

There is also a report from gmeast of massive improvements in the timing mechanism. He is actually running at 5 deg retarded …

I set the timing to 0 deg TDC and it was better and then 5 deg retarded and it feels great there. – gmeast

New PCB’s have been designed specifically for the circuit and distributed to various experimenters.

There is a new video from Ash at panacea.org outlining developments.

How ever it appears that there are now semi commercial interests in the name of Aquapulser involved in making the circuits for sale which appear to have taken a lot of their lead from all the hard work done by people at the energetic forums particularly gmeast’s defining work.

Gmeast after all his hard work on the vexus circuit switched to using the firestorm replicas and concentrating on the water vapor/geet principals. With a standard ignition and timer and beryllium-copper plugs he is seeing 40.5 mpg compared to 25mpg in his VW bug. There is also very little wear on the plugs after serious road testing which was a major problem with the vexus and standard plugs. The best he got with the Vexus was 35mpg. There is little reason to combine the vexus and the firestorm replicas together is that there is no increase in efficiency as the firestorms are capable or producing the plasma required on a standard circuit.

He was working with only water vapor and was getting the results that everyone expected.

Unfortunately due to the economic environment Greg has had to close shop and sell all his equipment in order to survive.

Tags: Chronology, Circuits, Components, Engine, Fuel, Fundamentals by Sparky
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