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Energy revolution a week away?

post #1 of 24
10/21/11 at 4:58am
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/markgibbs/2011/10/17/hello-cheap-energy-hello-brave-new-world/

 

 

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If you’ve missed the recent brouhaha over the E-Cat (which stands for Energy Catalyzer), you’re missing out on a three ring circus over a technology that will either change everything or change nothing because what is promised is, in theory, power too cheap to be worth metering.

 

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post #2 of 24
10/21/11 at 5:08am

Incredible if real, but the cynic in me is calling bullshit on this...

 

Fuck me, if it isn't a hoax, it'll probably save the species.

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post #3 of 24
10/21/11 at 5:18am

After reading some articles on the subject I'm a bit leery at how secretive the demonstrations for this supposed game-changer are.  I'm naturally a cynic but am cautiously optimistic that there may be a kernel here to work from.  

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post #4 of 24
10/21/11 at 5:22am

Can't say that article impressed me much - more interested in ridiculously premature fantasies about a cheap energy utopia than telling us about the technology itself or how realistic the idea of such an energy revolution is.

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post #5 of 24
10/21/11 at 5:32am

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post #6 of 24
10/21/11 at 5:41am
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Yeah, it wouldn't shock me at all if this turned out to be bunk.

 

At the same time, one of my clients is a company that works a lot in green tech.  There's some amazing shit out there.  We're working with a company out of Switzerland that was working on distributing a proven tech that solves the whole carbon capture issue of clean coal (making it actually clean).  Energy industry here in the US told them to fuck off and dared them to try and introduce it.  They brought it to China instead, who's now building 4 plants around the technology.

 

 

I could go on and on about some of the stuff that already exists, but long story short = lots of cool shit available and I wouldn't put it past these folks to have figured this out.

 

I guess we'll see next Friday.

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post #7 of 24
10/21/11 at 5:48am

Probably bullshit.

 

But oh, if it works! Post scarcity society here we come!

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post #8 of 24
10/21/11 at 6:10am

These guys have stick figure Spider-men in their design drawings specifying the workings:

 

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post #9 of 24
10/21/11 at 7:59pm
I'll throw in with the "I call BS" crowd -- the diagrams don't make any sense (especially the lack of byproducts).

But, if it works, he should sell it for .... the amount of the Italian national debt!
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post #10 of 24
10/21/11 at 8:12pm

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USA! USA!

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post #11 of 24
10/22/11 at 8:59am

Um.. I hope it works?

 

Beyond that, I have nothing further to add.. except to say that if energy will be too cheap to meter, I want my incandescent light bulbs back, god damn it!! 

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post #12 of 24
10/22/11 at 10:42am

The Closer, that's a horrible story, exactly the kind of BS that oil & coal have used to maintain a stranglehold on the energy industry.  It's just baffling and confusing.  I hope this energy revolution thing is the real deal but I can see any competition to Big Energy getting snuffed out.  That's what they've done for 100 years.

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post #13 of 24
10/22/11 at 10:55am
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The Closer, that's a horrible story, exactly the kind of BS that oil & coal have used to maintain a stranglehold on the energy industry.  It's just baffling and confusing.  I hope this energy revolution thing is the real deal but I can see any competition to Big Energy getting snuffed out.  That's what they've done for 100 years.



The countless billions at stake mean that certain interests (foreign governments, private shareholders, ETC) wouldn't hesitate to engage in espionage/threats/murder to hide or destroy such a discovery. Did you see CHAIN REACTION?

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post #14 of 24
10/22/11 at 1:31pm

Keanu Reeves would save us all if we'd just let him!!!

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post #15 of 24
10/24/11 at 4:48pm
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Keanu Reeves would save us all if we'd just let him!!!



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I think your experiment just got a mind of its own!

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post #16 of 24
10/24/11 at 5:05pm

It's all true, everyone. I didn't want to say anything and ruin the surprise, but I guess the cat's out of the bag now. We're saved!! 

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post #17 of 24
10/25/11 at 8:55pm

Initial Article is kinda bleh, but there is a link in the article that i thought was interesting

 

http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2011/101411-backspin.html

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post #18 of 24
10/28/11 at 1:52pm

Initial Test is A Success; Sale Made

 

Been following this with glee, optimism and a healthy dose of 'This guy is so getting "disappeared"' conspiracy craziness. The test is quite secretive and nothing about the buyer has been released except 'big American company', but they were obviously impressed with what they saw and bought. I will not be surprised when the "corporation" is some shell of a shell of a shell of a smaller shell of Haliburton, but for now, I will eagerly await news on this as it is parceled out in the days and weeks to come. It's odd, I'm rather excited about there not being a huge press event, not up to the minute news and twitter commentary, it's quiet and, I do hope, successful. Maybe we'll mark today as...well, don't want to get ahead of myself.

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post #19 of 24
10/28/11 at 2:07pm

 

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From PESWiki: Q & A just finished; reading of results; 470 kW maintained continuously during self-sustain; customer satisfied; sale made; more later.
– SilverThunder 11:07, 28 October 2011 (PDT)

 

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post #20 of 24
10/28/11 at 2:09pm

Too good to be true. I'll buy it when I can...well, buy it.

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post #21 of 24
10/28/11 at 3:27pm


 

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If this really worked, literally our only hope is that it was purchased by APPLE. They're the only company with enough money to out bid the oil companies.. Though I wouldn't be surprised if the Syndicate (oil people all in league with each other - and the aliens*) made the purchase for the purpose of burying the tech

 

 

If you invent a method of power generation that could save the planet, and then sell it to interests that might hide it away... that's fucked up

 

Lets hope it was APPLE. Virtually anyone else, and you can believe we'll never hear about this again

 

 

 

*kidding about the aliens**

 

*?! am I ?!

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post #22 of 24
10/28/11 at 3:45pm

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Originally Posted by The Closer View Post
 There's some amazing shit out there.  We're working with a company out of Switzerland that was working on distributing a proven tech that solves the whole carbon capture issue of clean coal (making it actually clean).  Energy industry here in the US told them to fuck off and dared them to try and introduce it.  They brought it to China instead, who's now building 4 plants around the technology.

 

My dad went straight into the energy industry when he got out of the Marines, coal and coal powered plants have been as important a part of my family as the military. He constantly brings the above up and how he tried and tried to get upper management to look at the tech and give it a chance. For it he got a "promotion" which actually does pay more but it's pretty much a dead end road so he's thrown up his hands and decided to just ride it out until he retires. 

 

I'm all for cleaning up and eventually getting rid of "dirty" energy but I have a lot of family that could find themselves jobless if it happened too soon.

 

Holy fuck Kate..get a job with Apple already. 

 

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post #23 of 24
10/28/11 at 4:17pm

Kate,

 

With Jobs dead, I don't think there's a TITAN left in this world that could harness such power for good.

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post #24 of 24
10/29/11 at 4:27am

 

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"It’s October 28th in Italy and today’s the day when Andrea Rossi’s 1 MW Plant is going to be tested at his Bologna factory by consultants from an unnamed American Customer."


I think they misspelled "baloney".

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