11.10.2010
10.20.2010
FUKAI hydrogen energy from Japan
Two liters of hydrogen can be generated for each gram of aluminum, while each gram of magnesium will generate 3.3 liters of hydrogen.
This will allow the production of 1kwh of electricity at a low cost of approximately 15 yen (calculated based on the use of unused aluminum powder).
This cost can be reduced even further by using recycled aluminum cans.
The experiment in the following video shows how quickly and easily hydrogen can be generated with this technology.
Functional water allows hydrogen to be generated in large volumes.
The bonds of hydrogen molecules in functional water are easily broken, and the reaction with either aluminum or magnesium produces a large volume of hydrogen.
Functional water is produced by simply passing tap water through an apparatus that contains natural minerals.
Elaborate facilities and laboratories are not required.
Since functional water can be produced simply by passing tap water through an apparatus that contains natural minerals, there is no energy cost.
"If we use this technology in the future, we will be able to drive cars without gasoline or electricity, using only water.
Water will become an energy resource, replacing petroleum-based fuel.
We are currently researching and developing technology to generate hydrogen at zero cost.
Someday it will be possible for each household to generate its own hydrogen. The private generation of electricity using hydrogen is not an impossible dream."
The Rainbow Ensemble
Water’s Quantum Jazz
The Rainbow Ensemble
##################
How water keeps ‘most everything in the cell dancing most of the time, and
what’s the cell really like. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho
We are now ready to venture inside the cell and see how everything, the rainbow
ensemble, can do water’s quantum jazz together. We start by considering the
interaction of water with ions and proteins.
Salt out only if you must
The interaction of charged ions with water and proteins is at the heart of many
signal transduction processes in the cell. Enzymes and cofactors are highly
specific in their requirements for metal ions; while the addition of a phosphate
group to proteins and metabolites – phosphorylation - are widely involved in
activating enzyme pathways of biosynthesis and energy metabolism. What is the
origin of these ion-specific effects? At a more fundamental level, why do
different salts vary so much in solubility? And why do some salts precipitate
proteins from solution more so than others?
Numerous studies have confirmed that small ions of high charge density are
kosmotropes (order inducing) and bind water molecules strongly; while large ions
of low charge density are chaotropes (disorder inducing) and bind water
molecules weakly relative to the strength with which water molecules form
hydrogen bonds with one another (see [1] Dancing with Ions, SiS 48). Kosmotropes
tend to attract a solvation shell with more water molecules, while chaotropes
have small solvation shells with less water molecules. But that is only half the
story. The other half of the story begins with how ions interact with proteins.
Franz Hofmeister, a Czech scientist in the late 19th century, found that some
salts helped egg white proteins to dissolve in water, while others caused the
proteins to precipitate out, and there were those that had effects in between.
He ranked the ions according to their ability to “salt-out” and “salt-in”, which
resulted in the Hofmeister series. The Hofmeister series is also correlated with
the ability of the ions to induce protein unfolding, coalescence of bubbles and
many other phenomena, though there has never been a satisfactory explanation
[2].
Kim Collins at University of Maryland Medical School, Baltimore, USA, may have
found the answer [3, 4], and it is related to the ions’ affinity for water.
When pairs of oppositely charged ions have similar affinities for water,
something special happens: they come out of their solvation shells, join up and
neutralize each other. That’s because they can just as easily form intimate
partners with each other as with water molecules; exchanging water molecules for
the counter-ion does not cost anything in energetic terms. This ‘Law of Matching
Water Affinities’ appears to explain why certain salts are less soluble than
others, and why some salts precipitate proteins out of solution while others
help them dissolve. The answer is that only neutral molecules precipitate (or
crystallize) out of solution; neutral molecules have much lower solubility.
More specifically, according to Collins, a radius of 1.06 ? separates small
monovalent cations from large ones, and a radius of 1.78 ? separates small
monovalent anions from large ones. Small monovalent ions are strongly hydrated,
while large monovalent ions are weakly hydrated (see Fig. 1). For example, LiF
contains small monovalent ions that readily come out of their hydration shells
to pair up as ‘contact ion pairs’, it has a solubility of only 0.1 M. In
contrast, CsF has a large cation and a small anion, and do not pair up in
solution; it has a solubility of 24.2 M.
Figure 1 Monovalent kosmotropes & chaotropes ordered by size; the size of their
hydrated ion is in inverse order
Proteins have strong negatively charged carboxylate groups (COO-) on their side
chains that pair up well with kosmotrope cations, so Na+ salts out proteins,
while a chaotrope such as Cs+ salts them in. Similarly, Ca2+ is well-matched to
carboxylate in water affinity and will also salt out proteins.
Read the rest of this article here
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/theRainbowEnsemble.php
This is the fourth article in the series Water’s Quantum Jazz
10.14.2010
Assorted Green Tech Items For Sale
10.01.2010
Another note of wisdom from Robert...
The papers I read about dated 1934...
concerning ethanol useage...
did not discuss hydrogen in any detail.
It was a fairly new and feared gas.
It is highly doubtful they even investigated this aspect.
As with many "looking at old technology with new eyes"...
the focus is much easier.
The fact they are using different blends of ethanol and water...
to become computer controlled...
is evident with the ASME efforts...to classify these new blends.
They have a timeline of 30 years....
to allow this to be blended into mainstream.
I am pushing this much faster than they like.
They have lost control...of the timeline...they had planned.
"SWEET !!!"
Google the Boron Powered Vehicles.
This was all government funded projects...
that are now no longer funded...with tax dollars.
That surprised me...
published in 2009...
Until 4 weeks ago...I was not aware of the results.
For all the brainiacs...
These people proved...
that ethanol formulas can be used to produce hydrogen...on demand
The purity was the problem... cold starting issues.
the internal parts "had to be special built"
That is not the case at all.
The conditioning processes we developed...
eliminate the need of special parts...
by routing the electrical energy through the oil passages...
it slowly conditions the internal parts...
to withstand/negate the issues of pure hydrogen...
This eliminates several hundred patented processes...
of metalurgical expertise.
I told the investors...
about 80,000...existing patents...world wide...
would become 'antiqued'...
That does not make friends...in any industry.
With the exception of the ethanol industry.
Think about that...not one or two hundred...80,000(best guess)
I cannot ever expect...
all those patent holders to give up/yield easily.
The litigation in such matters is immeasurable...
millions and millions of dollars yearly...
Great for attornies...a dream cash cow...for them.
to pass these expenses onto the consumers.
It was stated...
that millions of dollars needed to be spent to develope this
technology...
which might be true...
the real reason that was stated...
is to provide the funds for...
arguing and debating....
how this technology affects other technologies.
"Let's make a Deal" ...
it does not need millions of dollars...
to be utilized/used...NOW.
for those that think this is a 'hobby' ...
or a farce...scam...
or otherwise...
you need to stay out of the game...
sit on the sidelines...
and wait for the results...
to be spoon fed to you.
Yupper, we, as a civilization,
are so close to hydrogen power...with ethanol...
becoming the dominant fuel...
not oil...
not stored...compressed and all those negative issues...
I am scaring the HELL out of all those involved...
they are realizing...
all the carefully placed controls...
are not going to work this time.
Best to you,
Robert W Hull
9.27.2010
Water's Quantum Jazz Cooperative and Coherent Water
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Cooperative hydrogen-bonding between molecules gives rise to energetically
favourable three-dimensional network of supramolecular clusters in liquid water
under ambient conditions, resulting in long-range dipole correlation and quantum
coherence Dr. Mae-Wan Ho
Confessions of a hydrophiliac
As a self-confessed hydrophiliac, I love nothing more than to immerse myself in
water, literally and figuratively. I have been obsessed with water’s unfolding
biopic as though my own life depends on it, and most certainly so (see [1] Two-
States Water Explains All? SiS 32, and other articles in the long running New
Age of Water series). Water is the simplest, commonest chemical compound on
earth. Yet, it has the most complex properties and baffling ‘anomalies’ compared
to its neighbours in the periodic table of chemical compounds, without which
life as we know it would be impossible. Water has remained a mystery to
generations of the best scientists who have pitched their wits (and
sophisticated instruments) at water, only to have it slip gracefully through
their fingers.
Water is perfectly transparent and has no colour, except when its fine droplets
refract sunlight into the dazzling spectrum of the rainbow. Water has no form
other than that of the containing vessel, no sound, no movement, and little
resistance; except when coaxed by the gentle breeze into smiling ripples, or
tickled into undulating waves lapping like laughter. Or else when whipped up by
hurricanes into howling surges that hurl ships into the air, or heaved by
submarine earthquakes into rumbling tsunamis that deluge shore and land.
The dramatically different, infinitely varied moods of water are the stuff of
life itself, if not also great art. Indeed, a good scientific theory needs to
capture the art, to explain the long range cohesion coalescing massive volumes
into gigantic whirlpools, and at the same time bespeaks the endless diversity in
molecular structures that makes every snowflake a unique event in the history of
the universe (see [2] Crystal Clear – Messages from Water, SiS 15).
This latest episode brings together evidence, old and new, that confirms what
many of us had suspected: water is coherent, if not quantum coherent, and it is
that which accounts for all its life-giving properties. We begin with some
basics on which almost everyone agrees.
Water loves bonding
Figure 1 The water molecule with separated positive and negative charges
The water molecule is a permanent dipole in which positive and negative charges
are separated, with the two hydrogen atoms at the positive pole and the oxygen
atom at the negative pole (see Fig.1). Like other dipoles, water molecules can
stack together in dipole interactions with alternating positive and negative
poles next to each other. It can also engage in electrostatic interactions with
charged ions and other dipoles dissolved in it.
In addition, the water molecule likes to hydrogen-bond with one another (Fig.
2), and with molecules and ions dissolved in it. A hydrogen bond consists of
hydrogen shared between two electronegative atoms such as oxygen or nitrogen.
The compound or group that donates the hydrogen is the hydrogen donor, while and
compound or group that accepts the hydrogen is the hydrogen acceptor. Water is
both hydrogen donor and acceptor; it can donate two hydrogens and its oxygen can
accept two other hydrogens. The water molecule is generally represented as a
tetrahedron with four ‘arms’ – two hydrogen donors and two hydrogen acceptors -
pointing at the vertices. This tetrahedral structure is typical of ordinary ice,
where all the water molecules are cross-linked in a crystalline, hexagonal array
(see below).
Figure 2 Hydrogen-bonded water molecules
Decades of research has resulted in a near-consensus that water at ambient
temperatures and pressures exists as a dynamic network of supramolecular
clusters where a proportion of the molecules are linked together by ‘flickering’
hydrogen bonds, similar to those in ordinary ice. It is also widely acknowledged
that the hydrogen-bonded network of liquid water accounts for most, if not all
its anomalous properties. Beyond that, there is no agreement over the exact
proportion of molecules linked by tetrahedral ice-like bonds, the precise
structure and size of the clusters, how freely the molecules can move around,
and especially whether interactions are strictly local with nearest neighbour,
or much more global in extent.
Within the past decade, substantial evidence has emerged indicating that
cooperative interactions between molecules results in remarkably long-range
coherence in liquid water under ambient conditions.
First of all, water has an unusually high dielectric constant of ~78 at room
temperature, making it the most important polar solvent in chemistry and
biology, it also means it is easily polarised by an electric field. The
dielectric constant, or relative static permittivity, is a measure of the extent
to which it concentrates electrostatic lines of flux relative to a vacuum.
Researchers led by Manu Sharma at Princeton University, New Jersey, USA, have
shown by molecular dynamics simulations from first principles that the high
dielectric constant of water is due to two effects of the hydrogen bonds
contributing in almost equal measure [3]. The hydrogen bonding serves to align
the dipoles and at the same time, pull away positive and negative charges within
a molecule, enhancing the average molecular moment.
Read the rest of this report here
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/cooperativeCoherentWater.php
Or read other reports about water here
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/SO_water.php
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6.24.2010
Explosion at California water fuel research company kills inventor
On Thursday afternoon, 28-year-old inventor, Tyson Larson was killed in an explosion that ripped a hole in the roof and blew out the back doors to a Simi Valley building of the family member's company, Realm Industries, which was seeking to develop his water fuel technology.
The explosion was likely a result of an attempt to compress hydroxy gas -- never a good idea. Also, it turns out that two associates of the company were indicted in March for "defrauding 300 investors of $7 million with ploys including a process for creating alternative fuel from water."
by Sterling D. Allan
Pure Energy Systems News
Copyright © 2010
 NBC News aerial view  photo credit: http://www.vcstar.com |
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Simi Valley, CA, USA -- Realm Industries in Ventura County, California, which is working on a water fuel technology, was rocked by an explosion Thursday at 480 E. Easy Street.
According to the Ventura County Star, authorities were told it was a water-based explosion, and that the company's work involved extracting hydrogen from water to make fuel. The company's patent applications relate to equipment and ways to generate energy from fluids such as water that can be used as an alternative fuel source.
Two people in the facility were uninjured, but one person was killed in the blast, which blew a hole in the roof. Initially, three were thought to have been injured. Authorities are calling the incident an accident.
By coincidence, the Simi Valley police SWAT team was just down the street on a training exercise when the explosion occurred and the officers were able to arrive on the scene within moments and remove the other workers.
Being told that a third person was unaccounted for, putting themselves in harms way, firefighters went in and located the body of the victim in the partially collapsed building. Fearing for a possible second explosion, and determined there was nothing that could be done for the person, they then backed out to assess what they were dealing with. As a precaution, businesses in a half-mile radius were evacuated.
A subsequent story by the Ventura County Star reported that the victim was Tyson Larson, who died from blunt force injuries, according to Ventura County Medical examiner. He and his co-workers were experimenting with a water-based alternative energy source. The 28-year-old is a family member of the company owner, Tim Larson. Tyson is listed as one of two inventors on two company patent applications.
About a dozen witnesses, family members and others gathered near the crime tape that blocked off the evacuated area Thursday afternoon. A chaplain also was on hand, the fire department reported.
Witnesses said they heard a loud boom at around 1:15 pm and saw debris flying from the building. "It [looked like it] took the roof out, the back doors were blown out," said Rod Lavender, a truck driver making a delivery nearby. "It shook the whole truck."
Another witness, Brian Westerhouse, who was asleep in his truck behind the building when the explosion jolted him awake, and saw debris flying in the air and smoke coming from the building, said it "sounded like a freight train was dropped on the building". "What are they doing in there?"
According the the Ventura County Star:
The inside of the business's concrete building looked like an earthquake had hit it, Oatman said.
Since there was no fire associated with the blast, nothing was burned, but the glass front doors and several rear roll-up doors were blown out and the majority of the roof collapsed, the captain said.
The building's walls were still up, but wood, fiberglass, ceiling tiles and a beam from the roof came down, Oatman said. Glass and debris were found about 20 feet away along Easy Street, he said.
According to Google News, as of Friday evening, over 300 news services had picked up the associated press story about the incident.
NBC News provided this raw aerial view of the scene:
Another one of the businesses occupying the complex is the Simi Valley branch of the contracting company Servpro, a national company that specializes in cleaning up water-, fire- and smoke-damaged buildings. The office manager said they had 5-10 people in the building at the time of the explosion.
A person I spoke with from that office, who wasn't at the facility at the time of the explosion, confirmed that no on from their office was injured, nor from the affected office, other than the fatality.
Firemen report that in December of 2008 a similar explosion of smaller magnitude took place at the same business.
The explosion is no surprise to New Energy Congress member, Tai Robinson, who often reminds us of the dangers of messing with Brown's Gas. He points out that the German's call it "boom gas" for a reason. When you electrolyze water into oxygen and hydrogen and keep it combined, it is in a perfect stoichiometric mixture to recombine with great force. It's actually fortunate that more people haven't been injured or killed up until now, given the number of people tinkering around with this.
Our condolences go to the family and friends of Tyson Larson.
Compressing Brown's Gas
Memo added June 20, 7:50 am
I got a call from Bob Boyce yesterday, who is one of the most well known and respected hydroxy gas researchers (Brown's gas, HHO, commonly-ducted hydrogen and oxygen from an electrolysis process).
He had heard on a forum that the thing that led to the explosion was that these researchers were attempting to store the hydroxy gas by compressing it into carbon fiber storage tanks. If so, an explosion is a certain thing, he pointed out. When the ortho hydrogen reacts with carbon (in the carbon fibers of the tank) under pressure, ignition and explosion results.
Compressing hydroxy gas is never a good idea. According to the Ventura County Star, "Greg Smith, manager of the county Environmental Health Hazmat Materials program, said Thursday's explosion was caused by a pressure vessel container that was used to heat water."
Indictment filed in New York
The Ventura County Star also pointed out the following:
The man who applied with Larson to patent the method and apparatus to create energy from water could go to trial in November on charges he bilked investors, according an indictment filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York.
William Stehl was indicted in March with co-defendant Richard Rossignol on charges of tax evasion and fraud. They are accused of defrauding 300 investors of $7 million with ploys including a process for creating alternative fuel from water, according to the indictment.
According to the indictment, Stehl and others portrayed themselves as being involved in various businesses formed "for the purpose of developing and marketing an alternative energy source ... to create energy from water in a cost-efficient manner that had no harmful effects to the environment," the indictment states. He claimed the process had many applications, from power generation to recovering precious metals, the indictment states.
Between 2001 and 2009, "Stehl and Rossignol persuaded more than 300 individuals to invest more than $6 million in Stehl's ‘ventures' to develop or utilize his alternative energy process. Stehl and Rossignol used nearly all of this money for personal and family expenditures. They used very little for businesses purposes. To date, no investors have received back their original investments or any returns on their investments as Stehl and Rossignol promised them," the indictment states.
Stehl had several different ties to Realm Industries, though the nature of his relationship to the business is unclear. Efforts to contact Larson's family on Thursday were unsuccessful.
Stehl is listed as an applicant and inventor along with Larson on a patent application filed in March 2009 that also names Realm Industries. The application describes a proposed method and apparatus to modify the bond angles of fluid molecules in order to power motor vehicles.
The indictment filed against Stehl also mentions Timothy A. Larson, who is listed as a corporate agent for Realm Catalyst, according to the California Secretary of State's business listings. Realm Industries is alternately referred to as Realm Catalyst in public documents.
Among the acts listed as part of Stehl's alleged conspiracy to defraud investors is a statement that refers to Timothy Larson. Asked by FBI and IRS investigators about the status of one of his companies, BGX Technologies, Stehl "falsely answered, in substance" that the contracts were in default and West Tech, owned by Timothy A. Larson, was purchasing BGX for $10 million, of which $7 million would go to investors, according to the indictment.
The indictment does not allege any wrongdoing on the part of Timothy Larson.
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SOURCES:
Phone interview with representative from Servpro
http://www.kansascity.com/2010/06/17/2025313/blast-injures-3-in-calf-industrial.html
http://firegeezer.com/2010/06/18/fatal-explosion-in-california/
http://www.vcstar.com/news/2010/jun/17/1-killed-2-injured-in-explosion-in-Simi-Valley-ind/ - includes video
http://www.vcstar.com/news/2010/jun/18/authorities-identify-man-killed-in-simi-valley/
Patent Applications
20090090312 - Alternative Fuel Engine - An apparatus and method for converting fluid molecules from a liquid state into a vapor state wherein the fluid has unnatural bond angles. The apparatus comprises a resistor-capacitor (RC) circuit, a chamber to contain the RC circuit and the fluid and a power source to provide power to the RC circuit. The RC circuit comprises an anode, a cathode and a plurality of substantially parallel electrically conductive plates. Current through the RC circuit generates a frequency that modifies the bond angles of molecules in a vapor state. Ignition of these molecules with unnatural bond angles reverts the molecules back to normal bond angles with a release of energy that can be utilized in many different applications without the release of toxic or noxious gases, greenhouse gases or any interaction with the atmosphere or the consumption of any atmospheric oxygen. For example, the molecules with unnatural bond angles may be used in engines to power a motorized vehicle.
20090092540 - Method and apparatus of modifying bond angles of molecules - An apparatus and method for converting fluid molecules from a liquid state into a vapor state wherein the fluid has unnatural bond angles. The apparatus comprises a resistor-capacitor (RC) circuit, a chamber to contain the RC circuit and the fluid and a power source to ...
Comments
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Dangers of Research
On June 18, 2010, New Energy Congress member, Ken Rasmussen wrote:
BP is not the only organization to put profit motive ahead of safety. Thank God the company at least was located in an industrial area. Sadly, the reality is most electrolysis inventors work in garages and basements, exposing family, friends and homes to this very same hazard.
I have been on this tirade for several years now. And prospective investors just don't get it, and probably still won't, even after this tragic death. R&D is expensive and EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. And not just with hydrogen. ANY form of energy, when pushed to its theoretical limits, if you stop and think a moment, has never been controlled at that level. Many of us flippantly use the term "Zero-Point" as if it is a free toy for only the elite like us to play with. The few of us who have seen it not tapped, but merely "grazed" know we may be dealing with energy beyond what BP got themselves into trouble with.
Could a zero budget inventor, in a basement or garage have any idea what to do when the gates of the unknown suddenly burst open? Even a meager budget, enough to rent commercial space and get out of the house is not enough to handle such a surprise. Someone at Realm Industries thought they could handle it. Obviously not.
Hydrogen still might be accessible cheaply from water. But until the safety aspect is solved, and always handled properly, it is just as tragic small inventors have to be the ones to suffer a fatality, while big buck corporations, who have all the resources to establish a safe R&D facility with safely skilled personnel, would rather blow billions chasing faster profits than to pursue a fuel than would make crude oil, and its dirty acquisition, totally obsolete.
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Brown's Gas can be stored:
On June 20, 2010 7:31 PM, New Energy Congress member, Leslie Pastor wrote:
BG is dangerous when you treat it like any other gas............
I am a member of a private group that has learned how to use BG, and how to store it effectively. It is proprietary knowledge and I cannot divulge the methodology we use. But it can be stored under the appropriate methodology.
I keep telling everyone that the solution is Physics and not engineering. The first thing one needs to know is that BG dislikes heat.
The second thing one should know, is that BG is not a normal state. And always remember, that the transitional state is probably the most dangerous state.
BG wants to re-convert into water and re-normalize.
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Carbon Fiber explanation hokey; bond angles
On June 21, 2010 12:39 PM, F Buckley Lofton wrote:
Interesting development. Of course thousands of people have died from explosions related to gasoline, etc., so one or two deaths or injuries over several years is a huge news item?
The issue over the compressor cylinder as being carbon fiber is hokey....most compressor bottles have an aluminum or steel (alloy) bladder and are wrapped with CF. The misinformation on this issue is important. Better reporting is needed.
PS - If folks would read the attached paper [.xls], you'll get the facts (on Forces) that the Bond Angles will change momentarily - prior - to separation/fracture but that the other Covalent Bond forces are too strong for that significant effect or stabilized equilibrium - to change. The ionization of the Oxygen atom reduces Covalent Bond force to the Hydrogen (additional electron overhead) and due to position, 40% less energy is actually required to fracture than Bond Energies indicate.
(Pay attention to spin - there is para and ortho oxygen too.)
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On June 22, 2010 1:28 PM, F Buckley Lofton added:
Aloha, and my sincerest condolences to Tyson's family...he's a hero in book. Include that. I am crying...
'O wau iho no me ke aloha,
F. Buckley Lofton, Kailua-Kona, HI
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Acknowledgement:
Thanks to Brian Hastings for bringing this incident to our awareness.
See also
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Explosion at California water fuel research company kills inventor
On Thursday afternoon, 28-year-old inventor, Tyson Larson was killed in an explosion that ripped a hole in the roof and blew out the back doors to a Simi Valley building of the family member's company, Realm Industries, which was seeking to develop his water fuel technology.
The explosion was likely a result of an attempt to compress hydroxy gas -- never a good idea. Also, it turns out that two associates of the company were indicted in March for "defrauding 300 investors of $7 million with ploys including a process for creating alternative fuel from water."
by Sterling D. Allan
Pure Energy Systems News
Copyright © 2010
NBC News aerial view photo credit: http://www.vcstar.com |
|
Simi Valley, CA, USA -- Realm Industries in Ventura County, California, which is working on a water fuel technology, was rocked by an explosion Thursday at 480 E. Easy Street.
According to the Ventura County Star, authorities were told it was a water-based explosion, and that the company's work involved extracting hydrogen from water to make fuel. The company's patent applications relate to equipment and ways to generate energy from fluids such as water that can be used as an alternative fuel source.
Two people in the facility were uninjured, but one person was killed in the blast, which blew a hole in the roof. Initially, three were thought to have been injured. Authorities are calling the incident an accident.
By coincidence, the Simi Valley police SWAT team was just down the street on a training exercise when the explosion occurred and the officers were able to arrive on the scene within moments and remove the other workers.
Being told that a third person was unaccounted for, putting themselves in harms way, firefighters went in and located the body of the victim in the partially collapsed building. Fearing for a possible second explosion, and determined there was nothing that could be done for the person, they then backed out to assess what they were dealing with. As a precaution, businesses in a half-mile radius were evacuated.
A subsequent story by the Ventura County Star reported that the victim was Tyson Larson, who died from blunt force injuries, according to Ventura County Medical examiner. He and his co-workers were experimenting with a water-based alternative energy source. The 28-year-old is a family member of the company owner, Tim Larson. Tyson is listed as one of two inventors on two company patent applications.
About a dozen witnesses, family members and others gathered near the crime tape that blocked off the evacuated area Thursday afternoon. A chaplain also was on hand, the fire department reported.
Witnesses said they heard a loud boom at around 1:15 pm and saw debris flying from the building. "It [looked like it] took the roof out, the back doors were blown out," said Rod Lavender, a truck driver making a delivery nearby. "It shook the whole truck."
Another witness, Brian Westerhouse, who was asleep in his truck behind the building when the explosion jolted him awake, and saw debris flying in the air and smoke coming from the building, said it "sounded like a freight train was dropped on the building". "What are they doing in there?"
According the the Ventura County Star:
The inside of the business's concrete building looked like an earthquake had hit it, Oatman said.
Since there was no fire associated with the blast, nothing was burned, but the glass front doors and several rear roll-up doors were blown out and the majority of the roof collapsed, the captain said.
The building's walls were still up, but wood, fiberglass, ceiling tiles and a beam from the roof came down, Oatman said. Glass and debris were found about 20 feet away along Easy Street, he said.
According to Google News, as of Friday evening, over 300 news services had picked up the associated press story about the incident.
NBC News provided this raw aerial view of the scene:
Another one of the businesses occupying the complex is the Simi Valley branch of the contracting company Servpro, a national company that specializes in cleaning up water-, fire- and smoke-damaged buildings. The office manager said they had 5-10 people in the building at the time of the explosion.
A person I spoke with from that office, who wasn't at the facility at the time of the explosion, confirmed that no on from their office was injured, nor from the affected office, other than the fatality.
Firemen report that in December of 2008 a similar explosion of smaller magnitude took place at the same business.
The explosion is no surprise to New Energy Congress member, Tai Robinson, who often reminds us of the dangers of messing with Brown's Gas. He points out that the German's call it "boom gas" for a reason. When you electrolyze water into oxygen and hydrogen and keep it combined, it is in a perfect stoichiometric mixture to recombine with great force. It's actually fortunate that more people haven't been injured or killed up until now, given the number of people tinkering around with this.
Our condolences go to the family and friends of Tyson Larson.
Compressing Brown's Gas
Memo added June 20, 7:50 am
I got a call from Bob Boyce yesterday, who is one of the most well known and respected hydroxy gas researchers (Brown's gas, HHO, commonly-ducted hydrogen and oxygen from an electrolysis process).
He had heard on a forum that the thing that led to the explosion was that these researchers were attempting to store the hydroxy gas by compressing it into carbon fiber storage tanks. If so, an explosion is a certain thing, he pointed out. When the ortho hydrogen reacts with carbon (in the carbon fibers of the tank) under pressure, ignition and explosion results.
Compressing hydroxy gas is never a good idea. According to the Ventura County Star, "Greg Smith, manager of the county Environmental Health Hazmat Materials program, said Thursday's explosion was caused by a pressure vessel container that was used to heat water."
Indictment filed in New York
The Ventura County Star also pointed out the following:
The man who applied with Larson to patent the method and apparatus to create energy from water could go to trial in November on charges he bilked investors, according an indictment filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York.
William Stehl was indicted in March with co-defendant Richard Rossignol on charges of tax evasion and fraud. They are accused of defrauding 300 investors of $7 million with ploys including a process for creating alternative fuel from water, according to the indictment.
According to the indictment, Stehl and others portrayed themselves as being involved in various businesses formed "for the purpose of developing and marketing an alternative energy source ... to create energy from water in a cost-efficient manner that had no harmful effects to the environment," the indictment states. He claimed the process had many applications, from power generation to recovering precious metals, the indictment states.
Between 2001 and 2009, "Stehl and Rossignol persuaded more than 300 individuals to invest more than $6 million in Stehl's ‘ventures' to develop or utilize his alternative energy process. Stehl and Rossignol used nearly all of this money for personal and family expenditures. They used very little for businesses purposes. To date, no investors have received back their original investments or any returns on their investments as Stehl and Rossignol promised them," the indictment states.
Stehl had several different ties to Realm Industries, though the nature of his relationship to the business is unclear. Efforts to contact Larson's family on Thursday were unsuccessful.
Stehl is listed as an applicant and inventor along with Larson on a patent application filed in March 2009 that also names Realm Industries. The application describes a proposed method and apparatus to modify the bond angles of fluid molecules in order to power motor vehicles.
The indictment filed against Stehl also mentions Timothy A. Larson, who is listed as a corporate agent for Realm Catalyst, according to the California Secretary of State's business listings. Realm Industries is alternately referred to as Realm Catalyst in public documents.
Among the acts listed as part of Stehl's alleged conspiracy to defraud investors is a statement that refers to Timothy Larson. Asked by FBI and IRS investigators about the status of one of his companies, BGX Technologies, Stehl "falsely answered, in substance" that the contracts were in default and West Tech, owned by Timothy A. Larson, was purchasing BGX for $10 million, of which $7 million would go to investors, according to the indictment.
The indictment does not allege any wrongdoing on the part of Timothy Larson.
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SOURCES:
Phone interview with representative from Servpro
http://www.kansascity.com/2010/06/17/2025313/blast-injures-3-in-calf-industrial.html
http://firegeezer.com/2010/06/18/fatal-explosion-in-california/
http://www.vcstar.com/news/2010/jun/17/1-killed-2-injured-in-explosion-in-Simi-Valley-ind/ - includes video
http://www.vcstar.com/news/2010/jun/18/authorities-identify-man-killed-in-simi-valley/
Patent Applications
20090090312 - Alternative Fuel Engine - An apparatus and method for converting fluid molecules from a liquid state into a vapor state wherein the fluid has unnatural bond angles. The apparatus comprises a resistor-capacitor (RC) circuit, a chamber to contain the RC circuit and the fluid and a power source to provide power to the RC circuit. The RC circuit comprises an anode, a cathode and a plurality of substantially parallel electrically conductive plates. Current through the RC circuit generates a frequency that modifies the bond angles of molecules in a vapor state. Ignition of these molecules with unnatural bond angles reverts the molecules back to normal bond angles with a release of energy that can be utilized in many different applications without the release of toxic or noxious gases, greenhouse gases or any interaction with the atmosphere or the consumption of any atmospheric oxygen. For example, the molecules with unnatural bond angles may be used in engines to power a motorized vehicle.
20090092540 - Method and apparatus of modifying bond angles of molecules - An apparatus and method for converting fluid molecules from a liquid state into a vapor state wherein the fluid has unnatural bond angles. The apparatus comprises a resistor-capacitor (RC) circuit, a chamber to contain the RC circuit and the fluid and a power source to ...
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Dangers of Research
On June 18, 2010, New Energy Congress member, Ken Rasmussen wrote:
BP is not the only organization to put profit motive ahead of safety. Thank God the company at least was located in an industrial area. Sadly, the reality is most electrolysis inventors work in garages and basements, exposing family, friends and homes to this very same hazard.
I have been on this tirade for several years now. And prospective investors just don't get it, and probably still won't, even after this tragic death. R&D is expensive and EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. And not just with hydrogen. ANY form of energy, when pushed to its theoretical limits, if you stop and think a moment, has never been controlled at that level. Many of us flippantly use the term "Zero-Point" as if it is a free toy for only the elite like us to play with. The few of us who have seen it not tapped, but merely "grazed" know we may be dealing with energy beyond what BP got themselves into trouble with.
Could a zero budget inventor, in a basement or garage have any idea what to do when the gates of the unknown suddenly burst open? Even a meager budget, enough to rent commercial space and get out of the house is not enough to handle such a surprise. Someone at Realm Industries thought they could handle it. Obviously not.
Hydrogen still might be accessible cheaply from water. But until the safety aspect is solved, and always handled properly, it is just as tragic small inventors have to be the ones to suffer a fatality, while big buck corporations, who have all the resources to establish a safe R&D facility with safely skilled personnel, would rather blow billions chasing faster profits than to pursue a fuel than would make crude oil, and its dirty acquisition, totally obsolete.
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Brown's Gas can be stored:
On June 20, 2010 7:31 PM, New Energy Congress member, Leslie Pastor wrote:
BG is dangerous when you treat it like any other gas............
I am a member of a private group that has learned how to use BG, and how to store it effectively. It is proprietary knowledge and I cannot divulge the methodology we use. But it can be stored under the appropriate methodology.
I keep telling everyone that the solution is Physics and not engineering. The first thing one needs to know is that BG dislikes heat.
The second thing one should know, is that BG is not a normal state. And always remember, that the transitional state is probably the most dangerous state.
BG wants to re-convert into water and re-normalize.
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Carbon Fiber explanation hokey; bond angles
On June 21, 2010 12:39 PM, F Buckley Lofton wrote:
Interesting development. Of course thousands of people have died from explosions related to gasoline, etc., so one or two deaths or injuries over several years is a huge news item?
The issue over the compressor cylinder as being carbon fiber is hokey....most compressor bottles have an aluminum or steel (alloy) bladder and are wrapped with CF. The misinformation on this issue is important. Better reporting is needed.
PS - If folks would read the attached paper [.xls], you'll get the facts (on Forces) that the Bond Angles will change momentarily - prior - to separation/fracture but that the other Covalent Bond forces are too strong for that significant effect or stabilized equilibrium - to change. The ionization of the Oxygen atom reduces Covalent Bond force to the Hydrogen (additional electron overhead) and due to position, 40% less energy is actually required to fracture than Bond Energies indicate.
(Pay attention to spin - there is para and ortho oxygen too.)
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On June 22, 2010 1:28 PM, F Buckley Lofton added:
Aloha, and my sincerest condolences to Tyson's family...he's a hero in book. Include that. I am crying...
'O wau iho no me ke aloha,
F. Buckley Lofton, Kailua-Kona, HI
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Acknowledgement:
Thanks to Brian Hastings for bringing this incident to our awareness.
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More Messages in Water
The Spirit of Ma'at interviews Dr. Masaru Emoto
You mentioned in your book how you would type out words on a piece of paper and paste these written words onto a bottle, and see how the water reacted to the words -- what kind of crystals were formed from the words. From your research, are you able to discern whether the reaction of the water came from the vibration of the actual words that were pasted onto the bottles, or whether the intention of the person who was pasting the words onto the bottle influenced the experiment in any way?
REIKO: Have you found that distance made any difference when people were praying over water? For example, if people in Japan were to pray over water in Russia, would this be different from people praying over water that is right in front of them?
REIKO: If we could imbue water with the energy of various words, for example, with the word, "health", could we then use the water that has that vibration in it and use it to do things like grow food, water plants, etc?| Achieve greater hydration, better nutrient intake and toxin elimination. Read about the Precious Prills andADR water structuring devices that have received such high praise. |
So words actually convert the vibrations of nature into sound. And each language is different. Japanese has its own set of vibrations that differs from American. Nature in America is different from nature in Japan. An American cedar is different from a Japanese cedar, so the vibrations coming from these words are different. In this way, nothing else holds the same vibrations as the word arigato. In Japanese, arigato means "thank you." But even when there is this mutual underlying meaning, arigato and thank you create different crystalline structures. Every word in every language is unique and exists only in that language.
DR. EMOTO: Yes. There is a special combination that seems to be perfect for this, which is love plus the combination of thanks and appreciation reflected in the English word gratitude. Just one of these is not enough. Love needs to be based in gratitude, and gratitude needs to be based in love. These two words together create the most important vibration. And it is even more important that we understand the value of these words. For example, we know that water is described as H2O. If we were to look at love and gratitude as a pair, gratitude is the H and love is the O. Water is the basis that not only supports but also allows the existence of life. In my understanding of the concept of yin and yang, in the same way that there is one O and two Hs, we also need one part yang/love to two parts yin/gratitude, in order to come to a place of balance in the equation.
Similarly, when a person dies their body loses several grams of weight -- what some people think of this as the weight of the soul. But then we can often visually see them. I think that the soul has mass, and that it returns to water molecules. And because it has mass, it is affected by the gravitational pull of the earth. And so sometimes the soul cannot transition over to the other side.
By receiving beautiful thoughts and feelings and words and music, our ancestral spirits get lighter and are now able to make the transition "home." When we consider this, we can see the importance of traditions like Obon [a Japanese summer tradition where ancestral spirits are invited back to spend time with the family, and the ancestors are taken care of and respected].Simple Schematic for Scooters/ Motor Bikes
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