[NewCandle] New stuff for new year?

[Keith Nagel]

Hey Kyle,

Perhaps you could do a little writeup ( or just link ) to
the source material of Browns? I'm familar with his work,
but I've never attempted to replicate any of it. I have
worked with Barium titanate as a dielectric, although
at the time I was stymied by the lack of a good furnace
to fire the material. I have now the room and tools to
make that so, and perhaps I'll do a bit more work with
it as I build some new custom furnaces. On an unrelated
note, I built a test jig to illuminate samples of silver
nitrate for testing dendritic growth. Perhaps by next
week I'll have a writeup. For today, it's the ordinary
type of gardening ( a great pleasure for this erstwhile
NY'er ). As it turns out, I have a green thumb, and the
results of last years garden are still feeding us
( oh those dried tomatos and figs! ).

What you are describing below sounds an awful lot like
what Hutchison is doing with his solid state batteries.
Although most think John is insane; I do think he has
something to contribute and is sincere in his efforts.
Here's a link to the battery, and some of Johns unique
and remarkable madness.

http://guns.connect.fi/innoplaza/energy/story/John/

I asked about the coffee because a lot of your symptoms
sound like what I experience from stimulant overdosing.
I used to drink coffee quite a bit; some of my rantier
posts on Vo. were definitely fueled by the same. My body
type is similar to yours ( but I'm taller ) and frankly
we just aren't built for stimulants. There are other things
that work better and are well tolerated, look around.

K.

-----Original Message-----
From: newcandle-bounces at ipdiscover.com
[mailto:newcandle-bounces at ipdiscover.com]On Behalf Of Kyle R. Mcallister
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 2:13 PM
To: New energy for the new world.
Subject: Re: [NewCandle] New stuff for new year?


Keith Nagel wrote:
> Hi Kyle,
>
> How do you intend to extract power from an electret? You can
> move it w/ respect to a capacitor, but this is the analog
> of an ordinary generator ( pm and coil ) so the result will
> be power derived from the mechanical energy.

I don't know. I don't even know if this _is_ an electret. I assume it
must be, or something similar, but the general gist of Brown's (limited)
documentation is that some electric current can be extracted. I have no
idea how or why it works, or even if it does...probably doesn't, but few
seem to have tried it.

> I did a very little bit of work with electrets; at the time
> I was inspired by a nice little column of CL Strongs. I looked
> for it in my files this morning, no dice, but fortunately
> the 'tubez have luv 4 U.
>
>
http://only1egg-productions.org/AltSci/ElectrostaticMotors/Electrets/Electre
> t.html
>
> You might try the common plastic polypropylene. Not sure
> if the barium titanate will help you, as the stuff does
> not melt. Ammonium nitrate is dangerous to work with, it
> can be melted but can also explode and in addition produces
> nitrous oxide (great fun, but might exacerbate your vertigo).

I used to make rocket fuel with ammonium nitrate, magnesium dust, and
HTPB binder. Yes, I am somewhat crazy. But I don't do that any more,
even though I never got hurt doing it.

As far as I understand, and much of this is guesswork, the active
ingredient (litharge, ammonium nitrate, tungsten carbide, etcetera) is
not ever melted. Just bound in something else which melts or hardens,
while the field is applied. I guess this isn't really an electret, then,
but some other animal. Like I said, probably it doesn't work, but it
should be easy to test it.

> On a personal note; Buffalo in winter is basically the
> American version of Siberia. Have you considered moving
> elsewhere? You sound more acclimated to equatorial climates.
> Also, do you drink coffee?
>

Yeah, the high today was 2F. As far as moving...that's a complicated
story. Many ties of a personal nature keeping me here, plus I sort of
ran away from some things back home. I like the warmth better, but high
temperatures negatively affect me as well.
I drink coffee every few days, I suppose. Not every single day, nor more
than once per day. Is there a benefit?

--Kyle

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