LENR vs Solar/Wind, and emerging Green Technologies.

That must have been an interesting dynamic between Alfred Hubbard and his father, who is described as both an engineer and a 'capitalist'. The father was as perplexed and perhaps as skeptical as others about what his son had done.

Here is an excerpt from

https://blogs.sos.wa.gov/fromo…be-true-the-hubbard-coil/

which extends the story in time and leaves me in some wonderment:

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Years later Hubbard confessed the true source of the energy for his coil. When another inventor produced a similar coil, the young scientist stepped forward and talked to The Seattle Post-Intelligencer. This is quoted from the Feb. 26, 1928 issue:

“In 1919 Hubbard represented the apparatus as being capable of extracting electrical energy directly from the air, but he admitted yesterday that this had been merely a subterfuge to protect his patent rights, and that, as a matter of fact, it had been a device for extracting electrical energy from radium, by means of a series of transformers which stepped up the rays. “

“He declined to go into detail in regard to the exact manner in which he managed to extract power from radium …”

Basically, he produced a sort of nuclear power battery. To this day the exact material he used is not known.

Hubbard’s subsequent career was one wild ride through the shadows. He sold most of the patent rights of his coil to the Radium Chemical Company. In 1929 he took out a patent for radioactive spark plugs, which were actually available on the market from Firestone in the early 1940s.

Hubbard’s path led to running booze in Seattle, which landed him an 18-month prison term. His scientific skills caught the eye of the Office of Strategic Services, and he became a government agent. He somehow became involved with gun-running which attracted the attention of Congress. In order to escape prosecution, he cooled off in Vancouver, B.C. for a few years.

In Canada he created a charter boat service and was a director for a uranium corporation. He became a millionaire but grew bored. In 1951 he discovered LSD and then dubbed himself “The Johnny Appleseed of Acid.” As would be expected, Hubbard’s exact role with any U.S. or Canadian government project is difficult to verify after 1951. When the crazy spiral stopped he was broke and living in a trailer park in Casa Grande, Arizona, definitely not a situation for him that was too good to be true. He died there Aug. 31, 1982.

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Attached is the segment from the aesopinstitute.org website titled

Please post next time when we can buy it with an national test certifacte...

Any relation to L. Ron Hubbard of the Scientologists??????

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The Radium story was apparently to please his employer and not true. There are a few articles to that effect.

The inventor of the modern version discounts any need for Radium or any nuclear component.

A new prototype is in the works and is likely to close the door on that issue.

There was also a story that his patent application was the subject of a Patent Office Secrecy Order that closed the door to his ability to discuss his invention.

Hubbard went on to be considered the father of the use of LSD.

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What is the energy source? Where is entropy increasing?

Anyone who thinks our present day energy systems are fine, and do not need to be improved, should come to Atlanta. The power has been out since 3 a.m. and it remains out for 320,000 people. See:

https://outagemap.georgiapower.com/

(My house and a dozen others on this block have power, but all around us in every direction there are no houses or streetlights lit. It is strange.)

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(My house and a dozen others on this block have power, but all around us in every direction there are no houses or streetlights lit. It is strange.)

OK Jed, time to admit that you're powering your block with LENR.

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OK Jed, time to admit that you're powering your block with LENR.

Ha!

What happened was, at 3 a.m. our block went off too. So now I am powering the house with a 2 kW clip on inverter in the Prius. Enough for the refrigerator, lights and internet. A Prius is good because the motor only comes on when needed, every half hour or so for 5 minutes. I wish I could tie into the main traction battery instead of the starter battery.

The GPC Outage Map says:

Estimated Restoration Time (ERT):
Nov 1, 2020, 11:00 PM

Customers Affected 2,239

Outage Details Extreme weather caused widespread outages. Power to most customers will be restored by the ERT shown.

That's suspiciously precise. How do they know it will be 11:00 PM and not, say, 10:14?

As I said, electricity in Atlanta is not reliable. Because of all these trees. Falling trees killed 3 people in the city and destroyed a house a block away from me.

Zeta aftermath.

The guy in that broadcast said "a rare weather event." Oh no it isn't! It happens a couple times a year. We have sometimes been out of power for days at a time.

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Would be a shame to lose them all because they caused a few fatalities.

The trees are the main cause of power outages I think. But no one is suggesting we cut them all down!

Atlanta and Chamblee are urban areas but we have so many trees it looks like a forest from above. Plus we have lots of owls and hawks these days. The hawks swoop down and grab the birds eating at our bird feeder, like lions in Serengeti watering hole.

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The guy in that broadcast said "a rare weather event." Oh no it isn't! It happens a couple times a year. We have sometimes been out of power for days at a time.

I would buy a small solar panel of a bout 2kW and a Samsung accumulator of 5 or 10 kwh.

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I would buy a small solar panel of a bout 2kW and a Samsung accumulator of 5 or 10 kwh.

A 2 kW inverter for $100 is a better choice. Much smaller, cheaper, instantly deploy-able. With a Prius it uses very little gasoline. The stuff you list here costs thousands of dollars.

2 kW goes a lot farther than it used to, with a modern 600 W fridge and LED lights. The hot water and stove are gas. The hot water heater stays on. I don't know why, because it has some sort of electric starter.

One caution: Supposedly a 2010 Prius has a 1800 W fuse for the starter battery, and if it blows you have to get a tow. So don't exceed that. I wish I had one of those Kill-a-watt meter gadgets. Anyway, I go by the rating on the equipment. No microwave or coffee pot!

They should put two 1.5 kW regular AC plugs into a Prius dashboard, as an option, attached to the traction battery.

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100 years ago Alfred Hubbard, a young friend of Nikola Tesla, invented an inexpensive generator that, had it been mass produced, could have avoided the growth of fossil fuels. He demonstrated it powering a 35hp electric boat without batteries.

A modern version of his remarkable achievement is under development and will provide power 24/7/365. This will be one of a few parallel alternatives to intermittent solar and wind.

Attached is the segment from the aesopinstitute.org website titled MOVING BEYOND OIL. Scroll down to page 8 to see 3 of the original newspaper articles about Hubbard's invention.

God at work in Maxwell.

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What is the energy source? Where is entropy increasing?

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Alan Alan Smith Administrator 

8 hours ago

sam12 Don't hold your breath.

Alan

I won’t hold my breath but I will

keep him on my watch list.

Maxwell is an interesting fellow.

If his dream comes true the story

will be off the charts.

https://www.techzim.co.zw/2020…powers-10-houses-at-once/