And there is this 'Zero Point Energy Magnetic Battery'
https://patents.justia.com/patent/20180059704
Nigel
On 15/03/2018 13:53, JonesBeene wrote:
The recent announcement from University of Texas of a far more
powerful solid-state "glass” battery technology from John Goodenough's
lab has yet to sink in for most of the scientific community. There is
evidence of a ten-fold increase in energy density between charges, so
long as there are rest periods. IOW the device seems to recharge
itself when given the time to do so.
The extreme interest in this technology is due to the reputation of
Goodenough, the inventor the Li-ion battery in several versions
including the one used by the Tesla automobile. Goodenough is still
active in the field at 94 years of age and that is another miracle in
this unfolding story about a device that seems to defy physics.
Curiously, this technology is reminiscent of EESTOR which is just down
the road and still operating (under the radar) after disappointing
dozens of VCs with millions of dollar spent and no product. Must be
something in the water down there in the Lone Star state, even though
both technologies are water free.
Similarly to that EESTOR fiasco, the reaction among the “experts” in
the battery field strong skepticism tinged with jealousy. But
Goodenough and his reputation makes things more interesting this time
around. The growing conclusion from published early data is that this
battery breaks the laws of thermodynamics and that is the most
significant aspect of story from our perspective… but in truth the
gain could be coming from ambient heat and not the chemicals in device
– which technically is more like a self-charging capacitor than a
redox battery. This sounds a bit like “water memory” in that we have
mobile molecules that want to return to a earlier state even after
giving up energy and dropping to a more stable state.
Although lithium is one of the chemicals, sodium works as well or
better so this is apparently not anything nuclear with respect to Li,
or is it? The glass electrolyte apparently contains lithium, even in
the case of sodium as the charge carrier. Nor is dense hydrogen
involved (unless it is trade secret). The one critical material
required is an alkali from Column 1, which indicates that the
manipulation of loosely bound electrons is the key. Many here on
vortex might remember back in the previous century there were
experiments and much talk about self-charging capacitors. Even data.
This not a new claim and in fact there is little doubt that there are
anomalies when you get to level of hundreds of Farads in a small area,
which is due to some kind of paradigm shit … but the conservative
opinion remains that these are measurement problems and not
thermodynamic violations.
Given everything that is unfolding, it is even likely that there will
be a fit between the extreme dielectrics of EESTOR and the glass
electrode of Goodenough. I would like to see a merger of the two.
Ultra dielectrics have not gone away.
Bottom line: Imagine the repercussions of an electric car with ten
times less battery cost than the new Tesla… or even four time less.
The market for crude oil would crash, no?
That possibility will ruffle some feathers, especially in Texas where
even students are armed. If I were John Goodenough, I would insist on
adding some guards around the Texas Materials Institute and more
security. He has a few good years left, it would seem.
The only bad news from this technology is that there will not be very
much demand for LENR if you can produce a low cost battery which
recharges itself … unless of course the recharging is itself a form of
LENR. This is not ruled out.
