ADDENDA One or two further (and critical) pieces of information, in an evolving hypothesis which is now looking for a adoptive home...
... and which might be able to suggest the possibility (if it becomes bolstered with more reliable anecdotal proof in the form of a working device) that "cavitation" (sonoluminescence) can become a source of energy input for the recapture of the input pumping energy, in a liquid-based recirculating turbine device. This would essentially be taking the Griggs-type pump to the next level - of recapturing the putative excess heat via an optimized impulse turbine which is mechanically linked. There are still some old-Vo cavitation messages on the net: http://amasci.com/weird/vortex.txt Now - to take this further: Here is a primer on the "ramjet": http://www.alt-accel.com/ramjet2.htm The ramjet can be seen in electrical metaphor as a both diode and negative resistor. It takes in air at one end and expels accelerated air at the other end. It is inefficient at low airspeed, but becomes efficient at high speed. Sonoluminescence could arguable act the "fuel" which makes it all happen in a liquid situation where the acceleration of mass exceeds the input. It goes without saying that cavitation (in the form of sonoluminescence) has thus far never been shown to be gainful, except possibly in the case of excess heat from this types of pump -- even though the photon emission is much higher than can be accounted for by mainstream physics. There are flashes of 20,000 F. degree UV light which are routinely seen- but that is on the far end of a Maxwellian distribution. Statistically? so far: cavitation has not been proved to be gainful. That is to be expected, since AFAIK - no one has heretofore tried very hard to imagine the possibilities of using small gain (COP= ~1.5) along with efficient pumping an turbines (90%). With a highly efficient pump matched with a highly efficient turbine the ~20% net loss could self-power with a COP in the range which has been claimed. On top of that, if hydrino formation should ever be shown to be a relevant factor in cavitation and/or sonoluminescence, then it can probably be maximized by the expedient of adding argon (or other BLB catalyst). if acceleration of the mass of water is additive, due That is: the UV small gain and the ram jet effect together with optimal in-out recirculation ? quien sabe, but probably worth the effort to pursue? It may be no coincidence that argon has been associated with a number of energy and light emission anomalies going back to Hannes Alfven. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannes_Alfven Although these various hints of gainfulness have been tossed around for a long time, the results have never been combined and optimized into a single unit, AFAIK. Jones
