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Originally posted by The Truth2006
If iran starts charging a hundred bucks a barrel, wouldnt it spur the us to look elsewhere for other fuels anyway which would up the research for another source of fuel by like a 1,00,000%? If im wrong someone please correct me.
Originally posted by Liquid Swords1
Please do not attack me and doubt my understanding of quantum physics when you do not even know me,
especially when it is you who does not know the correct definition of zero-point energy.
If you do not believe me then you can do some research on the subject in something other than some psuedoscience paper.
Considering that 50-100 years is within/about one lifetime i would consider it a short amount of time.
It may or may not be a problem for me, but i certainly don't want it to have to be a problem for my children.
I am not suggesting that we completely stop our use of oil because it is likely that oil, merely that it would be a good idea to to invest time and money into research for oil alternatives so that it can be gradually phased out.
Originally posted by Liquid Swords1
Oh yes, I forgot you can know every one of a person's scientific beliefs by talking to them on an internet forum for a few days.
By Psuedoscience i mean that which is HIGHlY unlikely based on our current understand of quantum mechanical systems.
Until it can be proven there is no one you can say it is true, maybe slightly possible, but how you can insist that it is true without having seen it work or heard of a demonstation just doesn't make sense.
It's ok if you wan't to have your beliefs that it works (doesn't mean it does), but your insistance that it is true without acknowledging that the opposition could be correct sounds more like you HOPE it works, so you have convinced yourself that it does.
Also, there are many things that could or will be a problem for my children, I cannot solve them all, so i can only do my part. By that i mean by I could buy a car that can run off ethanol or a hybrid and not wasting electricity and talking to people about these issues.
Why is it that everyone says that big oil companies would not allow it to happen?
There would still need to be companies that manufacture, produce, and/or distribute these new energy sources, correct?
Originally posted by Liquid Swords1
Cold fusion I would agree with you is possibly a viable option for energy generation in the future, although i do not know quiet enough about it to make a for sure statement on it one way or the other.
Many scientists are having renewed interest in cold fusion and are starting to realize that they may have been wrong in their intial judgements of it. Even the US Navy has said that it does exist and that it has potential.
I wonder why if zero point energy can be "tapped" as you say it can it has not had similar interest surrounding it?
I am not one who is close minded to new ideas, but I refuse to believe something that is not possible. Zero point energy is the lowest amount of energy that a quantum mechanical system can have, you cannot take this energy away from the system, it just can't happen.
Originally posted by Liquid Swords1
Who is repressing this information if it truly is the answer to all energy problems?
Is it the government as you suggest? What proof do you have that the government is preventing this information from being well known?
If you have none, then this theory assumes much and proves nothing.
What does this "free energy" theory assume then?
The article written by Thomas Bearden is rather long and I have things to do.
You offered to explain the paper and I'd like you to do so or summarize it in some way if you don't mind.
Originally posted by StellarX
Look for Bearden's paper and see if the theoretical aspect of it makes sense to you. If it does not please get back to me and i will explain as best i can why it's perfectly 'good' science.
Originally posted by Liquid Swords1
Your theory still assumes a lot and if you don't have any specific interest in explaining it to me then i have no specific reason to believe it
You did actually offer to explain it:
Of the limited free time i have right now, reading that paper is not number 1 on my list of things I want to do. Not because I don't think it's important for everyone to have free energy, but because if I wanted to read every article/paper out there that claims to solve the energy problem I would be reading for the rest of my life.
Originally posted by Liquid Swords1
Actually I am quiet willing to learn about your so called free energy device otherwise I wouldn't even be bother asking.
I see no reason why you would assume that you would explain it to me after I had read the entire article. The paper may contain all the necessary arguements for a free energy device, but it also contains a lot of other unnecessary information which makes up it's bulk.
You can think it's a "appeal to emotion" if you want to, but the truth is I do not have much time and I have need to explain why.
Originally posted by StellarX
If you want to keep posting and asking questions i will respond but i am not going to just spend hours to condense the information a true expert in the field already did his best to. The paper i pointed you to is a presentation and thus represents all the elements a convincing arguments requires if it is to be made at all.
Stellar
Originally posted by Liquid Swords1
I don't understand what you are trying to do by attacking my knowledge when it was you who told me that the paper contained all the necessary points for an arguement to be made.
I also said that the paper in question was rather long, which I thought would imply that I had at least looked at the paper a bit (which I had).
If you had read the entire paper you would notice that 90% of it has nothing to do with this vacuum energy device.
It was obvious that you do not intend to explain the paper as you had said you would do so I went ahead and read the parts of the article that pertained to vacuum energy.
Have you bothered to even look up the information the paper cites?
The article seems to imply that much of the phyiscs the device is based on is accepted in quantum physics and that it just has been implemented by electrical enginers.
The theory that electrical devices operate on vacuum energy IS NOT widely accepted as the article seems to imply.
Where is the proof of such a theory?
Have you searched for how well Bearden's project has been going?
I'll save you the time, it has so far completely failed.
All of the put into the projet has gone no where, he admits to not even having a working prototype.
Actually, he says he had one but then it was destroyed: www.cheniere.org... .
He also remarks that if these vacuum energy powered devices aren't being mass produced by early 2004 we will be past "the point of no return" and spiraling towards nuclear armagedon which will occur within a decade.
As I'm sure you already know, 2004 already came and went so if we are to believe him we might as well not even try this vacuum energy device since we are surely doomed.
The few points I have made are a small fraction of the problems with Bearden's "theory". Bearden is no expert (and you saying this just shows how little you actually know about the subject),
Dr. Thomas Bearden (Lieutenant Colonel U.S. Army - Retired) is presently the President and Chief Executive Officer, CTEC, Inc., a Fellow Emeritus of Alpha Foundation's Institute of Advanced Study (AIAS) and a Director of the Association of Distinguished American Scientists (ADAS). He has a Science PhD, a MS in Nuclear Engineering, BS in Mathematics, with minor in Electronic Engineering as well as a graduate of C&GSC, U.S. Army and graduate of the U.S. Army Guided Missile Staff Officer's Course (equivalent to MS in Aerospace Engineering). He also has graduate courses in statistics, electromagnetics and numerous missile, radar, electronic warfare, and counter-countermeasures courses. He had twenty years of active service in the U.S. Army. His field Artillery, Patriot, Hawk, Hercules, Nike Ajax, and technical research experience was followed by nineteen years of technical research in re-entry vehicles and heat shielding, computer systems, C4I, wargame analysis, simulation and analysis, EW, ARM countermeasures, and strategy and tactics. He has spent more than 20 years personal research in foundations of electrodynamics and open EM systems far from thermodynamic equilibrium with the active environment, as well as novel effects of longitudinal EM waves on living systems and founded the beginning of a legitimate theory of permissible COP>1.0 electrical power systems. He is the author or co-author of approximately 200 papers and books and has been connected with four successful COP>1.0 laboratory prototype EM power systems. He is one of the world’s leading theorists dealing with the hard physics of over-unity energy systems and scalar weapons technology.
he doesn't have the Phd that he claims and he makes numerous absurd claims on his website and in his paper.
I urge you to read these two links as they list some of these numerous problems that I have not:
www.phact.org...
www.phact.org...
Bearden does believe that Russia shot down both of the space shuttles,
that he unified physics,
that he has already proven anti-gravity to exist (if you didn't know, general relativity says that doesn't),
and that electromagnetism is a longitudal wave.
All of these claims can be validated by just doing some looking around on his own website.
While I believe that Bearden had good intentions it is obvious that as it just isn't possible.
As I said earlier, we must continue to pursue alternative sources of energy
which are in the realm of possiblity.
Originally posted by vicarious
What do you guys think about drilling in Alaska?
“As observed over the last few years and as projected well into the future, the most critical factor facing the refining industry on the West Coast is the surplus refining capacity, and the surplus gasoline production capacity. The same situation exists for the entire U.S. refining industry. Supply significantly exceeds demand year-round. This results in very poor refinery margins, and very poor refinery financial results. Significant events need to occur to assistin reducing supplies and/or increasing the demand for gasoline.”
Internal Texaco document, March 7, 1996
“A senior energy analyst at the recent API (American Petroleum Institute) convention
warned that if the U.S. petroleum industry doesn’t reduce its refining capacity, it will never see any substantial increase in refining margins…However, refining utilization has been rising, sustaining high levels of operations, thereby keeping prices low.”
Internal Chevron document, November 30, 1995
wyden.senate.gov...
I remember a long time ago in 6th grade our class had to write a letter to a senator. I never got a reply, so go figure.
I chose the topic about ANWR, that Alaskan wildlife refuge deal and wether to drill in it or not. I wrote against the drilling because of the nature part and i had not yet come upon economy and politics yet. But now i believe it would be a good idea. I do realize that if it was started now it would be something like 15 years before any useful amount of oil would be availabe.
This is the part that has to do with the $200 a barrel part. The US i feel is becoming dependent on countries for oil, or at least that is the jist i am getting accustomed to.
Originally posted by Liquid Swords1
Where is this proof that you say is all around me?
Tell me how do one test that vacuum energy is what powers gives batteries and generators energy?
You actually believe him that he had a working prototype and it was destroyed even though there is no evidence of this?
Large amounts of money that have been dumped into this project and he has NOTHING to show for it, where is the point where we say that he was wrong?
Despite what Bearden (and you) suggests it is NOT widely accepted by most scientists.
He claims this numerous times but fails to provide a link to a website from which he obtained this evidence. I doubt it's due to the their lack of willingness to accept new ideas, most of the time scientists are hesitant to accept a theory as fact when it has no testable evidence.
I have doubts that you have not even read the entire articles. How is it that they are "STUPID" as you say? It offers large evidence that Bearden really has no idea what he is talking about.
Can you show me a few instances where the website I listed gives false information?
Even if we ignore Bearden's other theories, show me information that says that the math used by Bearden is correct and the websites wrong.
I should have said that General Relativity does not allow anti-gravity without the existance of negative mass, which has never been detected.
The sources you use do not prove the existence of anti-gravity, they simply say that Boeing (and a few others) are researching into it for it's potential use in aircrafts. Perhaps you are aware of NASA's now cancelled project which researched into the possibility of some sort of "warp drive" ala star trek.
Again, the true definition of a warp drive, an "engine" which allows a ship's occupants to travel beyond the speed of light, is said, for the most part, not to be possible in a universe which is restricted by General Relativity (the user of a wormhole is not actually traveling faster than light, wormholes also would allow for time travel which would lead numerous paradoxes).
NASA was simply looking for a way to transverse large distances within small amounts of time, which is exactly what Boeing is doing. I am confident that Boeing's project will end similarly to NASA's
No where in any of the articles is it explained how this anti-gravity comes about. Reality is that which is possible, I have looked and I have not found. There is nothing to find, Bearden has nothing to show.