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| File Name : POTAPOV1.ASC | Online Date : 07/12/95 |
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The following file provides information relating to a remarkable Russian
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heating device that uses a vortex and cavitation to produce heat in sufficient
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quantities to heat buildings and homes. Associated .GIF images are
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POTAPOV1.GIV and POTAPOV2.GIF. This text file combined with the 1&2 .GIFs is
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available bundled as POTAPOV1.ZIP.
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This article was written by Christopher P. Tinsley and published in the new
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journal called 'Infinite Energy'. Gene Mallove, ex-editor of 'Cold Fusion'
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magazine, is the editor and the publication is simply excellent. If you want
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This article is from Volume 1, No.2, May/June 1995, pages 33-37
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Water Fuel Device Conquers the Marketplace!
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by Christopher P. Tinsley, Nottingham, UK
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Perhaps the oldest of military regulations is "Never Volunteer." It was my
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disregard for this wise and ancient rule which led to my arrival in late May
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(without a visa) at Kishinev, the fair capital of the former Soviet Republic
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of Moldova.
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Fortunately, I was in the company of that gentleman, scholar, linquist and
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distinguished scientist, Dr. Peter Gluck of Cluj in Romania. It was he
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(clearly believing - maybe rightly - that I was some naive and innocent
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Westerner) who had met me at Bucharest's Otapeni Airport, and accompanied me
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on what might best be described as an 'interesting' journey by train.
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One of the interesting things about the journey from Bucharest to Kishinev is
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the length of time it takes. Another is the removal of each carriage in turn
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from its bogies, and its placement on a different set of bogies - ones
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designed to fit the different separation of Russian rails. Fortunately, this
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naive Westerner had taken the precaution of providing himself with a large bag
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of peanuts and raisins, so we did at least have something to eat while being
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harangued by officials who did not seem to care that Intourist in London had
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told me that visas were obtainable at the border. The letter of introduction
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which I had asked Dr. Arthur C. Clarke to write also prove its value at this
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point.
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But what, you might ask, was your humble scribe doing in Moldava with a
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distinguished Romanian scientist, no visa, a bag of peanuts, and a letter of
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introduction from Arthur Clarke?
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Preceded by many rumors, reports at ICCF5 had formally confirmed the existence
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of a micro-cavitation water heater being sold commercially in the CIS.
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Independent reports from Moscow stated quite clearly that the machines were
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over-unity - they produced far more heat energy than they consume in
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electricity. Peter Gluck had visited the offices and factories of the VIZOR
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company in Kishinev, had reported back that there was indeed a thriving
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company manufacturing these devices; and had himself conducted preliminary
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tests which showed the over-unity effect. The purpose of our journey was,
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therefore, to purchase some of the machines, and obtain documentary evidence
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of their commercial success and over-unity performance. Somebody had to do
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it, and I volunteered. For all its minor discomforts and difficulties, this
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became the most extraordinary trip that this "Wandering Goy" has ever made -
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so far.
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For, make no mistake about it, the machines are real. The commercial success
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is real too. Without the generosity of Dr. Clarke, the journey would have
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been at the very least delayed. Arthur Clarke has frequently made the future
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by defining it in advance, but on this occasion he may well also have speeded
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into reality - in his own lifetime - something which he had suggested in a
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novel as a possible energy source of the far future. This is not at all
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certain, but, for reasons I'll explain, I lean strongly towards that idea.
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Despite Peter's report, I didn't know what to expect to see at VIZOR. I
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certainly didn't know what to expect of Kishinev either. Bucharest hadn't
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been much of a surprise, because it has featured so much on television in
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recent years. But, irritating as it probably is to the Moldovans, a few
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Westerners are even quite sure where it is. It is a small country lying to
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the northwest of Romania, and Kishinev is a pleasant and obviously thriving
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city. It may be that - as it seems - the old Soviet bureaucracy still exists
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there, but there is an air of energy and purpose to the place.
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The head of VIZOR and the scientist who is the inventor of the machines we had
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come to see, Dr. Yuri Semionovitch Potapov, gave Peter and I a full day of his
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time. Or as much of it as he could, he spent quite a lot of it trying to fend
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off customers who wanted more and more of his units. Fans of the series Monty
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Python's Flying Circus will recall the regular appearance on the show of the
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Spanish Inquisition in their robes. By contrast, we had a group of Orthodox
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clergy, who told us at length of the great savings they had found with the
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Potapov heating machines. One of these, a local parish priest, had tried to
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do a calorimetric study to find out just what was happening. The vagaries of
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the Moldovan electricity supply had defeated his efforts, but hadn't dampened
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his enthusiasm for the cost savings he'd had over the winter. Dr. Potapov
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agredd to install a larger machine in a nearby monastery, so that not only the
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water but the monk's cells could be heated.
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Further, he decided that he could install it at no cost to the monks. In fact
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we found out during the day - mostly from Dr. Potapov's enthusiastic staff -
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that he provides significant sponsorship to many Moldovan cultural and
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artistic people. He was also completely happy that all our discussions were
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made under the watchful eyes of the 8mm video and 35mm SLR camera I had
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brought with me. I had complete freedom to film and photograph anything
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whatsoever. So I did, and the resulting record has been seen with
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astonishment and enthusiasm by quite a number of people.
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I declined to perform the calorimetric tests which were offered. The only
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installation which was available at the time was the heating system for an
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experimental workshop in the Institute for Applied Physics, and it just
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wasn't practical to make satisfactory measurements. I could have done so, if
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I had been prepared to accept the figures for water volume and power
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consumption; and perhaps in a full day it would have been possible to get some
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kind of crude figures for static calorimetry. This failure should have
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dampened my enthusiasm, but it didn't.
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The real reasons for my enthusiasm are - apart from the personality of Dr.
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Potapov - the obvious commercial success of the company, and the unarguable
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volume of production of the heating machines. At one point I filmed two
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hundred of the middle-sized YUSMAR units awaiting shipment, and large numbers
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of the very large YUSMAR 5-M and 4-M machines, which are suitable for heating
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hotels or factories. (The name "YusMar" comes from Yu S (Potapov) with the
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'mar' coming from the name of the Moldovan opera singer Maria Biesu). I
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understand that some customers buy only the basic unit, which is quite small;
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but most seemed to be sold complete with the pump and electric motor which
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drive the fluid through the unit itself. The motor is the sole source of
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power to the YUSMAR device.
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It might be pointed out that none of these things suggest an over-unity
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machine. That is quite funny to anybody who has spent much time in
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manufacturing industry. If anybody is having trouble with this piece of
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elementary logic, the answer to the riddle is at the end of this article.
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Heretical as it may be to suggest this, there "are" other means than the
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purely scientific for the assessment of reality.
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But what is happening inside a YUSMAR? The way Dr. Potapov tells it, it's
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quite simple. A vortex is established in the liquid in the tube. The
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velocity gradient within the liquid is so great that cavitation occurs - not
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between the liquid and the tube walls, but between adjacent layers of liquid.
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This is of course reminiscent of the Griggs Hydrosonic machine, but in that
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device the cavitation is induced by shear between metal and liquid, not
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between layers of liquid.
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Both the YUSMAR and the Hydrosonic device produce excess energy. The YUSMAR
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seems to be the more effective and simpler of the two, with tests being done
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in Belarus which suggest Coefficients of Performance (COP) of as high as 10.
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That is, ten times as much heat being produced as energy taken by the motor.
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The various independent test results do show a rather alarming variation in
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COP. A closer look shows that this appears to result largely from different
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parameters of use. The performance of the machine depends critically on a
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number of variable factors - liquid viscosity, flow rate, and the like. It is
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hoped that the tests due to start shortly in the USA will provide a proper set
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of performance curves to show how these parameters change the COP.
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It is well-known that "no experimental results can be accepted without
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theoretical confirmation." That is true within science, but - happily - not
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within the world of commerce. Even so, we must ask what is the source of the
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energy. No energy source other than chemical or nuclear energy is accepted by
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conventional science as being applicable to a machine of this kind. Chemical
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energy could not supply such power for any length of time, which leaves
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nuclear power - mass-energy conversion. Prof. Lev Sapogin of Moscow has
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proposed a most interesting theory to explain the YUSMAR machine, but his idea
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is for mass-energy conversion which is unrelated to conventional nuclear
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energy. What is certainly true is that unless there is a transformation of a
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stable nuclear species to another stable one, with no nuclear radiation
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emitted, then the energy does not have a nuclear source as we understand it.
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Thorough searches have been done for X-rays, gammas and neutrons, with nothing
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found. Admittedly, some lower energy particles might fail to penetrate the
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thin wall of the YUSMAR machine. But it is difficult to see how they could
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even be occurring with no effect on the machine or the water which flows
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through it. Raising of the natural level of deuterium in the water by a
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factor of ten appears to have no effect. The machines work just as well with
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the addition of ethylene glycol, they work with oil - they can even be made
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from food-grade stainless steel and used for pasteurising milk.
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What, then, is the source of the energy? Professor Sapogin's theory - that
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matter is being converted into energy by other than conventional nuclear means
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requires more understanding than I am able to bring to it. For nuclear energy
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to be released under these sorts of conditions - seems wildly improbable. The
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remaining notion is that the energy of the 'quantum vacuum' or Zero Point
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Energy is being tapped in some way. The appeal of the last idea is that there
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is at least a pre-existing theory for such a mechanism; even if its
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application in this case seems more than a little obscure.
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One thing is worth considering, even if only as a synthesis. The 'micro-
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fusion' machine of E-Quest operates by ultrasound-induced micro-cavitation.
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The Griggs machine and its predecessor use it too. The phenomenon of
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sonoluminscence occurs in micro-cavitation and, to judge by the article
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"Bubbles Hotter than the Sun" [New Scientist, April 29, 1995], not a very
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great deal is understood about the physics of these tiny bubbles. Another
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thought is that the destructive effects of cavitation have presented engineers
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with difficulties for decades, but perhaps there has been an opportunity
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hidden in the problem - and the attempts to suppress the problem have caused
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the opportunity to be missed.
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And the answer to the little riddle? How do we know a machine is over-unity
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without testing it? The answer is simple enough. It a machine sells widely
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as an electrically-driven water heater, in countries which are struggling to
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recover from a massive economic collapse, and satisfied customers keep coming
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back for more - then you have a mystery to solve. If the machines cost many,
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many times more than an immersion heater (which is by its nature virtually
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100% efficient, and is presumably more reliable than the YUSMAR pump-and-
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motor-and vortex tube) - then you have a mystery which is soluble only by
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accepting that marketing forces operate just as well in the Commonwealth of
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Independent States as they do everywhere else. Doubtless our Gentle Editor
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will be fascinated to hear any alternative suggestions.
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Infinite Energy will keep you informed on the status of calorimetric
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testing of the "Yusmar" devices of Dr. Yuri Potapov. These tests will
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be occurring this summer in both the US and in the UK. Don't miss our
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continuing coverage of this apparently remarkable turning pint in the
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'cold fusion' and new energy saga.....> The Editors of Infinite Energy
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Vanguard Notes
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This appears to be an astounding breakthroughs, not only because it uses
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practical vortex/cavitation/Hilsch tube technology, but it is admirable in how
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the inventors approached marketing the unit. They took one of 'get-off-your-
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butt', build it and SELL IT to those who can use it approach. Dr. Potapov
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and his group are to be highly commended for DOING SOMETHING, rather than
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sitting around talking about it or worrying about patents and other contracts
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that rarely come to manufacturing/marketing.
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FIRST TO MARKET WORKS!
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If the machine doesn't work, IT WON'T SELL and will collapse of its own
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failure. These guys KNEW they had a working device and just started selling
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it, not worrying about peer review, analysis by academia or anybody's
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endorsement.
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At our recent Roundtable meeting, this was THE hot topic, with correlations
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ranging from Schauberger's Vortex principles to the Hilsch tube that separates
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high volume air flows into hot and cold air streams. What a thought, using
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high velocity WATER or other fluids with a Hilsch tube?
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In a recent discussion with Bill Beaty, who runs an excellent alternative
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science page on Internet (http://www.eskimo.com/~billb) as well as a Vortex
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conference that stays on the cutting edge of Hydrosonic technology, he said
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that Scott Little had recently finished the first Over-unity test of a YUSMAR
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and these first tests did NOT appear to produce over-unity effects.
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However, there are two differences from the actual machines, one is a suction
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pipe at the bottom of the vortex and another is what appears to be a Hilsch
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separator in the inlet. Another test will be carried out soon with the
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modifications. We hope to have reports on these tests from Scott as well as
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other information on this major advance in PRACTICAL devices.
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One other point Bill brought up, a potential of 10KV develops in the tube when
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the YUSMAR is in operation and a blue glow appears around the device. This is
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reminescent of the high voltage halo that appears around high pressure water
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cutting equipment as well as a characteristic of Schauberger style vortex
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units.
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William Baumgartner used to demonstrate an experiment called the 'Wasser-
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Fadden' (water-thread). It required a high velocity stream of water >90PSI
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passing through a needle size hole and streaming into a bucket coated on the
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inside with wax to make it non-conductive. As the water streams out, it is
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ripped apart on a molecular level, releasing this molecular bonding energy to
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create a high voltage charge accumulation. The production of electricity from
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rapid water separation was researched in the 1800's by a Dr. Lenard. As the
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water flows, a glowing, levitating halo of water mist will form around the
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orifice.
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At any rate, the YUSMAR is creating a lot of excitement, not only in Russia
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but in the States. Various US companies are looking into the device and
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carrying out tests to determine actual efficiency and optimum operating
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parameters. See FRENETTE.ASC for correlating information.
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