Chet:
I followed the trail for Energetics Technologies for the fun of it. Last month they moved to the US. Perhaps that explains why their web site is down. Nonetheless, not having a web site in this day and age doesn't look good.
They are claiming excess heat through a cold fusion process. I'd say give them another five years and if nothing happens by then, forget it, it was never real.
It's worth it to read some of the comments here:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2009/04/energetics-technologies-and-other-new.htmlProbably my most important advice is to do the Google "fraud" search, I do it all the time. Search on "Energetics Technologies fraud" and see what comes up. You will find a link that digs deeper into the famous CBS Sixty Minutes report.
The bottom line is that that right now there is nothing. They cannot pass Ion's "7 watt" test at all. An impressive looking white paper .pdf file with some good looking numbers just doesn't cut it.
On a somewhat amusing note, I found a totally fake "energy research" company's web site when I was poking around looking for info on Energetics Technologies. Here is their mission statement, "Improve electricity generation, transportation efficiency and related applications by innovating fundamental improvements in the use and sources of energy." Sure baby, you love energy long time.
The company has no products, no nothing. Just a fake web site for a fake company looking for some suckers.
http://www.energeticstech.com/index.htmShifting gears over to the Pistol shrimp. From the Wilby link:
There have been many proposed explanations of this phenomena here I will only briefly discuss some of them;
* Hot spot model : this was first proposed by Putterman and the light production methods were first discussed but Roberts and Wu all of UCLA. In this model a spherical shockwave towards the centre develops that further focuses the energy. The centre of the bubble is extra heated by this shock wave hence "the hot spot". This shockwave rebounds from the centre causing further additional heating of the hot spot and it is proposed that at this point there is light emission from the plasma generated at the centre. Maximum temperatures of 10^8 K have been obtained in models of this theory.
So that's basically what I said.
However, you must not miss the fundamental point: Energy supplied by the shrimp produces a powerful sound wave in the water that may produce some cavitation. Some of the cavitation may produce sonoluminescence. There is no source of energy here at all. Instead, you are looking at how the energy supplied by the shrimp dissipates. You must absorb this fact and not create false garden paths for yourself and others that lead nowhere. It's like watching fireworks and looking at individual sparks in the explosions and speculating if they might be a source of energy. It makes no sense at all.
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