Electricity Is Overrated

I googled "electricity is overrated" and found the worst blog post ever and it even had a comment saying how good it was. Well I hope to supercede them in the search results with a better post on the same subject.

In modern society we can't even conceive of having no electricity. But in reality it's not that necessary. Wall plugs do not occur naturally in nature.

I think of Tahiti where some islands around that area still have people that speak traditional Tahitian and carry on the old ways of doing things without electricity. This is so called "Paradise" but has no electricity. The Corona beer commercials have made money off of the notion of having nothing but beer and a beach and a chair.

In parts of Alaska there is no way to get electricity except through gas powered generators. So people in self made cabins often go without electricity, and instead use oil lamps and fire for heat, and fire to cook, and rag and soapy water for shower, and wash clothes in a bucket with a plunger. One person "Dick Proenneke" enjoyed this life so much that he lived this way in Alaska for 30 years until he couldn't live there any longer due to health issues. Although almost being blown up by a bearing in the military and then deciding that living in the city wasn't worth it, probably had a part to play in his decision to move to Alaska. Also batteries don't work in Alaska because the electrolyte freezes. Therefore cars don't work and instead they use snow mobiles with a manual ignition instead of an electrical ignition.

Electricity is fun but it only serves to power electronics and appliances, and lights. But how much do we pay for this modern gift of electricity. If you think about it why is it that gas prices are going down but electricity prices are going up? Why not just buy a gas powered generator instead of paying ever increasing utilities? Money could be made here. I myself could live with buying batteries every month for a headlamp instead of paying $75/mo or more for an energy bill.

Phantom loads on your energy bill have to be considered. All modern electronics have standby mode and I'm uncertain as to how much energy they consume. What I do know is that TV's never used to need a standby mode, and DVD players without a clock should never need a standby mode either. This could be considered a conspiracy theory of why we have to pay for this extra energy without us even realizing it. But to solve this problem all you need to do is plug in these devices like the TV and DVD player to any standard surge protector and then turn of the surge protector every night. Even if it's a hassle from the so called "modern convenience" of these phantom load devices.

You'll also find that lots of the energy that the energy companies pump out is wasted energy. Because when it is not consumed it doesn't get stored anywhere and is just lost. So this makes modern energy grids inefficient.

In the end you will always have to pay for energy until we have self made energy sources like "Mr. Fusion" from back to the future. Even if the government is successful with creating a fusion reactor with the "National ignition facility", we will still always have to pay for that free energy. Even though our tax dollars payed for them to build it, we will still have to pay an energy bill on top of that even though the energy is essentially free except for maintenance. This will go on indefinitely, and even your childrens children will still be paying energy bills. All until someday we have personal energy systems, or just choose to live somewhere without electricity.

Plumbing on the other hand I don't want to give up so readily.

Antimatter

Known reactions that create antimatter: There are none yet, except for particle accelerators.
There are some theories though, and I will post them as I find them.
The best reaction would be a one step reaction. Find a material and mix it with another material in the perfect environement and it will make large quantities of antimatter. That is the ideal circumstance.
It's not very far fetched to imagine this when there are fusion reactions that transform particles into different particles, and that there are chemical endothermic reactions and exothermic reactions. Looking at the real properties of barium titanate makes you question what can and cannot be done theses days also.

One theory has to do with the material known as helium 3 that we can acquire on the moon, but if we used that for a stable fusion reaction and put lots of money into fusion research then we may well find new reactions that have byproducts which include antimatter.

The current way of making antimatter is to accelerate electrons until they collide and create a new negatively charged anti-hydrogen atom. But there may be other more efficient and predictable methods that we may find in the future that can be scaled to mass produce antimatter. As long an fusion energy works and gets funding for new nuclear physics experiments beyond fusion.

Antimatter occurs naturally in the van allen belts of earth and also at gas giants like jupiter. See: "antimatter" on wiki under "cost".And if we can somehow find a way to store the antimatter(encapsulated in neutrons) and use it, then we may have free energy if the antimatter can be reused based only on its "potential energy" which has reverse effects in the physical universe making new electrical and particle aplications and experimants possible with this new material of totally alien properties. See: "magic rectangle"

Also see my other antimatter post.
And "The final revolution is...".

Actual Hoverboard And Real Flying Car

I recently added a post to an idea submission site called "www.whynot.net", of how a Hover board may be possible using ion wind technology, follow the ion wind link for wikipedia on the subject.
The following is the post that I submitted:

I recently saw on the show Mythbusters on their "anti-gravity episode" that they used a technology called a "lifter" which was able to float in the air by means of an ionic wind(NOT Antigravity). Also I recently heard about a solid state fan that uses the same ion wind technology, and which can also outperform regular fans in weight and power. So theoretically if you were able to somehow get enough lifting energy from ion wind then you could make either a toy car that floated around on ion wind, or you could make a full sized hover board. But in fact if enough power was possible someday you may even have a rocket pack version, to get from place to place in the future. The draw backs of this technology are:(1)It may not have enough power to lift a person in a compact device.(2)It uses very high voltages(20,000V's). (3)It has a bi-product of Ozone gas from the corona discharge used to make the ion wind. Also you'd need to have DC to DC step up voltage circuit that some technical people might know, which is also in a portable unit along with the battery. But also stabilizing the platform has to be worked out, in some kind of self stabilizing arrangement of electro-aerodynamic pumping.

artZ, Sep 12 2008

Other useful info is to search solid state fan, and electro-aerodynamic pumping. I also theorize that with high enough energy you could make a full sized vehicle float a few inches above the ground.

But if you wanted the vehicle to fly it would be a different technique. If the top of the vehicle was the sharp emitter electrode and the body of the craft was the blunt collector electrode the ion wind would be forced to travel downward around the craft, or from top to bottom, creating upward lift, using the "coanda effect". Here's a link that explains the coanda effect and the theory of flight better through actual simple experimentation. But in short when air is pulled downward to travel along the surface of the craft, by the flow of ions, the equal and opposite reaction of pulling air down also pulls the body of the craft up. The actual shape of the craft is only important for horizontal aerodymanic flight and has nothing to do with lift force. So the only lift force is from the coanda effect created by the ion wind which was itself created by a very powerful DC electrical generator, inside of the craft.
The following is from wikipedia under corona discharge:

Corona discharge usually involves two asymmetric electrodes; one highly curved (such as the tip of a needle, or a small diameter wire) and one of low curvature (such as a plate, or the ground). The high curvature ensures a high potential gradient around one electrode, for the generation of a plasma.

Moving the craft side to side is a different matter though. Which I don't have a solid theory for yet. But it may use the same ion wind technology, with highly charged movable capacitors located inside the craft. Used to offset the charge on one side of the craft making the air flow alter, or reconfigure around that spot, on that side, which would make that side move forward from a change in ion wind flow around it creating a pressure differential. But no solid math that works for that theory yet.

Also the source of power needs to be large which we currently don't have the energy technology for yet other than nuclear. It may be possible to have high voltage Alternating Current also, but because of the alternation it would only have pulses of ion flow. This may be useful if it is true that at high enough frequencies(20,000hertz or above) current then cannot flow through the human body, because of the human body acting as a resistor at that high of a frequency.

But also on the problem of high energies being dangerous to humans, as long as you're suspended in the air and your body doesn't touch the ground then your body won't conduct the energy to the ground and therefor no electric shock. The power line maintenance crews know this trick, and use it all the time(See: "High voltage" under "power lines", on wiki). So always jump onto highly charged objects to not be touching the ground at the same time as you're touching the charged vehicle or object.

Also in making the craft one solid seemless peice of metal for no moving parts or chance of breaking and also for aerodynamics, you would still need some way of entry into the craft. Superfluidity to go straight through the walls of the craft would work, but has never been substantiated as a real technology yet. But suposedly high enough electrical charge mimics the same properties of a plasma(high amount of electrons) and maybe even superfluidity as well. It's just an unsubstantiated hypothesis at this point though.

I do know that at high enough voltages though you get an effect that mimics superconductivity, with very low electrical loss. Because at high voltages the electrons have high potential energy and are static charges and therefore since they are non-moving electrons they have less wire to run into and get resistance from. But then of course it may be releasing that stored energy in the form of photons from the ambient glow that high voltages naturally create. By the way that's how you light the inside of the craft, in order to never have to replace lightbulbs. I call this effect "spontaneous emission".

I used to think that high (+/-)static charges were the same as gravity and anti-gravity, because they both share so many similar characteristics, but now that I have the above verifiable theory, I no longer think that anti-gravity is involved with UFO's, and instead think that it is ion wind. But for space travel they have to use something different, which I no longer have a good theory for. Even though static electricity still shares most of the same physical properties as gravity. There's just no solid evidence or theory for anti-gravity yet. So for now it anti-gravity is still an unsubstantiated hypothesis for space flight.

The only substantiated UFO picture that I've ever heard of is the one that was on the cover of time magazine in the 50's and still cannot be disproved or disputed. It was called the mcminnville photos, so that is the design of craft that I got this theory from. Also on wiki.

The Final Revolution Is...

The only things written below that are fact, are what is written in bold lettering, and can be easily referenced on "Wikipedia".

The Antimatter revolution. Once we can create antimatter or any other source of energy just as powerful and perfect as antimatter, then we will have the ability to make any kind of material with any property that we can imagine. Transparent aluminum. Structures of any material that are harder than diamonds. Or we will be able to just pass straight through walls. Which is called super fluidity.

And with super fluidity, you can partially pass one object partially through another object and then take away the super fluidity charge, and what you are left with is a solid joint between 2 objects that is the strongest joint that you can possibly make, and all without the need for tools.

Other than super fluidity we will have super conduction at room temperature, which intern creates perpetual motion motors that never loose energy within their circuit. But they keep outpouring mechanical energy. I could prove to the world today that you can make a perpetual motion machine in the outer solar system because the extremely low temperature allow natural superconductors which could run a motor indefinitely, with net gain of energy. Ruining the patent offices stance on perpetual motion machines being impossible.

We will also have super strength materials. And also super tenacity materials.

Materials all can emit light at these high energies, the same way that lightning bolts and static electricity emit light, making it possible for walls to emit light, as long as the energy source never fails. This is instead of using conventional light fixtures that can break.

We will be able to produce artificial gravity and artificial anti-gravity, based on gravity being one and the same as static electricity. Which itself entails gravity plates, and tractor beams made of gravity fields, and gravity propulsion made out of extremely powerful capacitor banks.

We will also be able to manipulate the speed at which time flows. Because time is relative. And as Einstien explained, at high speeds(a form of energy) time slows down for the moving object, relative to the outside rate of time. And if it is possible to slow time down one way, and there are always more that one way of doing the same thing in this universe, then I theorize that other types of high energies, can also effect the rate of time. Namely by using high electric fields to effect the rate of time on a charged object. And that entails that you may be able to travel for hundreds of years in space and have it only seem like 1 year inside of the space craft. But then of course you'd arrive back at your planet and your friends would have aged 100 years against your 1 year.

For space travel you just need to distort time and space and material properties with high energy fields that never fail(as in superconductors), and then you will be able to travel through celestial objects that are in your path of travel, unscathed. Such as asteroids. This is due to your ship having the properties of a super fluid and as you approach an object you will impart your charge onto it making it a super fluid as well, as you touch it, therefore passing through it. And if that doesn't work then have an ion beam that imparts a charge onto an approaching object which would make it a super fluid. Maybe super fluidity is partly the same effect as how high voltage electricity can pass through any material also. Just off setting the atomic charge that says an atom is solid.

These are not the only technologies that will be discovered though. There are also lots of other technologies that don't use super high energies that will also be extremely useful in the future. Such as medical technology where we will be able to live indefinitely, and machining technology, and radio frequency technology, which can stall car engines, and can kill specific types of cells or infections in the body, and can send signals through any substance without attenuation, and computer/robot/artificial intelligence technology, and other unknown sciences yet to be discovered.

Also these high energies may not be easy to use on earth because of electric arcing making you loose your charge. But space is alternately the perfect place for these high energies to not dissipate and for gravity to not be an influence. And for you to make a perfectly comfortable and indefinitely lasting habitat.


The facts supporting the above theories are:

• The only thing giving substances their properties is the electron charge ratio of the atom, with less of a charge or more of a charge it can connect with other materials and with a balanced charge it is inert. But if you give the atom a high enough voltage that offsets the atomic charge, does it become a super fluid in the same way as electrons do at high voltages? And are atomic bonds just a form of partial super fluidic welding of two materials together?
  
• Electricity can be transformed into Cooling or Heating in multiple ways. Namely in thermo electric effect, compressors, electrical resistance.
  
• At high enough voltages electrons can pass through any substance easier. This is fact, the following is not. But at extremely high voltages you may get superconductivity where there is no energy loss within the wire. If this happens then you may be able to make a super conducting magnetic motor that keeps pumping out more mechanical energy than electrical energy dissipation, and the super conduction cycles the motors energy indefinitely. Which is good for perfect autonomous space travel power generation. Theoretically this is how the "alien grey's" spaceship technology works, which is a separate kind of technology than what the project Serpo aliens use.
• Antimatter has a negative electric charge, which makes it the highest stored amount of energy known. This is fact, the following is not. And if you can harness antimatter's potential energy, it can offset any of the positive charge of this universe. Which means nullifying all of the physical laws of any material to you own personal choosing. In the same way as nullifying the effects of a substances is possible by balancing their electrical charge. Like how nitrogen is inert, under the usual balanced charge circumstances.
  
• Static charge emits light.
• High gravity objects emit heat. This is fact, the following is not.This is my theory of spontaneous emission. When dense enough atomic charges, like in the center of planets are present, you get emission of infra red light particles spontaneously. Gravity may have the side effect of infra red radiation only because of the "energy density" of the center of the planet creating spontaneous emission of the infra red wavelength or higher in the same way as high energy density of static electricity emits its own light. Which would infer that all earth like planets and larger should always be volcanic forever, and smaller ones may only sometimes be volcanic from tectonic stresses alone. And it may explain why Jupiter emits heat radiation even though it doesn't emit visible light.
  
• Einsteins theory that there is time dilation when the speed of an object increases, which has since been proven by the atomic clock on a plane experiment. Cross referenced with an atomic clock on the ground.
  
• Relativity: I explained in the same that we explain freeze drying food. Under certain conditions the ice in the food does not turn into a liquid but instead turns into a gas immediately. Which is called sublimation, and only occurs at relative air pressures. This is what I find somewhat analogous to my theory of materials portraying completely new properties of any kind, under certain relatively high energy conditions.