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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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 Posted - 10/07/2007 : 04:54:41
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The only problems with this wonderful device are that it doesn't exist as a working product, and Michael McDonnough (the antigravity "inventor") is using the notion of its existence as a ploy to get investors' money. Otherwise, it's one fine battery.
"American Antigravity." A company name that inspires trust.
If there's a picture, it must be real, right?
One picture can be worth a million dollars to scammers.
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Edited by - HalfMooner on 10/07/2007 05:46:19
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 10/07/2007 : 08:24:35 [Permalink]
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Do any of you physics or engineering types have a comment about what follows? It seems McDonnough has no end of bizarre fraudulent "inventions" he is promoting. From antigravity to the betavoltaic battery of the OP, to what appears to be cold fusion, below.
From a post by Michael McDonnough: Re: Cold Energy from Radiation > BetaVoltaic.com (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Saturday, June 19, 2004 @ 00:29:24 PDT
Michael M. posted a comment on yahoo JLN labs forum Sep 02, 2003.
Here it is:
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I want to make it clear to all the related groups at yahoo free-
energy that we do not consider the PlasmaVolt device to be in any way
a free energy device or system. It is not in fact not producing free
energy.
It is a fusion device along the same vein as IEC (Inertial
Electrostatic Confinement) fusion in fact. It has key advantages over
IEC fusion in that it has a energetic plasma in a form that lends
itself to direct inductive coupling of the rotational plasma vortex.
It has the further advantage of a vortex of considerable size and
gauss strength that it can cause excitation in an inductive coil.
The PlasmaVolt also will manufacture for us several valuable isotope
products as a by-product of its operation. Only a small amount of the
total output energy can be considered to be a result of stimulated
beta-decay of the K-40 isotope that it transmutes from other lighter
elements from the solid fuel anode. Most of the energy created by the
device in operation is due to these low energy fusion events.
These fusion events can be observed on the anode side of the vortex
tube as well as in the plasma vortex between the anode and cathode.
The oscilloscope in the background of the animation shows flashes of
fusion clearly coinciding with major fluctuation shown on the scope.
That is about all I can say for now. It should be ready for market in
about 8 months to a year. At this point it is just cranking out K-40
isotope for us in large quantity and high isotopic purity at a very
reasonable cost per gram. If you look at NASA pictures of plasma
vortexes within star nurseries or nebulae you will see this type of
elemental transmutation giving off a great deal of energy.
The device is not a free energy device. Fusion fuel is consumed from
the solid fuel anode element. Hydrogen is created and so is K-40.
This is fusion energy in a form that is workable and will likely be
very affordable once we have recouped the development cost. It is
operating at overunity only in that more energy is output from the
device than is put in. That does not include the stored energy of the
solid fuel anode element.
It will last a very long time before needing to be refueled. In fact
we estimate that it will run for about 2 years without need for
refueling. I am afraid it does not meet the benchmark for a true free
energy device.
Michael McDonnough
President
Betavoltaic Industries Inc.
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
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Posted - 10/07/2007 : 08:56:57 [Permalink]
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Where is any of this stuff?...McDonnough expects commercial PlasmaVolt systems to begin going on the market in early 2004. The K40 isotope that these cells produce as a byproduct will be extracted during recycling for use in powering the Betavoltaic power-cells that BVI intends to launch commercially within the next 18 months.
- Self-promotion in 2003 That "Cause for Concern" link you provided, Half, has links to other fiskings of this scam, so it seems that all that's left to say is "where is it?" after four years already. |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 10/07/2007 : 09:08:46 [Permalink]
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And I'm still waiting for my cold-fusion antigravity space-car with betavoltaic battery backup to arrive. And the UPS tracking numbers they have emailed me all seem to be invalid.
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Betavoltaic, "the 30-year battery." Yeah.
