Stan Meyers BIG secret: "electropolished" stainless steel

[lamare]

Hi all,

Some time ago, I posted a thread at Russ Griess' site about the theoretic principles along which Stan's system is capable of drawing excess energy out of the aether/vacuum/ZPE field/whatever name you prefer:
Theoretic foundation: the electret effect

And I posted a YouTube video about this, wherein I explain the principles:
How Stan Meyer's "Car on Water" as well as "Cold Fusion" actually works. - YouTube

Since the idea is that the WFC is supposed to be an electrolytic capacitor, I went looking for ways to make a suitable dielectric layer on top of stainless steel. The first direction I thought of was some kind of nickel oxide, because stainless 316 has the highest concentration of nickel, and nickel is also being used in super capacitors. However, these use a different mechanism and are thus NOT suitable in a normal electrolytic capacitor like the WFC.

So, I went looking for what I could find out about chromium oxide, and more particular, Cr3O2, which is the oxide growing on top of stainless and which is what protects the metal from rusting.

It turns out that Cr3O2 has similar properties as aluminum oxide, which is being used in electrolytic capacitors. It has a dielectric constant comparable to aluminum oxide and it has a high ohmic resistance, i.e. is an insulator (at room temperature).

AND it turns out that so called "electropolishing" process which is used a/o for passivating stainless steel for medical applications is very similar to the process by which normal electrolytic capacitors are made, which are mostly based on aluminum.

See my posts over there for more details:
Theoretic foundation: the electret effect


Now if we add one and one together, I would say chances are very heigh that Stan used electropolished stainless steel.

That basically explains why Stan did not appear to have "conditioned" his pipes, but others reported good result with "conditioned" pipes. So, he apparently *did* use a specific "conditioning" process, BUT he simply just ordered "electropolished" stainless instead of doing it the hard way...


Some more info on electropolishing:
Electropolishing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://www.tuks.nl/pdf/Reference_Mat...l-implants.pdf
http://www.globalstainlesstechnology...le_9-27-99.PDF
http://www.euro-inox.org/pdf/map/Ele...lishing_EN.pdf

[renaud67]

Bob Boyce also speak about plate conditionning ...

[lamare]

Bob Boyce also speak about plate conditionning ...

Yes, and Patrick Kelly describes this as a "catalytic layer":

Practical Guide to Free-Energy Devices - Chapter 10

After extensive testing, Bob Boyce discovered that a very considerable improvement can be made if a catalytic layer is developed on the active plate surface. Details of how this can be done are given later in the companion document "D9.pdf" as part of the description of Bob’s electrolyser.

[...]

Firstly, the stainless steel plates are cross-scored with sandpaper to create a specially shaped plate surface which helps high-speed bubble release. Secondly, the plates are put through a rigorous "cleansing" process where they are subjected to repeated periods of electrolysis followed by rinsing particles off the plates and filtering the electrolyte solution. When no further particles break free from the plates, they are then put through a "conditioning" process which develops a catalytic layer on the plate surfaces.

Since the material being used is stainless steel, the catalytic layer consists (mostly) out of Chromium, Nickel and Iron oxides. The process is very similar to this "electropolishing" process and creates similar oxides, but the "official" electropolishing process has been optimized for the specific goal of minimizing Iron and Nickel contaminations by means of choice of chemicals and controlled process parameters such as temperature and input current and voltage.

In other words: Boyce process is essentially a "poor mans" electropolishing process.

[lamare]

BTWt, Stan's original design has become available after his estate has been sold. These have been converted to CAD drawings by a/o Russ Griess and all the components appear to be available ready made now for reasonable prices, although details may still have to be changed in future versions:

Stan's Original 11 cell Resonant cavity Sketch and Build.
Stan's Original 11 cell Resonant cavity Sketch and Build.
Stanley Meyer Hydrogen IPTV Satellite Free tv Tuner VIC Injector
Stanley Meyer Hydrogen IPTV Satellite Free tv Tuner VIC Injector


So, it appears that we are getting very close to being able to successfully replicate Stan's WFC.