Hello all,
Outstanding job. I have been lurking on the forums and youtube channels for a while now and following Russ's progress with the popper replication in particular, with avid interest. With all the "fuelless generators" that have been propposed and ultimatly failed to come to market, I think the Papp process shows the most promise of actually delivering a viable alternative to the ICE.
I totally understand Bobs stance on wishing to capitalize on all the years of hell and heartache he has invested in this, however I cannot help but feel "something" will pop up and this entire approach will be blocked from ever seeing the light of day. That is why i am so impressed with the efforts of all of you to open source this and help out anyone that feels they have the skillset required to replicate the device. I feel that Without independent experimenters like all of you shining light on it for all to see, this technology will never be available as an "off the shelf" device. As paranoid as that sounds, history has proven that the established "powers that be" have an incredible desire for self preservation. Any practical device that comes to market utilizing this technology will undoubtably be seen as "revolutionary" and will not be embraced with open arm by governments or big oil, regardless of all the positive bennifits associated with a cheap and easy, totally green, energy system. It would completely render all the current infrastructure useless, and destroy billions of dollars of anual revenue. The initial damage to the economy alone would almost guarantee that whoever tries to bring this to market will be either quietly bought out or otherwise "discredited" as a fraud... Regardless of the validity of the science.
I am an experienced machinist, with access to all kinds of toys to fabricate all the metal bits, but have a serious lack of skills when it comes to whipping up the electronics end of things. I will eventually correct that shortcoming, as I really have a strong desire to build something practical for my own personal use that capitalizes on the unique expansion and collapes phenomena of the noble gas/ plasma reaction. While I would love to be the first to engineer a sellable, practical device, I am realistic enough to understand that there are others far more qualified to do it than I am. I would settle for being able to run down to Home Depot and buy one. No discredit to Bob, but I just do not ever see that happening in my lifetime.
I believe he has succesfully shown that whatever Joe Papp stumbled upon is viable and real, and regardless of whether or not it is ever classed as "overunity", his machine creates a very efficient way to capitalize on recycling a pressure differential and creating usable work. I would love to have a very small, multi cylinder version of it quietly chugging away under the hood of my Nisan leaf 24/7... When I plug it in at night, it would quietly give back to the grid, and keep my beer cold. :)
Anyway, thanks for all your effort Russ. This is an extremely talented and varied group of individuals that have all been united by a common vision and gathered together to cheer you on.... Bring it out of the dark and hand it to the world to do with what it will.
~Winger~