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Greetings!
In the past week I have talked with two electric
vehicle (EV) owners, each of whom have drastically different stories.
The first was a BMW owner charging up at our neighborhood Tesla
Charging Station who told me that she gets about 600 miles on a
full charge and only about 20 minutes to charge up! The second
one had several power packs in his hatchback and was sucking power
all day long at another charging station that is free outside a My
Organic Market. What I learned from the second person and verified with
Google, is that EVs get only about 3 miles per kilowatt-hour
of electricity, so rooftop/hoodtop solar panels for EVs are like
a little icing on a big cake, where the cake is the charging station.
Now back to the BMW…she has about twice the range of the average
EV and it is a quiet battery breakthrough for BMW announced
last year, with their
new Gemini Dual-Chemistry Battery. https://one.ai/dual-chemistry-gemini-battery-powers-bmw-ix-608-miles-on-a-single-charge
Our Story #1 features my recent presentation at
the Alternative Propulsion Engineering Conference (APEC) https://www.altpropulsion.com/ which
is completely free to the public, so get on the Tim Ventura email
list to get advance notifications if you like. Since I had several
video clips embedded in my slideshow, Tim agreed to show the video of
my live audience presentation at the UFO Mega Conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4Lmz8gxYHM&t=7789s .
To me, it is one of the most exciting research projects that I have
ever done, since I found answers to questions that always plagued me,
such as the age of nearby star systems within only a few
light years from earth. The answer from a published journal
article astonished me and provided the impetus for this Ufology
and Astrosociology Textbook outline. As a retired college
teacher, I am familiar with the 13 chapter format for a textbook and
the fact that once written, it is up to any professor to consider
trying it out on a class of curious students, to see how well the
subject can be taught. See what you think!
Story #2 shows how busy we have been to educate the
public about our mission of pursuing scientific integrity in the
areas of energy, propulsion, and bioenergetics. The
American Journal of Biomedical Science and Research Is
an international journal which accepted our research article on the
development of energy medicine over the years How Energy
Medicine will Save Healthcare https://biomedgrid.com/pdf/AJBSR.MS.ID.002907.pdf.
Story #3 is an amazing find which makes me glad I
subscribe to New Scientist (www.newscientist.com).
A collaboration of six institutions has developed an aqueous solution
battery with magnesium and zinc. Water and some magnesium-ions
yield 75 watt-hours per kg, which is about 30% of the latest Tesla
Li-ion batteries. Published in Advanced Materials, Small
Structures, and finally in Energy and Environmental
Science, the RMIT team from Australia has accomplished a great
deal with what are referred to as “water batteries”. The Energy
and Environmental Science article: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2023/ee/d3ee02030,
provides a comprehensive review from Ma’s team of the history,
challenges and potential of water batteries.
Story #4 revives an old concept of a heat storage
basement full of rocks that I taught during Environmental Science
class years ago for an hot air solar collection system (IRI sells the
plans for a simplified, passive Solar
Heat Panel for the interested folk). Now
jumping to the present time, Sandia engineers convert excess
renewable electricity into heat that gets stored in piles of gravel,
which makes use of the same medium. At a much lower cost than Li-ion
batteries, the team built a prototype 100-kilowatt-hour test
setup and charged the rocks with 500 °C (932 °F) air. During the
test, the rocks stayed at temperature for 20 hours.
Story #5 may be the most controversial
story/report/article that we have ever reprinted, just as a
disclaimer. Though the inventor Dr. Buhler seems to have good
credentials from NASA, the propulsion drive materials are quite
extraordinary. His complete story has been presented on APEC as well
and available online for free (www.altpropulsion.com).
However, we may have to wait for the vacuum testing to take place in
the next phase to really attract investors, which is similar to the
work that IRI is doing to propose an Electrogravitics Vacuum
Experiment for Jesse Michels’ $50K contest. By the way, Michels’
documentary about T. T. Brown “The CIA Scientist Who Built
“UFOs” is wonderful and on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTEWLSTyUic if
you want to see the real inside history of electrogravitics (Yes, we
are selling a lot more Electrogravitics Vol. 1 and 2 books
these days since its release).
Onward and Upward.
Tom Valone, Editor
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