BingoFuel: Trying to Rattle Some Cages

Jim Heffel, of University of California Riverside, was on KPFK 90.7fm in Los Angeles last Sunday describing a very advanced hydrogen electric hybrid vehicle. That vehicle is close to the BingoFuel car idea I had recently. There's one problem with Heffel's hybrid: Hydrogen. Note: It's easy to make hydrogen. It's not easy to store it.

Encouraged by Heffel's work, I sent a message that summarized what I knew about BingoFuel to dozens of establishment researchers working on alternative fuels at UC Riverside and UC Davis. I received a few one line responses, including a request to be removed from any future mailings (and nothing from Heffel). Does anyone know how much money oil companies invest in hydrogen research as grants? I would be very interested in that information.

Here is the initial message I sent out:

Hi,

I am writing because I heard Jim Heffel on 90.7fm KPFK talking about a production-ready hydrogen/electric hybrid vehicle. I wanted to make sure that you and the other CE-CERT [and DAVIS ITS] researchers were aware of an electrically generated, synthetic fuel that may provide a very viable alternative to hydrogen. French researcher, JL Naudin, is actively investigating this fuel. He calls it BingoFuel, but it is also known as Aquafuel�, Aqualene�, Magnegas�, TrueFuel�, Carbo-hydrogen�.

His site has many interesting videos and links to other documentation about BingoFuel:

http://jlnlabs.online.fr/bingofuel/index.htm

He runs an unmodified 5 kilowatt Honda generator with the BingoFuel:

http://jlnlabs.online.fr/bingofuel/html/bfr5hpgen.htm

He also gets the Honda generator to run in a type of "closed loop" state. The power from the Honda generator is running the BingoFuel Reactor, which is running the Honda generator!

http://jlnlabs.online.fr/bingofuel/html/bfrcl.htm

The current BingoFuel Reactor design is limited by the fact that the carbon electrodes "burn" up relatively quickly. Naudin is designing a Version 2 of the system that utilizes tungsten electrodes and a mixture of water + carbon powder or sugar. The gap between electrodes is constant and doesn't need tunings and/or adjustments.

This is an idea for a photovoltaic BingoFuel hybrid car that would incorporate an onboard BingoFuel generator to provide fuel for the internal combustion engine on the hybrid:

http://www.cryptogon.com/2003_04_20_blogarchive.html#92930012

It may be a stretch to assume that the stock hybrid engine could run on the BingoFuel just because the Honda generator does...but it just might. Unlike hydrogen, BingoFuel may be easily stored and, according to Naudin, more useable fuel is generated from the BingoFuel process, per unit of energy input, than standard electrolysis. Because BingoFuel production could be carried out on demand, onboard the vehicle, the lack of a public refueling infrastructure is not an issue. The big question might be: Can BingoFuel run a fuel cell? I have no idea, but I have a feeling that a few of you might.

These papers may be of interest:

The Novel Magnecular Species of Hydrogen and Oxygen with Increased Specific Weight and Energy Content by Ruggero Maria Santilli

http://www.i-b-r.org/docs/magneh.pdf

and

AquaFuel, an Example of the Emerging New Energies and the New Methods for Their Scientific Study by Ruggero Maria Santilli

http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/physics/pdf/9805/9805031.pdf

Yes, this technology may have the potential to remove the requirement for a public refueling infrastructure. Because of this, and the interests involved, the barriers to this technology may not be technical or scientific, but political and economic. I have no idea what constraints you may be under, so I have sent this message to all of your colleagues in the hope that someone will begin to take a serious look at this exciting fuel.

One final tidbit: BMW was looking for information on Naudin's work:

http://www.cryptogon.com/2003_04_20_blogarchive.html#93184060

Take care,
Kevin

- End Letter -

One recipient asked, "Assuming you have current available, why not input directly to an electric motor?"

I wrote back:

Obviously, the electric only route is most desirable because electric engines are so much more efficient than internal combustion. The problem with electric is that you can't store energy in any effective way because the battery technology is so poor. Range becomes a problem.

There is nothing magical about the BingoFuel system, but it can be thought of as a way to get fuel for the internal combustion engine WHEN sufficient current is available. When the vehicle is parked in direct sunlight and the batteries are topped off, the BingoFuel reactor would activate and produce gas. This would obviously begin to use battery power, but the solar paneling system would supplement that. The solar system, however, would not produce enough current to make BingoFuel on demand. When people are at home, the vehicle could be plugged in, with priority given to producing more BingoFuel and then charging the batteries. Why produce BingoFuel if the electric engine is much more efficient? Because you can store the power as BingoFuel much more effectively than you can store the power as an electric potential in a battery bank. Note how the hybrids work. They never have to be charged. The entire thing relies on the internal combustion engine. I say, make a hybrid that you could plug in: TO MAKE BINGOFUEL. The power to make BingoFuel could come from solar, wind or other clean or dirty sources.

I think the battery bank in the EV1 contained about the same ability to do mechanical work as about 1/3 gallon of gasoline! The EV1 had a range of about 100 miles, depending on conditions. How far would 1/3 of a gallon of gas get you in a regular car??? The problem is the batteries.... Bad way to store power. Gasoline is a great way to store power. There are a few problems with the kind you get at the pump. Besides destroying our planet, it will run out and buying it supports evil. BingoFuel is also a great way to store power, except that it burns very clean and doesn't require payment of money to a handful of elites. Maybe you can tell me: Do you think BingoFuel has a fuel cell application? Obviously, that's where all of this should be leading.

I saw the title of your thesis:

[ Person's identity and title of thesis deleted. ]

Now imagine having a gas that anyone can make, from clean or dirty electrical sources, that can power a vehicle and is as easy to store as propane. But if you are going to base a career on new and improved ways to store hydrogen, hmmm, that might present a problem for you and cognitive dissonance might set in. Oh well...

But on the other hand, maybe you'll look at something just because it's there and it's interesting. If that's the case, I wouldn't start pushing this with any faculty unless you were DEAD SURE that they wouldn't sabotage you and require you to do more grad-student-as-slave work as punishment for another few semesters or so. Build the thing in your garage for god's sake! Nobody has to know about it if you're concerned about the thought police. <--- And with this, you should be concerned.

-Kevin

- End Letter -

Maybe I'll hear back from that person. Maybe not.
posted by Kevin at 4:51 AM

ExxonMobil: Record Profits :.

ExxonMobil, the world's biggest privately owned oil group and a target of street protesters, celebrated May Day by reporting the largest quarterly corporate profits in history at $7.04bn (�4.4bn).

The company, whose petrol stations around Europe are subject to boycotts by StopEsso campaigners angry about its stance on global warming, made �2.2m an hour - double that of rival BP.

Crucial to the surge in profits was the rising global price of oil, which averaged record highs across the three-month period, buoyed by fears of a supply gap due to the war in Iraq.
posted by Kevin at 1:31 AM

Eminent Domain: Swindling in the "Public Interest" :.

I happen to hold a California real estate salesperson's license. One of the tidbits of information you learn in the course of getting that thing is that one never really owns property, but rather, perpetually leases property from the state. If you think this isn't true, stop paying your property taxes and watch what happens. In terms of the law, my usage of the word "lease" is not correct, because someone who leases property in the traditional sense can't encumber it further or will it to someone, etc. But what should we call it if a party (your state) has the authority to remove you from your property if you refuse to pay fees? In addition, as with other landlords, the state can decide to kick you out at their whim, as long as questionable "compensation" is paid. Again, if you think I'm kidding, you might want to learn about eminent domain:

Eminent domain allows the government to take real estate to fulfill a public purpose, like building a police station or public road. Private residents are supposed to be compensated under eminent domain, however, owners are frequently not given market value.

Last week, the Institute for Justice released a report showing that in the last five years, state and local governments have taken or threatened to take more than 10,000 homes, businesses, churches and private land. But the property was not to be used for government projects.

According to examples from the report, governments condemned a family's home so that a manager of a planned new golf course could live in it; evicted four elderly siblings from their home of 60 years so developers could build a private industrial park; and removed a woman in her 80s from her home of 55 years in order, they said, to expand a sewer plant. Instead, the municipality ended up giving the woman's home to an auto dealership.
posted by Kevin at 1:05 PM

Talk to Cops? Don't Do It :.

Cops are getting paid to bust you. Don't help them do it. This is pretty basic stuff, but it must be clear. Anyone who opposes this system in any substantive way IS going to be arrested. Others, who have nothing to do with anything, will also be arrested. We should all know how to respond:

When you are arrested, the best thing you can do is KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT. Push your teeth together, seal your lips and breathe through your nose. Say nothing except the following "I want an attorney please". Answer every question, regardless of how ridiculous your answer may seem with that statement or something almost identical to it.
posted by Kevin at 5:05 AM

Chilling Account of Homeland Security Raid :.

"You have no right to hold us," Asher insisted.

"Yes, we have every right," responded one of the agents. "You are being held under the Patriot Act following suspicion under an internal Homeland Security investigation."
posted by Kevin at 4:28 AM

Gene Chapman: Death and Taxes :.

Anyone who takes a close look at the Federal Reserve and the IRS will soon determine that the Federal Income Tax amounts to extortion and massive fraud. Indeed, if you get into it, you will find some amazing things! I don't wish to get into any debates or arguments about this. I pay my taxes/extortion! At this time, I'm not willing to make a lifestyle out of fighting the IRS. Besides, I hardly have any income, so the point is practically mute for me.

Gene Chapman, however, is willing to die for this issue. He is attempting to get the IRS to demonstrate where the income tax liability is in the law. (They won't do it, because they can't.) How is he going about this? Chapman has been on a hunger strike since April 15th. He's sitting across the street from the IRS' Austin Regional Center and the U.S. Treasury Building at Parker Lane and Woodward Street in south Austin, Texas.

Listen to Joe Banister, ex-IRS agent. He spoke with Lee Klein on KFI 640am last Sunday night. KFI is a massive talk radio station in Los Angeles. Millions of people listen to this station. This interview is 67 minutes long. Make sure you listen all the way through because the call-in section is hilarious. Most of the callers don't pay their income taxes. I'm hosting this audio interview locally for a limited time. Don't expect it to stay here. Save it for yourself if you want to keep it.

If you want to see the full ratf-ing potential of the IRS, check into the plight of Irwin Schiff. The court ordered a temporary restraining order barring him from selling his book titled "The Federal Mafia" and from lecturing!!!! Listen to the RealAudio on his site. It is shocking. Remember, they're not after him for his personal tax practices, THEY ARE AFTER HIM FOR PUBLISHING A BOOK!

Research Credit: TR
posted by Kevin at 6:56 AM

Police Get Power to Check Prints On the Spot :.

The only thing that has prevented the rise of an overt tyranny in the U.S. has been the egregious inefficiency of the executive branch of government at all levels. The most chilling thing I can imagine is the empowerment of the depraved cop consciousness with information technology. Well, I don't have to imagine these things. It's all happening:

Portland police may soon be asking for more than a license when making a traffic stop, but also requesting a motorist to stick out a thumb and forefinger.

Next month, more than a dozen officers will carry handheld devices on the street that will allow them to instantly verify a person's identity by analyzing their fingerprints.

The Portland Police Bureau was awarded a $250,000 federal COPS grant to equip each of its five precincts with a device and distribute another 10 to investigative officers in the detective, gang enforcement, drugs and vice, and tactical operations divisions.

The Minnesota-based Identix manufactures the technology, which captures fingerprints at the scene and remotely transmits them to a database. The Portland police will run the prints against the FBI's automated fingerprint database, and a database of seven Western states, known as the Western Identification Network.

If there is a match, the system returns the person's name, date of birth and mug shot directly to the officer's handheld terminal, the size of a Palm Pilot. Then the officer can check the person's criminal history and search for any outstanding warrants.
posted by Kevin at 5:52 AM

Legislative Attempt to Equate Homeschooling with Child Abuse :.

If you are refusing to go along with the show, this thing, this Leviathan, WILL eventually come knocking on your door. Wow! It's very fortunate for everyone involved that I don't have kids. I wonder how many guys they would send in an attempt to take away my un-vaccinated, social security numberless, homeschooled, sniper qualified, organic gardening freak spawn? As I said, it's a good thing that I don't have kids:

Proposed legislation that would have equated truancy with child abuse in California raised suspicions among homeschool advocates it represented a fresh attack on home-based education.

The legislation, titled SB 950, would have added "habitual truancy" to the definition of child abuse by amending the Welfare and Institutions Code Section 300. According to the language of the bill, it called for children who have up to five unexcused absences from public school to be immediately taken from their family and put into the juvenile court system. Parents would no longer have been given the opportunity to make their case to school district officials.
posted by Kevin at 5:46 AM

U.S. Marine: Soldier or Psychopathic Killer or Both? :.

Maybe it's just tribalism:

Covarrubias, a 20-year Marine veteran, said he found the soldier inside a nearby home with the grenade launcher by his side. Covarrubias said he ordered the man to stop and forced him to turn around.

"I went behind him and shot him in the back of the head. Twice," Covarrubias told the Review-Journal.

He said he also shot the man's partner, who tried to escape. He showed what he said were the men's ID cards.

"I'm not vindictive, and I might get in trouble for telling you this, but I take it very personally when you do that to my family," Covarrubias said. "The Marines are my family."

Wow. I'm glad so many of these maniacs become cops after they leave the military. I feel safer already!
posted by Kevin at 5:42 AM

Liberation: Photos of Highway Slaughter At Taji :. (CAUTION: Extremely gruesome.)

From Rense.com:

Here are the images I promised of what happened very close to where I was as a human shield at the time. These photographs were taken 2 days after the Americans came through Taji (Baghdad main food silos), where we were, blasting everything in their sight, including civilians, civilian busses; I was there, I witnessed the murder.
posted by Kevin at 5:39 AM

Thinking About Becoming a Vegetarian? :.

I'm not a vegetarian, but there are many undeniable reasons to become one. Here are a couple:

Pounds of potatoes that can be grown on 1 acre of land: 20,000
Pounds of beef that can be produced on 1 acre of land: 165
Historic cause of demise of many great civilizations: Topsoil depletion
Percentage of original U.S. topsoil lost to date: 75
Amount of U.S. cropland lost each year to soil erosion: 4,000,000 acres, the size of Connecticut
Percentage of U.S. topsoil loss directly associated with livestock raising: 85
Production of excrement by total U.S. human population: 12,000 pounds/second
Production of excrement by U.S. livestock: 250,000 pounds/second
Number of U.S. medical schools: 125
Number of U.S. medical schools with required course in nutrition: 30
Training in nutrition received during 4 years of medical school by average U.S. physician: 2.5 hours
Percentage of U.S. mother's milk containing significant levels of DDT: 99%
Percentage of U.S. vegetarian mother's milk containing significant levels of DDT: 8%

Research Credit: TR
posted by Kevin at 5:38 AM

Work

I took a job at a grocery store that doesn't sell "national brands." The manager looked over my application and noticed my college background and computer experience. She asked, "Do you understand the type of work required for the position you're applying for? We're talking about bagging groceries and stocking shelves."

I said, "I no longer have the stomach for any job requiring work in an office. Besides, there just aren't a lot of other options out there."

"I see," She glanced at my application again, "But I want to be sure you realize that this job involves some pretty mindless work."

"Oh, I totally understand. It may be mindless, but it's honest. There is no swindling involved. People need food. You sell good food at a decent price. It's pretty basic."

I started yesterday. They gave me shirts and a boxcutter, but I don't have a nametag yet. It seemed a bit surreal that all of the years of study, preparation and test taking nonsense has landed me nowhere, feeling lucky to be gathering grocery carts in a parking lot and stocking shelves with cans, bottles and other packages.

More: Encountering Other Smart, Poor People

One of my first duties was helping a woman out to her car with her stuff. She drove a small Toyota with an Amnesty International sticker on the bumper. I struck up some small talk about Amnesty. She opened her trunk and it was full of paintings. I asked if it was ok to place the heavy groceries (wine) on the paintings.

"Oh yeah, that's just a bunch of shit."

They seemed like nice paintings, from what I could see. It turns out that she was an artist who teaches elementary, high school and college classes to survive.

"It fucking sucks," she said. "Is your store hiring? I'm sick of teaching." She had a Master's degree in Art.

After work, I decided to go to a small cafe-type place that's open 24 hours. The woman working there noticed my work shirt and asked about my new job and if the pay was any good. I told her that my manager was kind enough to start me at a slightly higher wage than normal because of my college background and other experience. But slightly more than nothing, is, well, not much.

She chuckled, "I got a Master's degree in mechanical engineering when I lived in Russia. My boss here didn't seem too interested in that." Shocked and amazed, I asked if she was ever able to find engineering work outside of Russia.

"No. Never."

Now she serves coffee, doughnuts and sandwiches to cops, homeless people and freaks like myself all through the night.

More: Jobless and Hopeless, Many Quit the Labor Force :. (NY Times, free subscription required)

Worn down by job searches that have stretched on for months, demoralized by disappointing offers or outright rejections, some unemployed people have simply stopped the search.

As the nation enters a third year of difficult economic times, these unemployed � from factory workers to investment bankers � have dropped out of the labor force and entered the invisible ranks of people not counted in the unemployment rate.

Some are going back to school or getting new job training. Others have chosen to stay home with young children or aging parents and to rely on their spouse's salary, at least for now. Still others are plainly waiting: living on their government benefits and hoping that the economy will get better in a while.

More: As Companies Reduce Costs, Pay Is Falling Top to Bottom :. (NY Times, free subscription required)

After more than two years of canceling investments in new equipment and laying off workers, many companies are turning to the pay of remaining employees as they try to stay profitable during an economic slowdown. The weak labor market, which has lost more than two million jobs in the last two years, is allowing them to restrain pay without fear of losing workers, executives say.
posted by Kevin at 3:07 PM

WMD not the Motivation for U.S. Invasion of Iraq :.

I didn't expect admissions like this to begin slipping out so fast. With what we know about the inconsistencies with the official story of 9/11, what are we to make of the U.S. regime's claims that "democracy" was the motivation for illegally invading a sovereign state in order to steal its natural resources? With "democracy" like that, who needs tyranny?

To build its case for war with Iraq, the Bush administration argued that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, but some officials now privately acknowledge the White House had another reason for war � a global show of American power and democracy.

Officials inside government and advisers outside told ABCNEWS the administration emphasized the danger of Saddam's weapons to gain the legal justification for war from the United Nations and to stress the danger at home to Americans.

"We were not lying," said one official. "But it was just a matter of emphasis."

Officials now say they may not find hundreds of tons of mustard and nerve agents and maybe not thousands of liters of anthrax and other toxins. But U.S. forces will find some, they say. On Thursday, President Bush raised the possibility for the first time that any such Iraqi weapons were destroyed before or during the war.

If weapons of mass destruction were not the primary reason for war, what was? Here's the answer officials and advisers gave ABCNEWS.

The Sept. 11, 2001, attacks changed everything, including the Bush administration's thinking about the Middle East � and not just Saddam Hussein.

Research Credit: www.compulsive.org
posted by Kevin at 10:27 AM