X minus 119 Days - "Nothing Can Change the Shape of Things to Come"
Wednesday, 28. February 2007, 17:20:25
Movement MattersThe H2earth Institute today added an online BBS/Forum system to the growing array of collaboration tools it is placing at the disposal of waterfuel researchers. Known as "H2earthbeat", and found at http://my.opera.com/h2earthbeat it will host downloadable pictures, videos, and other media from waterfuel experimenters around the world. Posted on the front "About" page is a new composite of Dave Lawton's WFC test videos, "Stanship Troopers", set to music by Max Frost & The Troopers. In the various channels, the H2earthbeat Forum will allow each experimenter to post his/her unique findings and data, for others to review and comment on. The new video is also available on YouTube
Our realtime chat system is in the process of adding three additional waterfuel experimenters, and we are finding that, unlike other venues that lack the realtime component, overall technical progress accelerates with the addition of each contributor. While Forums are a good mechanismm to report results and ask questions, their cycle time of days, sometimes even weeks, can be ineffective, by themselves at fostering and accelerating collaborative research. One thing forums do well is to hold information in context for others to go back and review, including files contributed by users. Therefor, we have also activated an online file archive of waterfuel related documents, CYBRARIUM: The Waterfile Archive from which visitors to this site may download, here: http://my.opera.com/h2earth/blog/cybrarium and contribute their own files by uploading through the H2earthbeat Forum File Management System, here: http://my.opera.com/h2earthbeat/forums/forum.dml?id=4904
On the Links pages here and Links in the Forum section Institute associates and the unaffiliated public, respectively, may add links to web pages that would be helpful to the waterfuel community.
In addition, arrangements have been made, courtesy of Water Fuel, LLC to create an FTP Server to provide large file storage and transfer services to the waterfuel research community. Using a free client such as SmartFTP, users will be able to up/download large fractional-to-multi-gigabyte video and data files at their leisure, with auto-resume capabilty.
Technological Development
We have now received confirmation from PGFED that the D14 PDF file, which first documented the Lawton Meyer Replication is being updated and corrected, to include the missing Inductor. Also today, our associate in Florida should receive the components with which to build an Inductor to incorporate into his circuit, which will enable it to operate in an identical manner with the Lawton original. We hope to begin reporting gas flow data from both systems by the end of the week.
In Nebraska, an engineering Fellow of the Institute is constructing a high voltage, high frequency systems testbed, though which numerous prototypical configurations of the WFC driver electronics can be rigorously evaluated, under precision instrumentation. Circut simulations are being developed in PSpice, which can then be correlated with actual performance on the testbed. Any differences observed between the simulation and the actual circuit parameters will, it is hoped, lead to a better understanding of the anomalous performance of the Meyer WFC architecture. The sophisticated modelling features of PSpice are sure to stimulate our engineering staff in their endeavors.
Philosophical Musings
The intellectual yield we are experiencing through the realtime interaction of WFC researchers is astonishing. The Chat system archives everything, linke pasted to it are clickable, and files can be dragged and dropped, sent to all participants in the chat. The Client bookmarks the chat, so that if you get disconnected, or have to reboot, it treats you as still in the system, and you get messaged back into it the next time anyone posts in the channel.
The video ""The Machine is Us/ing Us" which is also on our front page is an excellent visual poem, depicting the new thought process which is evolving here. Known as "Web 2.0", its a world where word processors and powerpoint slide shows and travel for conference presentations is giving way to 24/7 mind melds, through space and time via the Internet.
The The Law of Accelerating Returns, propounded in-depth by Ray Kurzweil's tome "The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology" is believed to become applicable to any process of research and engineering refinement in which a rapid and effective realtime feedback loop is admissible of continuously evolving information technology. This acceleration effect has been observed in fields as diverse as Robotics, Materials Science, and Genetics; we must apply that dynamic to the evolution of practical waterfuel technology.













