British Device Delivers More Energy Than it Consumes
One exciting story in the age of a greening culture and environmentally sensitive populace is the announcement that British researchers have produced an independently verified device that produces more energy in heat than the energy it consumes in electricity.
The Daily Mail article said, “The system - developed by scientists at a firm called Ecowatts in a nondescript laboratory on an industrial estate at Lancing, West Sussex - involves passing an electrical current through a mixture of water, potassium carbonate (otherwise known as potash) and a secret liquid catalyst, based on chrome. This creates a reaction that releases an incredible amount of energy compared to that put in. If the reaction takes place in a unit surrounded by water, the liquid heats up, which could form the basis for a household heating system. If the technology can be developed on a domestic scale, it means consumers will need much less energy for heating and hot water - creating smaller bills and fewer greenhouse gases.
Jim Lyons, of the University of York, independently evaluated the system. He said: ‘Let’s be honest, people are generally pretty sceptical about this kind of thing. Our team was happy to take on the evaluation, even if to prove it didn’t work. ‘But this is a very efficient replacement for the traditional immersion heater. We have examined this interesting technology and when we got the rig operating, we were getting 150 to 200 per cent more energy out than we put in, without trying too hard.”
Researchers think that somehow the device resources “a previously unrecognised source of energy, stored at a sub-atomic level within the hydrogen atoms in water.”
The development company is called “Ecowatts,” and the project formed from the chance meeting of Ecowatts’ chairman Chris Davies with Irish inventor Christopher Eccles in 1998. After informal review of Eccles’ research, Mrs. Davies immediately wrote out a check on the hood of her car for 20,000 pounds. Eccles assumed the post of chief researcher at Ecowatts.
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