To come back to my question of yesterday, here is a page that claim the hydrosonic pump can output over 150% of the input energy. There is even some examples running for a year now in Georgia USA. Is this some scam or can it be real according to physics?
http://www.alternativescience.com/over-unity.htm
2007-11-25 18:49:21 · 4 answers · asked by Jan 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
It's a scam...there ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
It takes tons of energy to create a shock wave. It takes tons of energy to put fluids into motion. It takes tons of energy to convert water into steam. In a word, what this Gadget does is take tons of energy as input...much of it is simply overlooked in the input/output equation.
As anyone who's taken thermo/fluid dynamics knows, heat/fluid engines are inefficient at best. We are lucky to get 35-40% efficiency. 150% is just plain idiotic.
2007-11-25 19:05:28 · answer #1 · answered by oldprof 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As we evolve things will become more efficient, this we see all around us. I don't know enough about how a shock wave can produce heat in a fluid. Imagination suggests that bike pumps heats up thing. Shame he has not invented a cooler with the same figures. Science has a set of numbers that says one needs so much electricity to raise the temp of water by so much. It didn't see what the hype was about, it didn't seem they were recovering the electricity, or more electricity at that. It may well be true but how is it going to help the world with the crisis of pollution created by electricity production. It is something to watch, as the claim to fusion will be interesting to see.
2007-11-26 03:22:19 · answer #2 · answered by Al 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
100% efficiency is the theoretical limit of any machine (efficiency is output/input)
although most machines are lucky to reach 90%, both 100 % and 150% are impossible, and violate the laws of thermodymamics.
Perpetual motion machines claim to do this to an extent, but fail due to thermodynamic principles.
2007-11-26 03:57:47 · answer #3 · answered by brownian_dogma 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
dunno whether you are right but there is a law of conservation of energy: Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, but it can be changed from one form to the other....so i think there is something else which is giving that extra 50%....
Maybe input energy=output energy+useless energy(energy loss)
that output energy is maybe increased by another source
2007-11-26 03:29:25 · answer #4 · answered by hyperbeam151 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋