Re: A Battery That Produces Energy Continuously Since 1950

 Ahh the old funding problem, this is a problem in my country as well, particularly for ideas concerning alternative and renewable energy sources. The oil and coal companies are very keen to know what research is being done in this field, and buy a lot of patents, and bury them.

This makes it very hard to get industry or government funding for these products. I have a friend who ended up selling his patent to an oil company, simply because he had to. He was going broke trying to fund his project himself, and the oil company offered him a great deal of money, which he decided that he had to take.

This meant his idea was buried, and he isn't allowed (by contract), to even continue the research. This is the reality today.

Yes, this is all too common.  Even when sold out for other reasons.  I was talking to someone once who was telling me about machine he and his friends built that would take anything organic such as leaves and grass clippings and turned it in to crude oil.  The oil companies bought them out for $60 million and buried the project.  He did not tell me how they did it but I finally figured it out anyway.  The technology would be pretty simple for someone in the proper field and not costly at all to build a prototype.

I've seen some of the Science behind created gemstones, but doesn't the process require vast amounts of energy?

Depends on how it being done.  The opals actually only took about 5 minutes of cooking on the stove.  So far the ruby project used a small kiln run for 1.5 hours.  I have several other processes that should do a better job faster and with even less energy, but I don't have the equipment for this yet.  The diamonds will actually be very low energy required as well now that I figured out the key.  The old methods like GE has been doing since the 50s is energy intensive and the diamonds actually end up costing more than the naturally found ones.  But they do this anyway then dope them with boron to make them in to semiconductors.  Apollo's process should not require much energy either, but the process is slow since they are grown with a layer of atoms at a time.  So in the long run it could be rather expensive.  Gemesis  on the other hand is supposedly producing gem quality diamonds for about $5 a carat according to one source.  But from what I have seen this is still kind of a hit and miss process.  The process I am working on should do the same at a fraction of their cost and should allow for the production of extremely large diamonds.  The actual size will depend on which process I use.  The low pressure process should allow for diamonds the size of a golf ball to a softball.  And with the high pressure process my goal has always been to produce a bowling ball size red diamond just for fun, then use the same process to produce smaller marketable diamonds.

It will be interesting to see what you end up with, do you think the end product will be gem quality, or are you looking at producing for the industrial, (such as laser technology), market ?

The goal is all gem quality stones, but the diamond project is also targeting industrial use but still with gem quality.  I read that industries goal is to form diamonds large enough to make computer chips since these can be run at speeds that would melt silicon chips.

It is also possible to create diamonds that are harder than naturally found pure diamonds.  This has already been done.

Though I have one other experiment I want to try that if it works the way I suspect would create a material that should be considerably harder than diamonds altogether.  That is more of a long term project since I need a lot more space to build the set up, such as the ranch I am after.

Good luck with you research Hv :)

Thanks, I will keep you informed.  At least you know why I am so anxious to get that potential Martian meteorite analyzed.  That will buy the ranch and fund all my research.  Then you can fly out and teach me how to use the spectrometers, microprobes, etc.