An Immense Source of Energy, Far Greater than all Fossil Fuels

This presentation was first placed on the Internet in May 2009.

But it may not be controllable sufficiently to become the asset that it might become.

In early 2006, I discovered how to create small artificial, self-forming tornados. Technically, waterspouts. At the time, I thought it was a useless ability. I also had no idea whether it could be controlled at all, and so it seemed to me to represent the tremendous danger that natural tornadoes do. However, in mid-2009, I realize that it is the core of an immense potential source of energy for mankind. We know that natural tornadoes contain spectacular amounts of energy and power, apparently on the scale of 500 million horsepower, mostly as kinetic energy of rotation. It has always been realized that the tornado GOT that energy from solar energy, but no one ever knew how it occurred. There have been MANY theories, most of which tend to defy known facts. The process which I had observed thousands of times since 2000, and discovered the Physics of in 2006, is technically specific only to waterspouts. It may or may not include the genesis of hurricanes (likely) or tornadoes (unknown). The process involves CALM air, WARM water and high humidity, where significant amounts of water can evaporate rapidly, using heat from the water, which earlier came from the Sun. (the math is included below). The air above it needs to be stationary, calm, and somewhat cooler than the water, where that recently evaporated water quickly condenses into tiny water droplets, thereby releasing the latent energy of the phase transformation. This provides a significant energy supply which is then within a very specific and very limited location, which then provides the energy for the circulation of the incipient vortex. The Coriolis Force aids in initiating the tight circulation patterns. These tiny water droplets and the air surrounding them retain a small amount of the heat, which causes the air in the vortex to slowly rise. The presence of the water droplets can also make this phenomenon visible under some lighting conditions, but dust in the air can also make the vortex visible as well. The amount of energy provided by the water vapor condensing can be many times greater than the energy needed to give vertical velocity to the air and water droplets. THIS "excess energy" is what needs to become used (to Conserve Energy) and it becomes the kinetic energy of the rotary motion of the vortex. The math is impressively consistent with Conservation of Energy. I now realize that a CONTROLLED artificial tornado/waterspout should be able to be injected with some ionized gas. The result of that would be many charged ion particles rapidly revolving in circular paths. That is essentially the definition of an electric current. Such a circulating current always forms a magnetic field. This vaguely resembles the Dynamo Theory by which the Earth's Magnetic Field is believed to arise. If coils of wire would be placed around the artificial tornado in specific orientations, then an EMF (electrical potential) will be created in those coils of wire, and electric power would be created. This reasoning all hinges on whether the artificial tornado/waterspout could be controlled, which is certainly an important issue. But the working premise is that IF solar energy can be captured in a pond of water, within a building which had DEAD CALM AIR, it MAY be possible to create and control a STABLE small tornado/waterspout. Say that one with one one-millionth of the power of an average natural tornado could be created, or around 500 horsepower of mechanical rotation. If even 10% of that power could be converted into electricity by the method suggested above, that would be around 35,000 Watts of electricity, enough to supply several dozen homes! The concept is intriguing! It might be able to be built in underground chambers to provide some safety and control.

I have not experimentally tested most of this concept, for two primary reasons. First, until it would be learned how to control the growth of the artificial tornadoes, there could be immense danger in creating them. Second, there are a number of variables which would need to be defined for efficient performance, and many experiments would certainly be necessary to determine their values. The combination of these two things seems far too dangerous to me to consider trying to experimentally test this concept. (except regarding making some very small vortices, which I have done thousands of times since April 2006.) (Roughly a hundred of them were created in the basement of my house! They were VERY small, as I was quite nervous about the possibilities!)

I HAVE confirmed part of this experimentally. But I did not devote very much time or effort to it in 2006 because I then thought it was an entirely pointless and worthless concept. Given the temperature of the water and air and the relative humidity, it is possible to calculate the evaporation rate of the water from the supply. By estimating the size of the footprint of the vortex, I have been able to estimate the total amount of energy removed from the water by the evaporation process. Using the latent energy value, I have then been able to estimate the actual quantity of water involved, which has turned out to be a logically consistent amount. And then when most of that water is condensed into water droplets in the vortex, it is possible to estimate an upper limit regarding how much kinetic energy could be produced, using some standard values for frictional coefficients between the vortex and the calm air around it. These values have also given results which seem logically consistent with the other energy values. This seems to be a crude validation that the process is actually the one which is creating the start of the vortices and by implication, waterspouts.

I certainly have the capability of creating very weak tornadoes or vortices, and certainly believe I could create far more powerful ones, ever since early 2006. It is not obvious how the gases could be ionized, but a number of standard approaches seem logically obvious to try.

I suspect that the whole set of experiments should be performed within an incredibly sturdy structure, a super-bunker, for the reality that unexpected things would certainly sometimes happen. It would be terrible if anyone would lose their life in such experiments. I could neither afford to build such a bunker nor want to do so.

Finally, this concept is technologically far beyond the capability of anyone less than a mega-Corporation, and I have long insisted on NOT providing such Corporations any additional methods where they can grow their greed and their single-minded focus on profits above any actual good that might occur for mankind.

Therefore, until and unless such Corporations greatly change their ways, to actually developing motivations which are more compatible with Christian values, I cannot imagine ever helping them create this sort of device. Since I truly doubt that they have the capability of developing this themselves, I suppose that this concept will likely not be seriously pursued for a few decades or more.

Of course, THIS concept is far more conceptual than the majority of my other projects, which I have generally actually experimentally tested to confirm that they are valid, and therefore the possibility exists that this one simply may not work!

If some Corporation should ever figure out how to reliably create tornadoes, they may have a chance of building and testing this concept. But since tornadoes are universally considered dangerous phenomena, profit-pursuing Corporations generally do not waste their money in doing research on such subjects!

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C Johnson, Physicist, Physics Degree from Univ of Chicago