Quote: "Honest to goodness, I know of a 500% efficient generator, and a 100% efficient motor. Combine the 2 together, free elctricity. It runs on magnetism. The guy who makes them has been scared into hiding by the government and big business who don't want this sort of thing to get out..."
Oh my, I fell off my chair. 500% efficient generator? It produces 5 times the energy it receives? From magnets? yes, that person isn't crazy...
Quote: "Realistically though, anti-matter will likely precede anything like cold fusion, given the nature of the theory of cold fusion and the extraordinarily high output of antimatter. All that would have to happen is that we would have to be able to generate a stream of antimatter atoms that reacts with an equal mass of regular matter atoms in a sealed and controlled environment. The antimatter atoms could not come in contact with the core, and would have to be transported to the reaction area. Theoretically, it makes much more sense than cold fusion."
Quote: "Do you know just how much energy is required to make antimatter?"
Cash Curtis, you've been watching too much Star Trek
The energy produced by a 100% efficient anti-matter reactor would only be equal to the amount of energy required to create the antimatter. Unless we found a method of creating antimatter in a relatively easy manner (ie. not from the creation of matter from energy), or found some gigantic repository of the stuff in space (far, far away), it wouldn't be feasable.
Now controlled fusion, on the other hand, is a proven method of energy production. Now, to figure how to create controlled fusion for extended periods of time...
Big whorls have little whorls which feed on their velocity,
Little whorls have lesser whorls and so on to viscosity. - Lewis F. Richardson
