Oh my. One would think that in the year 2007, some century and a half after learning perpetual motion machines are absolutely impossible people would know better. Very, very, embarrasingly bad science (or more accurately pseudoscience), so I'm afraid I have to downvote here.

Jim Griggs, inventor of the Hydrosonic Pump, is no longer a part of Hydro Dynamics Inc.

Stan Meyer was convicted of fraud in 1996. Meyer was found guilty of fraud when his Water Fuel Cell failed to impress three expert witnesses. When one of the court experts went to examine the Water Fuel Cell driven car, it was impossible to evaluate because it was not working. Meyer later died of apparent poisoning which led to a slew of retarded conspiracy theories. He bitched about funding and support yet, The James Randi Foundation had a standing $1 million dollar offer, all he had to do was prove his claims.

Color me skeptical. When Griggs says he was confused as to why the pipes were getting hot, and goes on to describe his pump, at no time is cavitation mentioned. This is a common, fairly well understood phenomenon. Yet it goes unmentioned in the video? WTF

Cavitation:

"This is a process in which tiny bubbles grow in size and then collapse as a result of pressure variations in the turbulent water...The temperature reached by the collapsing bubble depends on how much of the focused energy is lost by sound emission at the collapse and how much is consumed by internal processes such as vibrations, rotations, dissociation and eventually ionization... If there are many collapsing bubbles, they disturb each other, which leads to a less-spherical collapse and therefore less-efficient energy focusing. Nonetheless, temperatures can rise so high that the bubbles start to glow...Analysis of the emitted spectral lines4 indicates that the temperature reached inside these bubbles is around 5,000 kelvin."

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v434/n7029/full/434033a.html

The phenomenon where in light is emitted is called "Sonoluminescence." Sonoluminescence was discovered in 1934 by two German physicists.

http://watersciencenews.com/sonolum.htm
http://www.sciam.com/askexpert_question.cfm?articleID=000950E3-6815-1C71-9EB7809EC588F2D7

There was an interesting documentary on a hydro power plant at a dam where they showed the tremendous damage that caviation was causing to the turbine blades and housing. Typically, cavitation is seen as a source of inefficiency.

Here's the patent for the Hydrosonic Pump mentioned:
http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/5957122-fulltext.html

Such frauds need to spend more time actually talking about how their "invention" works than playing up this Victim Complex.

Also, if their perpetual-motion machines actually worked, why are they making all this bad noise about it with fancy machines, instead of just hooking it up to a generator and getting free money from it?

/down-vote for bad pseudoscience

This video demonstrates two things:
- That the general public is ignorant of basic science.
- That people desperately want to believe in something extraordinary.

Combine the two and you get a populace willing and eager to embrace nonsense like Intelligent Design.

upvote for "dont-be-fooled-by-such-fraud!"

Upvote for the reality:

http://www.sti.nasa.gov/tto/spinoff2000/ip3.htm

In a way I wish Jim was still involved but the production of the units and their application is very important as well.

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