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Unfortunately, because the spark gap the device employed (to tap radiant energy) caused serious radio and communications interference, the Federal Communications Commission ordered him to stop
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By that logic every welding shop in the US should be shut down. An arc welder is a really, really BIG spark-gap device. And yet...we have welding shops. But WAIT...not only shops but portables some rather large. The ship builders of the Gulf Coast of Louisiana use portable welding units mounted on dually pickups that drive to the site to work, then drive home at night.
Right there in front of god and everyone...and the FCC.
I'm a former Electronic Technical from ten years in the AirForce. (AFSC 30650 by the old style of reckoning....no idea what they call it now). I say that to indicate that I have some small experience in things electronic.
May I gently suggest that you educate yourself in regard to electronics, physics, and thermodynamics?
I'd rate your article's content.
Credibility= lo.
@everittdmickey, You've commented:
By your logic, you seem to think you've dismissed the @lamare quote. Unfortunately, governments and their myriad minion agencies are not driven by logic.
an article published in 2010 by Sterling Allen. The quote asserts one thing; your statement another. At this point, I can only be agnostic about this. I must reserve judgement because neither of you have presented evidence as to what the FCC did - or did not - do in response to operation of the EV Gray motor.@lamare is quoting here from
I must confess, however, that as a long time observer of the perfidy of the federal government and its agencies, I would personally find it much easier to accept Allen's statement than your logical conclusion based on the existence of arc welders; unlike "free energy," welding technology is not a threat to the monied powers.
Logically speaking, your burden of proof is also much greater; in order for you to prove that the FCC did not order Gray to stand down, you would have to produce an exhaustive history of the FCC's actions during that time period. Good luck with that! ;)
@lamare, just a suggestion that you may want to re-format your quotations with a Markdown block quote in order to clarify that you have pulled in a paragraph from somewhere else... ;)
Cheers to both of you! Play nice.
You can take a horse to water.
But you can't make him drink
There is nothing that can be done for the willfully ignorant.
I'm done here.
Seeya.
The difference between Gray's spark gap and a welder is....a welder isn't making 100's of welds in a second for extended periods of time. You are obviously ignorant to spark gap transmitters used in the early days of radio? ? And I would suggest to you, to look into the difference between closed loop systems, and open loop systems in regards to thermodynamic laws, along with heat pumps with COP great than one. The main problem here, is you haven't been taught that there is energy in the "nothing" that can be gated into these systems. Sharp gradients are known to 'violate' laws in mainstream science:
"Kondepudi and Prigogine list several areas already known and recognized to violate the second law of thermodynamics. These areas include (i) rarefied media, where the local equilibrium concept fails, (ii) strong gradients , and (iii) long-lived memory effects in materials."
http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/chapterhtml/2015/bk9781782620242-00001?isbn=978-1-78262-024-2
What you refer to are the conclusions c.q. proposals from Mark McKay, who investigated and collected all the evidence he could get his hands on. Quite a lot of it can be found at my site.
This is basically his best bet on what has probably happened. While this does not mean it is 100% guaranteed to be accurate, it does suggest the device employed radio frequency oscillations within the engine itself, which is totally unlike what you would do with a welder, whereby one is mainly interested in driving large currents trough the arc in order to melt metal.
Arc gaps can also be used in ** RF oscillators**, when used in their negative resistance area of operation. This is a technique dating back to the earlier 1900s. See the links in my article where I wrote:
So, IMHO the conclusion that there cannot have been problems with the FCC is unwarranted, because the Gray engine probably utilized radio frequency oscillations, unlike what is done in welding units.
Please note that the theory proposed in this article does not address Gray's engine itself, but the power supply unit which could also be used stand-alone. So, the data about the engine itself is meant to provide a historical context rather than to analyze or describe the working principles employed in the engine itself.
@everittdmickey,
You wrote:
I hope to have provided enough interesting "food for thought" to make clear that the argument that my point of view in some way is "willfully ignorant", would probably not be able to withstand proper scrutiny.
So, here's your water. It's free for the taking.....
Sorry for the, ahem, late reply.
Arcs always give of quite a lot of RF radiation, but there is a difference between welding and an arc-gap oscillator, as was common during the early years of the 19th century and was kown as the Poulsen arc converter:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_converter
Quite interesting to study, they use the negative resistance area of operation of an arc gap in order to sustain a continuous oscillation, which were later replaced by vacuum tube oscillators.
Negative resistance oscillators are still applied to day, for instance using the so-called "lambda diode":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda_diode
This article was about the power supply, though, and not so much about the motor itself, although I do suspect RF oscillations of the motor coils may very well have been used. I don't know, that's just a guess.