October 23, 2009.
The Results are in. I tested one of our prototype hydrogen booster cells over the road this week, and here are the results…

In a tired 4.3 Liter V6 Chevy Cheyenne ½ ton Pickup Truck that averaged 17mpg and burned a quart of oil every 100 miles (yikes!), I installed a magnet pack and one of the hydrogen cells pictured at http://www.EvergreenGasLabs.com. The mileage immediately jumped to 21 mpg, with more power and smoother running. This was running with no load: just me, my wife, and one of my kids, going down the freeway at 60 mph between Boise, Idaho, and Portland, Oregon.

Then I loaded up the bed of the truck with household stuff (I was helping move someone’s stuff), and hooked on a eight foot trailer and loaded it with an entire shop, including welders, table saw, grinders, air compressor, etc and so forth, several thousand pounds all tolled.

Then I tried driving this loaded down V6 for another 600 miles back to Boise, both with and without the hydrogen cell activated. Results? Without hydrogen: less than 14mpg with no power, lots of coughing, stumbling, knocking and pinging (especially on the hills), and in general just choking. Some low quality gasoline at a cheap gas station didn’t help any. Then I turned the hydrogen back on, and even I was shocked at the improvement in power, the decrease in coughing and stumbling, and overall increase in engine performance. This also got me back up to about 17mpg, better pulling power on the hills, and a higher highway speed before the engine started pinging and knocking.

Conclusions? The combination of the magnet pack and the hydrogen cell breathed life back into a very tired and undersized engine, increased its gas mileage by about 25%, noticeably increased its horsepower output, improved its overall engine smoothness, and let me burn the cheap/bad gas through the system without a huge loss in performance. These results also mirror my results from last summer’s highway trip that I took to Bellingham, Washington, with my original prototype hydrogen cells and magnet packs, where I got better speeds, more power, and about 25% improved mileage in a Chevy 5.8L V8 Suburban.

Remember, this is at highway speeds. In my experience, the cells often produce even better mileage than this at slower city driving and stop and go speeds.

I learned lots of little tips and tricks along the way as well to improve future models of the hydrogen cell, one of which I installed on a friend’s vehicle the day after I returned from Portland this week. The DO work, and they work WELL.
Sincerely,
Tim,

Founder/Owner Evergreen Gas Labs (dot com)

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Well, magnet motor technology continues to generate huge controversy. They say it’s just not possible. They say it breaks the Laws of Conservation of Energy. They say it’s perpetual motion, and that it will never work.

They also say that if it were possible, it would upset the very balance of power in our world today that stems from the control of oil, electricity, and energy in general.

Unfortunately, somebody goofed somewhere. Why? Because magnet motors do work, and I’ve compiled a number of links below to videos of functioning units showing them working. If you don’t believe me, check them out for yourself. (Note: these will be of great interest to those of you out there that are interested in living in a self-sufficient manner, off the grid…)

But if they DO indeed function, this means that our basic understanding of the structure of the universe is also flawed somehow, and most science type people don’t want to admit this. But never fear, I do have some basic ideas as to why these motors work, and what is going on…

The first thing to remember is that the Law of Conservation of Energy only applies to closed systems, where every single variable and energy flow is accounted for and well defined. This does NOT describe the universe around us. It is dynamic, with energy flowing into and out of all mass, all the time. Most of the time the energy flowing in, and the energy flowing out, is equal, and in equilibrium, and thus, we see no net effect.

But throw permanent magnets into the mix, and suddenly, everything changes. You have an unbalanced energy flow that you can see and measure. The trick then becomes how to unbalance the actual flow of magnetic energy in order to accomplish work.

A number of different people have figured out ingenious ways to do this, and often with exciting results. So far, I have grouped these different methods into several categories.

Roughly speaking though:

Category one deals with using magnetism and gravity either with or against each other (in reality, this category can sometimes become a subcategory of category three below).

Category two utilizes the magnetic “wake” field that actually flows from one pole of the magnet to the other, to pull other magnets along past them.

Category three harnesses the actual power of magnetic attraction and repulsion by finding ingenious ways to get a magnet assembly past the “re-gauging point”, that point at where magnets moving or rotating past each other tend to “lock up”. Some people use pulsed electromagnets, some use mechanical separation mechanisms, some use moveable magnetic shielding, and some simply appropriately space their magnets and iron attractors in such a way as to pull their magnets past that lock point.

Category four ingeniously taps into the weak rotational or vortex vector of the magnetic “wake” flow mentioned above, and uses it to spin other magnets, generator armatures, or the like.

In any case, I have seen working models of all four categories, or combinations thereof. They do work, and they do so simply because magnets ARE linked into the dynamic energy flow of the universe around us (some people call it the zero-point energy field, the space-time fabric, the sea of aether, of one of several other names as well).

So while the physicists and smart people out there continue to postulate about the nature of the dynamic energy fabric of the universe around us, let’s start focusing on what we do know works. Magnets are fun! So let’s have some fun, perfect these magnet motor ideas, and move forward with finding new solutions to our energy needs.

A few links to working units, in no particular order:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKtIsrc-LHs&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYcjjSfiNNE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT9s33X9D4I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oj7nXTwAeI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Int5za7Eslo&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxZR4C9gqOY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGST6835uNM&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjmrQozyz3Y

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Sooner or later, it is everybody’s fantasy, somewhere in the back of their minds, to never pay utility bills again and to be completely self-sufficient. Because, whether we like it or not, most of us are tied to the system in numerous ways, making us completely dependant upon it for everything we need to live our daily lives. But there ARE ways to loosen these strings, and even to cut them completely, in order to live completely off the grid in a self-sufficient way, whether in the city or in the boondocks.

The “live off the grid self sufficiently” equation can be broken down into six distinct parts: Power/Electricity, Water/Sewer, Food/Cooking, Heating/Cooling, Health/Medical, and Transportation/Mobility. Let’s take a little bit closer look at each one of these in turn, so that we can get a better understanding of how they each function and work together to help you live in a self-sufficient manner.

Power. The first and probably most obvious thing about being self-sufficient is the need to generate your own electricity and power.
The second most critical component of living off the grid is to find a stable water source or supply for yourself.
Then we consider our food requirements. Did you know that even someone in an apartment can grow some of their own food in order to cut down on their food bills? And how do you cook them?
Heating & Cooling. Depending on what time of year it is, and your geographic location, this one can be a lifesaver too. If your electricity goes out in the middle of the winter, as it sometimes does, do you know how you are going to keep from freezing to death?
Medicine and Basic Medical Supplies. And though we can’t and don’t claim to be doctors, we DO know that there are lots more good home treatment remedies and processes available to the average person than what the profit driven medical establishment would like you to know about.
Transportation. Face it, we have become a mobile society, and we need to get places. But how do we do it cheaply, and without entangling ourselves back in the grid through gasoline dependencies?

Let’s look quickly at each of these in a little more detail.

For Power and electricity off the grid, you can get into solar (by far the most common), hydroelectricity, fuel cells, generators, or one of several other technologies being developed at http://www.EvergreenMountainLabs.com/ (EML). You will also need several storage batteries, a charger with which to fill them, and an inverter to convert their output into usable house power.

For your water needs, your options are slightly more limited. A good, high quality water filter (with backup filter cartridges on hand) is must, so that you can make use of any water supply you find. Many times, water from rain and snow melt can also be good sources of drinking water (though not in heavy smog areas unless filtered first).A water distiller takes electricity, but if you have the spare power for it, by all means, you might consider getting one.

Your sewer needs have even fewer basic options, though within those options, many varieties exist. Basically you have to invest in an odor free self-composting toilet, and then learn to operate it safely and satisfactorily.

For your food needs, you need basic access to the six primary food groups at least occasionally: Grains, Fruits, Vegetables, Lean Meats, Diary, and Nuts. A different breakdown of these groups into blocks that we can address might look like this: carbohydrates, proteins, and vitamins and minerals. Either way, remember that the vegetable group will keep you healthy the longest, if your intake is limited to just one of them. And that’s good for us because it’s also one of the easiest to grow. And the two most foundational vegetables that I tend to recommend to friends and to focus my efforts on are tomatoes and potatoes. Both can be grown in relatively high quantities in small spaces if done right, and will give you tons of daily vitamins, minerals, and carbohydrates. Your protein intake can either be occasional meat supplemented into your diet from whatever the source, or from protien rich veggies like nuts and beans, that you either grow or harvest yourself. Find out more about growing your own food at the http://www.FreedomFromTheGrid.com/ blog site.

In order to cook this food though, wood stoves are by far the most common and efficient off grid solution. But even here, you have options. A creative person could generate their own methane or hydrogen for a gas stove, but more easily done, you can invest in a solar stove or oven. Though they can sometimes take longer to cook things clear through, they still do it well, and sunlight is free.

As for our heating and cooling needs, heating is generally the more critical issue, and thus needs more attention. Unfortunately, in today’s world, most heat sources depend on electricity to operate. Fortunately though, propane, solar power, natural gas, wood, and hydrogen, as well as several technologies being developed at EML, all aim to get around this. But by far, the oldest and most ‘tested and true’ heat source technology around today is still simply a wood-burning stove. If possible, get one, or something similar like a wood pellet stove, corn stove, etc.

As for medical care, start by getting and committing to memory a good, thorough, high quality first aid manual and then procure a good store of some basic field supplies.

Then we consider our medicines and how to deal with infections. There are two very old technologies, and at least one more recent one, which can all help anyone wanting to live in a self-sufficient way.

The metal Silver, when made into a solution through basic electrolysis or some other method, is one of nature’s best antibiotics. People have known about this for a long time, and it seems to work well, both when taken internally and/or applied topically. There is a hidden danger in it though, in that too much of it taken internally can turn your skin a permanent shade of zombie gray-blue, so be careful. But taken appropriately, it seems to work wonders. Do your research.

The second older technology is based more on common sense, and is currently practiced under the name of naturopathic medicine. And basically it tries to help your own body fight off diseases and conditions by first eliminating any vitamin or mineral deficiencies that your body might be experiencing, and then by boosting your body’s own immune system.

A much newer technology still being developed even today depends on the simple fact that any object will shatter or break if you hit it with the right note and enough power, like an opera singer breaking crystal goblets. It works the same way with pathogenic viruses and bacterias as well. To better understand this and some of the related technology, type in “rife machines” on Google and see what comes up.

Of lesser importance to some people, but still worth mentioning, is taking care of transportation needs. At http://www.EvergreenGasLabs.com/, they sell lots of items to make your gasoline stretch as far as it can. But barring that, if gasoline isn’t an option, look into bicycles, horses, and even some of the home generated hydrogen fuel technologies being developed at EMP and various other places around the net.

As for clothing, I’m going to have to admit that it’s not economically feasible for you to develop your own fabric mill. Instead, stock up, get a sewing machine to keep things mended, and then learn to barter with people who do have access to clothing.

By focusing your attention on the six things above (Power, Water, Food, Heat, Medicine, and Transportation), you can indeed learn to limit your dependence on the grid, cut your bills back, and live in a healthy, green, self-sufficient way. With that said, go start your research, be careful, and have fun!

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Isn’t living off-the-grid every man’s dream? Be self-sufficient! Pay no more utility bills! Have power during the rolling blackouts and winter storms! It’s all so grandiose, and for most people, so completely out of reach.

But never fear; there is still hope. Even a city dweller can do things that decrease their reliance on the grid. But first, let’s break the issue down into manageable pieces, with help from the experts at Evergreen Mountain Labs and http://www.EvergreenGasLabs.com, and look very briefly at each puzzle piece in turn.

There are basically five items to address in order to live completely grid free. You can implement one, two, or even all five, items, but the secret is to start somewhere.

1. Cooking
2. Heating, Cooling
3. Electricity
4. Food
5. Water, Sewer, Laundry

1. Cooking Needs. It all boils down, no pun intended, to energy usage. Find the cheapest way possible to cook your food. For some people, this means getting a wood stove. For some it means getting a propane camp stove and stocking up on propane. For some, it means getting a solar oven, assuming that you get lots of sun. And for everybody, it means working more with dried goods and fresh fruits and vegetables, and cooking less often, or only cooking one pot of stew or something in the morning, and then nibbling on it all day. Electric stoves aren’t really even an option here; they just plain use too much electricity.
2. Heating/Cooling. For space heating and cooling, you need two or three things. If you can swing a wood stove and firewood, do so. If you can swing a swamp cooler versus an air conditioner, do it. And insulate everything, to the gills. Well-insulated items take less energy to keep them at the proper temperature, than do poorly insulated ones.
3. Electricity. You simply have to have electricity to survive in today’s world. So the trick is to minimize it wherever possible (heating, cooling, cooking, entertainment, etc.) And the first thing to remember is this, CONSERVE electricity however possible with energy efficient everything (including lights). The second thing to remember is NEVER use electricity to heat up anything; it’s wasteful. Find alternatives. As for generating electricity off the grid (including you city dwellers), get at least one 12volt, deep cycle battery, one solar panel you can place in a window to keep it charged (or one of the small, pollution free ones being developed by Evergreen Mountain Labs), and a 300Watt Inverter to power whatever it is you need. If something uses more than 300Watts, you can prolly do without it – with the possible exception of your clothes washer. You can get a small 5KW generator for things like that, but NEVER run them indoors, and then find a way to store or procure fuel for it. A diesel one can even run on biodiesel that you can make yourself or often get for free at a local restaurant.
4. Food is a bit of a trick, but there are still ways that you can raise enough of your own food to survive, even in a city apartment. Forget meat unless you can stomach mouse and rat, and focus on vegetables and fruits. Start with tomatoes grown upside down from hanging pots. They produce like crazy, and will cover many of your daily vitamin needs. The trick is to focus on plants that produce a fruit or vegetable on an ongoing basis, without needing lots of space to do it in.
5. Water and sewer can also be a trick sometimes, but there’s still hope even for the city dweller. Rain water, snow water, and even creek or pond water can all be stored and filtered (or boiled). So start by getting yourself a high quality filter (distillers take power), with a supply of replacement cartridges. As for sewer, get an odor free, indoor composting toilet, and you suddenly have a fertilizer, plant food source as well. Laundry, since it uses so much water, can be an issue. The only thing I can offer there is learn to do it by hand if the need arises, because your washing machine simply takes too much power

By addressing all five areas of grid dependence, and by learning to conserve and live simply, anyone, including city dwellers, can learn to live off the grid and be energy and grid independent.

Some of the products mentioned in this article are or soon will be available at http://www.SurvivalOffTheGrid.com, along with info, ebooks, and more.

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Someone sent me this pretty interesting youtubevideo yesterday, that shows how this guy built a simple magnet motor, something that we have already played with on occassion here at Evergreen Mountain Labs, without ever completely figuring it out. So with both interest and a touch of skepticism, I checked out the link they sent me. And it blew me away. Suddenly, various puzzle pieces of research I had done in the past all clicked into place for me in what I can only describe as an “Eureka Moment” that left me trembling with excitement.

But first, here’s a link to the video on YouTube. Check it out, then come back to read both my scientific explanation and then my layman’s version, of the phenomenon at work (and no, I can’t see where it breaks the laws of conservation of energy).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf1IesrHBh0&NR=1

First, the scientific explanation:

Magnetism actually is not just a static force; it has a dynamic flow element to it as well that is not well documented. You can even create magnetic circuits with it, using iron wire and a magnet, hooking up the wire between the two magnetic poles a complete circuit path. This is an area of future research for us, exploring what kind of circuts might be possible. In particular, I want to know if I can create the magnetic circut equivalent of a transistor. There’s likely some amazing stuff you could do if there is (like magneto-gravitic wormhole physics manipulation?). But I digress…

The electrical equivalent of this motor is found in the “Poynting Flow Vector” motor, something I researched several years ago indirectly with Jean Louis Naudin of France. Basically, he built a motor based on the fact that electron flow has a “wake” force that drags static charges along with it as the electron travels along a wire. It creates a circular magnetic field around the wire, true, AND a dragging “wake” force parralel to the wire called the Poynting Flow Vector. Look it up if you care to, though there’s not much public research available on it yet.

This magnetic motor is built upon the same concept in the magnetic arena, that magnetic current flows from one pole to the other, and creates a wake force as it goes, and that a circle of magnets such as the one on the butter container lid in this video promotes a continuous wake flow in a circle that reacts srongly to the outside magnetic force.

*whew!* Still clear as mud?

The simpler explanation:

If you move the north pole of a magnet perpendiularly closer to the CENTER of a longer magnet, the longer magnet will slide forward, bringing the south pole closer to the perpendicular north pole; this is pretty common knowledge. But by arranging these magnets all in a circle, the magnets continue to slide forward in a never ending loop….

But what about the law of conservation of energy and the second law of Thermodynamics?

First, we have to recognize that while our current classical view of magnetism, gravity, and the universe explains lots of things, it does NOT always explain everything. This might be one such scenario. But by some accounts, aether flow theory does a better job explaining this one than classical physics does. If magnets are indeed aether flow concentrators, in a universe where the aether is in constant flux and flows into and out of all matter on a continuous basis, then the flow of the aether into and around the magnets can be tapped into and harnassed, as simply a subset of a much larger universe where the aether flow is dynamic and never ending. So in this magnet motor case, the energy being tapped into is simply replenished by the larger aether field “sea” around us.

OR…… Framed back in more classical physics terms, magnets might directly tap into the theoretical, resonant zero point energy field of the universe by nature of the resonant and in-phase magnetic domains located within the metal of the magnet, and the work they perform in this motor is accomplished by energy drawn directly off the zero point field itself, always being replenished… (Due to this, I predict that we will see a general cooling effect of the air temperature in the direct vicinity of a functioning, high-power magnetic motor).

The important thing to remember is that the law of conservation of energy applies ONLY to closed energy systems. Magnetic systems are by their very nature (whether they be zero point energy taps or aether flow concentrators – whichever way you want to go with it), open systems, due to their link to the larger universe around them. The law of conservation of energy simply CANNOT be applied to them.

So where do we go from here, and what’s next?

First, I am ordering a parcel full of high power magnets, then building a unit that can power something more substantial than just a simple light bulb. There is serious power embedded in permanent magnets, and I suspect that we can extract serious power from them.

So stay tuned for our research into this field as it comes out! (And yes, building plans will be compiled for people to order, from Evergreen Gas Labs, once I have functional units prototyped…)

Isn’t science cool?!

Tim

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 This weekend, we visited what is probably the second largest private off-the-grid electrical installation in the state of Idaho, a place known simply as Silver Creek Plunge.

Built around one of Idaho’s many natural hot springs, the place features a swimming pool built right over a hot spring, where the 100 degree F water comes right up through the sandy bottom of the pool. At 540 gallons per minute flow, they don’t even have to use much chlorine. We stayed in one of the adjacent Forest Service campgrounds, and spent hours soaking, fishing, hiking, etc

But what was really cool was their alternate energy installation. Without specific numbers, and just looking at their setup (the owner wasn’t even sure of specific numbers himself), we estimate that they have about a 20KW solar PV panel grid and 1 KW low head, high flow hydroelectric installation, backed up by a 45 KW propane generator. Their deep cycle battery banks take up an entire wall of the battery room and probably weighs (I’m guessing) well over 20 tons. Power conversion of the 48VDC battery banks to 110VAC is done by at least 8 2.5KW Outback Inverters all networked together, providing the place with an estimated 20KW of power available 24 hours a day, all year round.

We liked several things about this installation: multiple sources of power, a strong backup option to both provide power and recharge the battery bank on cloudy days, and their choice of high quality equipment. And it gets the job done, effectively. The owner said the installation has almost paid for itself, and he is planning to expand it even more.

The biggest thing I did NOT like about the installation was that the Solar Panel grid was located substantially over 200 ft from the battery room, so even at 48 VDC, I estimate they were losing at least 10% of their available power in line losses between the panels and the batteries. I would have found some way to locate the battery building a lot closer to the panels.

This installation was a pretty standard installation, using classical, well-developed and well-understood alternate energy technology. There was no evidence of any of the more cutting edge technologies in use (such as the ones being developed here and at FreedomFromTheGrid.com), like propane replacement hydrogen cells, fuel cells, gravity wheels, zero point energy converters, or controlled lightning initiators. Stay tuned for more info as it becomes available. Meanwhile, if you need your own more traditional alternate energy system like the one at Silver Creek Plunge, designed, set up, or installed, contact us immediately.

In the meantime, don’t be afraid to visit Silver Creek Plunge for yourself and enjoy the refreshing and therapeutic hot spring water. Sincerely, Tim Benedict

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Well, the past caught up with me the other day. I was poking through some of my old websites form many many years ago, and I ran across one that I had set up at one point to talk about and sell spud guns, potato cannons, and to a lesser degree, pumpkin chunkers. It was an outgrowth of a project I did with the high school physics class I was teaching at the time, and the kids had a blast with it. Even the girls in class got in on the action and built several pretty mean spud guns.

We got permission from the school principal, the parents, and the local police station (right next door to the school), and then we had fun. The kids learned alot about the physics and chemistry of combustion reactions, expanding gases, force, mass, acceleration, and a host of other things as well, and after several of them asked me to post some of my research and insider tips, I did so.

http://www.TaterCannons.net is the result of that request, now resurrected from the bit bucket, and posted once again back on the web for all those aspiring spud gunners and gunnerettes out there.

With that said, Enjoy!

Sincerely,

Tim

Evergreen Mountain Labs

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