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Dr. Dennis Cravens Cloudcroft, NM dennis@netmdc.com

Mission:    To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the     affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better,   whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know  even one life has lived better (R.W. Emerson)

What I do:  I teach on-line courses for Southern Christian University - Math/Science.  But my real  love is to look at questionable and discarded physical theories and see if there is anything to them and if there is someway to make the world a better place.

Stirling Engine Calorimeter Project

The “sparkly” underwater plasma systems,  like the one in the background,  produce a lot of electrical noise. They often “sparkle” in the 10’s of MHz region.  This makes measurement of their input very hard.  The Stirling Project, seeks to use a Stirling engine/generator system to provide the input power to such cells.  The heat generated by the cell is used to run the generator.  Unless the cell truly produces more heat than electrical power supplied the system will not run.  However, the system can be made to work if some extra heat is supplied to the Stirling engine.  The only real measurement needed is the amount of heat (via a resistor network) that is needed to be added to the system.  If these “sparkly” cold fusion truly give 5 times more power than supply then the system should be self-sustaining.  If not, then extra power will be needed to be supplied.

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HOPE PROJECT A non-poluting  ultra-long-range solar-hydrogen-fusion hybrid vehicle

My futuristic long term project HOPE = Hydrogen Originated Plasma Energy The vehicle will be a hybrid car capable of traveling 2000 miles or more using clean and renewable energy sources.  This is an engineering and development project to integrate the electrical input from a solar array, the chemically produced hydrogen from recycled aluminum cans and water, and heat and hydrogen generated by a submerged deuterium fusion reaction.  The HOPE vehicle is expected to have a range between 2000 and 3000 miles without refueling other than water, the capablity of driving at night, and will emit neither carbon nor nitrogen containing compounds.   Although it will seek to be a "movable showcase" for a cold fusion device, the majority of its power will come from burning hydrogen that is produced from the reaction of aluminum and water.