Dear Sterling:
Indeed, as you say, at first sight seems to be a similar process as the one developed by Mr. Santilli. I understand Mr. Santilli has patents for the process, so, if there is a real similarity, it could rise a legal problem. Anyway IMHO, the main problem faced by this kind of development is the lack of acceptance and understanding from the scientific community.
After looking at the presentation of the video on the geoplasma site, I concluded that the main difference of the Geoplasma with the Hadronic reactor, is that Geoplasma employs solid ("dry") waste and therefore requires the injection of huge amounts of air to allow the plasma formation reaction. I also think the people of Geoplasma have not yet discovered the unusual characteristics of the gas they produce, they basically were looking for a better way to burn waste, and they found a byproduct that I assume they did not expect. Hadronic reactors work on the basis of liquid streams, and don't require air inyection because the plasma forms instantaneously from the liquid. You could also treat solid waste with an hadronic reactor, but it would require the adding of water to dilute the solids to a 10% of the weight. I can state, from reading Santilli's patents, that his Hadronic reactors have to be more efficient than the geoplasma technology, because the gas formation is not very efficient if it is fixed on a static point, and Mr. Santilli technology uses a moving "spark" in order to keep the gas formation at peak efficiency (if you don't do this, the gas burns itself in the "spark" and is lost).
Plasma, being hotter than sun surface, allows for a complete burning of anything, that's why it could also rise the efficiency of motor vehicles (as the Krupa spark plug and the plasma technologies that your site portrayed a few days ago state).
The plasma technology is good news, I hope we realize of it before is too late.
My Best Regards.
----- Original Message -----From: Sterling D. AllanSent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 3:49 AMSubject: [magnegas] top100? Geoplasma LLC to turn dumps in electricity and roads
this seems like a top 100 candidate to me; very similar to MagneGas. Same process with different name?
Top 100:
Waste-to-Energy / Plasma > Geoplasma LLC to turn dumps in electricity and roads - Company's technology converts landfills into electricity and roads, by vaporizing garbage at temperatures hotter than parts of the sun. Lightning-like plasma arcs turn trash into gas and rock-like material. (PESWiki; Sept. 11)
