UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA - Researched Generator Could Open a ‘New Chapter of Physics’ for EVs

July 29, 2011 - PRLog -- THANE HEINS, PRESIDENT of Potential Difference Inc., has dedicated a majority of the past decade to creating a generator that would eliminate the need for oil. He was invited by Dr. Riadh Habash of the University of Ottawa in 2008 to continue work on the project in one of Ottawa University's power labs, where the results could be adequately tested, scientifically validated and shared.

According to Heins, he hasn’t just managed to create a generator that eliminates the need for oil—he has created a machine that literally defies the current laws of physics as they are presently understood.

This sentiment was also shared with Dr. Habash at Ottawa University's in 2008, "Of course it accelerates... this represents several new chapters in physics, that is why we are consulting MIT."

Dr. Stanley Townsend, University of Toronto and former Managing Editor of the Canadian Journal of Physics told Heins in an email that the technology was a "new source of power."

"Thane, Your Press Release was most interesting to me as a physicist and an engineer. The level of technical detail was adequate to tell me that you probably have made a very significant advance in applied physics and in safely and successfully handling a new source of electric power. Congratulations!"

Even Dr. Evstigneev N.M., Institute for System Analysis at the Russian Academy of Science had this to say after evaluating Heins' work:

" That is fascinating! A number of your experiments are not lying in the field of Maxwellian electrodynamics."

"I’m very interested in what you are doing with your experiments, because from the mathematical point of view what’s going on in your experiments represents a break of SO3 symmetry in fundamental tensor of Yang Mills equations that makes it obvious to see the flaws of Maxwell electrodynamics."

"Today I made a numerical simulation of a model problem – simulation of the Ampere’s force on the coil from the moving permanent magnet using Maxwell set of equations with bias currents in conductors. I changed the number of turns in the “coil” and varied magnetic and electric properties of coil material to get the equivalent of high R and Z. In the simulation there are no effects that you have in the experiments – in the simulation there’s a direct Lenz law as it's stated by the physics. I will inform you on any progress that I make along with reports. Thank you once again!"

Although his quest has been primarily carried out in the realm of science, Heins reveals there is a political component to the project as well.

“The original intention for the generator was based on 9-11. Shortly after 9-11, when Canada went into Afghanistan with the United States, to me, it was about oil,” said Heins. “To a lot of people, Iraq and Afghanistan are about oil. And I decided that I don’t want to be putting gasoline in my car that’s being paid for by some man or woman getting killed in Afghanistan. To me, that’s not acceptable in a society that calls itself  civilized.”

Heins’ demonstration involves comparing the effects of supplying electricity to a load, in the form of light bulbs, from both a conventional generator and the regenerative acceleration generator.

After allowing the machine to build up power, he first uses a conventional generator to power a light bulb that consumes a mere 0.9 watts. Upon turning on the light blub, the motor instantly begins to decelerate according to Newton’s Third Law of Motion: for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. This is normal and very well understood and is the basis for electric vehicle regenerative braking.

In the second half of the demonstration, Heins supplies power to four light bulbs, each requiring 10 watts for a total of 40 watts - more than 4700% the original output of the conventional generator. However, when his generator powers the bulbs, it causes the motor to accelerate, implying that the generator is over 100% efficient because the generator is increasing the no-load drive shaft mechanical power (speed and torque) while also sending electrical power to the loads. The generator, in essence, is reversing the direction of the energy created by the generator's induced magnetic fields, (the same induced magnetic field which decelerated the conventional generator is now accelerating the system) thus violating the Law of Conservation of Energy, which states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed.

Heins’ design has attracted researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) who have witnessed Heins’ innovation and were stumped by the atypical manipulation of Lenz’s law, an extension of the Law of Conservation of Energy.

Dr. Zahn of MIT also concurs after Heins provided MIT with a live technology demonstration in 2008, "It works and it is not something I would have expected, now I am just trying to figure it out."

Heins suggests the machine and its implications are best realized by the open minded people that watch his demonstrations. “It’s very obvious and easily understood by just about everybody. The only people that it is not obvious to and hard to accept are the engineers and PhDs. It’s because their education is an impediment to their understanding. Overturning 100 years of entrenched scientific dogma does not happen overnight and understandibly takes time as with any new innovation,” said Heins.

On the skeptics issue Dr. Townsend councils Heins with sage advice, "stay out of the limelight, and ignore any critical skeptics - don't let your energy get tied up in responding. Develop the new technology - it will market itself - you do not have to persuade skeptics."

It is not easy trying to do what you seem to have done. If you run into problems with the Conservation of Energy Rule, Let us talk about that, because I might be able to help you with that. I think that you have accomplished what you seem to have accomplished, but your "reconciliation" with present day physics "might not be taking everything into account."

The implications of this technology, which has passed the prototyping and proof of concept phase, have yet to be realized, but already players like Magna International, Defence Researchand Development Canada, U.S. Air Force, NASA , GM, Nissan, Chrysler, and even Neil Young have shown interest in the generator’s capabilities.

Neil Young once told Heins that he was, "interested in ending roadside refueling" whereby Heins replied, "we are interested in ending roadside bombing."

In particular, Heins is interested in the technology being potentially adopted by the electric car industry. He sees this technology as the solution to the "range anxiety" problems electric vehicles have faced in the past.

According to Heins, there are two ways to currently re-charge electric vehicle batteries - plugging in and regenerative braking. “We’re introducing a third mode, which is called Regenerative Acceleration,” noted Heins, who views this type of technology as being capable of causing a paradigm shift in both the energy and business worlds.

“We’re creating a New Energy Paradigm … by basically finding a way to exploit a loophole in the laws of physics,” he explained. “But we also want to try to create a New Business Paradigm that reflects the idea that competition is not good in the long run. If everybody works together, then we get a lot further a lot faster.”

"This cooperative economic model was proven mathematically to be valid by Nobel Prize winner, Dr. Josh Nash in the 1950's but the opposite is occuring in the world today and that is why humanity's future on Earth is now at risk," insists Heins.

The regenerative acceleration generator’s capabilities are currently being assessed by engineers and companies all over the world. After this stage, the technology will be taken to the roads and tested in an electric cars all over the world where the technology will be shared and licensed for free "Nash" style.