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At the forthcoming Thunderbolts project conference
EU 2017 Future Science in Phoenix - Arizona,
experts in a variety of disciplines will present
groundbreaking evidence for the role of electricity in nature.
In the Electric Universe community,
many contributors have come from a background in engineering
or applied technologies and industrial processes
(that) may provide intriguing analogs for natural phenomena.
One of these speakers will be Garrett Hill, the CTO of the company ThrivalTech,
where he and his team develop plasma technologies for various applications
including the internal combustion engine
with a goal of providing the world with more effective emissions control solutions.
We asked Garrett to introduce himself
and to explain what has drawn him to the Electric Universe community.
My background started out in the performance automotive sector
where I was designing, building and racing vehicles
and I developed a lot of skills there
but none of them immediately seemed to pertain to this concept of an electric universe
besides my capacitor discharge spark plugs, right,
so that you get more bang for your buck in the cylinder.
And after I stopped working in that sector
I immediately jumped into atmospheric research
and was doing some atmospheric research in Colorado and quickly realized
that there was a lot of electrical activity going on in the eastern part of Colorado
as well as there's Tornado Alley which is close to that zone
and that was really exciting because I had met up with a crew
who was sort of veterans in chasing storms and capturing data.
I jumped on board and we ended up chasing a tornado
through about 3 states caught up with it.
This is in 2009, in Wyoming
and got up close and personal with with an F2 tornado
and actually went inside the tornado.
And I got a real intimate interaction with the storm.
The balance of all of these forces, these electrical discharges
that were happening inside of the clouds and the anvil
that was sort of leading the storm in close proximity to the tornado
and all the mesocyclones than were surrounding the zone and...
After I came out of that tornado, it was really clear
that there was an immense amount of knowledge to be had by observing nature
and these principles that we obviously can be using
to better humanity and better the world at large and so
I immediately dove into R&D on different types of technologies
that would be able to utilize these principles that I became so intimate with in that storm;
vortex dynamics, plasma discharges
and also experimenting different ways to interact with gravity,
to understand gravity better.
This thing that we call gravity, right.
After a couple of years of that I ended up meeting with,
meeting up with a crew here in Ashland, Oregon
and we developed a company called ThrivalTech
where we initially set out to make the internal combustion engine more efficient
and pollute less, if at all,
and in our R&D we discover a lot of amazing things
where in various types of plasmas that we could generate,
we were able to observe a lot of interesting phenomena when we,
for instance, in our diesel particulate oxidation technology,
which we have patented,
where we were subjecting carbon particulate to high-voltage electric fields
and we would get this self, this effect that would strongly resemble self-assembling,
I mean, it was really fascinating, really amazing.
It was a bit jaw-dropping, you know,
these things that spur out of some rudimentary experiment that you're not anticipating
and it's really, it was really amazing to discover that,
you know, you can generate these type of effects
that strongly resemble biomechanical motion or swarm behavior
that you see in fish or in birds or in insects and so on.
It's littered throughout nature, swarm behaviors and self-assembling.
So, when we saw that we could manipulate this carbon material
which essentially comprised carbon nano-spheres,
we were able to really get a good handle on how we can utilize those principles
to reduce emissions on a diesel engine for instance.
And so by discovering or rediscovering this inherent effect;
when you put those two things together; the nano, carbon nano spheres
and really strong electric fields,
you get this type of effect where you have a more
apparent control over carbon particulate inside of a diesel engine.
All of this soot that's spewing out of all the diesel engines it's a big issue
for everybody on this planet as we breathe the same air and so.
You know, through these phenomena that we discovered in the lab,
you know, we want to really apply it so that's exactly what we did,
we've immediately directly applied that to the engine and
now we have a really good and effective technology
to reduce the carbon particulate matter in internal combustion engine.
So that's one application. Another is when we were
looking to be able to reform different gases, essentially,
you know, we wanted to say take the hydrogen out of the hydrocarbon bond
and we want to separate everything, right,
but we wanted to use the hydrogen for hydrogen-enhanced combustion
as sort of a pre-ignition fuel treatment system
and the only way we could do that efficiently was
what academic science has taught us, is fuel reformation of various kinds
but the science behind some of these,
I would say, unconventional methods of fuel reformation were largely unexplored
and with regard to applying a high voltage electric arc,
initiating an arc discharge and then applying a magnetic field to it.
I mean you end up getting this really beautiful rotating plasma
that strongly resembles a galactic plane in a lot of different modes.
You know, when you look at something that's supposedly light-years in diameter
and you look at the Hubble telescope images and so on, and then
you look at your laboratory experiment and it's one and a half inches in diameter
but it's really challenging to tell the difference just in the image.
That starts giving us a lot of ideas on what's going on in nature
and so we were able to utilize that phenomenon
that we rediscovered in our lab to
apply to a really efficient method of fuel reformation
where we could generate high-quality synthesis gas
from hydrocarbon fuels of various types by applying these principles
and we, since then, have archived thousands of videos and images
on so many different types of benchtop galaxies,
you know, for lack of better words,
and we're doing a whole classification chart
similar to how Hubble initiated his classification chart,
just because of the fact that there's so many different ways you can
change the input parameters and yield staggeringly similar optical phenomena
as you would see coming out of Hubble
and so, you know, more and more we're realizing that
there's a strong electric field component to a lot of the natural principles
that we can see throughout our daily lives
and we are ever more excited and inspired
to keep on applying that and developing technologies that will better us all.
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