I use web crawlers to look for interesting and innovative technological breakthroughs. On May 30, 2022, what follows came into my email inbox. I’m still trying to determine whether this is a hoax or real. But here goes.
Voltage Enterprises is an Abu Dhabi-based company founded a year ago. It describes itself as a disruptive energy innovator. It claims to have invented a zero-carbon emissions fuel that is cheaper than natural gas. It calls the fuel Kinetic 7 (TM). The information I received states:
“The clean gas, which is carbon neutral with net-zero emissions, will give global economies access to a cheap, endless supply of clean energy. Importantly, it will allow countries to maintain the security of their gas and energy supplies whilst also meeting their carbon-neutral net-zero targets. This discovery could play a major role in reversing the global energy crisis, significantly reducing energy costs to the consumer and businesses sectors at a time when the cost-of-living crisis is worsening, and inflation has reached a 40-year high.”
If that doesn’t sound fantastic to you then I am surprised. Kinetic 7 is purportedly manna from heaven for the energy industry or represents disruptive change on a global scale. So which is it and what is it?
Kinetic 7 is harvested from water. Doesn’t that sound like hydrogen which can also be harvested from water and requires the use of electrolyzers to separate the gas?
But Kinetic 7, unlike hydrogen doesn’t split water molecules. Instead, when an electric current is passed through water it causes molecular clustering, oxidization and friction. The end result is the process produces a reactive inert gas that is safe for domestic and commercial energy use. Voltage Enterprises is producing a plug-in device for homes, a scaled-up version for business, and a small camp stove version for Developing World and remote locations. The plug-in does the “water-to-Kinetic 7” conversion. That’s not to be confused with “water-to-wine” as in the New Testament.
According to Rick Parish, Executive Chairman of Aquarius Global, an investment incubator behind Voltage Enterprises, Kinetic 7 produces fuel 80% cheaper than current energy sources. He doesn’t say against which fuel he is making this claim.
Water is the source of Kinetic 7. It doesn’t even have to be treated to be used. With a small amount of electricity (DC or AC), and a water source a Kinetic 7 unit like the one seen in the illustration above can be attached to a home and used to provide fuel for cooking, hot water systems, and ambient and underfloor heating.
Currently, real-world trials are underway and once completed Voltage Enterprises hopes to launch the product globally within the next year. The company is seeking international energy partners to assist it in the global rollout and marketing of the technology.
Kinetic 7 Real or an Energy Hoax
Typical energy scams around green solutions don’t read the way this is being presented to the public. But hoaxes have been perpetrated on the public for centuries. The energy field certainly has had its share from perpetual motion machines to flywheels.
More recently, cold fusion has been one of them. It came on the scene in the late 20th century and a number of cheap energy “devices” were built as prototypes as showcases.
First mentioned in a 1989 published paper that described a chemistry laboratory experiment using anodes and cathodes inserted in a chemical bath. When surplus energy was detected with a suspicion that it was being caused by atoms chemically fusing at room temperatures, the paper made headlines around the world.
Other laboratories tried to reproduce the results with many unable to duplicate what had been observed. But that didn’t stop bandwagon jumpers from adopting cold fusion as a panacea for an energy-demanding world.
One of the biggest perpetrators of the cold fusion hoax was Andrea Rossi whose E-Cat (short for Energy Catalyzer) was promoted as the first commercial cold fusion power generator for home use. Rossi did numerous demonstrations of his device and a North Carolina company bought its marketing rights. But where is it today? Nowhere to be seen. So will Voltage Enterprises and Kinetic 7 turn out to be one and the same? We will see.
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Some articles claim Kinetic 7 is both “inert” and a “reactive gas”. Which is it 🙂
I am still waiting for an answer to a number of questions I have about Kinetic 7. Thanks for adding to the list.
I would very much like to see a follow up on this. I have worked for Rick Parish and he is a self-centered narcissist full of crap with a delusional sense of self importance that is through the roof. This really does sound like a claim that he would made, foh shoh! I’m already laughing hard! The lenghts he’ll go to try and get attention! Good Lord! Bless his heart! hahuauahuahuahuah!
Interesting that you should ask for a follow up. Since the original announcement, there has been nothing said about this miracle fuel harvested from water. I think your comments are warranted.
Chemically water is a molecule composed of Hydrogen and Oxygen, so only these 2 chemical elements can form a basis for other molecules. So unless you believe in alchemy, creating any other gases than oxygen, hydrogen or water (in gas phase) is impossible according to well-established principles in chemistry and physics. Too simple to debunk as fake as it goes against the most basic principles.
Have you heard of HHO? It has been around for hundreds of years, and there are commercial welders that use this gas. H2O is broken down through hydrolysis, separating the elements, and the hydrogen is burned for fuel.
Indeed, HHO has been around for a long time. It was the original welding gas. A big disadvantage of HHO is it takes more energy to make it than is yielded in using it.