ZPEnergy.com - Are GWE and GWL (Gardner Watts) related?

"What do we make of Gardner Watts?"

Cervantes said it best four hundred years ago... the translation being something like, "I begin to smell a rat"....

From the website: "Gardner Watts' HEC Process uses... conditions which allow the cell to operate at a much lower than normal 'decomposition voltage'...

In small scale independent bench tests by a University this factor was measured at times 29."

OK... if you don't see the problem there (as well as many other totally irrational claims made on the Gardner Watts website write-up) then open your wallet, as little I can say will help. Yes, it is true that Faradaic limitations can arguably be breached at higher voltages (plasma conditions) or at higher temperatures... and even at STP, they can be breached somewhat ... but whoa...not by a factor of 29 times... no way. This definitely smacks of a similar con-game which was attempted by a pseudo-company last year (curiously with a similar sounding name): GWE... now facing criminal indictment for securities fraud, thanks to the quick response of forums like this (and the tireless effort of John Lichtenstein):

http://www.greaterthings.com/News/FreeEnergy/Directory/Hydrogen/Genesis/fraud/NJ_attorneygeneral/PR031209.htm

My suspicion is that the two outfits GWE and GWL are related.

For those interested in really important water-splitting research, see the new paper by Mizuno on the LENR-CANR website:

http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/MizunoTconfirmatib.pdf

Mizuno, T., T. Akimoto, and T. Ohmori.
"Confirmation of anomalous hydrogen generation by plasma electrolysis." in 4th Meeting of Japan CF Research Society. 2003. Iwate, Japan: Iwate University.

This paper has many implications indicating that "excess heat" may not always be related (technically) to any kind of LENR at all, at least as that is usually defined, but may be "supra-chemical"... but then again, perhaps the evolving
definition of CANR could be broadened to include higher energy reactions in which the nucleus of any reactant is not altered permanently (permanently being the key word) ...

Jones Beene