User:Xiutwel/Joe Cell

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A Joe Cell is a controversial device (and possibly a hoax) that has been claimed to generate overunity effects by powering a normal internal combustion engine. If true, this device would be a perpetual motion machine.

[edit] Supposed history of the cell

The device is supposedly being popularized by a man named Joe who lives in Byron Bay (New South Wales, Australia).{{who|date=July 2007}}

In April 2006, Bill Williams told a discussion list that he successfully tested a device known as the Joe Cell. He was in the process of disclosing how he accomplished this when he claimed to be confronted on April 11 by two unidentified individuals who told him to cease all of his alternative energy work or there would be dire consequences. The device continues to be promoted by others. There are quite a few available videos on the internet purporting to be videos of the cell either functioning, being built, or running engines.

One of the Promoters is a group called Byron New Energy (BNE). There exists also a company in Australia (Nutech 2000) that sells the cell. Others have invented similar devices or changed the construction partially.

[edit] Supposed construction

A Joe Cell is a device constructed from a series of concentric stainless steel cylinders sealed at the bottom and top and separated by insulating spacers. The device is filled with pure water. Before the device can be used, the water in the cell needs to be conditioned. To achieve this, a continuous current is left flowing through the device for an initial charging period. When the device is installed in a vehicle, the internal cylinder (cathode) is connected to the negative terminal of the car battery. The device is then connected to the vacuum port on the vehicle's carburetor by way of an aluminum tube with a small rubber hose connecting the two. The vacuum from the engine creates a low pressure environment within the cell. Some even claim that the tube is not to actually be connected to the engine at all, instead being suspended a few centemeters above the engine. Supposedly engines made primarily of aluminum work best.