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FE Inventor Joseph Papp:
Pulsed Plasma Energy Conversion
Fastest Submarines, Endless Carburetors & Other
Claims
Overview
Synopsis: Joseph Papp invented and demonstrated a pulsed plasma
discharge automotive style piston engine that ran on sealed charges of noble gas
mixtures in the cylinders. Electric arc ignition triggers far greater
output than input.
Brief History: In 1967, Joseph Papp built a modified Volvo engine to run
on a sealed charge of noble gases in the cylinders. It was publicly
demonstrated in Los Angeles in '68. The engine controls were run on 110
VAC wall current through an extension cord. Richard Feynman attended and
pulled the plug; the engine continued to run for several minutes, but began
running rough. Papp took away the plug from Feynman and plugged it back
in. The engine exploded. One person was killed. Feynman
accused Papp of using explosives to deliberately destroy the engine to keep the
supposed hoax alive. Papp sued Feynman and Caltech, and Caltech settled
out of court in Papp's favor. If explosives were used, Caltech would never
have settled out of court.
Papp went on to improve the engine design until 1989 when he died. He did
not fully disclose his invention, despite 3 patents and many business associates
who helped him build several working engines. The USPTO required a
certified dynamometer test in '83 that was done, and the third patent was issued
in '84. The dyno results were in the neighborhood of 500 ft lbs of torque
at 500 rpm and 100 hp.
TRW was involved with Papp until the engine explosion that killed someone.
Just prior to that public demonstration, a private demo was done for TRW in the
California desert. A nobel gas-charged cannon was detonated. Instead
of launching the 10 lb. projectile, the projectile lodged in the barrel and the
1/4" thick stainless steel barrel exploded like a peeled banana.
Clean Energy, Inc., which is resurrecting the Papp engine, has 8 mm camera
footage from that event. Contact CEI at cleanenergyinc@sbcglobal.com.
Cecil Baumgartner, a consultant to CEI, was present that day as a TRW employee;
he lives in Glendale, CA.
Courtesy of Ken Rauen, Chief Technology Officer, CEI, Palo Alto, CA
March 4, 2004
Variants
- Video
of Jimmy Sabori's Papp Engine Variants - A two-cycle engine
demonstrates power output up to 500 HP on a dynamometer; and a
one-cycle engine with Plexiglas cylinder shows ignition of noble gas
in vacuum process, which current physics says is impossible. (PESWiki;
Mar. 15, 2006)
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Proponents
Skeptics
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoaxnotes.html
6/21/03: A visitor named Heinz
Klostermann sent me quite a bit of info about Joseph Papp, a
Hungarian-born inventor who first claimed that he had built a submarine
capable of traveling at 300 mph, and later claimed to have built a car engine
that could run for six months without refueling. Heinz sent an
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apparently
written by the physicist Richard Feynman describing a demonstration of
Papp's engine. It turns out that Heinz has been working for the past three
years to reinvent Papp's engine (the secret of how to build it died with
Papp). If you have any info about Papp he'd like you to contact him at: AHK2@rcn.com.
Also check out the
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See also
Contact
- Ken
Rauen - intimate knowledge of Papp technology
Page posted by SDA,
July 9, 2003.
Last updated March 16, 2006
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Joseph
Papp's Noble Gas Engine - Ken Rauen, who has experimentally worked
with the engine, posts an encyclopedic entry reviewing the technology: what
it is, and its history. (PESWiki; Oct. 10, 2005)
