EMROD - Wireles Energy - Again

[David Chamberlain]

There are several threads here about this company already.

Today the CEO Greg Kushnir was given air time, and a complete free pass to say whatever he liked, on New Zealand's public (state funded) broadcaster Radio New Zealand ..

You can listen here.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons/audio/2018863004/company-leading-emerging-technology-for-electricity

Here are some select quotes
A: "...The beam in the air loses almost nothing"
Q: "So how much would it lose end to end?"
A: "... 40%" "...60% early next year"
Q: "are they safe or would you get fried if you walked through one of these things?"
A: "We don't have enough time to go through all the safety measures, but I will just mention two..."
A: "one; is the actual stuff that goes through the air, that substance, um it's not high power laser, it's ah, microwave the same frequencies, pretty much, as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth. So there is a good body of knowledge, there is a good understanding of what you can do with that and how you can and can't use that."
A: "The main point is access control. So we put it out of reach, just like you do with high power lines, and we surround it with a safety curtain witch is based on RADAR and LIDAR technology which means that anything and anyone who's about to enter the main beam, say a helicopter or bird will trigger a momentary shutdown"

So I'm reassured that it will not kill bird and take down helicopters. Thanks good

But in 2020 he was saying efficiency was 60% so something must have gone wrong with the laws of physics during the pandemic - I know my efficiency dropped
Source: this AMA he did in 2020 - also an amusing read.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24422897

In the AMA he also explains
"There are no sidelobes. We are using near-field and catching close to 100% of the radiated energy"

Anyway he goes Greg but you can see his linked in profile his real name is Zvi Kushnir

This leads you to the NZ Company register.
https://app.companiesoffice.govt.nz/companies/app/ui/pages/individual/search?roleType=ALL&q=KUSHNIR%2C++Zvi&advancedPanel=true&mode=advanced&indDirStatus=ALL&indShrStatus=ALL

previously been a director of these exciting past ventures.
- Caidoz LTD :
- Sure Technologies LTD : In Liquidation : https://tinyurl.com/42vz8re6 (paywall)
- Tatau LTD : Crypto company - In Liquidation : https://tinyurl.com/yck978rt (paywall)
- Parcae LTD :
- Peregrine LTD :
- Nextar NZ LTD : Past director of this payday loan company https://nectar.co.nz/


Now Emrod has some quite well respected people working for them. Such as Dr Ray Simpkin.
https://emrod.energy/dr-ray-simpkin-emrod-cso-science-new-zealand-lifetime-achievement-award-winner/

But that's weird.. if you look at the Science NZ awards page for 2020, he's not mentioned. And perhaps did not stick around for the group photo either. The person who won the Lifetime Achievement Award was Bruce Warburton, has grey hair but no bow-tie.
https://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/news/science-nz-awards-2020/
Embarrassing correction. I eventually found it on web archive, and he did receive this award in 2020. Of course Landcare Research only list winners that they employ.
https://web.archive.org/web/20211201180736/https://sciencenewzealand.org/news-and-events/awards/


Anyway I'm not doubting his doctorate or credentials
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ray-Simpkin

More questioning how seemingly intelligent people get involved with these seemingly suspicious looking CEO's.

This is all just my opinion though.

[David Chamberlain]

[Haenk]

More questioning how seemingly intelligent people get involved with these seemingly suspicious looking CEO's.

Lottamoney?
Plus the freedom to do your own funded research, maybe? There is probably no point in researching the claimed technology further, but it is certainly great to show some "stuff" plus a real science guy to potential investors...

[AlbertL]

This statement alone convinced me it's a scam:
"Using proprietary relay technology, Emrod’s system has the capability to transmit power over vast distances." (see https://emrod.energy/emrod-vs-teslas-long-range-wireless-power-technology/ ).

[krish2487]

EMROD??
I dont know about that.. but if you buy into the claims then you certainly are a NIMROD! 

[hamster_nz]

It is very hard to tell at which point "valid research" gives way to "talking things up" to "outright deceit".

It's like that old joke: "it is a pile of shit and stinks to heaven" reaches middle management as  "it is a load of manure, and very potent" reaches the CEO as  "it is very powerful and promotes growth". Nobody is lying, but the end of the chain is very different to the start, and they want to keep it that way.

“it is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” - Upton Sinclair

[Marco]

There are no sidelobes. We are using near-field and catching close to 100% of the radiated energy

Near field, so the two antennas are a couple cm apart?

[SiliconWizard]

Yeah.

[ebastler]

EMROD??
I dont know about that.. but if you buy into the claims then you certainly are a NIMROD! 

 

[SiliconWizard]

Well sure. Anyone heard of the Wardenclyffe Tower?

[David Chamberlain]

Thanks to the ESA SOLARIS project...
https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Technology/SOLARIS/SOLARIS2

EMROD is again featured on NZ News..
https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/11/23/kiwi-company-behind-solar-space-farms-that-could-power-millions/

and BBC but they did not manage to get a name check...


But figure me this... Won't the efficiency of this wireless power transmission need to be a lot more than 70% to justify putting solar panels in space?

https://www.pveducation.org/pvcdrom/properties-of-sunlight/atmospheric-effects

How are they going to detect birds and airplanes in the 'Death Ray Strike Zone' in order to turn the power off, as Zvi promised us in previous interviews?

also also, you would want to beam the power directly down so as to reduce the path length through the atmosphere. Are they only going to work for a few hours per day? Are these solar collectors geostationary? But then what happens at night?

I have so many exciting questions for our exciting space solar energy harvesting future

[Marco]

No, space energy beaming doesn't need particularly high efficiency if they can make the satellite cheap enough (which is the biggest problem). Space energy beaming is competing against generation, not transmission and faces entirely different issues.

Even given the much higher powers involved, space energy beaming would still have far lower power density in the beam than emrod for practical applications. Huge fields of rectennas not some dinky little receiver like in that youtube clip.

[SiliconWizard]

And... see you in 10 years in court. 

[hamster_nz]

and BBC but they did not manage to get a name check...

I look at that rendering, and geostationary orbit is at 35,786 km. Let's say the receiver is 100m, x 100m.

What's the inverse tangent of 0.1/35,786? 50 millionths of a degrees?

And at least any side-lobes will be pointing at Mars!

[twospoons]

"Thats no moon power generator - thats a space station weapon!"