Coherent Energy Transformation - UPDATE #1 - John Hutchison and other comments

A new dawn

LIVE BOUNCED ZOOM CALL recorded on Sun 13 July 2025 - 22:30 CET

Where we are

For the frequencies of light that plants can absorb, photosynthesis is astonishingly effective at capturing energy, some put it as high as 30%.

Internal combustion engines (ICE) are about 20–30% efficient for gasoline engines while diesel engines can reach 35–45%. In recent tests by Jordan Collin and colleagues of Alchemical Science on gasoline generators modified with a Thunderstorm Generator (TSG), they have tentatively claimed energy efficiency increases of around 60%, meaning that the engines overall efficiency might reach 48%.

Coal plants have similar efficiencies to internal combustion engines (30-40%), these could also benefit from conversion, however, combined-cycle gas turbines can exceed that of even a TSG modified ICE, 50-60% and so there is less room for improvement.

In the case of nuclear fission, common commercially used modern pressurised water reactors (PWRs) and boiling water reactors (BWRs), achieve thermal efficiencies of 33-37%. Advanced designs, like Generation IV reactors, may reach up to 40-45% or higher due to improved technologies, such as higher operating temperatures.

Where nature is better, is that you don’t have to embed much energy in the process of photosynthesis, you do not have to mine and refine, you don’t have to spend billions making a nuclear plant. Where possible, the plant just grows - it feeds on the energy and other necessary resources around it.

A new dawn

To make a transformational change to our energy mix - we need to work with nature in the way it wants to work. We also need to capture both the rarified energy in our surroundings and that which is concentrated into the building blocks of condensed matter. There is one phenomena above all others that has defied explanation over centuries which appears to be the bridge between these two extremes - Ball Lightning.

Over the past 13 years, we have learned that this natural phenomena exists in the kind of experiments that many researchers have been trying to make into new means of energy production.

Today we launch a coherent effort to harness this natural phenomenon for humanity.

UPDATE #1 - John Hutchison and other comments

So the community consultation ended up a 50/50 split between ‘Transformation’ and the combined votes given to ‘Reformation’ and ‘Transduction’ . I did not vote myself and I tried hard in all my communications to ensure that I did not show any bias, but I can tell you now, that the winner was my personal choice from the outset.

Happy bunny.

What I didn’t see - and it made me laugh - was that the ‘winning’ word was actually an abbreviated concatenation of those other two ‘loosing’ words - a beautifully poetic linguistic twist that takes the whole community together as one. What do I mean?

A YouTube comment says it neatly:

“IMO if we combined TRANSduction and reFORMATION we get Transformation. Coherent Energy transduction and reformation leads to Coherent Energy Transformation. Transduction and reformation are a part of the process.”

- @IosephusBorg, 14 July 2025

John Hutchison also sent a pertinent document for us to consider as part of this collective work called “Ball Lightning Fusion Reactors”, its thinking is older “Ball Lightning Events Explained as Self-Stable High-Density Plasma Toroids or Atmospheric Spheromaks”, but it is a valuable document to consider all the same given the researchers credentials mentioned

• Clint Seward - “in 1992, he discovered a new plasma toroid, or spheromak, that remains stable in atmosphere with no external toroidal magnetic fields for containment. He made this discovery while searching for an explanation to Ball Lightning.”

and familiar claims such as:

• New Space Propulsion Technology to Lift Payloads into Orbit with 99% Cost

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• Ball Lightning and Self-Confined Thermonuclear Reactions
  “The electric field between the electrodes will polarize the discharge plasma into an upper half with negative space charge and a lower half with positive space charge. Magnetic fields turn the plasma sphere into a hydro-magnetic capacitor…
  …Once the plasma ball is in the reaction chamber thermonuclear fuel is added to the ambient atmosphere. The fuel enters the plasma ball through diffusion and the meridional circulation carries it to the hot thermonuclear centre where release of nuclear energy sustains the reaction.”
  “lt can be speculated that ball lightning represents a quasi-superconducting state in which charges are carried by boson-like particles (solitary waves) which decrease ohmic losses.”

I have long suspected that the ‘plasma instabilities’ in ordinary Tokamak research, are in fact, nature trying to do what it wants to do and form self organised stable structures akin to Ball Lightning. Well the document, I assumed, referred to one of John Hutchison’s most respected (and sadly departed) friends, one Elizabeth Valerie Ann Rauscher, PhD. who conducted research on plasma instabilities during her time at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from 1966 to 1969.

Look here Wikipedia - Elizabeth Rauscher and Here for a list of publications, including the 1968 plasma physics paper.

Rauscher, E. A. (1968). “Electron interactions and quantum plasma physics”. Journal of Plasma Physics, 2(04), 517. doi:10.1017/s0022377800004013

The document linked to by John claims states the following

“lt is well known that laboratories in this country and abroad are attempting to induce nuclear fusion through confinement of hot plasmas. The two most popular concepts involve magnetic confinement and inertial confinement. However, other concepts do exist. Rauscher (1984) suggested that plasma instabilities may be overcome through a better understanding of their nature. lt is argued that plasma instabilities are actually stable growth modes in the plasma. These modes are actually dispersive but contain a mechanism for recoherence through a nonlinear term.”

- Dr. Jack Y. Dea, Arizona State University, April 1, 2019

I argue that extreme multi-axis hydrodynamic shear (which introduces helicity) of plasmas or ionic fluids, particularly around standing wave nodes or in the process of hydrodynamic flow, leads to fractal magneto-hydrodynamic self-organised structures. These are able to self-contain their fields, pull in fuel through their primary vortex, cohere it at the phase-singularity topological monopole, which is the core of a Kerr-Neumann like black-hole analogue, contain and manipulate the matter and energy forms so contained and ultimately transform it in a range of ways.