The Giza Power Plant : Technologies of Ancient Egypt

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Summary: Beliefs have no bearing on the truth
Review: This book is an astonishing example of just how far the fiction writing mind can go and be passed off as objective analysis in what is supposed to be an educated society. It is complete nonsense, having nothing to do with the true laws of physics, but borrowing a few of the words such as "acoustical harmonic resonance" and then proceeding to write a book to sell to feeble minded people, the truth being irrelevant.

For thoughtful, objective, intelligent and logical thinking people, the truth has been known for at least 15 years, following the publishing of the book "The Pyramids; An Enigma Resolved" by Margie Morris and Joseph Davidovits where it is clearly laid out that the Pyramids were poured out of an ancient cement technology where long lines of Egyptians handed a limestone based concrete hand over hand up the Pyramid from the quarries at the base (where the Nile river could help make the cement), MUCH AS THEY DO TODAY, to pour huge blocks (some up to 500 tons) in place with complete perfection, and tolerances of .005 inch between them. ALL of the evidence fits, and all contradictions are resolved. When Ms. Morris publishes her new book soon, this should be read cover to cover, and there is also coming soon a second edition of "The Pyramids, An Enigma Resolved" by Davidovits and his son, with new material. The search for the truth is OVER and people will not be suckered into paying good money for this nonsense (does it have "entertainment only" at the bottom?).

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Summary: It can help our modern progressive science to find ground
Review: The book keeps pace with my recent findings in the area of fundamental physics: the oriented pyramid is a resonator of the Earth inerton waves, that is, the aether wind, which was elusive from scientists in the 19th and the beginning of 20th centuries. When Einstein proposed his very formal general relativity all studies, which touched the aether problems, were abandoned. However, today the inerton field is already revealed. The field influences objects in the same way as ultrasound. That is why I absolutely support Chris Dunn's theory: indeed, the Pyramid was constructed as a power plant that transduced the Earth vibrating energy into the electromagnetic energy. That is why the book is highly recommended to all thinking scientists, especially, physicists.

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Summary: More Stars are needed, Everyone should read this book.
Review: For those of you who just can't stomach the nonsense they try to tell us about the Great Pyramid, welcome home. If I had my way every child in school would have to learn what Chris Dunn teaches us about the world; yes, that's right, about the world.

The lesson is more profound than the Great Pyramid, because it shows us 4 disturbing things, conculsively: 1. We've been lied too for decades about what happened in Egypt, the tools they had and how they accomplished the many things they did, 2. That a great civilization existed and has since perished, and that we need to be careful about what we accept as fact: common sense HAS value 3. That we have yet to reach a technology that was once possesed here on earth thousands of years ago, and 4. That many things told to us as facts, are not.

This is a tremendous book, and I wish I had the ability to put it on TV at 8 pm at night and draw the attention to it that it needs, because mankind will take a giant leap forward when that finally happens.

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Summary: The Giza Power Plant:
Review: Evidence suggests that the pyramids of Egypt are more than tombs. But if not tombs, what was their purpose? Christopher Dunn provides an answer in The Giza Power Plant: Technologies of Ancient Egypt.

Dunn, who has "worked with machines for over thirty-five years," became intrigued with the Grand Pyramid, which he says is "the largest, most precisely built, and most accurately aligned building ever constructed in the world." He knew it had a special purpose and set out to learn what that purpose was.

His journey included carefully weighing all the theories to date as to the origin and purpose of the pyramids. None of those theories fit all the known details and available artifacts. Not trained as an archeologist or in traditional Egyptology, he used his own experience as a master craftsman and engineer to re-evaluate the existing evidence, as well as doing some original research.

When he had compiled everything, Dunn concluded that the pyramids were built with a technology superior to any presently in use and that they were "the power plants of the ancient Egyptians." He says the builders of the pyramids used them to convert the Earth's "vibrational energy into microwave energy." That energy "was most likely used for the same reasons we would use it today--to power machines and appliances."

Photographs and illustrations explain and support his theories.

Dunn hypothesizes a future in which the technology used by the ancients could be used to draw off seismic energy, not only providing a clean and inexhaustible energy source, but also eliminating the earthquakes caused by the accumulation of that energy within the Earth.

The Giza Power Plant is a must-read for anyone interested in the fascinating story of who built the pyramids, how they did it, and why they built such massive structures with such precision.

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Summary: The Pyramids
Review: Although I haven't read your book and there is some things in there I agree with . I can share from my rememberance that the pyramids hold wisdom, light and love. Truth as one may say. This is in my rememberance. Osiris is part of it and there are others. Yes, some say this place is a generator. All I can share true in a way it was/is. As far as the building of it there were no techniques we as humans would know of. You remember the Stonehedge and how they were moved. In either case I recommend this book to read. Discern what is truthful to you. It may not be to another.

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Summary: Will send Egyptologists scurrying for cover
Review: Most books on the Great Pyramid offer weak explanations of some of its more curious and amazing features, while honestly admitting to being totally baffled by others. The weakest explanation of all, of course, is that offered by orthodox Egyptology, the obvious nonsense that is propagated in all standard texts and encyclopedias and that is taught to us all as childen: that the Great Pyramid is a tomb and was built by primitive workers using copper tools.

Perhaps, as coming from men of theory, wholly divorced from material realities, and who have probably never so much as hammered a nail into a piece of wood, this silliness is the best we can expect. After all, it takes a person with a certain engineering expertise to fully appreciate and begin to understand a marvel of engineering such as the Great Pyramid, a marvel that we ourselves, for all our advanced technology, couldn't even begin to duplicate.

Christopher Dunn has proved himself to be just such a person. As a trained machinist with an expert eye, he has engaged in an impressively original exercise in reverse engineering which succeeds in offering highly convincing explanations of ALL of the significant features of the pyramid (not just its materials) and of the science underlying them. The pyramid as a machine and power plant makes far more sense than the pyramid as a tomb, and although details of his argument are, as he himself admits, probably open to question, his main thesis looks likely to stand the test of time.

Even if some of his details should prove to be wrong, his main thesis will certainly stimulate a lot of new thought about the real purpose of the pyramid and the precise nature of the energy it was clearly built to generate. One wishes he had said a little more about this microwave energy. Mightn't it, for example, have also been used as some sort of communications device? One also wishes that he had omitted the Cayce material as being largely unintelligible and adding little to his thesis.

But despite these two minor shortcomings, and despite the fact that he may be proved wrong in certain details, Dunn has certainly given us a fascinating and highly insightful account of the Great Pyramid in a book that may turn out to one of the most important ever written on this subject, a book that will undoubtedly send Egyptologists scurrying for cover. One puts it down with a renewed admiration and respect for the knowledge of the ancients, and wondering when moderns are finally going to abandon the foolish notion that we are the first truly intelligent people to inhabit the planet.

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Summary: Where did the power come from???
Review: Although Dunn explains how it was built and is original, he does not explain where the power (i.e. electricity) comes from. Yet another baseless theory. Graham Hancock, J.A. West, and Robert Buaval Has dealt with the Giza Necropolis the best. I am glad I did not buy this book.

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Summary: Some Specific Reasons Why Dunn Is Dead Wrong
Review: Dunn says the Great Pyramid blocks were machined without explainingwhat powered the tools. In Dunn's scenario, electricity existed onlysubsequent to construction!

Dunn offers an incorrect description ofthe rock-concrete (geopolymer) theory, which theory obviates his. Why?

Developing his theory, Dunn consulted various individuals, but nogeopolymer spokesperson, despite admitting that geopolymerizationchallenged him. Why?

Dunn does not refute the chemical analyses ofpyramid stone he cites. Instead, he irrelevantly points to sarcophagimade over 1000 years after the Great Pyramid was built, when thestone-making technology was in decline.

Dunn assumes thatgeopolymers, if used at all, were only poured into molds. Wrong!Unhardened rock-concrete can be worked like clay on a potter'swheel. Objects can be created by packing together individualquantities of uncured rock-concrete, skillfully shaped and finishedwith simple tools before ultimate hardening. A finish can be appliedwith one or more rock-concrete coatings. These techniques are usedseparately or in combination to construct an object. This flexiblesystem eliminated quarrying, shaping, lifting and setting natural rockblocks and explains the heretofore unresolved features of the GreatPyramid and associated monuments and artifacts. Why didn't Dunndiscuss this?

Revealing a rock-concrete object's construction methodmay require a subsurface examination. Distinguishing between naturalrock and geopolymeric rock-concrete will normally require chemicalanalysis and microscopy, the geopolymer cement requiring a scanningelectron microscope. Dunn ignores these facts.

Modern quarriesexhibit cuts made by power saws. If the pyramid blocks were machined,the pyramid era quarries should exhibit similar marks. But they bearonly the crude marks of stone picks (Arnold, D., "Building InEgypt"), a fact consistent with a disaggregation process forgeopolymerization. Dunn ignores this, too.

The Great Pyramid'slimestone blocks are geopolymeric rock-concrete made at ambienttemperatures with the Giza quarry's high-clay-content limestone,initially disaggregated because its clay was released by water thatflooded the quarries. It's been demonstrated! Granite was otherwisedisaggregated.

Rejecting the pyramids as funerary monuments, Dunnasks why robbers would steal "corpses" (mummies), failing toacknowledge that royal mummy wrappings have contained numerousprecious amulets.

Egyptologists understand that the Great Pyramid,containing a sarcophagus and surrounded by royal tombs in theNecropolis ("City of the Dead"), represents the mythologicalprimeval mountain. This fundamental religious concept, which Egyptshared with other nations, survived in architecture (pyramids,ziggurats, and temples) for several thousand years. Dunn ignores thisconcept. To disprove that the Great Pyramid is a primeval mountainfunerary monument, Dunn must convincingly disprove the Great Pyramid'srelationship to this concept. He does not.

Dunn speculates that acataclysm caused machine tools to vanish. But what cataclysm lastedover 6000 years, during which time artifacts of the type Dunn claimswere machined, were fashioned? Diorite vessels date to Neolithic times(c. 7000 B.C.). Diorite continued to be fashioned until at least the25th Dynasty (712-657 B.C.). This spans over 6000 years. The 18th(1550-1307 B.C.) and 19th (1307-1196 B.C.) Dynasties produced trulyimpressive monolithic colossi of granite or quartzite weighing up toover 1000-tons each. How could machine tools and all associated hightechnology, used for over 6000 years, disappear while primitive toolsand low technology objects survived?

Dunn asserts that an iron scrapfound inside the Great Pyramid proves contemporaneous ironproduction. Egyptologists don't agree, citing extensive 19th Dynastypyramid repairs and the absence of convincing evidence of ironsmelting. No sealed Old Kingdom (2575-2134 B.C.) tomb has yieldedwrought iron. Evidence for even one smelting facility dated to the Oldor Middle Kingdom is lacking. If original, said iron could be aforeign gift placed in the masonry, like amulets inserted into mummywrappings.

For his power plant to work, Dunn claims iron and goldlined the entire lengths of the narrow northern and southern shafts ofthe King's Chamber. Dunn presents no evidence for such a lining, savefor the implication of the above-mentioned unconvincing ironscrap. However, he partially inspected the northern shaft and mentionsno sign of metal or its removal.

Dunn does not explain how energywas transferred to power tools. He incongruously mixes low and hightechnology, claiming that a wood and bronze "grapnel hook"is part of a critical fluid control switch--as if its curved edge is aproper contact surface. Dunn offers no proof that it floats or itsweight distribution allows the required horizontal flotation. It isunbelievable that Dunn's advanced technology coexisted with such"gerry-rigging." Bronze appeared in Egypt hundreds of yearsafter the Great Pyramid's construction. This hook, resembling nothingknown from the Pyramid Age, is probably nothing but a "grapnelhook" placed in the Great Pyramid long after itsconstruction.

Dunn asserts that a crack in the Queen's Chambermetered fluids! A crack is subject to erosion, and dimensionalinstability caused by settlement, earthquakes and etc. Why wouldengineers using ultrasound, high-speed motorized machinery and moreimpressive technology substitute "Flintstones" technologyfor a drilled orifice or truly sophisticated meteringdevice?

Features Dunn claims support a power plant actually supportgeopolymerization best. For instance, Dunn says that the power plant'schemicals created salt on certain limestone walls because of areaction with the limestone. But geopolymerized stone can release suchsalt.... Salt appears on walls of other pyramids. For instance, Petriereported "a good deal of crystallized salt" inside Khafra'sgranite (not limestone!) sarcophagus. Dunn ignores these facts thatoppose his theory. This phenomena evidences geopolymerization, notGizapower!

If the strange description of the granite matrix in theKing's Chamber (page 152) that Dunn presents is accurate, it suggestsartificial stone, as do Dunn's remarks about Petrie's granite core # 7from Khafra's Valley Temple, "The confounding fact that thespiral groove cut deeper through the quartz than through the softerfeldspar. In conventional machining the reverse would be thecase."

Dunn legitimately asserts that certain features cannotbe explained by utilizing ancient Egyptian tools. His evidenceinadvertently helps prove that geopolymerization is the answer tootherwise puzzling monuments and artifacts.

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Summary: One of the best books on the Great Pyramid published
Review: As Director of the Great Pyramid of Giza Research Association, I amfamiliar with most of the major theories regarding the Great Pyramid.Since my background is in physics and biophysics, I have alwaysfavored a scientific explanation with facts that can besubstantiated. Mr. Dunn's new book is a very scientific approach todiscovering the purpose of the Great Pyramid of Giza. His theory isbased on sound scientific principles which include acoustics,vibrations, piezoelectric effect, and others. He has synthesized ascientific theory that is consistent with the history of ancientEgypt. Of all the new theories published to date, I find his theoryto be one of the most promising. Further work needs to be done butMr. Dunn has set the stage for a new approach to the GreatPyramid.

Also the first part of his book is a real encyclopedia ofthe history and discoveries of the Great Pyramid. This book is a mustfor any serious student of the Great Pyramid and also for any laymaninterested in it. It makes fascinating and enjoyable reading.

If Iwas going to recommend three books to someone regarding the GreatPyramid, Mr. Dunn's book would be one of the three that I wouldchoose.

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Summary: theoretical yet believable ...
Review: The author is an experienced engineer, who studied the technology of Ancient Egypt in great depth. He is concerned with the discovery of the hidden wisdom of this ancient yet advanced civilization. In this book, he demonstrates how the precise design of the pyramids help in in future designs. His theories do not please Egyptologists, for, as he himself writes about the iron plate Howard Vyse found in the Great Pyramid: <<Egyptologists have a vested interest in continuing their teachings as they have taught them for the past century. To do otherwise would be to admit that they have been wrong. The iron plate is just a small, though significant, item in a large collection of anomalies that have been ignored or misinterpreted by many academics because they contradict their orthodox beliefs.>> This is most definitely a book for open-minded readers.