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The Superconducting Grid: A Summary

A plain-language introduction to the Giza-Dahshur hypothesis — the pyramids as an integrated power generation, chemical production, and superconducting transmission system.

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The Superconducting Grid: A Summary

This is the companion blog post for the full research paper. If you want the deep dive with chemical equations and citations, that’s linked at the bottom. This is the plain-language version.

The Problem with Tombs

Here’s what bothers me about the tomb theory. No body has ever been found in the Great Pyramid. The “sarcophagus” in the King’s Chamber shows no evidence of ever holding one. The interior walls are completely bare — no hieroglyphics, no paintings, no funerary texts. Compare that with the richly decorated tombs in the Valley of the Kings, and it’s hard to avoid the question: if these are tombs, why do they look nothing like any other tomb in Egypt?

Then there’s the precision. The Great Pyramid’s base is level to within 2.1 centimeters across 230 meters. That’s a precision of 0.001%. Its sides align to true north within 3/60th of a degree. The granite surfaces show machining marks that would challenge modern equipment. If you’re building a tomb, you don’t need that kind of accuracy. If you’re building a machine, you do.

And there are features that make no sense as burial infrastructure: shafts that don’t reach the exterior, the Grand Gallery with its mysterious wall slots, a subterranean chamber carved into bedrock, and a recently discovered 30-meter corridor ending at a sealed door. These look functional. The question is: functional for what?

The Power Plant Foundation

Mechanical engineer Christopher Dunn spent decades analyzing the physical evidence and proposed that the Great Pyramid was a machine — specifically, a device that converted Earth’s vibrational energy into usable power through harmonic resonance. He documented machining marks consistent with advanced cutting technology, acoustic properties suggesting the chambers were tuned to specific frequencies, and chemical residues in the Queen’s Chamber pointing to hydrogen production.

Crucially, Dunn also noted something that would become central to my own work: a persistent ammonia smell inside the Red Pyramid at Dahshur, 25 kilometers to the south. He didn’t develop that observation further. I did.

The Integrated Chemical Plant

The model I propose works like this. The primary feedstock is iron pyrite, abundant in Egypt’s Eastern Desert. When oxidized with water, pyrite produces two things: sulfuric acid and iron oxide. One mineral, two essential outputs.

At Giza, the sulfuric acid serves as an electrolyte. Combined with water from the aquifer beneath the pyramid and electrical potential from the resonance system, it drives electrolysis — splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen. The Great Pyramid is a hydrogen production facility.

At Dahshur, the Red Pyramid’s corbelled chambers function as pressure vessels. Hydrogen from Giza combines with atmospheric nitrogen in the presence of the iron oxide catalyst to produce ammonia. This is the Haber process — the same reaction the modern chemical industry uses to make fertilizer, but discovered industrially only in the early twentieth century. The persistent ammonia smell Dunn noticed? That’s the residue of the last synthesis cycle.

The 2024 Breakthrough

Here’s where it gets interesting. In May 2024, researchers published theoretical predictions in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters showing that compounds of molecular hydrogen and ammonia exhibit superconductivity under pressure, with critical temperatures as high as 179K (-94 degrees Celsius).

Read that again. The exact two chemicals this model says the pyramids were producing — hydrogen and ammonia — turn out to be a superconductor when combined under pressure. Modern science confirmed this in 2024. The pyramids were built roughly 4,500 years ago.

The Underground Network

The 25-kilometer gap between Giza and Dahshur has always been a puzzle for anyone proposing a functional connection between the sites. Conventional electrical transmission over that distance would lose significant energy to resistance. But superconducting transmission loses nothing. Zero resistance. Zero loss.

The model proposes that hydrogen-ammonia compounds, maintained under pressure in underground conduits between the sites, formed a superconducting transmission medium. Power generated at Giza flowed through this medium to Dahshur and potentially to other sites across the plateau with no energy loss whatsoever. Recent ground-penetrating radar surveys have revealed extensive underground features at Giza, including vertical shafts descending over 130 feet into bedrock. The infrastructure may already be there, waiting to be properly identified.

Dual Output: Power and Food

The system produced two things a civilization needs: energy and food. The superconducting grid delivered electrical power across distances without loss. The ammonia not needed for the transmission medium was converted to ammonium salts — nitrogen fertilizer — that dramatically boosted agricultural yields. The Nile provided water, but nitrogen is typically the limiting factor in crop production. Industrial-scale ammonia solves that problem.

This reframes the pyramids entirely. They weren’t monuments to death. They were engines of life — infrastructure that powered and fed the civilization that built them.

Testable Predictions

A hypothesis that can’t be tested isn’t worth much. This one makes specific predictions that modern technology can verify:

  • Chemical analysis of the Red Pyramid surfaces should reveal iron oxide catalyst residues
  • Air sampling should confirm ammonia or ammonium compounds (not just the smell — the chemistry)
  • Ground-penetrating radar between Giza and Dahshur should reveal underground conduit infrastructure
  • Spectroscopic analysis of conduit interiors should show hydrogen-ammonia compound residues
  • The Great Pyramid’s chambers should show sulfate residues from acid electrolyte solutions
  • Magnetic field mapping should reveal anomalies consistent with resonant design

Every one of these can be investigated with existing, non-invasive technology. The question isn’t whether we can test this. It’s whether we will.

Read the full research paper: The Giza-Dahshur Superconducting Grid