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What is your take?

What is your take?

RE: What is your take?

Another Newman machine?

Best way to fool people and get their money is "Free Energy" - Even better today than it was yesterday.

Gunnar Englund
www.gke.org

RE: What is your take?

They certainly do not have history in their favor.

The current score throughout the history of mankind:
First law of Thermodynamics: 151,432 out of 151,432 attempts
Over-unity machines: 0

I just saw a video presentation on a series of over unity machines that was broadcast in the UK in 1995 (I never saw it here in the US) narrated by Arthur C. Clarke. If you search out updates on the amazing technologies that were going to change the world in that video, they all turned out to be hoaxes or at best, mistakes in measurement. One guy was supposedly 'poisoned" to shut him up, now his "twin brother" has surfaced hawking a similar water-to-energy system with over unity capabilities.

Uh-huh.

RE: What is your take?

I wonder why they don't just make and sell unlimited energy instead of devices? Seems immensely more profitable.

RE: What is your take?

Do Steorn and company have power lines going to their offices?
A friend of mine came to me about 15 or 20 years ago with a chance to get in on the ground floor of a free energy device.
The device was basically a large flywheel with a ring of rare earth magnets. (The rare earth magnet was an important design breakthrough.)
The rotor was surrounded by a number of coils. The number of coils was either one less or one more than the number of magnets, don't remember which. (The difference between the number of coils and the number of magnets was also a design breakthrough.)  
The coils were pulsed in sequence to cause rotation. The coils were also connected in sequence to draw energy off and return it to the battery. A 12 volt 8D battery. A very large lead-acid battery.
The current pulses were measured with a digital ammeter set on peak lock. Peaks in, 30 amps: peaks out, 70 amps. There was no thought or even suspision that the duration of the pulses may be important.
I could not convince my friend that he was being duped.
I spent a long time trying to explain the physics involved to no avail. When we see the prospect of riches, it is hard to give up on the idea.
I finally asked,
"Does the inventor have power lines going to his house?"
"Yes."
"He has free electricity and he still has power lines going to his house?"
"Well yes."
"Free electricity, but he buys power from the utility?"
This was the observation that finally steered my friend away from loosing his money.
Do Steorn and company have power lines going to their offices?
End of investigation.
respectfully

RE: What is your take?

What's that line about wrestling with a pig?  It just gets the both of you muddy and the pig likes that.

That is what comes to mind when trying to argue the laws of physics and thermodynamics (but I repeat myself) with the unschooled when it comes to these 'pie in the sky' concepts.

rmw

RE: What is your take?

There collecting names.  They have 64 K so far.  If you sign up your on somekind of marketing list.

RE: What is your take?

What?

Aren't you eagerly awaiting the results?

TTFN



RE: What is your take?

I'm sorry, but Cavuto is SUCH a tool in that video!

McCarthy fails to provide an answer to his basic question, then proceeds to tell him that it does in fact violate the first law of thermodynamics! Not only does Cavuto just move on without challenging those issues, he gives credence to them. McCarthy evades the "Where does the energy come from" question by restating his "challenge" to the scientific community, then Cavuto just blows it off by saying "So, they were impressed with what they saw...". McCarthy NEVER said that, in fact at the time of this interview //advertisement\\ there had yet to be even a response from "the scientific community".

Cavuto then shifts the focus to some inane discussion about magnetic fields and cancer without ever touching on the BS that McCarthy had just spewed. It even appeared that McCarthy was annoyed with that tack. All the while, the graphics shows worthless cartoons of oil pumps, derricks and some chubby cell phone addict on an exercise bike (no doubt a Fox Executive). Cell phone charging... Yeah, one of the BIGGEST energy crises to befall mankind.

What a maroon.

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