Dear Steorn.net:
First Law of Thermodynamics: Energy can be changed from one form to another, but it cannot be created or destroyed.
I mean magnets existed before someone figured out that if you spin a coil around them, some form of energy generated.
Aren't we all surrounded by electricity and magnetism everyday; weak low levels to be sure.
But then some whales eat microscopic plankton. They just developed the way to feed on that vast quanity of microscopic organisms.
Anyway, so what if these guys accidently stumbled onto a way to tap into the other forces that surround us? It may not violate the "laws", just found an additional source and one possible way to tap it.