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.
That doesn't make or capture energy. It transformes the mechanical energy used to spin the shaft to electrical energy in the wires. After losses for resistance and friction given up for heat. The inputs to the system equal the outputs to the system. New discoveries do not overturn basic laws; only use them in new applications.
There is not much that would attract the attention of the physicists and engineers of the world quicker than a slight hint of such a possibility. Every last one of them would put his project car out of the garage and start building these new devices in that space this weekend.
Not the magnets that they would seem to be using. Those are created by using massive ammounts of electricity and don't exist naturally.
TANSTAFL.
It may not violate the "laws", just found an additional source and one possible way to tap it.
Indeed. But think of the energy needed to create that which they are "tapping" into. They would not be creating energy as they state...simply converting it.
TANSTAFL.