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.
Agreed. But is this just a matter of semantics here, creating energy as opposed to capturing, or generating or tapping into?
A poor choice of words to be sure.
.. the boy cried wolf so many time that when the wolf did indeed show, the villagers did not come to investigate.
So what was the moral of the story? Not to cry wolf when there is none; or if something is important or desirable to know, is it not worth checking out on the off chance it might be correct?
Both I suspect. But regardless of learning the lesson not to cry wolf, wolf has already been cried many times before, that damage is done. Do we stop investigating?
BTW: I hear it told that the Big Bang, was quite an energetic event. And hey we've just discovered that dark matter might actually exist.
Hey, I got my popcorn, and my beer. :-))