[Billy_bob_bob]

Hello, help here. Is there a chance in Hades that this could really be real? I remember another "free energy device" called the "Noble Gas Plasma Engine" that also got a patent, but I've never seen one running. This sounds like a classic piece of vaporware.

[goody2shooz]

This sounds like a classic piece of vaporware.

Vaporware...very clever.

No doubt you're probably correct but then what if you're wrong. What if this thing is for real? Watching out for it costs both of us nothing, as long as we're not the first two in line to buy it!

[Ken H]

They wouldn't let it on the internet if it weren't true!

[boris]

" remember another "free energy device" called the "Noble Gas Plasma Engine" that also got a patent, but I've never seen one running."

Hello there old-timer. This was in the 1960s or 70s. I saw several documents on it. It was a scam from beginning to end. The con-men who came up with it also claimed they were building a car based on the "Nobel Gas" (yes, that was the correct spelling) engine. I believe the actual name was [sic] "Nobel Gas Thermonuclear Engine" and the car was called the "Aerocar" or something similar. They were taking deposits for the "coming soon" car, and as I recall a couple hundred people gave them deposits.

A colleague of mine worked for Lockheed at the time and they got conned enough to send him to inspect the "working prototype". The inventors had scheduled a big show for their "engine". There was a huge explosion, probably conventional explosives. As I recall, nobody was injured. That was the end of the car and its "engine".

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The U.S. Patent office stopped requiring working models circa 1976. The reason given: not enough warehouse space to store all the prototypes. Ever since then, it has been possible to obtain a patent on anything, no matter how crazy.

--Boris