Alleged Creation of Perpetual Energy Source Splits Scientific Community

Pravda ^ | 4/15/03 | ?

[Brett66]

And there you have it............

[m1911]

Your favorite subject.

[SpaceBar]

I'll believe it when I can buy one at Radio Shack.

[sharktrager]

I think I saw one of those in a park in New York.

[m1911]

And no, I don't believe it.

[One_who_hopes_to_know]

Well !!! .... I definitely feel more like I do now, than I did before I read this !

[LibWhacker]

Wish I had a dollar for every contraption somebody claimed was a perpetual motion machine.

[Rodney King]

I'll believe it when they find it in the bible codes. /sarcasm

[Brett66]

Well it kind of resembles Ezekial's wheel. Or maybe a junkyard wars experiment gone horribly awry.

[Billthedrill]

Create a surge of electrons in the environment, remove them, deplete the fused electrolyte with base-type metals, and what you derive cannot be produced by chemical methods.

The hard part is in the first step - removing the electrons from the environment. Once you have that licked you're good to go.

Any decent industrial-grade paper electron filter should do the trick. I'll check the catalogs and get back to you.

[Born to Conserve]

I'll read it when it's been translated to English.

[SKI NOW]

Or maybe a junkyard wars experiment gone horribly awry.

A winner from junkyard wars.

[Heatseeker]

In a related development, Volgograd University Laboratories have announced the hiring of Baghdad Bob as Director of Marketing.

[JoeSchem]

Most cities in the USA require that when a skyscraper is constructed, one percent of the cost must go into 'art.' This usually results in some whiney ultraliberal 'artist' getting a megabuck socialist (or, technically, fascist) gravy train for putting his 'abstract' (read: talentless)sculpture in front of the building.

This came to mind when I saw that picture of the device. I think it's a lot cooler than most 'skyscraper sculptures' I've seen.

[jlogajan]

However, the speakers from the Russian Academy of Sciences are probably forgetting about the YUSMAR systems that first appeared in the Moldovan city of Chisinau. This technology has been patented in 42 countries. The YUSMAR system was tested several times in reliable research centers in Russia and the United States. It was discovered that the system produced about two kilowatts of heat per one kilowatt of consumed energy. This technology caused much dispute. Is it a perpetual-motion machine? Many scientists are convinced that this machine cannot operate ? but it does.

I happen to know of a group of people in the US who purchased a YUSMAR device and tested it here extensively. Ooops, nothing unusual.

These are either deluded cranks or petty con artists. They make a few bucks selling test prototypes.

Sometimes they hit it big like Randal Mills who's raked in tens of millions, if not hundreds, to build research labs to investigate his "shrunken hydrogen."

Nice work if you can get it.

[expatpat]

Sounds like Sobolov might be a chemist, the same folks that brought us 'cold fusion', RIP. Kapitsa is a first-rate physicist, by the way, and his skepticism is something to go by.

[isthisnickcool]

Reminds me of a story. This one.

[Paradox]

Yeah, but the question is, will it fit one of these?

[MHGinTN]

R2D2 clone gone horribly awry.

[Quix]

We shall see whether the West or the East or the Commies are 'allowed' to come out with such a thing.

There's evidently at least 3 and maybe 5 or more methods to extract energy essentially free from the environment.

No, thanks.

You can keep your tinfoil hats to yourself. I have plenty.