Inventor Says He's Found Free Energy

IOL ^ | 1-22-2002 | Kevin Smith

[William Terrell]

My point is that hundreds of these claims have been made over the last century. Has everyone just screwed up?

No. Unless one of those claims actually did what's claimed.

Exactly how much intelligence does it take to protect your idea with some kind of distribution scheme triggered by an unpleasant reaction from the illuminatii?

Intelligence isn't the key tool; spiritual integrety is the key tool, because the time would have come to make a change in the quality of life of the entire world's peoples and it will have been given to you to enable that quantum leap.

Intelligence only comes in to point out that in trying to goose your own desires, forces that are hostile to the idea of mere snuffies having the sovereignty of independent energy may block or destroy it.

If you reject the possibility of forces like that, I reckon you need to work on your quality and quantity of cynicism.

My second point is that no one has made a public demonstration that shows anything worth explaining.

Then they ought to have a long and secure life, baring accidents.

[Junior]

You play Space 1889, don't you?

[Junior]

Ford and his "Horseless Carriages"

Umm, Ford didn't invent the horseless carriage. Some Italian did years before Ford came on the scene.

[AndrewC]

Ford didn't invent the horseless carriage. Some Italian did years before Ford came on the scene.

You are both wrong!

[VadeRetro]

Some Italian did years before Ford came on the scene.

Try Karl Benz. (Not from Italy!)

[VadeRetro]

That's a cart, not a carriage. A gentleman would never jounce along in something so unrefined.

[Young Werther]

This revelation ranks up there with Leprechans and the recent report in one of those end cap tabloids that heralded the fact that "Abraham Lincoln was a Woman!"

[AndrewC]

That's a cart, not a carriage.

Rats!!

That was my leadin, but you provided the answer in your previous post(Daimler also). Anyway, it is a cart, but also doubles as a carriage in that particular part of the globe.

[VadeRetro]

Well, it certainly is horseless!

[blam]

"This revelation ranks up there with Leprechans and the recent report in one of those end cap tabloids that heralded the fact that "Abraham Lincoln was a Woman!"

Abe Lincoln was a woman. Why, I didn't know that.

[PatrickHenry]

Intelligence only comes in to point out that in trying to goose your own desires, forces that are hostile to the idea of mere snuffies having the sovereignty of independent energy may block or destroy it.

There's only one invention which would definitely assure the death of the inventor and the supression of his device, and that's a time machine. Once such a device is invented and built and is out there in common usage, someone in the future who is unsatisfied with things would go back into his past and snuff you out. The future is a big place, and it will contain a lot of whackos (as does the present). Thus it is certain that someone will go back and obliterate the invention.

So, attic-dwelling weirdos, if you're working on a time machine, better watch out! Success will guarantee your doom. But if it's just a perpetual-motion machine, you're safe.

[AndrewC]

and that's a time machine.

Just how would this thing work? If you "go back" in time, the earth has moved, space has expanded etc. etc. So the "way-back" machine may put you somewhere you don't want to be at a time of your choice. (i.e. it must be a time-space machine)

[Brett66]

It seems a scientist has proposed using orbital lasers to do just that:

Freeing Gases For Cheap Fuel Cells With Orbiting Laser Cannons

[VadeRetro]

Does it put you where the earth is now in space or where it was back then? Does it mess up history until a version of history is created in which no time machine was never invented? (Premise of an SF novel I've otherwise largely forgotten.)

[PatrickHenry]

If you "go back" in time, the earth has moved ...

I know, I know.

[PatrickHenry]

Does it put you where the earth is now in space or where it was back then?

My machine will get you where (and when) you want to go. No problem. I'm still looking for a few investors.

[VadeRetro]

My machine will get you where (and when) you want to go. No problem. I'm still looking for a few investors.

Could be useful. I'd like to go back and do a few things over better. (Premise of a novel I can't seem to finish writing.)

Oh, wait! It won't put my old mind back in my young body. My old body will be there shouting advice at my young self, but my young self was ignoring everyone my present age back then. Never mind.

[aruanan]

It's not nuclear. There's no there there. Excess heat is in all cases an artifact of measurement. Admittedly, the measurents are hard to do correctly.

Wrong. The excess heat persisted in many cases at levels of many hundreds of percent increase over starting temperature for hours after the energy input was terminated. There was no possibility of artifacts of measurement with temperature levels this great. We're not talking of differences of thousandanths of a degree C measured with a thermometer with hundredths of a degree accuracy.

[RadioAstronomer]

So, attic-dwelling weirdos,

Hey, I thought the rules were that it had to be invented in a basement, not attic! :)

[HP8753]

A cold stone outhouse on a windswept Irish hillside may seem an unlikely setting for the birthplace of such an epoch-making discovery.

What if Gephart and Da'ashole decide to leave the outhouse???Where is the hot air going to come from then???