Inventor Says He's Found Free Energy

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Inventor says he's found free energy

January 22 2002 at 07:07AM
By Kevin Smith

Dublin - It has been a pipe-dream of inventors since Leonardo da Vinci, but has the secret of free energy now been found in Ireland?

A cold stone outhouse on a windswept Irish hillside may seem an unlikely setting for the birthplace of such an epoch-making discovery, but it is here that an Irish inventor says he has developed a machine that will do no less than change the world.

The 58-year-old electrical engineer, who lives in the Irish republic and intends - for "security and publicity-avoidance reasons" - to keep his identity a secret, has spent 23 years perfecting the Jasker Power System.

It can be built to scale using off-the-shelf components It is an electro-mechanical device he says is capable of nothing less than replenishing its own energy source.

The Irishman is not alone in making such assertions. The Internet is awash with speculation about free or "zero point" energy, with many claiming to have cracked the problem using magnets, coils, and even crystals.

"These claims come along every 10 years or so and nothing ever comes of them. They're all cases of 'voodoo science'," said Robert Park, professor of physics at the University of Maryland in the United States. The makers of the Jasker - a name derived from family abbreviations - say it can be built to scale using off-the-shelf components and can power anything that requires a motor

. "The Jasker produces emission-free energy at no cost apart from the installation. It is quite possibly the most significant invention since the wheel," said Tom Hedrick, the only person involved with the machine willing to give his name.

There is mounting urgency in the quest for alternatives Hedrick, chief executive of a company set up with a view to licensing the device in the United States, said the technology shattered preconceived laws of science.

"It's a giant leap forward. The uses of this are almost beyond imagination."

Not surprisingly, this topic is red hot with controversy - sharply dividing a world scientific community still on its guard after the "Cold Fusion" fiasco of 1989 when a group of Utah researchers scandalised the scientific world with claims - quickly found to be unsupported - that the long-sought answer to the problem of Cold Fusion had been discovered.

Experts contacted by Reuters were wary, citing the first law of thermodynamics which, in layman's terms, states that you can't get more energy out than you put in.

"I don't believe this. It goes against fundamentals which have not yet been disproved," said William Beattie, senior lecturer in electrical engineering at Queen's University in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

"These people (Jasker) are either Nobel prize-winners or they don't know what they're dealing with. The energy has to come from somewhere."

Undaunted, the inventor says that once powered-up, his device can run indefinitely - or at least until the parts wear out, adding that he has supplied all his own domestic power needs free for 17 months.

But he is keen to head off the notion that he has tapped into the age-old myth of perpetual motion.

"Perpetual motion is impossible. This is a self-sustaining unit which at the same time provides surplus electrical energy."

In a demonstration for Reuters, a prototype - roughly the size of a dish-washer - was run for about 10 minutes using four 12-volt car batteries as an initial power source.

Emitting a steady motorised hum, the machine powered three 100-watt light bulbs for the duration.

A multimeter reading of the batteries' voltage before the device started up showed a total of 48.9 volts. When it was switched off, a second reading showed 51.2 volts, indicating that, somehow, they had been reimbursed.

The machine went on to run for around two hours while photographs were taken, with no diminution in the brightness of the light bulbs, which remained lit during a short power cut.

"The draw on the batteries was estimated at more than 4.5 kilowatts. With any existing technology the batteries would have been drained flat in one and a half minutes," sai the inventor.

Modern theories of zero point energy have their roots in quantum physics and encompass the fraught areas of "anti-gravity machines" and "advanced propulsion" research.

Contributors to the debate range from serious exponents of quantum science to those who insist free energy secrets have been imparted to them by aliens.
Still others seem convinced that the US government is conspiring to suppress such discoveries.

Nick Cook, aerospace consultant to Janes Defence Weekly and author of The Hunt For Zero Point is not as quick as some to dismiss the possibilities.

"Zero point energy has been proven to exist, the question is whether it can be tapped to provide usable energy. And to that end, I think it's possible, yes. There are a lot of eminent scientists now involved in this field and they wouldn't be if there wasn't anything to it," he said.

"In my experience opinion in this field is extremely polarised... people either go with this area of investigation in their minds or they don't, and if they don't they tend to pooh-pooh it vehemently. It's very difficult to get an objective assessment," he said.

"Basically, no one wants to be the first to stick his head above the parapet."

Impervious to scepticism, Jasker's makers see the first practical application of their technology as a stand-alone generator for home use, although the automotive industry could also be a near-term target given the huge investment in developing substitutes for petrol-fuelled engines.

With world oil reserves running down, there is mounting urgency in the quest for alternatives.

If the Jasker men really are onto something, it could be the most important Irish invention since Guinness.

- Reuters

[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!

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"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???