Mark W.
Posted on 01/22/2002 5:43:47 AM PST by blam
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
I thought at first it might be Schroedinger's cat on a treadmill. But then I realized it would work only half of the time.
(You) I can see the logic behind his idea, but he didn't account for friction or the rate of power use and replenishment. Tell me, did his alternator do anything at all other than cause more friction? Did he have it wired right?
Frankly I don't know, but the go cart was only going 1-2 MPH so there was not a whole lot of flux change goin' on in that alternator. You have to understand this was a go-cart (with a person in it) that was being propelled by a DC screwdriver. This meant it took 10-15 minutes (at least it seemed) to go the distance. But those were his 15 minutes of glory because everybody in the subdivision would come out and watch. It also cooked the screwdrivers every few trips but that proved he was getting lots o' energy don't you know. LOL
(Me) the guy who had found a way to get "free energy" by using AC out of the wall
(You) Somehow this doesn't seem to qualify for "free energy".
Yeah, somehow.
It wasn't me. I swear it was the dog.
If this guy were a physicist working on the Quantum level, he'd be worth listening to, and he might be on the edge of a breakthrough.
A good university Engineering program will focus on getting its students to understand, primarily, the 1st Law - the Conservation of Energy. Almost all design principles will flow from this Law - the differences in the major Engineering disciplines (Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, even Civil) are almost entirely devoted to specialized applications of it. This guy is lacking fundamental understanding in this area, and the university that issued his degree should be ashamed of itself.
The first law tells us that energy is like mass - it cannot be created nor destroyed. Of course, the coservation of mass may be able to be violated at some Quantum level with anti-matter (I'm running out of expertise here, so forgive my ignorance), but this guy's "invention" would be equally preposterous if he were claiming that it outputted more mass than he put in. In summary, absolute rubbish.
Mark W.
From my understanding: Dead from a "Traffic Accident" after which his lab and home were raided by the Feds and notebooks and equipment were carried away never to be seen again.
A variety of nuclear reactions, including fusion, have been demonstrated to occur spontaneously in special chemical environments at very low levels. Some of these reactions produce detectable heat. Occasionally, these reactions can be made to occur at potentially useful rates, but the reasons are not yet known. Until the necessary environment is identified and can be produced in large quantity, the field continues to have only scientific interest to a few people. However, once the novel environment has been identified, normal engineering methods can be applied to make the material in quantity for use in a suitable power plant.
This scientific interest has discovered thirteen different ways to initiate the reactions and has demonstrated different aspects of the effect hundreds of times in many laboratories world-wide. These demonstrations include production of anomalous energy, helium, tritium, and a variety of elements not previously present in the experimental container. Clearly, the phenomenon is not limited to fusion. Because the novel chemical environment is largely produced by chance, many efforts to replicate the effect fail. Such failure frustrates an understanding and emboldens skeptics.
Explanations for the effect are being provided by dozens of theoreticians, with growing success. The major problem has been that present understanding rests on observing such nuclear reactions after applying high energy - a brute force method. Naturally, this approach and resulting theory do not apply to the conditions being explored in this work. Subtle forces and process are overwhelmed by this large energy and made invisible. Indeed, many people noticed that when the applied energy is reduced, more fusion is observed than "theory" would predict. This behavior has been frequently ignored because the intent of conventional work is to make fusion happen at the highest possible rate. The CANR effect has shown that if the environment is optimized, the required energy can be minimized. Consequently, the phenomenon is just a natural extrapolation of conventional studies, but with the environment no longer being ignored.
The phenomenon demonstrates that within the correct chemical environment, a wide variety of nuclear reactions can be initiated without producing harmful radiation and with few radioactive products. This phenomenon provides a potential way to generate clean, inexhaustible energy as well as to reduce radioactive waste obtained from fission reactors to nonradioactive elements.
Although the effect is now being studied and the results patented in at least six countries, work in the U. S. is minimal, cannot be patented, and can rarely be published in conventional scientific journals. An official bias against the phenomenon exists in the U. S. government that inhibits both public and private financing.
Edmund Storms
March 26, 2001
About Edmund Storms
Edmund Storms obtained a Ph.D. in radiochemistry from Washington University (St. Louis) and is retired from the Los Alamos National Laboratory after thirty-four years of service. His work there involved basic research in the field of high temperature chemistry as applied to materials used in nuclear power and propulsion reactors, including studies of the "cold fusion" effect. Over seventy reviewed publications and monographs resulted from this work as well as several books, all describing an assortment of material properties. He presently lives in Santa Fe where he is investigating the "cold fusion" effect in his own laboratory. These studies have resulted in sixteen presentations to various conferences including the ACS and APS. In addition, twenty-one papers have been published including three complete scientific reviews of the field, one published in 1991, another in 1996 and the latest one in 1998. A critical evaluation of the Pons-Fleichmann Effect was published in 2000. In May 1993, he was invited to testify before a congressional committee about the "cold fusion" effect. In 1998, Wired magazine honored him as one of 25 people who are making significant contributions to new ideas.
Proper adventuresses would never dress so daringly!
Don't forget the moth-balls.
I had never heard of it till you mentioned it. Now, I see there is a website: Space 1889 -- Science-fiction in a more civilised age?
If you like that era -- and real, science oriented science fiction, then I highly, HIGHLY recommend a non-fiction/fiction book by one of the founders of computer science. It's called, "Calculator Saturnalia, or, Travels with a calculator : a compendium of diversions & improving exercises for ladies and gentlemen," by Gordon Pask (It's hard to get, but the library system in Illinois has, I think, two copies, so libraries might be a good bet...)
This is one of the very few books I've ever read that I'd say is all-but-impossible to describe. Ostensibly, it tells the story of a team of calculator salesmen/computer scientists/game players traveling around the world (a weird amalgam of the Victorian era, pre-WWI era, and the present) to sell calculators to people. Along the way, they make up calculator games, which, Matrix-fashion, manifest themselves in the reality around them. The book is chock full of game theory and mathematics, both practical and a little theory. (The author has also written such theory stuff as, "Conversation, cognition and learning : a cybernetic theory and methodology," and one of the first and most honest evaluations of how computers will affect society in "Micro Man.")
Mark W.
Which should be a lesson to him who really has developed a free energy machine to keep his mouth shut. 
You might wanna get that Arthur Andersen audited financial statement too. I wouldn't want you to lose your money.
-bc
Lenz's Law says no. The induced current will oppose the flux change (i.e., the motion). No perpetual motion there.
-bc
The beer is getting a little warm. Everybody please move their mouse!
Burp!
Lenz's Law says no. The induced current will oppose the flux change (i.e., the motion). No perpetual motion there.
Perhaps not "perpetual", if magnetic materials within the planet are moving due to geologic forces, a generator might be able to capture a small fraction of that energy (while slowing the flow of materials down slightly).
It should be noted that this planet already has a mechanism of harnessing the kinetic energy of its own rotation: tides. If someone were to install hydro plant in a river that reverses direction with the tides, that plant would be harvesting energy from the earth's rotation. It would, in so doing, cause the planet to rotate somewhat more slowly, making the days longer, but the effects would in practice be too small to worry about if not too small to measure.
Actually, if you live in or near a large metropolitan area, it's easy to harness "free" energy from the air--enough to drive an AM radio, even (hint hint).
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