Posted on 01/22/2002 5:43:47 AM PST by blam
This is worth posting about because it's entirely possible that so-called "free energy" machines may be built around similar principles.
Check out "The Gods Themselves" by Asimov. It's been 25 years since I read it, but it's partially based on the idea of an "electron pump" which siphons particles between two parallel universes, thereby generating free enregy for both. Sounds like it was based on the idea you describe.
The spent upsadaisium rods are coated with Cavorite and float off into space, where they are turned into fresh upsadaisium by an upsadaisium-powered upsadaisium reprocessing machine.
Remember “Fulton’s Folly?” This may not be the Holy Grail of energy yet but that day WILL surely come.
I doubt he is the fool. He has us writing about him, not the other way around.
They will ask for a working model (not normally a requirement).
My understanding is that they will reject the application as not being "useful" or inoperative. However frankly I have never filed such an application so I don't have any firsthand knowledge. (Patent, jump in any time)
Yeah, that was a good one.
I've always thought it was strange that so many nuts & bolts types react so, um, passionately to so-called free-energy devices when a hardcore guy like Asimov presented a rather straightforward explanation for the phenom a long time ago.
(Although, to be honest, the thing I remember _most_ about the book was how the alternate universe beings would, umm, gratify themselves by making two tendrils infinitely thin and then passing the tips through each other back and forth...)
Mark W.
The first invention was supplied in vast quantities to the witnesses of the experiment.
These keep appearing when News is in short supply. Just another False Energy Messiah, Move along, nothing to see.
Sure, he keeps going and going and going . . .
If you'll recall, they were simultaneously trisexual and single entities.
Writing about the nameless guy is one thing....investing in a scheme which is either intentionally deceptive or, at best, hopelessly misguided is another thing altogether.
Regardless, the 4.5kW statement is an eye-catcher. It's an easy tip-off that there's an an energy-storing device in the washing machine, rather than some more ingenious scheme. In other words, he lets on that he's intentionally deceptive.
If this were the case the price of oil would be rising instead of falling. I cannot recall the name of the scientist who argues this, but there is a persuasive theory that hydrocarbons are NOT a product of decomposed fossil material. Instead they are being steadily replenished from deep inside the earth. The proven existence of hydrocarbons everywhere in the observable universe is one clue that supports his theories. If eventually established to be true, it will completely undercut much of what the left preaches about the need for expensive conversion to "renewable" energy sources and conservation in general.
As far as "free energy" is concerned, I'll remain skeptical pending further evidence. However, Quantum Mechanics can lead to some very bizarre theoretical results and conventional scientific knowledge is always prone to being overturned.
Who knows, I've heard it said that the latent static electrical energy in the Earth's atmosphere amounts to many times what is produced by all the power stations in existence. Maybe John Galt's motor from Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" wasn't such a crazy idea after all.
Most practical engineers will leap to the defense of the 1st and 2nd LOT when challenged, because we have to operate under their limitations everyday. Asimov is a classic example of someone proposing a free-energy source who doesn't actually have to apply his theorem to any practical use other than selling books.
In short, some goober in an outhouse is not going to violate the laws of thermodynamics.
As someelse put so eloquently, there ain't no such thing as free energy. Hear it, love it, live it.
Eureka!!! The belt was 180 out-of-phase! Quick...turn the belt around.
Um... didn't they say that about Ginger, too? *yawn*
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