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
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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