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Irish company challenges scientists to test 'free energy' technology [Oh Yeah!]
PhysOrg.com ^ | 18 August 2006 | Staff

Posted on 08/18/2006 7:37:36 AM PDT by PatrickHenry

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To: Old Professer
Rotation?

Nope. The orbital period of the planet you are using.

101 posted on 08/18/2006 9:33:40 AM PDT by RadioAstronomer (Senior member of Darwin Central)
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To: RadioAstronomer

It depends on how it is slowed. This is not a scalar.

The bottom line is that equilibrium must be obtained to maintain a stable orbit. So if the orbital tangential speed is decreased without changing any other factors, the corresponding centrifugal acceleration will be lower. Given that the masses of the two bodies (sun and planet) have not changed the gravitational force has not changed, so the planet will 'fall' towards the sun.

It is why skylab is no longer intact. It slowed down. Came home.


102 posted on 08/18/2006 9:34:40 AM PDT by jbp1 (be nice now)
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To: Doctor Stochastic

Indeed!

Note, a green Ar/Ion laser spins mine like crazy. :-)


103 posted on 08/18/2006 9:35:21 AM PDT by RadioAstronomer (Senior member of Darwin Central)
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To: litehaus

No. But I can imagine the plot. ;o)


104 posted on 08/18/2006 9:35:24 AM PDT by pissant
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To: pissant

The far left will not be happy.


105 posted on 08/18/2006 9:37:44 AM PDT by GeronL (flogerloon.blogspot.com -------------> Rise of the Hate Party)
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To: jbp1

Agreed. Was being a bit silly with my post. Should have qualified that.


106 posted on 08/18/2006 9:37:52 AM PDT by RadioAstronomer (Senior member of Darwin Central)
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To: PatrickHenry
For some reason, this reminds me of a joke I heard recently:

"An Irishman walked out of a bar."
107 posted on 08/18/2006 9:38:48 AM PDT by Ragnar54
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To: PatrickHenry

Reminds me of Joseph Newman...saw him on Johnny Carson many, many years ago...his perpetual motion machine. http://www.josephnewman.com/


108 posted on 08/18/2006 9:39:15 AM PDT by Paco
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To: PatrickHenry
Once again, you and your ever-faithful mascot, Plato the Platy, have been beaten to the punch. Time for you two to head back to your basement la-BOR-a-tor-y, rethink your free-energy anti-gravity machine, and lick your respective wounds.
109 posted on 08/18/2006 9:42:42 AM PDT by longshadow (FReeper #405, entering his ninth year of ignoring nitwits, nutcases, and recycled newbies)
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To: jbp1

BTW, as you impart energy into a satellite to lift it to a higher orbit, the satellite's velocity decreases.


110 posted on 08/18/2006 9:44:18 AM PDT by RadioAstronomer (Senior member of Darwin Central)
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To: Kirkwood


You're right on!
Their patent application: LOW ENERGY MAGNETIC ACTUATOR
"The company is currently engaged in the development of its own proprietary battery substitution technology."
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111 posted on 08/18/2006 9:47:04 AM PDT by mugs99 (Don't take life too seriously, you won't get out alive.)
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To: longshadow
Once again, you and your ever-faithful mascot, Plato the Platy, have been beaten to the punch. Time for you two to head back to your basement la-BOR-a-tor-y, rethink your free-energy anti-gravity machine, and lick your respective wounds.

Pay no attention to these Irish pretenders. In my la-BOR-a-tory, I'm working on a device that is not only a perpetual motion machine, but it also travels faster than light, enables time-travel, and it seems to overcome gravity as well (still studying that angle). But it only works if you've been taking my Eternal Life Elixirtm, which is the real opportunity for investors.

112 posted on 08/18/2006 9:52:13 AM PDT by PatrickHenry (Everything is blasphemy to somebody.)
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To: NonValueAdded
If not the actual cost to perform the study, then the opportunity cost of not studying something else while you waste time with something implausible.

I understand your point, but if these guys, while in the process of doing something else, observed a phenomena that they were not expecting, that defies the laws of physics as we know them, and they cannot explain it, and it is reproducible; is it not worthy of study?

113 posted on 08/18/2006 9:55:01 AM PDT by AFreeBird (... Burn the land and boil the sea's, but you can't take the skies from me.)
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To: js1138

I'm sure it does. I don't know how many times I've heard, "So and so has looked at this and they think it's a valid process.", so I understand the reluctance to consider these contraptions. What bothers me is to enter these threads and watch how many people completely dismiss a proces knowing absolutely nothing about it.

I think I aluded to this earlier, I think 99.99999999% of these things are bogus. I'm just not sure we should dismiss that 0.000000001% or even give the appearance of it.

Thanks for the response.


114 posted on 08/18/2006 9:59:15 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Bring your press credentials to Qana, for the world's most convincing terrorist street theater.)
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To: PatrickHenry

Perpetual Motion Breakthrough!

115 posted on 08/18/2006 10:01:15 AM PDT by Semi Civil Servant (Colorado: the original Red State.)
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To: Mark Felton

I have one of those little rotating thingies. They're powered by evil spirits.


116 posted on 08/18/2006 10:08:07 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: PatrickHenry
........An Irish company....Sean McCarthy, Steorn's chief executive officer, said they had issued the challenge for 12 physicists to rigorously test the technology so it can be developed..........

Why are they bothering Physicists? It's not Scientists generally that are in control of venture capital money. If this is factual Investors will pony up the money for the further development. Has a patent been applied for on this process?

117 posted on 08/18/2006 10:10:26 AM PDT by DoctorMichael (A wall first. A wall now.)
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To: NonValueAdded

I should also add, after further review of their website, that they are willing to pay the direct costs associated with the review/validation process. This appears to be a legit, existing company that does work in other fields.


118 posted on 08/18/2006 10:11:45 AM PDT by AFreeBird (... Burn the land and boil the sea's, but you can't take the skies from me.)
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To: DoctorMichael
Why are they bothering Physicists? It's not Scientists generally that are in control of venture capital money.

The scientists are to validate the technology. They don't appear to be asking for money up front and are going to pay the direct costs for the validation. If it proves out they will license it to others to develop.

They also claim that thay have a patent pending on the technology.

119 posted on 08/18/2006 10:15:39 AM PDT by AFreeBird (... Burn the land and boil the sea's, but you can't take the skies from me.)
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To: Eagles Talon IV

EXACTLY!!!


120 posted on 08/18/2006 10:16:11 AM PDT by Harold Hill (I always think there's a band, kid)
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