DIY free power?

[Alastairdent]

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ready to be proved wrong? try this site http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4527696.stm /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif))

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An ion engine is a linear electric motor.

Nothing to do with perpetual motion, they are just taking energy and using it to move things (ions, in this case).

Have you heard about the water-powered car? Everyone knows that General motors bought the patents and 'shut up' the inventors. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[peterb]

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Have you heard about the water-powered car? Everyone knows that General motors bought the patents and 'shut up' the inventors. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

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I always wondered why General Motors wanted to buy the patents. After all, they would still sell cars even if they ran on water. Why wasn't it Esso?

 

[Norman_E]

The inventor probably needed shutting up, and a straight jacket as well. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[kengill]

Dammit - That's why mine always rattles!!

 

[Alastairdent]

If you put them in a straight jacket, couldn't they just utilise the warping of the universal flux lines to generate a gamma signal round the jacket, hence generating a krypton field and free themselves.

 

[davies]

Lobsters

Always down to experimental error if not nuttiness, bad math or snakeoil. A favourite of mine was a dataset from (I think) the early 1970s showing that lobsters can transmute elements (I think it was copper into Vanadium). Close inspection revealed elution of trace amounts of vanadium from the tanks into the water.

 

[robind]

Re: Lobsters

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2850891179207690407 Food for thought?

 

[BrendanS]

Re: Lobsters

and there will be gullible idiots out there who believe this crap

 

[DaveS]

Re: Lobsters

Well I spent the hour required to watch this (OK, I'm sad). I really don't recommend anyone else, other than dedicated masochists, to do likewise. Apart from the v. poor quality video + audio, the endless repetitions, etc. it's a classic story without an ending. If they really are on to something that everyone else has missed (unlikely, but not impossible), why don't they put the "noble gas" motor in a car and invite the press to observe it run it round the track (fairly quickly - 300hp claimed) for several fuel-free hours? I was left with the firm impression that this belongs in the same category as spoon bending and other illusions.

I have tried very hard to give all possible benefits of the doubt and put aside any personal desire to retain my current understanding of the physical laws as they currently apply, but I have to say I am entirely unconvinced by this.

 

[BrendanS]

Re: Lobsters

I gave up after a few minutes, which was more than enough to convince me of its quackery

 

[DaveS]

Re: Lobsters

Well yes, but occasionally, when I'm feeling generous, (like now, going on holiday for a fortnight tomorrow!) feel that it is only fair to listen to what they have to say. OK, experience says that it is rarely worth it, but you never know, one day, you might find a real nugget in all the cr&p...

 

[bedouin]

Re: Lobsters

It took me about 30 secs to give up - where he got to the part of describing the Vacuum full of inert gases /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[Anonymous]

I've been powering Seraphina for years with free energy and our diesel consumption is very low indeed. It works much better when the sails are up and when the wind is >F3. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[mikefleetwood]

Well, my car runs on water - I need to top it up every day!

(or maybe there's a leak in the radiator?)