A Machine to Die For: The Quest for Free Energy

[The One]

Machine to Die For is about the search for perpetual motion and free energy.

Conventional science claims this is impossible, yet generations of inventors have been mesmerized by the promise of an engine that powers itself.

The world’s reliance on diminishing fossil fuel resources and the associated problems of pollution serve to spur them on.

A Machine to Die For showcases a number of dedicated, sometimes eccentric, and always obsessive individuals who have devoted their lives to this quest.

The documentary could be used as a resource when studying motion and simple machines in secondary science and physics.

It could also serve as a springboard for discussions about inventors and inventions and the history of scientific endeavors. It would be suitable for teachers of middle to senior secondary students in Science.

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[noprophet]

A note on Eric Krieg to those involved with the energy community. He needs to be immediately dismissed as any sort of authorial source on information concerning these things. Even though they made him look fairly foolish, I'm disappointed they gave him camera time as his opinions on such matters were academically compromised the second he placed a bet on the outcome.

Great video none the less though. The shifting weights on either side of the giant wheel was a stroke of genius.

"The claim that this will run indefinitely doesn't seem to hold because the second law of thermodynamics tells us this is not possible." Dogma much? :P

Science's dirty little secret. The great flaw of a system based on adducing the world. If you've only ever seen white swans you'll not believe a person who tells you they saw a black one.