The fight for 'Free Energy'

[Dorjezigzag]

My neighbour is a high ranking member of the UK green party and I questioned why they never discuss the possibilities of new Tesla technologies or cold fusion. Firstly he did not know who Tesla was. I gave him a few intro links and explained it was a huge area where he would need to do some research. In quotations you will see the replies from him and fellow greens, including respected academics, I think you will not believe some of these replies. Later I will also show you my replies to the replies.

This whole experience got me thinking how forums like Project Avalon can be a force for change. Firstly we can exchange relevant information dealing with relevant issues, but also the forum is a medium for civilised debate. In discussing issues we enhance are debating skills through practice. Developing debating techniques which we can use, when engaging with those who are unfamiliar with the knowledge that we have acquired. I think now is the time that we bring a lot of these topics to the greater public and try to overcome objections. On the forum we can discuss the objections we come across and find the best ways to overcome these objections.
So I would welcome peoples feedback and what they could add to the debate I am currently engaged in. Can you recommend videos, books, papers that would convince those of the scientific and academic mainstream.

Please be aware that the below in quotations are not my words.

So I did some due diligence on the internet, and I also asked some of the brightest people I know for their opinion. I’m afraid I don’t buy it and nor do they. Thought you might be interested in the conversation below.
I think it makes more sense to concentrate on reducing our energy use, reducing consumption and investing in renewables we know work.
Absolutely. The story usually goes like this. Hardworking scientist discovers new form of free energy machine and tells someone of the amazing device he has come up with. Next day the FBI arrive and seize the lot and take it all away and threaten him not to say anything. If only the FBI hadn't of confiscated it all, we'd have free energy. Yes, or perhaps more likely it was nonsense, and there were other reasons the FBI showed up? The other story is the "the oil companies buy up all the patents and hide them". By this stage, it is far far far more likely that these things don't work, can't work, will never work, and that this is all a fantasy. The new film 'Thrive' which I'll review when I've seen it, is all built around this, that there is a massive conspiracy in place to keep free energy from the people. But imagine, if you were a scientist that could prove free energy? You'd win the Nobel prize. You'd have rewritten the laws of physics. I don't believe that scientists would come up with something that might win them a Nobel prize and then sell the patent to Exxon. I think I mentioned in the Handbook the guy I met at a talk once who came up and enthusiastically said "have you heard? There's a guy in Australia who has invented a car that runs on water!" I had to tell him that with parts of Oz experiencing dreadful desertification and not having seen rain for years, that that struck me as the most enormously socially and ecologically irresponsible invention I had ever heard of, far worse than petrol. He rather quietly slipped back into the crowd never to reappear....
Yeah, what Rob said. I've had a lot of people turning up to talks with these kinds of claims, which are universally based on some websites that they've read uncritically. Occasionally some group claims that they're going to run a demonstration to great fanfare, and then it all goes wrong for some 'unrelated to the fundamentals' reason, they mutter about making a few refinements and you never hear from them again. The last one I heard about went wrong because 'the studio lights were too hot'.

One claim I often hear is that this is all viciously suppressed and that scientists and inventors are afraid to publish on it for fear of reprisals. These days I reply that I am personally very concerned about the energy crisis, and that if anyone supplies me with the requisite evidence I will happily risk life and limb and write up the disproof of the laws of thermodynamics for any scientific journal. Sadly, my bluff is yet to be called, and I have not yet had my chance to be the new Einstein...

All of which is not to say that Tesla wasn't a brilliant chap of course - he was. And Alexis, if you do decide to look into this further and have any more specific questions, I'd be happy to talk them over, but I don't recommend wasting your time.

Also, bear in mind that as Rob hinted, even if there were the possibility of some kind 'free energy machine', it would still need to fulfil a whole host of other criteria before being the miracle energy source that stops us having to concern ourselves with 'peak energy'. My list is below, for your reference.

On the other hand, 'free energy' advocates seem to consider invoking those two words quite enough to preclude any necessity for them to engage with reading or thinking about the energy crisis at all.. v much in the same way that 'solar flares', 'volcanic CO2' or 'IPCC conspiracy' are invoked with regard to climate change in fact...

The beautiful thing about conspiracy of course is that even if you can't find any evidence for it that shows just how deep it runs... it's unfalsifiable
PHYSICAL CRITERIA * Reserves (infinite? limited? infinitely renewing up to a certain rate of consumption?)* Flow rates (how much energy can be released per hour/day/year? Can it be scaled up? How long does it take to scale up? How easy is it to do so?)* EROEI (Energy Return on Energy Invested)* Usefulness of energy product, e.g. heat, electricity... (energy density, transportability, supply/demand management, ease of storage...)* 'Waste' products (are these useful feedstocks for other processes? Does managing them itself consume energy?)* Environmental impacts (local impacts, global impacts...)* Location of energy resource (relative to location of demand)* Infrastructure required (does it already exist? how long will it take to bring online? Is the infrastructure resilient/complex?)* Technically mature and understood (proven track record, problems well understood, experienced staff available, ease of maintenance, durability, ease of replicability)* Resilience (resilient to different possible futures, does it require stable temperatures, sea levels, human civilisation etc, could the technology be understood and operated by unqualified staff/uninitiated future generations)NON-PHYSICAL CRITERIA* Financial cost and finance availability* Psychological behavioural factors (does the energy source encourage/support other desirable/undesirable behaviours, or shift our cultural approach/narrative?)* Political and security issues* Macro-economic implications
On 3 January 2012 22:45, Rob wroteersonally speaking I don’t buy it. First of all there are the laws of thermodynamics that you can't make something out of nothing, and perpetual motion is not possible. Period. Secondly, there is a lot of talk about Tesla, and Schauberger and all the free energy greats, but very little to show for it. No-one has managed to replicate what was claimed for Schauberger since his death, and none of his models remain. Anything that is touted as working is talked about with a big fanfare and on closer investigation crumbles to dust. Thirdly, the field is awash with cranks and loons and con-men, check out this list for example. As we enter the end of the age of cheap energy we will see more and more of this stuff, in the same way that ends of millenia produce end of worlders... free energy people are like the snake oil salesmen of our times as far as I can see. Then finally I think there is the question which is rarely addressed by free energy types who see energy in isolation from all the other aspects of how the world works. Let's say the US tomorrow found a commercially viable, easily scaleable, rapidly roll-outable (is that a word?) free energy source, too cheap to meter. I would argue that that would be the most ecologically catastrophic thing in history. It would be used to drain the aquifers quicker, deplete other resources quicker, etc, etc, to further domination and imperialism and so on. In short, even if free energy were technically possible (which it isn't), we are not mature enough for such a thing. It is only resource scarcity that is forcing us to some level of awareness that we live on a finite planet. We've had, in effect, free energy for 150 years, and what we've done with it doesn't give the greatest degree of confidence that we would be good custodians for another one...

In a new post I will put my reply to the replies

[Dorjezigzag]

I recommended this book for starters.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Scientist-Ma.../dp/0743449762

[Dorjezigzag]

In reply I took certain quotes and replied

I think it makes more sense to concentrate on reducing our energy use, reducing consumption and investing in renewables we know work.

You’ve done your recycling, signed up to your energy plan powered by windmills, you’ve planted your tomatoes. What do you do now? Perhaps research other potentials?
You said your self that we are going to be running short of energy by what was it 2016, are the above going to really solve that? Be honest,
They say the winner gets to write the history books and don’t you think it s funny you had never heard of Tesla until I mentioned him. Cold Fusion is another potential
There are a lot of scientific papers out there written by people with impressive credentials, do you think they enjoy swimming against the flow of popular scientific opinion. Just keep an open mind is all I am saying.
Firstly do we get sent an energy bill from the sun, do the rivers charge us by the litre.
Cost is a human concept.
When I refer to ‘free energy lets not get into a side tracking issue of linguistics or semantics.
I am referring to technology that is potentially a vastly more efficient and cleaner means of generating power than exists today

Often the word ‘conspiracy theory’ is used to prevent further investigation
con•spir•a•cy/kənˈspirəsē/
Noun: 1. A secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful.
2. The action of plotting or conspiring.

Lets take a group who have an agenda within the energy market GEC electric, as well as being one of the largest suppliers of armaments in the world they also happen to design nuclear power stations. They also happen to own a large stake in a media corporation called NBC coincidence? Well the news they present perhaps have an agenda attached to it? If there is no war how will their business be. When one of the PowerStation’s they designs begins polluting the planet, will they be impartial? Is this plan to manipulate the truth harmful. Will people die.
Well then they are involved in a conspiracy and if calling them such makes me a conspiracy theorist then I wear that badge with pride. But actually it is not theory it is fact so I am a conspiracy factist.
Follow the money on all the big media corporations and you will find a similar story.

People turning up to talks with these kinds of claims, which are universally based on some websites that they've read uncritically

Who are you to judge that they were uncritical?
O.k so people are turning up to talks discussing this, if this is a subject that people are bringing up don’t you feel this a subject you should be more open minded about so that you can discuss it more intelligently. Information is not just on web sites, there are many books and scientific papers published, there is a lot of science behind it.
I remain sceptical about this area, I question everything, but I personally see enough evidence that there is something behind this. This does not just take a morning of research, paying particular attention to the nay Sayers it takes months if not years of study with an open mind

If anyone supplies me with the requisite evidence I will happily risk life and limb and write up the disproof of the laws of thermodynamics for any scientific journal. Sadly, my bluff is yet to be called, and I have not yet had my chance to be the new Einstein

Do your own research
If someone can create a machine based on Tesla principles or cold fusion they do not need to come to you to write their results for scientific journals they can quite easily do that for themselves indeed if you bothered to properly look you will find that there are a lot of scientific papers on this subject, not just ‘conspiracy’ websites. I suggest you need to go to these people rather than they to you. You seriously want to look at the science with an open mind. I don’t know if you have experienced any violent intimidation or torture but I would suggest you would not ‘happily’ risk life and limb.

First of all there are the laws of thermodynamics that you can't make something out of nothing, and perpetual motion is not possible.

Non-argument
There used to be the law that the earth was flat. Many great scientists have gone against the grain of general accepted fact. As Gandhi usually goes something like this First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win

Free energy people are like the snake oil salesmen of our times as far as I can see.

False allegation
O.k this is a particular weak argument, you can always tell when someone does not have a strong argument because they ridicule and name call.
O.k Tesla believed in a new energy was he a snake oil sales person.
Why would people spend so much of their own time and money on researching, building prototypes writing scientific papers if their only motivation was to hoodwink and extort money like a snake oil salesman. If they wanted to con people and not live up to there promises surely they would just go find an appropriate corporation or perhaps go into politics.

Let's say the US tomorrow found a commercially viable, easily scaleable, rapidly roll-outable (is that a word?) free energy source, too cheap to meter. I would argue that that would be the most ecologically catastrophic thing in history. It would be used to drain the aquifers quicker, deplete other resources quicker, etc, etc, to further domination and imperialism and so on. In short, even if free energy were technically possible (which it isn't), we are not mature enough for such a thing. It is only resource scarcity that is forcing us to some level of awareness that we live on a finite planet. We've had, in effect, free energy for 150 years, and what we've done with it doesn't give the greatest degree of confidence that we would be good custodians for another one..

That one takes the biscuit
If we correctly manage recourses there is no lack, there is plenty to go round so that everyone can enjoy a comfortable standard of living. The sense of lack is often created by corporations and speculators who can drive up prices because of a perceived lack.
The governments and people of rich industrialised countries are currently preoccupied by what many perceive to be an ‘energy crisis’. Rising global oil prices, concerns over energy security, and the urgent need to address climate change, are putting energy at the centre of public policy. But another energy crisis is affecting the lives of billions of people in developing countries, and it is largely being ignored.
The hidden crisis of energy poverty condemns billions of men, women and children in the developing world to continue to live in absolute poverty because they have no access to modern energy services; energy which is taken for granted in the developed world at the flick of a switch or the press of a button. Over 1.6 billion people – almost one third of humanity – have no electricity. This means they have no light in the evening, limited access to radio and modern communications, inadequate education and health facilities, and not enough power for their work and businesses.
Worldwide, more than 3 billion people depend on dirty, harmful solid fuels to meet their most basic energy need, cooking. 2.5 billion cook with biomass (i.e. wood, dung and agricultural residues) and over half a billion cook with coal.

[etm567]

Hmmmph. Lost my answer.

I said, thanks for doing this work. And, did you mention Col. Tom Bearden's website? www.cheniere.org. And that Bearden says that Maxwell's equations were simplified by one fellow named Heaviside. He says that the equations were originally written in a type of mathematics that not many people knew or know, and so Heaviside simplified them, and when he did that he left a great deal out. Here is just the first three paragraphs of that article:

http://www.cheniere.org/references/maxwell.htm

“Maxwell’s” vector equations taught in university are actually Heaviside’s truncated equations, and are only a simplified version of what Maxwell originally wrote.

The Maxwell-Heaviside theory of electrodynamics is now well over a century old, and is actually a serious truncation of Maxwell's 1865 theory of 20 equations in 20 unknowns (those are specifically listed in the original published paper in 1865). Because it was “tainted” with a higher group symmetry algebra (quaternions), even Maxwell himself came under intense pressure to simplify it, after the publication of the first edition of his famous Treatise in 1873. Consequently, Maxwell was rewriting and greatly “watering down” his own Treatise, having finished rewriting and greatly reducing some 80% of it at the time of his death in 1879. The second edition and third edition, therefore, are NOT the original Maxwellian theory, but a very serious truncation.

The further great “simplification” occurred by several scientists after Maxwell's death, in the 1880s, and notably by Heaviside, Hertz, and Gibbs. The equations taught today at university as “Maxwell's theory” are pale shadows, and those equations themselves are actually the equations and notations of Heaviside, further “symmetrically regauged” by Lorentz (which very neatly threw out all COP>1.0 EM systems taking their excess energy from the vacuum in the form of free asymmetrical regauging). At the time these altered Maxwell equations were adopted in general, it occurred in a short “debate” (mostly in the journal Nature) where the vectorists simply discarded the quaternists' work, etc. It was not done by “sweet science”, but by sheer dogma and individual preference for “simplicity”.

So our present classical theory still implicitly retains the material ether more than 100 years after that ether was falsified by the Michelson-Morley experiments. Not an equation was changed after those experiments! The “Maxwellians” as they are referred to, all originally assumed the material ether, which meant that they assumed there was not a single point in the entire universe that was devoid of mass. Consequently, the EM fields were—to them—obviously very material fields indeed; they ALWAYS occurred in mass (e.g., in the material ether). They were therefore erroneously assumed to be force fields. Mass is actually a component of force (though that is still ignored in classical mechanics as well); there is no separate mass-free force acting upon a separate mass, because the phrase “mass-free force” itself is an oxymoron). Many foundations physicists have discussed this “material origin of force”, so it is well-known by leading scientists (though seldom known to engineers).

[much more at link]

[markpierre]

Wow, conventional thinkers are dumbfounding. It's a different kind of reasoning but it works for them. I find it a bit inauthentic, but I'm probably not listening anyway.

Mistake #1. This guy doesn't know that 'energy' isn't produced by machines. It's gathered and converted. Energy does essentially come from thin air and there would logically be more than one single now ancient method for capturing it and converting it.

Intelligence doesn't imply reasonability, but you'd hope it would imply integrity.

And you'll find this alot and it's interesting.

In his first line of condescension all of his trustworthiness, and so all of his reason and credibility, all of his case and evidence and the value of his conclusions, and even his value system whatever it is, went bang.

Everytime he does that he undoes an entire cycle of the evolution of mind for himself.

I apologize Dorjezigzag, if this is a friend of yours. He doesn't sound like anyone's friend.

[eaglespirit]

Pick and Choose...they are all connected and all telling for those opening their eyes and ears and minds even just a bit:

I) Contact and the Expansion of Consciousness

https://youtube.com/watch?v=QLaqj...&feature=share


II)
Dulce Interview with Anthony Sanchez

http://imaginativeworlds.com/forum/s...l-X&highlight=



III)
Brandon Adams Interview James Gilliland Nate ECETI 12/24/11

https://youtube.com/watch?feature...v=wKhd614IqZo#!



...and a book to go along:

Fruit from a Poisonous Tree
http://www.amazon.com/Fruit-Poisonou.../dp/0595524966


IV)
Wade Frazier's Site:

http://ahealedplanet.net/home.htm

[Dorjezigzag]

I apologize Dorjezigzag, if this is a friend of yours. He doesn't sound like anyone's friend.

I know what you mean but in many ways he is a caring guy, and actions he has been involved in the past suggest on certain issue he has had integrety. It just shows how the whole concept of this technology shakes peoples world view up. I never considered before that those coming from a green perpective would have such a blockage to this information. They seem to view it as an attack. You can see why with the fossil fuel and nuclear industry that there would be resistance but this really surprised me.

[Dorjezigzag]

Posted by eaglespirit (here)
Pick and Choose...they are all connected and all telling for those opening their eyes and ears and minds even just a bit:

I) Contact and the Expansion of Consciousness

https://youtube.com/watch?v=QLaqj...&feature=share


II)
Dulce Interview with Anthony Sanchez

http://imaginativeworlds.com/forum/s...l-X&highlight=



III)
Brandon Adams Interview James Gilliland Nate ECETI 12/24/11

https://youtube.com/watch?feature...v=wKhd614IqZo#!



...and a book to go along:

Fruit from a Poisonous Tree
http://www.amazon.com/Fruit-Poisonou.../dp/0595524966


IV)
Wade Frazier's Site:

http://ahealedplanet.net/home.htm

For me all these links look really interesting and as you say they are all connected, I just know the moment I start talking about UFOs they are going to switch off though, in some ways I feel I have to adapt the argument to their mindset. I think that Wade Frazer site would be really good for them though

[Seikou-Kishi]

Lol, being a high ranking green party member is like being a giant among midgets, it's like... so what? lol

I think the green party is part of the controlled opposition; a way to let out environmental steam.

[Dorjezigzag]

Lol, being a high ranking green party member is like being a giant among midgets, it's like... so what? lol

I think the green party is part of the controlled opposition; a way to let out environmental steam.

Actually the green lobby is a lot more powerful than you may think and green politics are being used to bring in all sorts of taxes and curbs to freedoms. If you want change you have to engage in all areas of society, not just preach to the choir. I find it insane that they would be resistant to the possibility of efficient clean energy

[KosmicKat]

... Let's say the US tomorrow found a commercially viable, easily scaleable, rapidly roll-outable (is that a word?) free energy source, too cheap to meter. I would argue that that would be the most ecologically catastrophic thing in history. It would be used to drain the aquifers quicker, deplete other resources quicker, etc, etc, to further domination and imperialism and so on. In short, even if free energy were technically possible (which it isn't), we are not mature enough for such a thing. It is only resource scarcity that is forcing us to some level of awareness that we live on a finite planet. We've had, in effect, free energy for 150 years, and what we've done with it doesn't give the greatest degree of confidence that we would be good custodians for another one...

I suspect that the rationale presented here is the one first learned by anyone who begins to uncover the possibilities without learning any of the specifics. That they are encouraged to see their fellow-man as childishly immature and irresponsible, and to some extent, I have no doubt it is true. I know when I plug in an appliance, or start the engine I give very little thought to the ecological cost of my actions. But it is my belief that more and more people are beginning to do so. We may not be completely ready for more liberating technologies and I will discuss that aspect below, but perhaps the challenge of considering more carefully how we use resources would encourage us to think more carefully?

Assuming that we had more liberating technologies, i.e. free energy, generated at point of use; assuming that the utopian dream of science fiction writers of the nineteen-thirties and forties became a reality and we were able to automate most of the chores of daily living making far more free time how would we use that free time? would we engage in the arts and sciences? would we engage in philosophy or worship? or would we find other reasons to continue to fight among ourselves? would bored, or disenfranchised youth become a thing of the past? would the general character of humanity change for the better?

[Muzz]

Posted by eaglespirit (here)

III)
Brandon Adams Interview James Gilliland Nate ECETI 12/24/11

Thanks, excellent interview.

[Dorjezigzag]

Posted by KosmicKat (here)

... Let's say the US tomorrow found a commercially viable, easily scaleable, rapidly roll-outable (is that a word?) free energy source, too cheap to meter. I would argue that that would be the most ecologically catastrophic thing in history. It would be used to drain the aquifers quicker, deplete other resources quicker, etc, etc, to further domination and imperialism and so on. In short, even if free energy were technically possible (which it isn't), we are not mature enough for such a thing. It is only resource scarcity that is forcing us to some level of awareness that we live on a finite planet. We've had, in effect, free energy for 150 years, and what we've done with it doesn't give the greatest degree of confidence that we would be good custodians for another one...

I suspect that the rationale presented here is the one first learned by anyone who begins to uncover the possibilities without learning any of the specifics. That they are encouraged to see their fellow-man as childishly immature and irresponsible, and to some extent, I have no doubt it is true. I know when I plug in an appliance, or start the engine I give very little thought to the ecological cost of my actions. But it is my belief that more and more people are beginning to do so. We may not be completely ready for more liberating technologies and I will discuss that aspect below, but perhaps the challenge of considering more carefully how we use resources would encourage us to think more carefully?

Assuming that we had more liberating technologies, i.e. free energy, generated at point of use; assuming that the utopian dream of science fiction writers of the nineteen-thirties and forties became a reality and we were able to automate most of the chores of daily living making far more free time how would we use that free time? would we engage in the arts and sciences? would we engage in philosophy or worship? or would we find other reasons to continue to fight among ourselves? would bored, or disenfranchised youth become a thing of the past? would the general character of humanity change for the better?

How about using the clean energy created by that technology to engage in 'war' on poverty and pollution. Rather than using resourses to bomb and pollute use those resources to feed and clean.

[Paa]

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[Bryn ap Gwilym]

The so called green party are a splinter from the labour party which in turn are Unionists. Hence they can not be trusted.

I have been at logger heads with the so called green party for years & part of the big arguments where over the Tesla inventions. The party is far from being green. Their interests are to the Union & not to the planet & all who live on it.
This party has basically an unlimited resource of contacts that it uses to back up & support their devious agenda.

[Dorjezigzag]

Posted by Paa (here)
Perhaps you should inform your friend about Andrea Rossi and his E-Cat (Energy Catalyzer), it's currently in development and will be released sometime in 2012. The first generation e-cats will produce hot steam, hot air and boiling water. Next generation will move on to electricity. There will be one small home unit, and one larger option for factories etc.

Some call this cold fusion, but Rossi prefer to call it LENR (Low Energy Nuclear Reactions). There is no radiation produced at all from what I understand, and is completely safe.

Official E-cat website:
http://ecat.com/

Andrea Rossi's blog/website:
http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/ (he is very active in the comment area, thousands of responses etc)

The Swedish Magazine NyTeknik has been following Andrea Rossi closely:
http://www.nyteknik.se/taggar/?tag=Cold+Fusion (plenty of interesting articles)

Do I believe this is real and not a fraud? Yes, because:

• The 1 MW E-Cat test was successful and ran in self-sustaining mode for 5 hours (October 28, 2011 in Bologna). It produced ~470KW/h due to overheating, which still is a fantastic result. Video 1, Video 2
• It's been validated by Swedish Sceptics Society
• University of Bologna (Italy) and University of Uppsala (Sweden) are involved in finding out how the process works, and to understand the nuclear physics behind it, since it's unknown territory at the moment.
• Noble Prize Winning Cambridge Physicist talks about the invention, and about the media ignoring it: here
• Listen to what Professor Sergio Focardi has to say: here
• Professor Christos Stremmenos: here
• Dr. Roland Pettersson: here
• Mats Lewan, for Swedish Magazine NyTeknik: here

I think this will go forward fairly rapidly now. [...] This is capable of, by itself, completely changing geo-economics, geopolitics of solving quite a bit of [the] energy [problem.] – Dennis Bushnell, Chief Scientist of NASA Langley

He recently partnered up with National Instruments to optimize the catalyzer, from what I can see in the comments section.

Everyone expected the 1 MW E-Cat Demonstration to fail, which it didn't - so some media had to report on it, even though most ignored to do so.

• http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/.../rossi-success
• http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/...ion-heating-up

More curious is the lack of a story from Associated Press. AP science reporter Peter Svensson flew from New York to attend the demonstration, and live coverage of the event was curtailed to give AP the exclusive. But Svensson has so far not written a word about it. Some online commentators suggested that he had been silenced by "Chinese-style information censorship." When challenged, AP apparently initially tried to deny Svensson was there, though photographs suggest otherwise.

This led to a campaign encouraging people to contact Svensson about the story via his Twitter feed. At first he simply replied with variations of "Sorry, there's nothing I can tell you at this point", but later changed to "All I can say is 'stay tuned'".

The E-Cat will mean extremely cheap, de-centralized energy in every home. The energy output is so much greater than the input, that it could soon lead to basically free energy.

Wow, this looks really interesting.

[Mad Hatter]

As etm567 has already pointed out Tom Beardons investigation of Maxwells original equations is an excellent start. One hopes your friend has the neural ability to follow what is uncovered.
The one that always bites me...

First of all there are the laws of thermodynamics that you can't make something out of nothing, and perpetual motion is not possible.

Lets break that into two parts...

Is he seriously tryng to claim that the laws of thermal dynamics hold under all circumstances? Ask him what is meant by the very guarded expression "cross sectional anomoly" which turns up frequently in plasma physics papers in order to avoid using the term 'overunity' and thus avoid the risk of ones funding being cut...

Perpetual motion is not possible? Maybe but by the same token ask him to please point to the power source thats driven the universe for this length of time. Too hard? Scale it down to say an electron. Still too hard? Try a $2 fridge magnet...don't however settle for the current day bull**** argument taught that the magnet is doing no measurable 'work' thus requires no power source... get him to hang by his fingertips off the fridge for 10 minutes then tell him that according to physics as taught today his muscles have done no work....

Be extra happy with the fact that he has an intelligent mind that raised a bucket load of really good questions which means the capacity to comprehend is present and good luck in your search for the right argument to produce the 'gestahlt' moment to get him across the line.

[aquamarine]

hello peeps i've always been interested in electro magnetic generators, apparantly they are easy to build and is a source of free power/energy, i first saw this on THRIVE the movie, wondered if anyone else had attempted or have built one, would like to attempt one myself or my partner to build one blessed be aquamarine

[Dorjezigzag]

Thanks to everyone's help on this, I sent a long a lot of the info you gave me on this thread, the latest reply from him was 'thanks for your ongoing attempts to get me up to speed on upcoming technological developments'. So perhaps we are making some headway. Any more suggestions greatly apreciated

[etm567]

Posted by Mad Hatter (here)

Is he seriously tryng to claim that the laws of thermal dynamics hold under all circumstances? Ask him what is meant by the very guarded expression "cross sectional anomoly" which turns up frequently in plasma physics papers in order to avoid using the term 'overunity' and thus avoid the risk of ones funding being cut...

Perpetual motion is not possible? Maybe but by the same token ask him to please point to the power source thats driven the universe for this length of time. Too hard? Scale it down to say an electron. Still too hard? Try a $2 fridge magnet...don't however settle for the current day bull**** argument taught that the magnet is doing no measurable 'work' thus requires no power source... get him to hang by his fingertips off the fridge for 10 minutes then tell him that according to physics as taught today his muscles have done no work....

Be extra happy with the fact that he has an intelligent mind that raised a bucket load of really good questions which means the capacity to comprehend is present and good luck in your search for the right argument to produce the 'gestahlt' moment to get him across the line.

What wonderful points you make! I shall happily put them in my arsenal -- the ones I can really understand -- and use them in my next argument with my husband.