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Originally posted by LordOfBunnies
Hell I worked on a project to provide basically free energy to the planet. But I'll be damned if I didn't have spend a lot of energy to get the stuff in place. Once the paper is published I can refer you guys too it, but until such time it's not leaving my computer. Don't worry it should probably be within the next month.
Originally posted by MichiKami
So to address everyone else: assuming you agree that this company's claims are bogus, why are they doing this? The out-of-pocket costs are significant. Just looking for suckers to "invest" in their company is my best guess. What's yours?
Originally posted by LordOfBunnies
Yes, ZPE exists, but its on a quantam level. I'm willing to bet that in order to harvest said energy you'd actually have to spend more energy to get it.
Have you ever wondered why science refuses to admit something? Mayhaps because said thing is not true?
If you're referring to a magnetic dipole, it's not a perpetual motion machine. Permanent magnets degrade over time, entropy causes the spins to change and the magnetic field to become less powerful.
Cold fusion is a joke, I know of one guy who thought he had it, but when they looked at his calculations they were all wrong. There's a vast difference between suppressing technology and getting it laughed off stage.
Many of these things, like Steorn, have no proof to back themselves up.
Many of these technologies are half-cocked and have no basis in reality for how they work. I would love for these things to work, but it requires proof which no one provides.
We're talking about science here. Presenting a device that has no proof is going to get you laughed off stage anywhere. Science is not religion, going on faith is not a viable option.
Here's one for you: There are aliens living in the crud under my left big toe. I can prove it too, but I can't show you the proof. Do you believe me?
Aye, and do they have any proof of their works?
The internet is a wonderful place, but you can't believe everything you read on websites.
There's a reason there's a validation step research. You have to be able to prove the math you used was right.
I caught myself in a big problem this summer after I went back to validate my work. A little rework and it was fine, but you have to make sure the work is correct.
Originally posted by MichiKami
Hi StellarX, I'm sure this is all very frustrating for you.
Remember the old saying that "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing" and try not to embarass yourself too much.
Once you're a bit older and wiser (ie, out of high school) you'll be far better equipped to particpate in ATS discussions.
I especially enjoyed how you "could" refute my statements, blablaBSblabla but failed to do so.
So to address everyone else: assuming you agree that this company's claims are bogus, why are they doing this?
The out-of-pocket costs are significant. Just looking for suckers to "invest" in their company is my best guess. What's yours?
Originally posted by masterp
StellarX,
I don't doubt science, but perhaps there are things we don't know that allows "infinite" energy to exist. The energy could not be really infinite, but so much that is practically infinite.
StellarX says:
Cold fusion is very much reality and i guess now would be a good time to see how it's been validated repeatedly since it's it got suppressed by established science in 1989.
StellarX says:
No one can explain the source of energy the average old fridge magnet taps to stay against the fridge as it does.
StellarX says:
Take a fridge magnet and hold it close to your fridge? Who spent the energy that moved it towards the fridge? You hand in fact gained momentum so feel free to explain how that all happens without any work getting done as our current physics tells us.
Originally posted by Knights
I can sense a sabotage on their testing- or the disappearence of a leading scientist/ equipment. Even 'outsider' pressure forcing them to declare their testing unsuccessful or unreliable.
Originally posted by MichiKami
OK StellarX, I have to admit that I was about to killfile you, but you know ... I think you're kind of intriguing.
You do tend to skip around a bunch, and I'm tempted to counter each issue you address but that gets distracting and boring for everyone to read. So I'll address just one of them. Aaargh, no - I can't resist. Two issues.
You don't really believe cold fusion is currently feasible, do you?
Maybe someday, sure. But no one has yet demonstrated getting more energy out of the system than they've put in.
How can "established science" suppress something like this, when there are so many fans trying it and promoting it?
Imagine the one guy who knows "the secret". He could be fabulously wealthy from selling electricity.
Or perhaps he's motivated in other ways - his disclosure would bring fresh water to dying children in sub-Saharan Africa.
If he's an environmentalist - he could bring a halt to creating electricity by burning oil & gas, and eliminate nuclear power plants. Amigo, not only are the science & proof non-existent, it just isn't logical.
You're right, for a very simple reason - the magnet uses no energy at all to stay against the fridge! Let's use your example:
Current physics tells us work DID get done - see the things you have to look forward to when you get to a good university? That magnet has mass, just before it hits the fridge it has velocity, therefore it has energy.
And the explanation is simple: before you released it, the magnet had Potential energy; once in motion it had both Potential and Kinetic energy.
The instant before contact it had only Kinetic energy, which was all converted to heat and sound waves when it hit. There's no mystery here.
In fact, it's exactly like finding a rock at the top of a cliff. It has Potential energy only, then Potential & Kinetic as it falls, and eventually thermal and sound energy. Exactly the same, but perhaps a little less mysterious.
I hope that helps shed some light for you.
Originally posted by Sophismata
Ah, is this what this site is all about? Now I know why I rarely bother to check in here. You believers in free energy are in a perpetual win-win situation that's really quite unfair: If something works out, you were RIGHT.
If it doesn't, you were RIGHT (and there was obviously a conspiracy that made the device never reach the market). How can you lose? Must be awesome to be you!
Seriously - free energy is like a person claiming they are SO strong they can lift themselves up by their shirt collar.
If you challenge them to DO it, they either try to sell you a DVD, invite you to a seminar, or explain that they need to go off and get "just a WEE bit stronger" before they demonstrate publically.
Originally posted by LordOfBunnies
Alright, I'm posting from on campus and am away from my thermo book (which is my main resource in this one).
1) Magnetics, they don't do much all on their own, just like an electric field doesn't do much for you until you move through it.
In order to get useful work out of magnetics, you have to spend more energy than you would get back.
You lift the magnet off the fridge and let it go back and hit the fridge. You just spent more energy than that magnet had with respect to its motion. It's all about electron spin and aligning all that fun stuff.
2) Turbines, actually you burn coal to spin a turbine to spin a wire between two magnets and the changing magnetic field induces the current.
You're at about 33% efficiency to get it to your house (according to the thermo prof, I couldn't understand him much anyway). It's pretty low efficiency because you're converting the energy so many times.
3) Perpetual motion machines means forever.
That is its very definition, arguing definitions is pointless because that's what they are. You want to linearize over a given period of time, you can do that but it'll produce errors.
4) The earth does geothermal (molten core and all that fun stuff) the moon does tidal and a lot of the wind.
5) Yes, magnets do break down. Ever had one that falls off your fridge? It's losing is power as the electrons are going back to base state (chaos). Every time you introduce order to the world somewhere, you're creating more chaos elsewhere.
6) I've done a little checking on IEEE and AIAA (student member of the latter), there's nothing about the utilization of ZPE for anything useful. I'm going to do some more checking, but homework has been eating my time for lunch.
7) I'm not against new ideas, but you have to have some evidence based in reality for your idea.
If you come forward and say, "Based on these principles, this should work." People will take you far more seriously than saying, "This is amazing, it works, but I can't show you how."
Even without lengthy calculations people will take you far more seriously in the first case and may even be willing to help you.
8) Speed of light and absolute zero, if we were ever to get to or past them it would probably have to be by shunting around them.
Tesling or some other silly high order physics problem. Those physics profs are crazy, but they've got some cool ideas.
Absolute zero, I have no idea how you'd get around that one. You can never prove you got to absolute zero, and as soon as you do anything with the volume, its spent. Even the most efficient of cyles (Carnot I believe) is only 100% efficient if pumping based on absolute zero.
9) In engineering you define you own control volume. When looking at an airplane in flight you can look at the airflow around the airplane at any volume you want. You can take a piece off the wing or look at half a cubic mile of airspace. Your results won't change if you do it correctly. If you do it wrong, you're screwed anyway.
Originally posted by john_bmth
According to wikipedia, absolute zero has never been reached.
But surley magnets lose their magnetism over time?
Thats a contradiction... u can't explain something that isn't understood
Originally posted by FatherLukeDuke
StellaX - leaving all this endless theoretical argument aside, do you think these Irish guys have achieved over-unity and if so why?
They have presented no evidence that they have achieved what they claim. You mearly support them as they go against a scientific paradigm which you have become convinced is wrong.
You can go on about half understood theories for ever, but at the end of the day the proof is in experimental results.
People have been trying to achieve >100% effeciency by artful arrangement of magnets since the 19th century and....they have never succeded. Might that tell you something?
Yeah, yeah "big oil" have surpressed all the ideas
For every company that would supress this idea there would be hundreds who would want to ruthlessly exploit it and make billions.
Aside from that all these apparently "suppressed" schemes are all over the web, including designs etc. Also these inventors are still alive and well and trying to hawk their crap to anyone daft enough to buy it. Perhaps "big oil" can't find decent hit-men anymore
Maybe the "law" of the conservation of energy will one day be broken, but if definitely won't be by putting a few magnets near each other.
Originally posted by StellarX
I honestly do not care if they have or have not as it is in fact the theory that matters most.
We can from the historic record note quite clearly that these devices have been built and that they did work
They have a machine that they claim works and that is good enough for me
who understands that there are dozens of like machines which prove the basic feasibility of the concept of tapping energy from the vacuum.
"What we have developed is a way to construct magnetic fields so that when you travel round the magnetic fields, starting and stopping at the same position, you have gained energy,"
What fascinates me is the science and that is where most of these people got in trouble is when they were asked to explain the source of the energy.
No one profits when energy is nearly free and this shows your completely lack of comprehension of what really makes the world go round.
The claim that these machines somehow break the rules of physics is just a diversion to mislead the scientifically illiterate like yourself.
Originally posted by FatherLukeDuke
You don't care if it works? Strange. And the theory is?
Quite cleary they don't work otherwise people would be running their homes and businesses on this power source.
If you came round my house with one of these devices, and hooked up my power supply so I no longer had to use the mains electricity, and no longer had fuel bills, I wouldn't give a crap about "paradigms" or prevelant theories, I'd just use it.
Not only would I do that, I would pay thousands for the machines. Businesses would pay much more, and most people who run businesses would never have heard of the conservation of energy and wouldn't care one bit about it. So why has nobody ever done that?? Why are these devices nearly always "just about to go into production"?
You going to put your money where your mouth is and invest in them then?
Why do you think these guys are "tapping energy from the vacuum"? They say:
t's just yet another classic artfully arranged magnets device.
As I said: they should just build a device take it to some business owners and demonstrate how it could power their offices or factories.
Company directors wouldn't give a flying crap where they energy was coming from if the device worked and saved them money.
If you control the means of producing the energy then you make money, and money is what makes the world go round.
I think it is you who lacks a basic understanding of capatilism. What do you think these Irish guys are trying to do if not build a business selling their device?
Call me scientifically illiterate if you like, but you are essentially calling all the world leading physicists and engineers scientifically illiterate as well.
You have just read half a book by that sad old lunatic Tom Bearden
and you think you know more about the subject than people who spend their entire lives studying or building devices based on electromagentism.
That sort of arrogance is pretty breathtaking.