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Originally posted by Mdv2
Just came across this video about a demonstration of an 'energy free motor' at the Technical University of Delft, the Netherlands. I personally lack technical skills to judge it and was curious what your thoughts are on this.
[edit on 24-4-2010 by Mdv2]
Originally posted by fordrew
Hey, I am a mechanical engineering student and I just wanted to say one thing in this post.......... NOTHING IS EVER FREE! I just sigh at the people who think solar panels are free energy.
My own experiments in this very topic has lead me to say this: There will never ever be such a thing as free energy, because it violates so many laws of thermodynamics and physics. THERE IS, however, a way to make a machine so efficient or manipulate objects in such a way to make it look like the machine is providing free energy. LISTEN, you can not create free energy from nothing, SO THEREFORE THE ENERGY is transferred from one type to another...
LETS TAKE MAGNETS FOR INSTANCE. If I recall offhand, the process for making magnets is extremely tedious and requires a lot of energy. OKAY. So if somebody were to fashion a magnetic motor together they are just transferring the magnetic energy to [whatever] energy. So in the end you accomplish nothing. SAME WITH SOLAR POWERED ENERGY! You may THINK that solar energy is green and the energy is free BUT none of you know the machining process to create solar panels... it is a power consuming process........ NO SUCH THING AS FREE ENERGY!
You may think that it is free because you are exchanging CASH for energy and oh look the solar panel / magnet is providing free energy. I will reiterate - there is a way to build/ manipulate a machine to increase efficiency so that it looks like it is giving free energy. I want you to think and/or do research on the process to building a magnet/ solar panel. Energy only gets transferred from one place to another.... its BASIC rules of thermodynamics and physics.
I used to believe in the whole free energy craze but then I realized through my own small experiments and my engineering knowledge and through more research of what mistakes people are making. Don't try to make free energy. Look for ways to make the machine more efficient.
As for the video, I applaud them, I think it is a very interesting video indeed. Yes, it is true, that eventually the magnetism in the magnets should wear out. That is where the energy is coming from.
[edit on 24-4-2010 by fordrew]
Originally posted by FermiFlux
The process of making a magnet does not factor into the pivotal input/output measurements which is what all scientists and engineers care about. The magnetics in a system of free energy would create more energy than you give them to use kinetically. This is known as over-unity.
Originally posted by fordrew
Originally posted by FermiFlux
The process of making a magnet does not factor into the pivotal input/output measurements which is what all scientists and engineers care about. The magnetics in a system of free energy would create more energy than you give them to use kinetically. This is known as over-unity.
Of course the process of making a magnet matters very much! Lets take the process of creating a nuclear bomb. The simplest concept to split an atom to create energy. How to complete such a step? First, you not only need EXTREME precision to accomplish such a task, but you need the correct material TOO! Do you think enriched plutonium and uranium grows on trees? The process of creating such material is not exactly free energy. It costs energy and money to create such a precise instrument to detonate/create a nuclear bomb. Like I said before, you can manipulate objects in such a way to create a huge efficiency rise in the machine. Like nuclear plants... by taking advantage of physics and how the atom releases a lot of energy when split you can harvest that energy...
Heck, lets take a tree for instance! You have a tree growing in rich soil. The tree growing in rich soil will obviously prosper. Of course, over time as the tree eats up all the nutrients in the soil to survive the nutrients will start to diminish. Do you think the tree will be the same? Do you think the soil is free energy for the tree? No, of course not, the nutrients are not unlimited. The tree will start to suffer little by little for the lack of nutrients as energy.
[edit on 24-4-2010 by fordrew]
Originally posted by hdutton
O K I have to ask. What do you get if you use a "free energy " devise to supply the energy to fabricate a second "free energy " device. Would the output from the second device be counted as free?
Such as using a motor as shown in the video to turn a generator, which would supply the current to make maoe magnets. It would seem to hold true that this could be a simple way to be certain to begin to realize the continuation of "free energy".
I am not an engineer nor a student. Heck, I don't even ride a train.