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by terri » Thu Sep 01, 2005 11:39 pm
Two quotes interest me:<p>From the DePalma article:<p> "DePalma may have been right in that there is indeed a situation here whereby energy is being obtained from a previously unknown and unexplained source."<p>From Mike:<p>"I don't belive this. No matter how hard you try this just isn't possible. There is NO POSSIBLE way to make 5 times the energy requred to power the device. Why do people waste their time trying to do something that is physically impossible?"<p>While conservation of energy is the Law (and I obey it, of course), this does not preclude the possibility that some device configuration might be possible which taps another energy source in previously unknown ways.<p>As an example, it is possible to obtain a voltage from a wire (not much current, hence not much power) stuck up in the air. This voltage is not due to friction due to the wind, or EMF generated by impinging radio waves. It is just there, because there is a difference in the number of free electrons with altitude. (There was an article in Scientific American a couple of decades ago on this phenomenon.)<p>Okay, now a lot of people are going to jump on this without understanding why I brought up this phenomenon --it is not a proposal to obtain "free energy," so don't call me out on that account.<p>The reason for this example is to illustrate that if the average scientist/engineer/tinkerer stuck the aforesaid wire up in the air and observed this voltage, and eliminated all the other variables without knowing that there is an actual potential difference with altitude, there might be the appearance of "free enregy," where in truth, it was just energy from a previously unsuspected source.<p>So. Point: There may well be experiments or tinkerings going on which might be tapping energy in unknown ways, and which would give the appreance of "free energy," where in reality, they are just converting it from some other previously unrecognized source.<p>One problem, of course, is that most of the time, the phenomenon observed is rather delicate in nature. I recall that all kinds of special precautions were necessary to observe the potential difference with altitude --which made it difficult to get a handle on it --which affected its "reproducibility."<p>The other problem is with the tendency to "capitalize" on any such phenomenon prematurely. This of course results in the "sales hype" mentioned several times in the above posts.<p>The last quote which interests me is from Matt Nuzum: "When a co-worker comes to you about an idea... remember that ideas are fragile, personal things. Even if it's a perpetual motion machine, take it seriously... be gracious." <p>Matt Nuzum is quoting the article here, of course, but I cannot help but agree with him that this is good advice.<p>After all, getting electricity from a spinning disc in a magneic field? Shades of Michael Faraday! Why this is contrary to all known physical law!<p>And I wonder about our arrogance in assuming we know all physical law.<p>[ September 01, 2005: Message edited by: terri ]</p>
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