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Perpetual Motion Delorean?
An anonymous reader writes "An electric-powered Delorean that can supposedly go "hundreds of miles" at speeds over 100MPH without stopping to recharge will be tested today beginning at 8am at the Nashville Superspeedway. They claim the vehicle uses 12 standard car batteries, so the invention appears to relate to recharging the batteries." I found a website offering current updates on the demonstration of this perpetual motion device: it appears they've suffered mechanical difficulties and cancelled the test.
I understand that this car was created by two professors named Pons and Fleischmann, so it must be true!
C - A language that combines the speed of assembly with the ease of use of assembly.
from bad 80's jokes: isn't the Delorean the one that always follows the white lines better than others?
Creationists are a lot like zombies. Slow, but powerful and numerous. And they all want to eat our brains.
I'm sorry, I couldn't help myself. :)
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*insert sound of maniacal laughter here*
> it appears they've suffered mechanical difficulties and cancelled the test.
They obviously forgot what happens when you hit 88mph in a DeLorean!
They claim the vehicle uses 12 standard car batteries, so the invention appears to relate to recharging the batteries."
Of course there is a flux capacitor to store charge and recharge the batteries, amongst other things, such as powering the radio.
There's a name for such "mechanical difficulties": friction. Get used to it.
They get it going up to 88, travel back in time a day or two and leisurely drive to their destination, perhaps seeing some sights along the way. They top off the gas tank and arrive an hour or so after they left, fooling the Newtonian masses by substituting one physical impossibility for another.
* 3:40 pm: Still haven't heard from Ken
* 2:37 pm: Still no word from Ken.
* 1:48 pm: Still waiting for our reporter, Ken, to call in.
OMG! They killed Kenny!
Look, I have seen a lot of comments to the effect that building a self-recharging vehicle that will run forever cannot be done. Well, Tilley has done it. I could not be more certain. Why? Because they have a web site. Go there now. You will soon see that they are completely credible, just like everything else on the web.
Perpetual motion car - Delorean, built in Belfast
Unsinkable ship - Titanic, built in Belfast
I almost laughed my arse off on this one. This is the quintessential "Snake Oil" hoax. First and foremost, there is absolutly nothing, whatsoever, on any of the pages that discuss any technical aspect of the TEV. Nothing. Not even a hint at anything remotly scientific. Secondly, it is too well written and thought out. And thirdly, as all of us graduates of "The STar Fleet Academy" know; entroy rules.
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If you pronounced G as Gay, you didn't get good grades in German - I hope.
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Well...there's this one.....
Again, we leave further analysis along that line to the experts, only appealing to them that time-reversal effects must also be considered.
And there's also this one......
under very precise conditions -- parts of the battery to perform as negative resistors. When that action occurs, the very notion of charge and discharge is reversed.
And of course...my personal favorite....
energize the Drude electrons!
1. DeLorean 2. Batteries 3. ??????? 4. Profit!!!
They just travel back in time to recharge the batteries....
...we can't moderate the story. Even if we could, there's no (-1, Crackpot) or (-1, Scam), so all we could is mod it funny.
~Chazzf
No statement is true, not even this one.
Yeah, these laws are universal, except for the special case in which a coil is wound in just the right manner using just the perfect alloy of copper combined with the a Dynamic Flux Vector using Inverse Isobars(tm). This self-taught inventor from Tennessee, with a stock car driver providing celebrity endorsements, is the only one who truly grasps the concept. The rest of us are just too steeped in dogma from all those years of being brainwashed by the Secret World Order, but soon it will be possible to reveal the secret and save Humanity. They can't reveal the secret just yet, of course, so keep sending him money. It will be ready, he promises, any day now.
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Build a perpetual motion machine
"YOU MUST NOT HAVE OTHER INFLAMMABLE LIQUIDS OR...."
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I did a search at uspto.gov, turned up nothing.
;)
Searching 1996-2002...
Results of Search in 1996-2002 db for:
(magic AND delorean): 0 patents.
Guess I'm gonna have to be skeptical, too
- Standard disc brakes are hardly fade-free. Regardless, this specification is mostly irrelevant.
- The rear louvers (window slats) probably increase drag compared to a rear windshield only by creating turbulence behind the car.
- Stainless steel is heavier than a regular steel body. Is that a good thing?
Rather than get a car that will give you the best chance for success, they choose a technologically outdated car with a bad reliability record. Why? Because it looks like it will work.Perhaps a racing stripe will make it faster?
"The very essence of the technology to be demonstrated is the capability to keep the batteries "topped up" at all times with the "on board" device invented by Carl B. Tilley."
I bet this so-called device is an internal combustion engine. They said it didn't need "recharging" but they never said anything about refuelling.
Wrong. Wrong. Wrong! Can't you read the story? It's very clear that the "on-board device" that is "the very essence of the technology" is a faulty wheel bearing that was strategically "invented" by Mr. Tilley the day before in his "laboratory". This device enables the car's batteries to remain "topped up" at all times, mostly while parked in the pits or his garage. The car is also able to travel for "hundreds of miles" without recharging, usually while being towed back to his home after the awesome power of his mighty "faulty wheel bearing" invention is demonstrated to potential investors. I for one, can't wait to see the patent...
My next sig will be ready soon, but friends can beat the rush!
I can get a Delorean to keep moving damn near forever too. It only involves getting it to escape velocity...
Here, I translated it to German, then to French, and back:
There is a certain effect which sometimes arrives in a battery for large a overunity battery of unit of measuring popper like that, if the unit for truth is. Turning of time of the operations and vague transductions can appear, and that involves that the excitation of time in materials of battery, in a loading of time the direction negative auflaedt (you remember who is overunity an operation a negentropic operation). After an apparatus of this one standard and with that which was used certain effects intern, can form for energy when you to provide completely, a final test on him.
Wow, it really holds up. It must be true!
Tilley Demo Prematurely Terminated by Wheel Bearing Failure Due to Snake Oil Shortage.
From http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html
THE CRACKPOT INDEX
A simple method for rating potentially revolutionary contributions to physics.
1. A -5 point starting credit.
2. 1 point for every statement that is widely agreed on to be false.
3. 2 points for every statement that is clearly vacuous.
4. 3 points for every statement that is logically inconsistent.
5. 5 points for each such statement that is adhered to despite careful correction.
6. 5 points for using a thought experiment that contradicts the results of a widely accepted real experiment.
7. 5 points for each word in all capital letters (except for those with defective keyboards).
8. 5 points for each mention of "Einstien", "Hawkins" or "Feynmann".
9. 10 points for each claim that quantum mechanics is fundamentally misguided (without good evidence).
10. 10 points for pointing out that you have gone to school, as if this were evidence of sanity.
11. 10 points for beginning the description of your theory by saying how long you have been working on it.
12. 10 points for mailing your theory to someone you don't know personally and asking them not to tell anyone else about it, for fear that your ideas will be stolen.
13. 10 points for offering prize money to anyone who proves and/or finds any flaws in your theory.
14. 10 points for each statement along the lines of "I'm not good at math, but my theory is conceptually right, so all I need is for someone to express it in terms of equations".
15. 10 points for arguing that a current well-established theory is "only a theory", as if this were somehow a point against it.
16. 10 points for arguing that while a current well-established theory predicts phenomena correctly, it doesn't explain "why" they occur, or fails to provide a "mechanism".
17. 10 points for each favorable comparison of yourself to Einstein, or claim that special or general relativity are fundamentally misguided (without good evidence).
18. 10 points for claiming that your work is on the cutting edge of a "paradigm shift".
19. 20 points for suggesting that you deserve a Nobel prize.
20. 20 points for each favorable comparison of yourself to Newton or claim that classical mechanics is fundamentally misguided (without good evidence).
21. 20 points for every use of science fiction works or myths as if they were fact.
22. 20 points for defending yourself by bringing up (real or imagined) ridicule accorded to your past theories.
23. 20 points for each use of the phrase "hidebound reactionary".
24. 20 points for each use of the phrase "self-appointed defender of the orthodoxy".
25. 30 points for suggesting that a famous figure secretly disbelieved in a theory which he or she publicly supported. (E.g., that Feynman was a closet opponent of special relativity, as deduced by reading between the lines in his freshman physics textbooks.)
26. 30 points for suggesting that Einstein, in his later years, was groping his way towards the ideas you now advocate.
27. 30 points for claiming that your theories were developed by an extraterrestrial civilization (without good evidence).
28. 30 points for allusions to a delay in your work while you spent time in an asylum, or references to the psychiatrist who tried to talk you out of your theory.
29. 40 points for comparing those who argue against your ideas to Nazis, stormtroopers, or brownshirts.
30. 40 points for claiming that the "scientific establishment" is engaged in a "conspiracy" to prevent your work from gaining its well-deserved fame, or suchlike.
31. 40 points for comparing yourself to Galileo, suggesting that a modern-day Inquisition is hard at work on your case, and so on.
32. 40 points for claiming that when your theory is finally appreciated, present-day science will be seen for the sham it truly is. (30 more points for fantasizing about show trials in which scientists who mocked your theories will be forced to recant.)
33. 50 points for claiming you have a revolutionary theory but giving no concrete testable predictions.