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Self Contained Power Source?
McOSEN writes "Your Server Cabinet could have a 100% self sustained power source. It's called Parallel Path Technology and it's being coined as a revolution in the magnetic motor industry. From Segways to Vacuum cleaners to Server Cabinets. The article talks about the technology but doesn't exactly lay out specifics."
So the first lines of the article basicly claim it's a perpetual motion machine, and than later in the article it says this is impossible. Wonderful when even the articles contridict themselves. I really enjoy the part where they state that they recieved a patent, like it actually means something.
Why is it that every new PMM for the last two decades has involved permanent magnets? Is there some kind of mad-scientist cabal that decrees these things? Will the fashion turn to something else soon, like, I don't know, materials so bouncy that they rebound with more energy than they hit the surface with? (Name that classic SF story.)
Seriously: Editors, please shitcan perpetual motion machines before we have to waste precious seconds on them. When a real PMM is possible, you'll know it's happened because suddenly the universe will have stopped working properly, and you'll be instantaneously and very thoroughly dead.
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Even if it didn't fit past articles, this one alone should be grounds for an indefinite suspension of story submission rights (for both submitter and editor).
The slogan here is "news for nerds", not "news for people who have no knowledge whatsoever of the basic principles of physical science"...
It's clear that the writer of TFA didn't understand much about what (s)he heard/read about this. I'm sure that the developers of the technology make no silly claims about greater than 100% efficiency. More likely, this is just an improvement on existing technology that gives, perhaps, somewhat better efficiency, or higher power in a smaller size, less weight for a given power, etc. Any of these would be good, but violate no physical laws.
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oooh but just think, if you had a subscription you could've seen it even before the rest of us! ha. ScuttleMonkey has along with that other new editor, managed to flush any last vestiges of science story reputability this place ever had down the toilet long, long ago. This has got to be like the 50th bogus pseudoscience artice from "opensourcenergy" alone he's posted. I would be shocked to learn that /. even has a dozen subscribers left at this point. Who in thier right mind would actually pay to be insulted like this?
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Read it again. The adverb is substantially. So the question is "How much are they increasing efficiency?" The answer is "Substatially." The then elaborate that total effiency is over 100%. Technically I'd agree with you though, if the word Barrier wasn't there, it implies and increase over a specific known barrier, thus is the 100% efficiency barrier.
Let say I was to say
"This will increase your runnning speed substatially, over 4 minutes in a mile"
You could assume to you would be cutting 4 minutes from your mile.
If I were to say
"This will increase your runnning speed substatially, over the 4 minute mile barrier"
The assumption would be vastly different.
They're absolutely right. The submitter was wrong about the subject matter, and the subject matter obviously had many misonceptions about how the technology works (greater than 100% output... WTF?) But here is a look at how the technology actually works. It seems to be a motor that is simply more efficient, which is indeed a positive and achievable goal.
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Because ScuttleMonkey thinks crystals, pyramid power, and Intelligent Design, are more valid science than the laws of thermodynamics.
And if you'd looked into it a *BIT* more, you'd know that this technology (PPMT) has nothing to do with free energy or perpetual motion. Flynn has been done a profound disservice by the cited website. Check out his website for the real scoop. Nowhere in there does it say anything about free energy. What he has is simply a very efficient motor that can act as a generator when an *EXTERNAL FORCE* is applied to the shaft.
*Condense fact from the vapor of nuance*
:) You can't get energy from magnets. No, a magnetic field is not energy.
The iron filings move because you're moving the magnet. Don't move the magnet? No little iron filings moving.
The exception is when you first bring the magnet close enough to the filings to make them move. They will move towards the magnet. That movement is due to their potential energy (energy of position). Now, why don't we harness that? We'll just move the filings away and drop them again... oh, wait, that will take the same amount, or more, energy as we get out. Okay, let's turn off the magnet and them move them away. Oh, wait, you can't turn off a permanent magnet. Okay, we'll use an electromagnet! Oh, wait, the electricity it takes to run the electromagnet is equal to or more than any energy we get out. Oh well.