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Yet Another Perpetual Motion Device
The Star reports on this inventor breaking all the laws of physics as far as free energy goes. It even provoked interest from "esteemed Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Markus Zahn". I would like to know how this seemingly backyard enthusiast's experimental set up has not been tried a million times over the years. It seems so simple and too good to be true. The article has links to a multi-part video demo of the device accelerating an electric motor under load for free!
The issue I have with "naysayers" who instantly cry foul is that they apparently like the inefficient generation we have today. So much so that they refuse to accept that their might be a better way to generate motion (thus power) than burning millions of tons of coal and millions of gallons/liters of oil. I say, let the basement scientists crack their noggins on the fabled perpetual motion and maybe, just maybe, implement their designs for the reciprocation of lost energy into producing more efficient generators. Even if someone could create a device that harnessed Earth's gravity, it's still not perpetual motion and the naysayers would get hung up on that instead of thinking... "Hey, wait. We can generate cheaper and more environmental friendly power with this."
Every time I start to have faith in humanity, I ruin it by driving to work between 7 and 8 am.
...While Vista is indexing. :/
And since the oil won't run out, just get more "expensive" to extract, what's the big deal?
The problem is another altogether. The sheeple (even here on the great and "enlightened") slashdot, will clamor for shepherds because their small minds get upset every time something doesn't fit into their world view.
There are plenty of things that "don't make sense" and plenty of things that "don't make sense to a certain world view". Regardless of how we view it, someone else will view it differently. And the vast masses are too busy hating themselves to go outside and try something. This experiment, if slashdot was the haven for enlightened minds, should have been repeated at least a hundred times, and rather than see a flame fest, we should be seeing people comparing notes with the originator or with each other.
Fear not, however, as with any potentially new and potentially world changing (or potentially hoax) invention, if it truly IS what it claims to be or what others claim it to be, it will BECOME a hoax as soon as certain individuals have it proven or developed to the point where unwashed masses (and slashdotters) should not receive such a gift.
Personally, I'm starting to see their point more and more.
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