"Perpetual Motion DeLorean" Scammers Face $26M Judgment

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday January 30, 2010 @06:18AM from the tanstaafl-my-friend dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Back in 2002, we discussed a story about the so-called 'Perpetual Motion DeLorean,' which could 'supposedly go "hundreds of miles" at speeds over 100MPH without stopping to recharge.' More than seven years later, the final shoe has dropped on this saga, with a $26 million judgment against Carl Tilley and his wife, who propagated this scam that ran for several years. Probably the height of its audacity was when Tilley told his shareholders in May of 2002 that GE had offered $2 billion 'sight unseen' to buy out the technology."

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Re:Perpetual Scam by tomhudson · 2010-01-31 05:59 · Score: 0, Offtopic

"which is the equivalent" means you would have to CONVERT it. Your mass is 76kg. not 6.8x10^16J.
Only dumb Americans instantly think that "create" implies "create from nothing -like Gawd!" - the rest of the world realizes that creating something can also mean taking something and converting it to something else by some process, such as "I created this work of art using common materials".
Give it up - you CAN create energy from mass. Lose your cultural Jeebus-land blinkers.