User: LichP

Has anyone looked at the official website?

On: News Media Scammed by 'Free Energy' Hoax

I have a standard trick to writing essays, and it involves writing complete b*llocks. And I'm quite good at it, so I can spot it when I see it. Looking at the Brief Description on the official Jasker website, I spotted rather a lot. I quoth:

This [electricity genreation] is accomplished, by utilisation of existing and proven state of the art technologies, combining novel features and innovative assembly techniques.

Which are what?

The credibility of the system is definitively established and can be interpreted and demonstrated as being "the practical application of accepted techniques".

By whom, and which apps and techniques?

There are no stages in the operation of this invention that require any constituent component to perform at anything other than that being, within its capability or in accordance with its specification.

This is grammatically broken imo. If it holds any meaning, then I think it says "Nothing does anything it shouldn't."

All the parts for this invention are in practical and productive everyday use. The methodology technique is accomplished by the innovative application in logical sequence of specifically selected constituent components whose performance compliment each other and function in co-operation.

This has to be one of the single-most badly constructed paragraphs of complete cr*p I have ever seen for quite some time. My translation: "It uses bog-standard components which work together."

Attainment is determined by the systematic mathematical application in the defined mode, of the accurately selected operational segments.

Again, broken. First question that springs to mind is 'What is the defined mode?' Try dropping the comma and it makes slightly more sense. My translation: "We use maths to work out how to make this thing gain energy." Being a Maths undergrad, I am a little insulted.

In reality the achievement of this invention adheres strictly with known, accepted and proven physics principles. It is emphasised there are no new discoveries disproving accepted physics laws. To reiterate there are no physics heresies, no physics contradictions and no ambiguous claims.

In short, this is a lie, as has been previously pointed out by other /.ers.

This invention is achieved by the application and utilisation of a capital energy source to create a prolific income energy system, with the consequential composition being a "controlled loop, self-generating module", that produces instant and constant mechanical drive power and or instant and constant electrical power.

More b*llsh*t, although slightly better crafted than previous paragraphs, imo. My translation: "We put in energy, it uses it, but spits out more. So we get surplus."

This invention is mankind's first income energy reservoir from a capital energy source.

To be taken with a handful of salt. My translation: "We think it works, and we think it's the first one to work." In summary, a load of badly-formed b*llshit, about as insubstantial as a pea in the path of a steam-roller. -- From Phil Mod me to death if you like, but I'll die a martyr. At least in my dreams. OK, so I won't but I like to pretend ...

What if one uncurls?

On: Black Holes and Hidden Dimensions

This may sound like a silly question, but would it be theoretically possible for one of these potentially-existant curled up dimensions to uncurl?

What the universe be like if we suddenly got some osrt of extra spacial dimension?

Or going the other way, would there ever be any risk of one of our current spatial dimensions curling up?

Re:90% of the people = 10% of the bandwidth use

On: Bandwidth Demand at American Universities

I can understand this, it's the people who burn the bandwidth constantly that kills it for the rest.

When I was in halls (I'm in the UK, btw), the uni had wisely decided that all halls traffic should be segregated from uni traffic. All the networked halls were strung together by leased lines and then routed through a single leased line to the net. This gave about 10Mbps bandwidth to about 2000 students, which is never good. It only took a few to heavily guzzle the bandwidth to make the system impossible for everyone else.

Fortunately the halls system had an ethernet link in to the main uni network which was firewalled for campus IPs only, so I usually got bandwidth when I needed it by logging in to a server on campus ...