For 10 years I've been heating my home with a device that delivers 2 to 4 times more energy than it consumes.
Is it a perpetual motion machine? Certainly not.
Does it violate the Laws of Thermodynamics? Wrong again.
Its called a heat pump. It delivers 2 to 4 times as much energy in the form of heat than it consumes in electricity. How is this possible? A heat pump uses electricity to extract heat from the environment. More precisely, it extracts energy from random thermal fluctuations in the environment.
Probably the device in Ireland is a hoax. Certainly the Reuters article is non-critical, and raises many questions. But are we so narrow-minded that we are unwilling to consider such questions?
After all, the Casimir Effect has been studied for decades. It has been confirmed by experiment. Search on google for "casimir effect" or "electromagnetic fluctuations" and you'll find hundreds of academic references.
The reality of zero-point energy has been well established. When will a practical extraction device be developed? Maybe not this year; maybe not in 20 years. But to insist that it could never be developed seems foolish.
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For 10 years I've been heating my home with a device that delivers 2 to 4 times more energy than it consumes.
Is it a perpetual motion machine? Certainly not.
Does it violate the Laws of Thermodynamics? Wrong again.
Its called a heat pump. It delivers 2 to 4 times as much energy in the form of heat than it consumes in electricity. How is this possible? A heat pump uses electricity to extract heat from the environment. More precisely, it extracts energy from random thermal fluctuations in the environment.
Probably the device in Ireland is a hoax. Certainly the Reuters article is non-critical, and raises many questions. But are we so narrow-minded that we are unwilling to consider such questions?
After all, the Casimir Effect has been studied for decades. It has been confirmed by experiment. Search on google for "casimir effect" or "electromagnetic fluctuations" and you'll find hundreds of academic references.
The reality of zero-point energy has been well established. When will a practical extraction device be developed? Maybe not this year; maybe not in 20 years. But to insist that it could never be developed seems foolish.
Cheers!