Re: SB: FW: Free Energy???????

["Scott Willing" <willing@mb.sympatico.ca>]

On 23 Apr 2002 at 23:43, Keith Rowe wrote:

>     Hello Folks,
> 
>     Me Keith. Wife Kim. Built bale house. Western Alberta. Some day
>     bed and breakfast. Four years. Still building due to kids and
>     life. Lots of fun. Lots of work. Lots of swearing. Beautiful. One
>     of a kind. Tried life off the grid. Didn't work for us. No grid=no
>     power tools. Man very sad.

No, the statement is very sad.

"No grid=no power tools" is not an equation.
 
>     Anyway, that's who we are. A friend of ours sent us this web site
>     to look at which has very interesting and far reaching
>     implications, either as the find of the age or the hoax of the
>     age.
> 
>     This article claims they have created "Free energy," and have even
>     been granted a patent for the machine that does it. (The last guy
>     to make claims this outlandish got nailed to a cross. I suspect if
>     the oil co's think this thing has any validity whatsoever, it's
>     inventors will meet a similar fate, if not literally.) 
> 
>     Yeah, I know the whole term "Free Energy" is flawed. Maybe we
>     should call it "Clean Energy" or maybe "Guilt Free Energy," or how
>     about "Free for a Fee Energy," or maybe "Drill This Oil Boy!" or
>     "Greenpeace Friendly Energy," then again, maybe "Kwik'n'EeZee
>     Energy"... you get the picture.
> 
>     Anyway, fact or fancy, check it out at
>     http://www.spiritofmaat.com/announce/meg.htm. 

Too bad this web site doesn't even begin to provide enough information 
to base an opinion on. The abstract for the patent makes no claims with 
regard to over-unity operation. It talks about pulsing input coils and so 
on... this could be a description of a fancy transformer and nothing 
more. (Nice-looking transformer though. Full marks.)
 
OTOH there isn't enough information here to dismiss it either. It *is* 
encouraging that we aren't entreated to invest or anything.

So-called free energy schemes are fascinating, and I do try to keep an 
open mind. After all, e=mc^2 and it's implications weren't too obvious at 
one time. 

I once watched an hour-long tape about various zero-point energy 
schemes and was completely frustrated that, in each case, *even if we 
were to assume no smoke and mirrors*, insufficient information was 
provided to prove that there was anything useful happening at all!

Then there were the super-powerful magnet guys, but that's another 
story.

Yep, I keep hoping, and I keep being skeptical.

Hint: next time, size your off-grid system to run the stuff you want to run. 
All it takes is math and money. (Just in case this free energy thing 
doesn't pan out.)

-=s

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