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Comments on Wednesday 30 June 2004:
A chap with unusually good analogies explains compellingly why free energy is possible.

The most notable part of the explanation being one of the analogies, and an unmentioned corollary. The corollary should go first, I think - that while people who strive for such devices sometimes say "over-unity" and "efficiency greater than one" they don't mean it. There is a distinction being missed, between efficiency - that property which, in physics, can never be greater than one; energy input over energy output - and COP - energy input by the operator over energy output. Then we get to the analogy, which makes this distinction clear - windmills.

The criteria people apply before they say 'pah, bunkum' to claims of 'over-unity' devices are such that they would say the same about windmills. Look at my imaginary windmill - here is an ammeter and voltmeter attached to my input-side battery, showing an unfeasible zero, and here is the ammeter and voltmeter on the output-side - gasp! There are some volts and amps! That's over-unity, so there must be some fault in my measuring apparatus or I must be faking it! Indeed, the 'efficiency' of my windmill is infinite!

Ah, you say, but there's another input, the wind. Well that's what over-unity people say, too. They say there's another input; vacuum energy, or gravity or magical magnets or whatever thing they feel like, really. Show me this wind of which you speak! Surely you're using it up and it will run out so the machine will stop working! And so forth. Why is wind a more feasible renewable energy source than magnets or gravity? 'Permanent' magnets don't wear out their charge, they just deteriorate with time - the rate at which they deteriorate isn't changed by how much work they do. The problem with magnets is that they apply a force contrary to the one you want to apply to your engines, as well as the helpful one - but if you can change that without having to put more energy in than you save by doing so, your machine is sorted. Can you? I don't know.

How does gravity work? How do magnets work? Neither of these questions are answered in the field of electrical engineering - gravity and magnetism are simply 'base' forces. Indeed, they are pretty much so in the most advanced conventional physics, and only a bit theorised about even if you go into quantum mechanics and right up to string theory and the like. A prevailing theory is that it's to do with "the exchange of photons between particles". What's that you say? Moving things? Like wind? That you can't see? Nonsense! [12:25]

justin
very confusing, but......interesting, in a confusing way mind you XD *sicks 1000 zerglings on you* BWAHAHAHA

Sean O'Reilly
Absolutely excellent analogy and quite compelling.
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