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- From: roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov (John Roberts)
- Subject: Re: FREE-ENERGY TECHNOLOGY For Spacecraft
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- -From: mcelwre@cnsvax.uwec.edu
- -Newsgroups: sci.space
- -Subject: FREE-ENERGY TECHNOLOGY For Spacecraft
- -Date: 17 Nov 92 22:44:40 GMT
- -Organization: University of Wisconsin Eau Claire
-
- - The technology described in the article copied below could be used to
- -power spacecraft, space colonies, etc.:
-
- - FREE-ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
- - by Robert E. McElwaine, Physicist
-
- - Ninety to a hundred years ago, everybody "knew" that a
- - heavier-than-air machine could not possibly fly. It would
- - violate the "laws" of physics. All of the "experts" and
- - "authorities" said so.
-
- There's a difference between violating established "laws" of physics and
- extending the established base of engineering knowledge. (Though even some
- distinguished authorities may tend to forget the distinction.)
-
- - Today, orthodox physicists and other "scientists" are
- - saying similar things against several kinds of 'Free Energy'
- - Technologies, using negative terms such as "pseudo-science"
- - and "perpetual motion", and citing so-called "laws" which
- - assert that "energy cannot be created or destroyed" ("1st law
- - of thermodynamics") and "there is always a decrease in useful
- - energy" ("2nd law of thermodynamics"). The physicists do not
- - know how to do certain things, so they ARROGANTLY declare
- - that those things cannot be done. Such PRINCIPLES OF
- - IMPOTENCE are COMMON in orthodox modern "science" and help to
- - cover up INCONSISTENCIES and CONTRADICTIONS in orthodox
- - modern theories.
-
- Isn't it strange that of the inventors who claim that most of the established
- principles of physics are wrong, and come up with wildly unconventional
- theories of their own, so many of them boast of having "little formal
- education", and do not even possess the mathematical tools to understand
- that which they dispute?
-
- - Free Energy Inventions are devices which can tap a
- - seemingly UNLIMITED supply of energy from the universe, with-
- - OUT burning any kind of fuel, making them the PERFECT
- - SOLUTION to the world-wide energy crisis and its associated
- - pollution, degradation, and depletion of the environment.
-
- - For example, at least three U.S. patents (#3,811,058,
- - #3,879,622, and #4,151,431) have so far been awarded for
- - motors that run EXCLUSIVELY on permanent MAGNETS, seemingly
- - tapping into energy circulating through the earth's magnetic
- - field. The first two require a feedback network in order to
- - be self-running. The third one, (as described in detail in
- - "Science & Mechanics" magazine, Spring 1980), requires
- - critical sizes, shapes, orientations, and spacings of
- - magnets, but NO feedback.
-
- I believe I actually read that issue. The fellow had set up a linear
- configuration of magnets, and caused another magnet to move from one
- end of the array to the other. (No surprise there - that's well within
- the realm of established physics.) The article went on to say that all
- he had to do was buy a few more magnets, and he would have enough to
- curve the track into a circle, so it would run forever! (At which point
- I burst out laughing - I invented the all-permanent-magnet motor when I
- was seven or eight years old, and it took me only about half an hour of
- experimenting with magnets and pieces of steel to figure out why it wouldn't
- work. I consider it pitiful that grown men are working on this, and
- spending years at it.) I've *never* seen an article of this type followed up
- by another article stating that "he's got it working now, and it's running
- beautifully" - any subsequent articles are about *somebody else's* great
- invention that's "nearly completed".
-
- - A second type of free-energy device, such as the 'Gray
- - Motor' (U.S. Patent #3,890,548), the 'Tesla Coil', and the
- - unpatented motor of inventor Joseph Newman, taps ELECTRO-
- - MAGNETIC energy by INDUCTION from 'EARTH RESONANCE' (about 12
- - cycles per second plus harmonics). They typically have a
- - 'SPARK GAP' in the circuit which serves to SYNCHRONIZE the
- - energy in the coils with the energy being tapped. It is
- - important that the total 'inductance' and 'capacitance' of
- - the Device combine to 'RESONATE' at the same frequency as
- - 'EARTH RESONANCE' in order to maximize the power output.
-
- Tesla was interested in using the Tesla coil as a power *transmitter*, but
- the power came from a conventional AC power plant (which he also invented,
- by the way). The Newman machine is a battery-powered motor-generator, of which
- the motor portion has been complimented as a clever and unique design. The
- generator portion puts out narrow, intense spikes of voltage and current,
- which a typical power meter would read as a considerably greater power level
- than what is actually produced. The researchers who investigated the machine
- (and who had access to more precise instruments) stated the opinion that
- given this peculiar property of the machine, it was plausible that the
- inventor was sincere in his belief that the machine was putting out more
- power than it took in.
-
- - Robert E. McElwaine
- - B.S., Physics, UW-EC
-
- I don't think we can say that there will never be discoveries of amazing
- and unconventional energy sources, but in general the current crop of
- "fringe" researchers sure don't seem very well equipped to do so.
-
- I'm also sending this to Robert McElwaine via email, since I have been
- unable to find any evidence that he even bothers to read sci.space after
- dumping his posts here.
-
- All opinions are my own.
-
- John Roberts
- roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov
-
-