Free energy - the old story?

[bindeweede]

From Dr Ben Goldacre's BadScience page.

http://www.badscience.net/2007/11/free-energy/#more-574

[Admin]

I really wonder where the science editors are for items that make it onto the news etc.

Obviously any claim for an over-unity device should be doubted but for a claim to get through based on such a schoolboy error in (mis)using equipment beggars belief.

Here's my prediction: we will not see these 'free energy' devices on sale any time in the future because they don't work.

[Mongrel]

Stick with me, science is fun when you’re making people look stupid.

[frosty jack]

I really wonder where the science editors are for items that make it onto the news etc.

Obviously any claim for an over-unity device should be doubted but for a claim to get through based on such a schoolboy error in (mis)using equipment beggars belief.

Here's my prediction: we will not see these 'free energy' devices on sale any time in the future because they don't work.

This was quite a basic error but correctly measuring energy is not as simple as it may seem. At lot of people make mistakes and really do belive they have created an over unity machine. One guy in America went to the home of someone who claimed to have invented such a machine. After much testing it was agreed the machine worked and they agreed a price of thousands of Dollars. When the guy got the machine home it didn't work at all despite his best efforts. After a while he worked it out. No power lines were going over the top of his house but they were the inventors

[Mongrel]

Found this cartoon about perpetual motion machines over at The Millenium Project