Scary Ebay auction - free energy!

[MAdMaN]

Just found out the name of the device. It's called Homopolar Disc Generator. It was created by Faraday around the same time as his electric dynamo.

[Jonny]

For the cost, you could pay all your electrical bills over your entire lifetime, and still buy a car...

[herulach]

There have actually been several devices created that all test results suggest create more power than they consume or break the laws of physics as we know it in other ways, what's funny though is how they all disappear very quickly after their invention. I think it's a lot to do with the laws of Politics coming into play here, how many jobs would you lose if there was no more need for the power industry?

wow, but what if your tinfoil hat is actually acting like an antenna for all the aliens?

Get a grip, its impossible to get a device with more than a 100% energy efficiency, and anyone that says they can sell you one will probably also do a nice line in snake oil

[herulach]

Just found out the name of the device. It's called Homopolar Disc Generator. It was created by Faraday around the same time as his electric dynamo.

That is a dynamo, just instead of amagnet inside a coil, you spin a disk inside a magnet. nothing magic about it, infact theyre actually pretty poor for most things, hence why they dont get used

[chicken]

wow, but what if your tinfoil hat is actually acting like an antenna for all the aliens?

Get a grip, its impossible to get a device with more than a 100% energy efficiency, and anyone that says they can sell you one will probably also do a nice line in snake oil

You don't honestly believe that our understanding of physics is 100% accurate and not possible to flaw in any way do you?

We know bugger all about how the universe works, there are still a huge amount of things we can't explain, you don't need a tinfoil hat to see that.

If ANY of these claims are anywhere close to being true then any government is going to feel obliged to try and protect their economy, and maybe cream something off for their military use whilst they're at it. It's not a case of tin foil hats and aliens, it's ensuring new discoveries don't mess with the status quo... politicians love Status Quo.

[johnny02004976]

i just love some of the questions people have asked "can i use this in my submarine"

[YorkieBen]

I love the fact that they say it is great for submarine use but its sound level is 100dba (submarines are supposed to eb quiet!)

consume 1200m3 of air per hour. Quite remarkably, in can apparently operate simultaneously in a vacuum, which attests to its hi-tech capabilities.

lol @ an air breathing machine working in a vacuum

[herulach]

You don't honestly believe that our understanding of physics is 100% accurate and not possible to flaw in any way do you?

We know bugger all about how the universe works, there are still a huge amount of things we can't explain, you don't need a tinfoil hat to see that.

If ANY of these claims are anywhere close to being true then any government is going to feel obliged to try and protect their economy, and maybe cream something off for their military use whilst they're at it. It's not a case of tin foil hats and aliens, it's ensuring new discoveries don't mess with the status quo... politicians love Status Quo.

No i dont, i do know it would take a very significant discovery to break energy conservation, which is a fundamental principle, that arises in any formulation, from newton to QED, if you enforce time invariance. so if you can belive that 2+2 =4 today, but might equal 4 tommorow, then go ahead and build a perpetual motion machine.

[Steve B]

they say that they wont disclose any secrets about the inside of the machine, yet they then say its down to the "gravity tornado effect". Now im sorry, but i didn't know air molecules placed in a gravitational field created tornado's.