Snake oil

[G7PSK]

The engine runs on the Petrol/gas that floats on top of the banana custard or whatever is in the glass jar the rso called reactor just ensures that any liquid drawn in is vaporised as the petrol/gas runs low in the jar. The engine will run (just) but you wont be able to drive much with it.

[janoc]

If you think you knew everything about frequency measurement techniques,  watch this and learn how to operate a Radionics frequency counter and get some goodies along the way



And yes, inside this $1 Chinese wooden box frequency counter there is a special circuit designed by a master Radionics technician (MRT ?). Apparently because of this reason it does not require a battery.

Wow! I am sure all witches are getting unionized now because this thing is going to put them out of business.

Seriously

[PedroDaGr8]

More Cold Fussion snake-oil this guy is back duping investors:

http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2013/05/21/the-e-cat-is-back-and-people-are-still-falling-for-it/

[daqq]

If you think you knew everything about frequency measurement techniques,  watch this and learn how to operate a Radionics frequency counter and get some goodies along the way



And yes, inside this $1 Chinese wooden box frequency counter there is a special circuit designed by a master Radionics technician (MRT ?). Apparently because of this reason it does not require a battery.

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I wonder why...

[Refrigerator]

If only there was a way to harvest human stupidity......

[Artlav]

If only there was a way to harvest human stupidity......

Perhaps that's why aliens would invade the Earth one day.





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[blackice504]

This guy is not exactly selling anything but he is pedaling some grade a bullshit, i tried to explain but it did not want to understand or just does not care, you may see my comments on youtube if there still there.

Anyway to the point he is trying to convince people that using some space from your SD card as ram in your phone by using it as a SWAP drive, he seems to believe that SWAP is RAM, but anyway here is the link and be ready for the shits and giggles.

<iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/GBd6LT55vr0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>



 

I love how he defends him self, by the classic ID10T line My views say he is correct  .

[RLBennett]

Don't know about you guys, I built a Tesla coil for a science fair when I was eigth grade. Was only 4 feet tall and driven with a 30kv neon transformer. Lots of ozone and audible noise along with RF noise. Can you imagine if Tesla had actually got his "wireless" electrity working? It would have made radio telecomm totally useless by wiping out the RF spectrum probably up into the SHF region. I had a similar RFI issue from an FM radio station with some improperly bonded lightning drains at the top of the tower. From 5 miles away, the RFI wiped out channel 5 and 12. People that lived within a mile or closer got so much RFI, their landline (hard-wired) phones were made useless, not to mention their radio and TV reception. Took me three months to find the source and another month to convince the FCC the RFI was real and where it was emmitted. Another month or so for the station engineer to admit the problem and get it fixed. The RFI occured intermittantly, some days it was absent and other days just blanking everything from DC to over 600 MHz. The same thing would have hapened with a Tesla wireless electricy transmission system. Guess thats why the FCC does not "certify" spark-gap transmitters?
Now, if I could figure out how to harness the energy from lightning! Kites, wire and lotsa capacitors? Maybe I can get my ex-wife to try it.

[AndersAnd]

Not exactly tech/engineering related, but fits the snake oil thread perfectly:



...it's painful...

[RLBennett]

Damn! I thought string theory was tin cans and a peice of string! E=C2? Ummm yea...

[MFX]

FFS!

http://www.gdstechnologies.ca/

[TheBay]

FFS!

http://www.gdstechnologies.ca/

OH MY! Not only is the video shocking, he hasn't got a clue what he's talking about and cannot do a presentation.

One battery is connected directly to an Inverter, the other one is running a motor! The wires are jammed on the one battery, the whole thing looks like it's been thrown together, this is such a SCAM it needs to be reported. The water part is doing NOTHING! It's getting power from an inverter being fed from a battery!

The rear fan is a Bit Fenix PC FAN! It's just crap chucked together, not even IP Rated sockets, back boxes nothing LOL

http://pesn.com/2014/10/27/9602557_GDS-Technologies_not-ready-to-go-yet/2014-10-27_time_07_42_58-MDT_call-to_Greg-Potter.mp3

[cloudscapes]

They're not even trying to hide the batteries. I find that immediately suspicious.

[Noise Floor]

Why are they calling it "portable water generators", that makes it sound to me like it generates water, not power.   

[blackice504]

FFS!

http://www.gdstechnologies.ca/

OH MY! Not only is the video shocking, he hasn't got a clue what he's talking about and cannot do a presentation.

One battery is connected directly to an Inverter, the other one is running a motor! The wires are jammed on the one battery, the whole thing looks like it's been thrown together, this is such a SCAM it needs to be reported. The water part is doing NOTHING! It's getting power from an inverter being fed from a battery!

The rear fan is a Bit Fenix PC FAN! It's just crap chucked together, not even IP Rated sockets, back boxes nothing LOL

http://pesn.com/2014/10/27/9602557_GDS-Technologies_not-ready-to-go-yet/2014-10-27_time_07_42_58-MDT_call-to_Greg-Potter.mp3

That was cool and funny but did you notice as well at 0.36 the safety switch is um glued on..........Its Safe..........maybe

Then at 0.56 take a close look at the way that panel is fitted into the sheet metal um i have actually cut better then that with the limited tools i have ffs.
Clearly they just eyed it when cutting the hole for that panel if people buy this, i will lose faith in humanity.

nice find.

[nkw]

Don't know if this has been posted yet, but just ran across this on Amazon:

http://amzn.com/B00DNIIETK

It feels like a joint venture of the Monster cable people and homeopathy. I can't decide if the reviews are sad or funny.

[electr_peter]

Don't know if this has been posted yet, but just ran across this on Amazon:
http://amzn.com/B00DNIIETK
It feels like a joint venture of the Monster cable people and homeopathy. I can't decide if the reviews are sad or funny.

For $50 it should really remove some EMF from buyer's pocket.
A scam, but not a new scam - devices similar to these were sold multiple times before (for example, add on small caps for car battery).

Hopefully, device is only plastic case with 3 pins unconnected. If it has something inside, I would be really worried about safety (smoke/heat/fire/short circuit/flashover/wasted socket).

[Whales]

This does have a legit use if your old radios or TVs are getting poor reception, assuming it has a line filter inside it.  It costs a lot for that however.

[amyk]

From the review it looks like they took a standard plug and filled it with epoxy.

[m4rv]

For anyone who really loves their audio, and hates their bank balance:
http://www.russandrews.com/product.asp?lookup=1&region=UK&currency=GBP&pf_id=1564

Yep... that's a UK mains plug to 16Amp IEC, 1 metre long, for a mere £5500 which will, of course, make all your music sound....... EXACTLY THE F*@#ING SAME!

They even offer a "burn in" service! 

Also:
http://www.russandrews.com/product.asp?lookup=1&region=UK&currency=GBP&pf_id=2436
and:
http://www.russandrews.com/product.asp?lookup=1&region=UK&currency=GBP&pf_id=0029

and pretty much anything else from this website.

[Mr.B]

Are the big lumps of wood to make it more effective when you are beating yourself with it after realising you have just been had...

[janekm]

For anyone who really loves their audio, and hates their bank balance:
http://www.russandrews.com/product.asp?lookup=1&region=UK&currency=GBP&pf_id=1564

Yep... that's a UK mains plug to 16Amp IEC, 1 metre long, for a mere £5500 which will, of course, make all your music sound....... EXACTLY THE F*@#ING SAME!

They even offer a "burn in" service! 

Also:
http://www.russandrews.com/product.asp?lookup=1&region=UK&currency=GBP&pf_id=2436
and:
http://www.russandrews.com/product.asp?lookup=1&region=UK&currency=GBP&pf_id=0029

and pretty much anything else from this website.

Well, to be fair, they have demonstrated that those cables can reject conducted noise reasonably well: http://www.russandrews.com/downloads/SKtest.pdf

Though in that same report they quite rightly point out: "Similarly, the graphs do not prove that the rejection measured in the lab has a perceptible (ie audible) effect when the cables are used in a Hi-Fi or Home Cinema System."

I could think of some cheaper means of rejecting conducted noise in a power cable though

[coppice]

I could think of some cheaper means of rejecting conducted noise in a power cable though

If conducted noise is your concern, then don't listen to classical or romantic orchestras. Stick to baroque, where there is no conductor, and the orchestra is lead from the keyboard. 

[PTR_1275]

I'm glad that the gds water generator has been mentioned. Did anyone else notice in the video that the ammeter doesn't increase when he turns the vacuum cleaner on?

He also spends far too much time describing the features of things like the wheels and power outlets.

I overthought the process and thought he might be using the battery to split the water, then the generator is running off the produced hydrogen. While it wouldn't be perpetual because the water might be the energy source, I don't know how much energy is lost in producing hydrogen from water and then burning it. I did find somewhere that he said the water was burnt as is and wasn't split into hydrogen.

[devanno]

I'm glad that the gds water generator has been mentioned. Did anyone else notice in the video that the ammeter doesn't increase when he turns the vacuum cleaner on?

He also spends far too much time describing the features of things like the wheels and power outlets.

I overthought the process and thought he might be using the battery to split the water, then the generator is running off the produced hydrogen. While it wouldn't be perpetual because the water might be the energy source, I don't know how much energy is lost in producing hydrogen from water and then burning it. I did find somewhere that he said the water was burnt as is and wasn't split into hydrogen.

This was sooo bad, I thought it was done as a farce.  I still do.

Of course, the classic "fun" goofy video is the Turboencabulator.. my favorite of this is this version   Be sure to watch to the point where the guy gets into the diagnosis part.