It's little different than the free energy scams. Ok so fooling an IR remote receiver with light coming from fire does not violate any actual laws of the universe, but if one knows how the modulation works and one is familiar with the characteristics of firelight it's pretty easy to say with reasonable certainty that firelight is not going to trigger a remote receiver. If a random flicker did trigger a poorly designed receiver it is extraordinarily unlikely for it to repeatedly trigger the power toggle command rather than randomly triggering all sorts of different functions. Anyway the point is, with a little understanding of how things work, it's easy to look at a video like this and state with 99.999% certainty that it is fake and it won't work. If you want to try it, go right ahead, you don't have to take my word for it, I still know that I'm correct.