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Terabyte2007:
Proving that perpetual energy exists is like proving Bigfoot exists. Where is the scientific proof that these work? Show me a machine that uses no input energy and produces 500 watts out! It's give and take, some type of energy is needed to produce a reaction, and there are always losses. Some losses may be smaller than others, but there are losses. Solar is not free energy, the sun is burning fuel and radiating that energy with losses. Magnets require energy to produce, even small machines that attempt to operate off magnets are still not producing more than they have put in, and again with losses. Ugh!

nuhamind2:
This kind of scam has taken a university as victim in my country. The rector resign after the scam exposed, yet they insist they are not scammed instead "breach of cotract".

GreyWoolfe:

--- Quote from: dfmischler on January 23, 2014, 11:33:59 pm ---
--- Quote from: GreyWoolfe on January 23, 2014, 11:27:02 pm ---W.C. Fields said that there is a sucker born every minute.
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I never heard this attributed to W.C. Fields before.  It is usually (wrongly?) attributed to P.T. Barnum.

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You are correct, yet another senior moment.  Actually, they are not senior moments any more, they are all the time :(.

FrankBuss:

--- Quote from: daqq on January 24, 2014, 01:00:48 pm ---There's a lot of them! I'm guessing that part of the videos are just troll physics, some are ad-money grabbers and some are investor magnets. But some of them look really great, like this one:

http://hackaday.com/2013/11/30/gravity-powered-generator-real-or-fake/

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Nice, this is some really impressive CGI work :D see their webpage: http://rarenergia.com.br
I wonder which program they used. Of course, they were a bit sloppy with this image: http://rarenergia.com.br/imagem11a.JPG The lights and shadows look very wrong and the workers as photoshoped into the image.

rolycat:

--- Quote from: Terabyte2007 on January 24, 2014, 01:28:22 pm ---Proving that perpetual energy exists is like proving Bigfoot exists. Where is the scientific proof that these work? Show me a machine that uses no input energy and produces 500 watts out! It's give and take, some type of energy is needed to produce a reaction, and there are always losses. Some losses may be smaller than others, but there are losses. Solar is not free energy, the sun is burning fuel and radiating that energy with losses. Magnets require energy to produce, even small machines that attempt to operate off magnets are still not producing more than they have put in, and again with losses. Ugh!
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I rather think you are preaching to the converted on this forum, Eric.

I also think that few of the nutbars currently wasting their time on this nonsense believe the free energy they will very soon be harvesting is being created from nowhere, or can be extracted without losses.

There is generally some foggy notion of a vast pool of gravitational energy, or zero point energy, or whatever. Tapping into this will overcome the mechanical losses in their revolutionary gadget and also provide the floods of free power which make them rich any moment now.

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