1st September 2005, 10:49 PM
Companies trying to screw people?! Say it isn't so!
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Sorry, I'm a little jaded. At least the revolution will eventually exist and is capable of existing! I've seen far too many "free energy machines" as of late. Not that they are new, more like people who don't have a background in engineering are being suckered into pooling money into a project that just doesn't show any promise. A simple test, just show us the device powering ITSELF with a constant supply of energy, and you have it. Instead, they show a mystery box with wires coming out of it making a lightbulb light up in some closed room with only the already convinced investors attending. What exactly are they hiding? Oh, of course, they "can't let anyone steal the idea", except that this is something that could very easily change the nature of how we understand energy, and they could easily get a mint just showing THAT it works even if they have to reveal the mechanism to show it. They sort of have a responsibility to put doubts like that to rest with a simple GOOD demonstration. Oh well. And oh yes, it's often the SAME people promising a "revealing test" at a specific date, then pushing it to the "end of the year", then next year, and now a lot of them are going on a decade of delays. The old investors long since left, sure, but there's always fresh new suckers.... Sad really... Oh well, at least there aren't crazy people trying to get funding to build a bridge based not at all on principles of engineering but on the ancient chinese secret of fung sheui (sp?). Wait, some idiot IS? Um, and he says that his lack of an engineering background is a good thing because it frees him from stigmas of how things "should be"? And, some government officials are listening to him?
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Wow, imagine paying tolls towards that horrific human tragedy...
Oh yeah, you were saying something about some people overcharging for the Revolution and promising it on a date they can't deliver? :D
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Sorry, I'm a little jaded. At least the revolution will eventually exist and is capable of existing! I've seen far too many "free energy machines" as of late. Not that they are new, more like people who don't have a background in engineering are being suckered into pooling money into a project that just doesn't show any promise. A simple test, just show us the device powering ITSELF with a constant supply of energy, and you have it. Instead, they show a mystery box with wires coming out of it making a lightbulb light up in some closed room with only the already convinced investors attending. What exactly are they hiding? Oh, of course, they "can't let anyone steal the idea", except that this is something that could very easily change the nature of how we understand energy, and they could easily get a mint just showing THAT it works even if they have to reveal the mechanism to show it. They sort of have a responsibility to put doubts like that to rest with a simple GOOD demonstration. Oh well. And oh yes, it's often the SAME people promising a "revealing test" at a specific date, then pushing it to the "end of the year", then next year, and now a lot of them are going on a decade of delays. The old investors long since left, sure, but there's always fresh new suckers.... Sad really... Oh well, at least there aren't crazy people trying to get funding to build a bridge based not at all on principles of engineering but on the ancient chinese secret of fung sheui (sp?). Wait, some idiot IS? Um, and he says that his lack of an engineering background is a good thing because it frees him from stigmas of how things "should be"? And, some government officials are listening to him?
...
Wow, imagine paying tolls towards that horrific human tragedy...
Oh yeah, you were saying something about some people overcharging for the Revolution and promising it on a date they can't deliver? :D
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)