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As the last line in many of the blogs I have written regarding the energy/economy gloomy-doomy situation I have ended with a hope that I am wrong in my assessments and that a miracle source of energy is discovered that will solve all of our problems. Lo and behold, such a miracle may be happening!

I was one of several scientists (one was a Nobel Laureate in Physics!) invited to attend the demonstration of a new power source. I cannot disclose the location or nature of the company involved for having signed a non-disclosure agreement. I can, however, report on what I saw and what I think it means for the future of humanity. To put it bluntly, and to my great amazement and chagrin, I believe the inventor of this device has proven everybody wrong about the nature of the laws of thermodynamics. The device I witnessed does indeed produce abundantly greater energy than is used to get it started. If you will, an honest to goodness perpetual motion machine (I was allowed to take a single picture which is at the end of this article)!

We scientists probed every possible way to determine whether this was just another false claim and some kind of elaborate hoax (especially since the company was trying to persuade investors, which is why they had asked us to evaluate the machine). I, myself, verified that there were no secret wires or radio waves providing outside power to the machine to make it appear to create energy. I can tell you there were no such inputs that any of us could detect (several others brought monitoring equipment to check). The company had done a wonderful job in setting up the demonstration so that we had complete access to the machine, including putting radiation shielding around the device. The setup was pretty simple. The energy creator was wired to a loaded electric motor with amperage monitoring provided by one of our inspection team, and temperature monitors were set around to show that there was no excess heat being given off by the process. Apparently, the device absorbs more ambient energy than the motor produces because after it started the local temperature actually dropped several degrees.

Needless to say, after four hours of close scrutiny and our general inability to discover any tricks, we were stunned and had to admit that the machine was indeed a viable source of unending energy. Moreover, the inventor revealed enough of the workings to convince us that it could be scaled up to produce massive amounts of energy and, best of all, very cheaply. I am an inveterate skeptic of all such claims, having seen far too many such claims made in the past only to find that the reality is quite different. But I could not find a single reason why this machine (I will say it is incredibly simple in design and based on readily available materials and technology) could not be scaled up and economically slotted in as replacements for all current conventional electricity generation plants. It might be accomplished in as few as ten years! One of the most attractive aspects of this machine is that it never wears out. There are just a few moving parts that somehow seem to regenerate themselves as the machine operates, according to the inventor. He cited the theoretical work done by astrophysicist David Brin (“The Practice Effect”) until now only thought to be a far out solution to the quantum gravity problem. A machine that requires no maintenance means that these devices can be placed in remote locations without need for expensive logistical support. Of course the equipment that is powered will need ordinary replacement or maintenance. But there may be a more concerted effort now to design for durability as a result of the eternal nature of the power source.

Moreover, the power generation capacity of even a slightly larger version, from the demonstration unit, could make it viable as an immediate replacement for internal combustion engines. The company estimates the cost of retrofitting existing cars with such replacements at around US $425, parts and labor. The existing car battery is all that is needed to kick start the device! Think of it; you will never have to drive into a gas station or recharging station again!

This means that the suburban lifestyle can go on forever. James Howard Kunstler will not be pleased. Indeed this also means that the economy will not only recover but grow at an even greater pace. With abundant cheap energy we can do much more recycling which means that we will never run out of materials to build more stuff with. So I guess the neoclassical economists were right after all. Technology was the answer and we will never be constrained by resource depletion. And, not only that, since the device absorbs ambient energy, including formerly thought waste heat, we do not need to worry about thermal pollution as a factor. Actually the inventor was initially trying to find a solution to global warming through heat absorption when he happened on this remarkable little exception in the second law of thermodynamics. Now we will solve both the energy problem and global warming in one fell swoop.

So here is the lesson I have learned. I humbly apologize to all my readers for being such a downer. The optimists were right all along. Technology would, they claimed, and now has saved the day. I did hope I was wrong, and I got my wish. I was wrong. Human ingenuity has won again. I'd like to think I am able to learn from my mistakes, so this will make me a better person in the end.

 

Figure 1. Picture of honest to goodness perpetual motion machine that makes more energy than it consumes in operation. This device, shown here on the test bench, appears to actually do what no other machine has ever done (and what no scientist ever expected could be done) by by-passing the second law of thermodynamics. This revolutionary breakthrough should soon be available in hardware stores all over the world, thus solving the energy crisis, saving mankind, and probably will lead to a re-writing of physics books.

Comments

[Joseph Ormond]

April Fooled not!

[Walther]

Maybe this helps to make our wet dreams come true!

http://thorea.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page with a electron beam.

or this

http://energyformthorium.com with a molten salt reactor.

[Kevin DiVico]

LOL - wow, you got me - until about 1 minute and 30 seconds after reading the article and looking at the picture. lol well done

[So Very Doomed]

What! No Doom?

What the hell am I supposed to do now?

[Florifulgurator]

Bah. Old hat. Schauberger's vortex generator is 50 years old. Then there's Tesla's machine. And of course there's quantum zero-point energy and torsion gravity which we could tap with the help of a some electronics and cryo tech.

There's enough energy to suck out of the universe, but Homo S "Sapiens" prefers playing chicken little and believing the lies of the coal barons...

[Nicholas Dahlheim]

Thanks for the April Fool's Joke.

[George Mobus]

All,

Yes, April Fools. But after the chuckle comes the sigh. If only...

George

[Question Answer Us]

Great machine, maybe coming generation has lesser problems than ours to face.

[Robin Datta]

An oversimplified version of the laws of thermodynamics:

0. Equally crappy remain equally crappy as long as connected to each other.

1. Nothing disappears.

2. Everything turns to crap.

3. It can't be cleaned up.

[Sukhbir]

Good joke.
Though, its a little too sarcastic for the scientists.
Now if you would have said someone has developed a fusion process for which the energy return is greater than the investment.
That could have fooled me for a couple minutes. :)

[George Mobus]

Sukhbir,

Targetting the non-scientists in the audience. It would be fun to write a serious sounding paper that does something like you suggest and submit it to a journal to see if it gets published. Of course it would have to be a second or third tier journal. Or maybe a journal in economics!

George