Re: Free Energy

William Morse wrote:
Don Lancaster <don@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:4l3s3oF5lb0U2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

Gary Grundy wrote:
Did you read some of the discussions at the bottom of the page. As an
engineer I fully understand your scepticism as my first thoughts were
similar to yours. I really thought it was a spoof. But reading
through some of the feed back it just makes you wonder whether or not
there is something in it.

Prospector dies, tries to get into heaven.
Gets told there already too many prospectors here.
Agrees to get rid of them.

Sidels up to the bar and mumbles "big gold strike in hell".
Place clears out.

Gets told he can stay, but leaves.
"Dunno, there just might be something in it."


Love the story!

And now for a quote from the web site:


"But for us to be able to commercialise this and put this into peoples' lives we need credible, academic validation in the public domain and hence the challenge," McCarthy said."

So they can't commercialize it just because it works? Seems to me if you can produce energy for free you could probably get a lot of people to buy it whether it had "academic validation" or not. I note that the bumblebees kept flying while the scientists were figuring out how they did it.

Yours,

Bill Morse

The fact that the science of aerodynamics was in its early stages when the comments about the ability of the bumble bee to fly were made. In the early days of aerodynamics it would have been impossible to predict the mechanisms that would allow jet planes and space rockets to be viable. Engineering is an applied science. When the basic science is not properly applied then strange predictions are made and have to be revised after the applications are changed.
FK
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