Re: Claims of "Free Energy" - Real or PR stunt ?
The forum on their website leads to all sorts of interesting links. I am afraid I couldn't readily follow most of the scientific (pseudo scientific?) stuff, but it was still very interesting. One of the links made (or purported to make)the point that "free" energy was not the same thing as making energy from nothing - giving as an analogy the heat pump, watermill, hydro power etc. - the argument apparently being that there are powerful magnetic fields in the environment (or at least in some sense 'out there' ) if we could but harness them.
I wish I had the knowledge to dismiss this stuff. (I don't like to dismiss anything from a position of ignorance) but I am afraid it is quite impossible for me to make any sort of informed judgment. Intuitively, and from a layman's perspective, one feels that there is something rather marvellous about magnetism. If I place one magnet on top of another, with same poles facing, it will be repulsed. If I corall the magnets inside a cage (say a few wooden skewers), so that the upper magnet cannot slide away, the upper magnet will happily sit there in mid-air for ever, held up by the other. I know this isn't motion, but there is still a magnet being held in the air forever, without any apparent expenditure of energy. I know some scientist will probably tell me that it is no different to a magnet sitting motionless on a table, but intuitively it feels different. I should have studied harder, so these things wouldn't seem mysterious.
Still it is as good a way as any to waste a half hour.