Our energy problems are over!!! Screw you, peak oil!

[Arger68]

http://www.mufor.org/nmachine.html

(No, I don't believe it either)

[BlueEyedSon]

1. LMFAO

[RufusEarl]

2. Me thinks it's April fools day, a bit early!

[phantom power]

3. I'll listen to vacuum energy theories, but...

this is right out:

Suppose you light a candle. The heat in the flame derives from the release of latent heat stored in the wax, according to the textbooks. Nonsense says DePalma. "The law of energy conservation is pure assumption," he insists. In his theory, the heat of a lit candle comes from space, and this substrate is slowly consumed by the energy of space flowing through it.

When you drive a car, the heat latent in the gasoline is extracted through burning, which propels the pistons. Right? Wrong says DePalma. His understanding of the process is that the gasoline-air mixture, catalyzed by an electric spark, acts as a "molecular antenna" to release energy from space. Heat energy thus released cooks or burns the substance which is evoking it in the first place, producing exhaust.

:rofl:

[Teaser]

4. Why is it always "flywheels"?

What impresses people so much about flywheels that they think they can deliver free energy, if designed cleverly enough?

[Canuckistanian]

9. "with the help of a motor", of course

There's always a little "helper" in there somewhere!

[Ready4Change]

19. I think its confusion regarding power over time.

You can spin a gyroscope up to speed with a very weak motor over a large amount of time. Then, you can tap that gyroscope for large quantities of power over a very short amount of time. Seems like "free" energy.

If his devise produces more energy than it consumes he should be able to spin the gyro up to speed, then plug it into itself, and then run it forever. It should be sitting in his garage, spinning away, with no external connections whatsoever.

[phantom power]

21. But it WILL spin forever! Except the government won't let him!

Goodness, didn't you understand what he's trying to say???

[FSogol]

5. Cold Fusion? n/t

[Canuckistanian]

6. The first line had me pissing my pants....

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
That's a novel excuse....

[northzax]

10. my favourite quote:

His current view of the universe would strike many conventional scientists as heresy.

heresy? no, just laughably wrong. Heresy implies faith, see, not fact. it isn't heresy to think that object fall upwards, simply wrong.

[phantom power]

15. Many people...

aren't familiar with the difference between converse and contrapositive. Just because nobody listens to you doesn't mean you're the next Einstein :-)

[northzax]

17. indeed

after all, Einstein didn't talk until he was six, right? if your kid doesn't talk until six, it's probably not because he's Einstein.

[phantom power]

11. God how I wish I could apply that to my job...

"Sure, I finished the software. But my algorithms are so fucking revolutionary that if I was ever so foolish as to run them, the black helicopters would descend on my backyard like flies on shit!"

[Arger68]

20. He's probably got a 200 mpg carburetor in his garage

somewhere, too.

[phantom power]

22. Right behind the time machine and the antigravity generator.

[northzax]

7. r i g h t. Just as soon as he turns it on

it will solve all our problems, but you see, the government won't let him turn it on. uh huh.

[Canuckistanian]

12. Yeah, the government won't let me turn on MINE, either

Damned intrusive nanny-state enablers!

[northzax]

14. but if enough of you send me $1,000

maybe I can bribe enough congressmen that I can turn it on and save the world!

send it NOW. use PayPal, if you must, but I prefer the folding stuff for tax purposes.

Send Cash Amounts to Me
PO Box 1886
Scamsville, GA

or paypal me:

[e-mail]

[Ready4Change]

23. But if you pay me $500,000...

Then I will build you one, and YOU can turn it on. But don't expect me, even for half a million dollars, to demonstrate my own copy.

[LibertyLover]

8. Puthof

Wasn't he the guy who was involved with Uri Geller? The one who came up with the "UFOs gave Uri his magical powers" theory? All I can say about all these free energy claims is TANSTAAFL - There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch.

[Sinistrous]

13. LOL. Everybody knows combustion is the release of phlogiston.

Sinistrous

[NNadir]

16. The real reason the government won't let him turn it on is that if he...

does so, the entire solar system will be sucked into the black hole at the center of the galaxy. It's a worm whole kind of thing.

This is pretty obvious.

People always minimize the "small" drawbacks of their pet energy schemes. Being sucked into a black hole will have a very bad environmental effect on many ecosystems.

[Canuckistanian]

18. It would pretty much ruin your day

I dislike the idea of all the atoms in my body being converted to pure energy.

I'm funny that way.

[A Simple Game]

27. This is pretty obvious.

Well, being sucked into a black hole would solve our lack of cheap energy problems.

[phantom power]

24. I'm going out on a limb, and predict that...

his claims to teaching at MIT would not hold up well under investigation.

[mike_c]

25. hmmm-- N machines, gravitational anomalies-- 9/11....

Could an N machine have generated a small black hole in the basement of the World Trade Center? That would explain a great deal. So many possibilities, so little time....

:rofl:

[acmejack]

26. Or maybe not, it looks like he did teach at MIT.

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The following is an overview of some of these results presented on the DePalma website http://www.depalma.pair.com with some additional information from personal experiences of this writer with DePalma in Santa Barbara, California, beginning in May of 1979.

Bruce DePalma graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1958. He attended graduate school in Electrical Engineering and Physics at M.I.T. and Harvard University. At M.I.T. he was a lecturer in Photographic Science in the Laboratory of Dr. Harold Edgerton and directed 3-D color photographic research for Dr. Edwin Land of Polaroid Corporation.

http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/2depalma.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_De_Palma

http://depalma.pair.com/index.html