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Spockie-Tech
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Well, thats a nice pile of meaninglessness..
I can tell the image is linked from Steorns website, but WTF is it ?
No doubt its some sort of Mr.Fusion generator, but without an explanation of principles, materials, tolerances and other specs that make such a drawing useful, its just another blueprint for the gullible free energy fans.
I'll bet theres a bunch of hopeful home machinists already milling up the parts
who will no doubt be later be told "oh, your model didnt work ? no wonder, you used un-atomically-polarised poly-tetra-fluro-ethylene flange gaskets ! We found that they disturb the orgone energy flows into sub-optimal quasi-crystalline matrix structures. You need to buy our certified resonance enhancing gaskets and the approved helical DNA-spiral-threaded screws or it'll never work".
Sceptical ? Me ? I wonder why. _________________ Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people
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Spockie-Tech
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An Interesting point I read once to consider (that I think I may have made before briefly).
Take 3 x 1 Kg Bricks of different materials and ask 3 "scientists" from different times of history to order them according to the energy that they contain.
Brick 1 is 1 Kg of Red-Hot Iron
Brick 2 is 1 Kg of Room Temperature Uranium 235
Brick 3 is 1 Kg of Frozen Hydrogen (Deuterium)
Scientist 1 is from ~1900, He will likely list them (in decreasing order) 1,2,3
He can only see the "Thermal" energy contained within the bricks. Red Hot is more energetic than room temperature, and frozen is the most energy devoid state
Scientist 2 is from ~1950. He will likely list them in the order 2,1,3.
In this time, He can now "see" (or is aware of) the energy that can be released by the correct arrangement of the U235, so places it first, but is probably still unaware of the principles of Fusion, so the frozen hydrogen is still last.
Scientist 3 is sometime from ~1950 to the present. Their order will now be 3,2,1.
Being aware that fusion produces more energy even than fission (even if we cant quite turn the trick ourselves yet), he correctly (according to our present understanding) now places the fusible frozen hydrogen first, the fissionable uranium second and the red-hot iron that was previously thought to be most energetic *last*.
The amount of Thermal energy that the Iron contains is but a drop in the bucket compared to the nuclear energies that can now be "seen" thanks to more advanced knowledge.
Or, for a simplified version of the above.
Grab another scientist from the 1900's and give him two sub-critical half-spheres of Uranium 235. Tell him that all he has to do is slap the two spheres together, and he will release more energy than he could obtain by the burning of thousands of tons of coal, and he will call you a liar.
"Energy cannot be created out of nowhere" he will say. It has to "come from somewhere".. make sure you have a fast car at this point to get away before he demonstrates it and is somewhat surprised in the few nanoseconds he has left to live.
Just 1 or 2 generations, and our conceptions of where energy can "come from" has completely reversed from its prior knowledge.
Considering this, I try not to write off the possibility that there are yet more energy source surprises awaiting our discovery that may seem "impossible" due to limitations in our present understanding.
*However*, Once you've been around the block a few times, it becomes fairly obvious to one, the difference between
1. a "scientist" openly describing a new unexplained phenomenon worthy of further research.
or
2. a shyster being noisy, but cagey about a new phenomenon "worthy of further *investment* (Ie, seeking money) without showing anything reproducible or provable"
Unfortunately Steorn seems to be behaving in a way that puts them firmly in the second category so they would appear to deserve the derision being flung in their direction.
However, thinking about the way history has treated most inventors, perhaps such behaviour is justified.....
It seems that in todays sadly financially-focused world that being the benefactor of mankind is often not sufficient motivation for a scientist to release ideas into the public domain until they are also well and truly patented, copyrighted, trademarked, franchised, licensed, and marketed to ensure maximum $$ return (and hopefully a monopoly) from any world-changing discovery. Particularly if such a discovery has come about from a corporate share-funded company who's focus in purely on profit.
That *could* be the reason for Steorn's present dodgy practices, (But I doubt it)
Look into the history of Vulcanised Rubber (Goodyear/Hancock), The Laser (Townes/Gould), Radio (Tesla/Marconi) and a host of others who invented things that now form world-spanning industries used daily by everybody, yet who died penniless due to legal shennanigans and patent disputes.
If there is presently less than a ton of vulcanised rubber within a kilometer or so of you, I would be surprised, USA alone consumed $6 billion in rubber products per year - yet its inventor, Charles Goodyear, died $200,000 (in 1860 $ !) in debt.
Nearly everything electrical you use is being powered by the polyphase generator and AC power system invented by Tesla, yet he too died well into the red having given away his patents to save the business of a "friend" (Westinghouse - who went on to make billions).
Tesla also clearly invented the fundamental tuning circuits that made Radio possible. However, due to Marconi's (who copied the circuits blatantly) financial connections, Tesla's original patents were strangely overturned about the time Marconi started to make a lot of money.
To add insult to injury, 40 years later (after Tesla had died), when the US government was being sued by the Marconi Co. for using "their" patents for Radios during the war without royalty payments, the Supreme Court suddenly decided that Tesla was actually, after all, the inventor of Radio, and that Marconi's patents were thus invalid so that the government didn't owe Marconi anything.
It seems the financial rewards for innovation in this life are least inclined to go to those who deserve it, but mostly towards those who are willing to fight the dirtiest fight over them.
Charles Goodyear - cheated out of billions - had every right to be a bitter angry old man, but instead penned this inspiring phrase...
"Life," he wrote, "should not be estimated exclusively by the standard of dollars and cents. I am not disposed to complain that I have planted and others have gathered the fruits. A man has cause for regret only when he sows and no one reaps."
Woo, Philosophy morning ! I often think like this when contemplating the history of inventors and their inventions crashing up against the stupid world of money and power. _________________ Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people
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Sun Dec 20, 2009 8:28 am |
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