Here’s an article on EVs that explores the topic in the title above. The fellow admits that he’s not an engineer or a physicist but observes, correctly, that attaching a wind turbine to the top of an EV and using …
Tag: First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics
Here Comes the Starship Enterprise
This fellow claims that his plane’s propulsion mechanism consists of two wires that are charged to have a potential difference of 40K volts, the first of which ionizes nitrogen atoms, causing them to be strongly attracted to the second, via …
Tagged with: First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics
Exercise in Techno-Fraud
Here’s a fellow raising money on crowdfunder.com to make a machine that he describes as follows: Lets (sic) fight climate change together. …. My first full size prototype will have 3 alternators around it each alternator producing 1.75kw so totaling 5.25kw …
Gravity Engine?
I get submissions from readers that “challenge” the laws of physics at the rate of four or five per year. Over time, I’ve become kinder to such people in my replies; I used to be fairly brutal, but there’s no …
Concept in Renewable Energy
Here’s a concept in renewable energy that a reader submitted, to which I wrote: Here’s the problem you’re going to run into: the first and second laws of thermodynamics.
Renewable Energy and Fraud
Here’s a website that describes a machine that produces more energy than it consumes. Really? Of course not. Yet that’s what its investors told me on the conference call just now. Unsurprisingly, they’re trying to raise investment capital. I asked …
Analyzing Claims Regarding "Breakthroughs in Physics"
At the rate of approximately one per month, I receive emails from people who claim to represent breakthroughs in physics that are called “over unity” or “perpetual motion,” where the purported efficiency of the process is greater than 100%, meaning …
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Renewable Energy and the Laws of Physics
Normally, I ignore emails like this one from “Yura,” but, for some reason, I got sucked in here. Yura: I have a proposition for you: a generator that produces electricity only using the Earth’s gravity. My device has been experimentally tested. …
Happy Birthday Spinoza, Perhaps History’s Greatest Radical
It’s the birthday (1632) of the philosopher Baruch Spinoza, whose most important ideas, according to the Writer’s Almanac, were that “everything in the universe is made of a single substance, and that everything in the universe is subject to natural …
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Breakthrough Ideas In Clean Energy Are Very Rare
At the rate of about a dozen a week, I’m approached with ideas in clean energy/transportation. Here’s a rough breakdown of my perception of the concepts I’ve received over the last three years: 2%: Crackpots. An attempt to raise money …
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