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Originally posted by AnthonyT:

The blog author talks about getting three times as much power from turbines in windy areas.

But I wonder… could such a technology make sub-par wind areas suddenly worthwhile? Could this technology make places like the Phoenix valley viable for wind turbines? In short, could ‘wind power anywhere’ become possible?

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Originally posted by pizmobeach:
Anthony - I really enjoy your recent threads about man's inventiveness , seems to be a theme. It's something that it feels like we lost interest in as a country. When I was growing up I had a serious appetite for invention and anything new, still do.

A number of these threads seem to deal with energy - I'm just guessing, but... how do you feel about Free Energy (caps added for drama)? Perendev motors, v-gates, Bedini motors... ring any bells?

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Originally posted by pizmobeach:
Anthony - I really enjoy your recent threads about man's inventiveness , seems to be a theme. It's something that it feels like we lost interest in as a country. When I was growing up I had a serious appetite for invention and anything new, still do.

A number of these threads seem to deal with energy - I'm just guessing, but... how do you feel about Free Energy (caps added for drama)? Perendev motors, v-gates, Bedini motors... ring any bells?

Scifi movie music + Firefly dialogue clips, 24 hours a day - http://www.scifiradio.com]

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Hello,

The idea of Free Energy is intriguing. I used to read up on it more than I do now. But as near as I could tell, no one ever made it work.

But we're gifted with so much energy in our environment that it seems an easy enough matter to reach out and take it. We just need the will to do so.

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Coal, oil and gas agree with you on the taking part.

The perpetual motion/free energy pursuit is fascinating in many ways, even more so now with YouTube where these garage inventors put up their latest attempts. Of course some people put up fakes using various tricks (like compressed air) to make the device appear to spin on just magnet power. Nevertheless, it's quite a parade of devices and the people who make them, and it seems to be growing. Some of these videos have over a million hits. The whole of it would make for a pretty entertaining documentary.
As I mentioned, there are the dishonest folks, swindlers who are looking for "funding" to get them over the hump. One guy in Germany had 60 investors looking for him. There are also countless dead web pages that inspire intrigue (what happened to this guy?), impressive graphs and an army of hecklers who seem to have an unusual amount of spite and anger towards these dreamers - I don't know why people trying to invent the next wheel inspire such an attitude, "get out of your momma's basement and get a real job." I root for them - plenty of people must have laughed at the Wright Brothers, "man will never fly" "If you want to fly you'll have to flap your wings, everyone knows that!" But they keep at it. It reminds me of Dreyfuss character in Close Encounters, like something is in them they are powerless to stop.
If you have conspiracy theory leanings you could easily wonder, as Frem has alluded to, if Big Energy isn't lurking somewhere close, watching all these hobbyists post their latest attempts, "User Ouroboros69 is getting too close, send in a re-education team..." I can imagine a Houston Oil Baron's personal museum where one room is dedicated to the dozen or so machines that they've confiscated that were "too close." Would we ever know if someone had solved the problem? Who would tell us?


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one must bust the roadblock of exploitive and predatory "intellectual property" law here in the states.-Frem

What Frem said.- Dreamtrove

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