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TESLA Free Energy Generator

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I'm sure most of you have seen this via BoingBoing, but just in case anyone hasn't, and wants a good chuckle, check out this hilarious video shill for a "Tesla Free Energy Generator" - it's 500% efficient!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5782814493845772323&q=tesla&hl=en

I'm not sure what's funnier, the desperate sales-pitch (which rivals Steorn for its levels of incredible nonsense) or the comments left by Google video users, who have been hunting down this product online and, when found that its not actually available for sale, come to the conclusion that the government or Big Oil must have supressed the information. It's pseudoscience and conspiracy theory all in one!

My particular favourite is this:

[SIZE=-1][SIZE=-1]This guy is a hoax, multi level marketting, bible nut, read quite a bit on him, he has been working the scam for years and never produced actual results or allowed people to investigate the machine closely. This footage seems like a long commercial to get people to put up the 100 thousand dollars to become one of his distributors. Take care all, Zero point energy is real though.
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Zero point energy is real though.
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Well, ZPE *is* real, as demonstrated by the Casimir effect. Ofc, saying you can utilize ZPE to extract energy/work is pure fantasy. IMO and so on.
 
I've not heard anyone say B*** S*** so eloquently! Did you happen to catch the back and forth action his assistant used to keep the motor turning? Perhaps if the house has a teenage boy and an internet connection, there may be an untapped source of free energy. Forgetting for the moment the inefficiencies of a typical teenager, of course.
 
I used to be on a forum where a complete nutcase would try to sell this and every other scam on earth on his website (www.btpholdings.com).

Every time I asked him about the device, he refused to answer, then I went and studied up about it, and found a Yahoo group about the inventor Dennis Lee. Of course, the only answer was that the evil "them" were trying to stop Mr. Lee because he was too close.

Add in the evil oil companies, "joos" and whatever else you want.

Major league scam artist, but people still want to believe.
 
mattlodder said:
Is that magnet-in-a-tube effect totally fabricated?
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The magnet moving in a metallic tube will induce an electrical current in the tube. The current creates a magnetic field, and the field opposes the permanent magnets field. (The same effect is in play when you turn the armature of a generator. The generated electricity creates a magnetic field in opposition to the magnetic field used to generate the electricity, so effort is required to turn the armature.)

So, yes, a very strong magnet dropped down a tube like that would proceed downward slowly.
 
Fascinating! Thank you.

I must have been away the day we did that at school! :)
 
jsfisher said:
So, yes, a very strong magnet dropped down a tube like that would proceed downward slowly.
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This is one of my favourite physics demos. One of my University profs showed this one. You could look down the copper pipe and see the magnet slowly tumbling down. Very elegant demonstration of electromagnetic induction.

Apparently he showed a video tape of the same demo to a philosophy class, and the general opinion was that it was simply a trick. "Common sense" and science don't always mix.
 
It is indeed a great trick and science demonstration but I can't see how it helps Mr Lee prove his point. "I can do this neat thing that is amazing...see...that means I can give you free energy for life"??!

BTW, I saw James Randi do the same demonstration in his library the day before the Amazing Cruise. Great demo!
 
Wow.
Between this, cold fusion, quartz crystal energy, and pyramid power, we should be ditching fossil fuels any day now...no wonder oil prices dropped this week...:eye-poppi
 
It's awful how many of the people who commented actually seem to buy into this.
 
Zygar said:
It's awful how many of the people who commented actually seem to buy into this.
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If you are referring to the people that commented in this thread, then I think you are missing their sarcasm. Or maybe you do see their sarcasm and are responding with a bit of your own. Yeah, that has to be it.

Zero Point Energy, as demonstrated by the Casimir Effect, is real. Any claim to be able to tap into it is not.

Any claim that connects Lenz's Law ("The induced current produced in the conductor always flows in such a direction that the magnetic field it produces will oppose the change that produces it.") is pure woo-woo, and serves only to demonstrate the gullibility of the audience and the audacity of the person(s) making the claim.

-Fnord of Dyscordia-
 
AZAtheist said:
It is indeed a great trick and science demonstration but I can't see how it helps Mr Lee prove his point. "I can do this neat thing that is amazing...see...that means I can give you free energy for life"??!

BTW, I saw James Randi do the same demonstration in his library the day before the Amazing Cruise. Great demo!
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Mr. Lee's purpose in playing with the magnets is to "prove" to people that magnets have strange and mysterious properties of which they weren't aware. He's trying to help people make that magical leap from "magnetic field" over to "magnetic energy" and have people assume they are one in the same.
 
jsfisher said:
Mr. Lee's purpose in playing with the magnets is to "prove" to people that magnets have strange and mysterious properties of which they weren't aware. He's trying to help people make that magical leap from "magnetic field" over to "magnetic energy" and have people assume they are one in the same.
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To re-iterate, Lenz's Lawstates that "The induced current produced in the conductor always flows in such a direction that the magnetic field it produces will oppose the change that produces it." This is why the magnet slows down inside the tube. It's field-in-motion induces a counter-current that opposes the motion of the magnet. It's the reason why a bicycle-mounted generator makes it harder to pedal the bicycle whenever the light is switched on.

To go from a high school physics demonstration of this principle to the statement that magnets have "magical" properties is pure hokum. I wonder if Mr. Lee has a degree in physics, engineering, or just flim-flam marketing.

-Fnord of Dyscordia-
 
Fnord said:
To re-iterate, Lenz's Lawstates that "The induced current produced in the conductor always flows in such a direction that the magnetic field it produces will oppose the change that produces it." This is why the magnet slows down inside the tube. It's field-in-motion induces a counter-current that opposes the motion of the magnet. It's the reason why a bicycle-mounted generator makes it harder to pedal the bicycle whenever the light is switched on.

To go from a high school physics demonstration of this principle to the statement that magnets have "magical" properties is pure hokum. I wonder if Mr. Lee has a degree in physics, engineering, or just flim-flam marketing.

-Fnord of Dyscordia-
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It's possible he as a degree in physics or engineering yet nevertheless spouts hokum...
 
Fnord said:
If you are referring to the people that commented in this thread, then I think you are missing their sarcasm. Or maybe you do see their sarcasm and are responding with a bit of your own. Yeah, that has to be it.
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Actually, I was referring to the comments in Google Video on the video in the OP.
 
matt, thanks for posting that, I hadn't seen it before, and I wasn't aware of Mr Lee. I spent some time reading about him, and I'm just blown away with the crap he's been getting away with for years. It's the worst combination of MLM, get rich quick, Conspiracy Theory and psuedo-scientific woo that I've seen yet.
 
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