Libertarian promotes free energy device

[The Don]

Take a look at this other ridiculously absurd article the same guy wrote:

http://www.libertariannews.org/2014...er-announces-10-mega-watt-free-energy-device/

He must be a complete loon.

There was this guy once who started a thread where he suggested that very soon the price of silver would be so high that the silver in a pre-1946 (sic) dime would allow someone to eat for several days. Somebody like that is also likely to have idiosyncratic views about a range of subjects.

Reading about that Backlight generator, it sounds amazing. I cannot wait for the scaled up versions which will put the conventional fossil fuel generators out of business .

Then again, because it breaks the known laws of physics (it requires hydrogen atoms to assume an energy state lower than ground state), I may be waiting for a very long time.

 

[catsmate]

Take a look at this other ridiculously absurd article the same guy wrote:

http://www.libertariannews.org/2014...er-announces-10-mega-watt-free-energy-device/

He must be a complete loon.

Indeed he is. Only an utter idiot would fall for the amateurish scam of Blacklight, their "hydrinos" and their repetitive claims that their magic energy machine is almost ready. I believe Park put it best:

The company is therefore dependent on investors with deep pockets and shallow brains.

Imagine how dumb you'd have to be to fall for this rubbish, twenty two years and more than eighty million dollars and nothing to show for it.


He's also not very good at basic arithmetic; 10MW wouldn't support 10,000 households. let alone peak consumption.

 

[catsmate]

There was this guy once who started a thread where he suggested that very soon the price of silver would be so high that the silver in a pre-1946 (sic) dime would allow someone to eat for several days. Somebody like that is also likely to have idiosyncratic views about a range of subjects.

Like believing in 911 conspiracy theories, the Electric Universe, that the Austrian school of economics has merit, that open heart surgery can be preformed using acupuncture, flirting with the MRA loons and actually thinking bitcoin will work.

Reading about that Backlight generator, it sounds amazing. I cannot wait for the scaled up versions which will put the conventional fossil fuel generators out of business .

They've been making promised for decades. No magic generator though.

 

[Brian-M]

He's also not very good at basic arithmetic; 10MW wouldn't support 10,000 households. let alone peak consumption.

That comes to 1000W per household, or 24 kWh per day, and most households could average less than this (unless they've got electric heaters or air-conditioning running more often than not).

But no, it wouldn't meet peak demand, just average power consumption. If everyone put their electric kettles on at the same time you'd have a brownout. Even worse with heaters or air-con.

Checking my last power bill, 308.1 kWh in 90 days. That comes to 3.4 kWh per day. But then, I'm cheating. My hot water, heating and cooking is done with natural gas instead of electricity.

But on the back of my bill is a little chart showing average daily power consumption for different sized families (presumably so you can tell if you're wasting too much electricity). It ranges from 9.2 kWh per day for a single person to 21.2 kWh per day for a family for six.

So they've got the right estimate for average power consumption, they just haven't accounted for peak power consumption.

 

[catsmate]

That comes to 1000W per household, or 24 kWh per day, and most households could average less than this (unless they've got electric heaters or air-conditioning running more often than not).

But no, it wouldn't meet peak demand, just average power consumption. If everyone put their electric kettles on at the same time you'd have a brownout. Even worse with heaters or air-con.

Checking my last power bill, 308.1 kWh in 90 days. That comes to 3.4 kWh per day. But then, I'm cheating. My hot water, heating and cooking is done with natural gas instead of electricity.

But on the back of my bill is a little chart showing average daily power consumption for different sized families (presumably so you can tell if you're wasting too much electricity). It ranges from 9.2 kWh per day for a single person to 21.2 kWh per day for a family for six.

So they've got the right estimate for average power consumption, they just haven't accounted for peak power consumption.

According to the US DoE/EIA figures the average US electricity consumption per household is just over 2kW. There's a vast amount of information available here.

 

[Horatius]

He's also not very good at basic arithmetic; 10MW wouldn't support 10,000 households. let alone peak consumption.

What I love best about the latest BLP scam is the notion that something which can generate 10MW from a device one foot on a side can only be demonstrated to be working by doing precise measurements in carefully controlled lab conditions, and not from, say, the thing melting through the lab table...

 

[ravdin]

Libertarians of all people should know that there's no such thing as a free lunch.

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

The more I learn about libertarian attitude, the more likely I am to leaving one bleeding out in an auto accident. I don't see any reason to save someone who intends to abandon civilization at the first chance.

 

[michaelsuede]

OMG - more lunacy from this jerk:

http://www.libertariannews.org/2014/02/22/radical-disruptive-change-is-imminent/

This time he's claiming that MIT professors are actually putting out courses in this nonsense.

This guy needs to be locked up in the loony bin.

 

[ravdin]

OMG - more lunacy from this jerk:

http://www.libertariannews.org/2014/02/22/radical-disruptive-change-is-imminent/

This time he's claiming that MIT professors are actually putting out courses in this nonsense.

This guy needs to be locked up in the loony bin.

Not interested in watching a 10 minute video. Can you summarize?

 

[ben m]

Not interested in watching a 10 minute video. Can you summarize?

Maybe this IS the summary:

This guy needs to be locked up in the loony bin.

 

[Iamme]

Sounds like Joe Newman and his energy machine. [Google if not familiar. He was on Johnny Carson even, all hyped up on his new invention]
I guess after a generation or so goes by, similar things have a way of surfacing again, appearing like something never heard of before(to that newer generation). Sort of like remakes of movies and songs.

 

[a_unique_person]

And it is also amazing that they simply don't seem to understand the scale of change that would follow this invention - if it worked! To put it behind some alternate money scheme like Bitcoins!

You don't seem to realise that the most important thing is money, it's even more important than physics.

 

[a_unique_person]

And it is also amazing that they simply don't seem to understand the scale of change that would follow this invention - if it worked! To put it behind some alternate money scheme like Bitcoins!

You don't seem to realise that the most important thing is money, it's even more important than physics.

 

[Ladewig]

OMG - more lunacy from this jerk:

http://www.libertariannews.org/2014/02/22/radical-disruptive-change-is-imminent/

This time he's claiming that MIT professors are actually putting out courses in this nonsense.

This guy needs to be locked up in the loony bin.

If we locked up every opinionated, scientifically-illiterate person who wrote stuff on the internet, then there would be a lot of people locked up.

I assert that simply believing in over-unity devices is more a sign of gullibility combined with ignorance than it is a sign of being loony-tunes.

 

[Vermonter]

I loved the prediction. Fully anonymous Bitcoin wallets and abundant free energy sources.

 

[Brian-M]

According to the US DoE/EIA figures the average US electricity consumption per household is just over 2kW. There's a vast amount of information available here.

Looking at this page from that site, and the spreadsheet it links to, I see that it varies considerably from state to state.

The highest consumption is in Louisiana, who consume an average of about 41.8 kWh per day (paying 8.37 cents per kWh), while the lowest average consumption is in Maine, who consume about 17.7 kWh per day (paying 14.6 cents per kWh). I suspect that differences in price might be a factor in the difference in consumption.

Maybe that's why average electricity consumption is so low here in Australia (national average of 17.8 kWh per day), electricity tends to be more expensive. People may be more reluctant to buy high-power appliances (such as air-conditioners), or more inclined to use power-saving alternatives (such as hanging out the washing to dry instead of using the tumble-dryer).

From that spreadsheet, it looks like the average American household uses about 30.1 kWh per day.

 

[The Don]

OMG - more lunacy from this jerk:

http://www.libertariannews.org/2014/02/22/radical-disruptive-change-is-imminent/

This time he's claiming that MIT professors are actually putting out courses in this nonsense.

This guy needs to be locked up in the loony bin.

Well from that source:

By this time next year, I predict there will be fully anonymized bitcoin wallets and abundant free energy sources.

The former is a possibility, the latter not at all

Those two things pretty much make the petro-dollar obsolete.

Consider the implications.

There's no need, the free energy sources aren't going to be there

 

[The Don]

OMG - more lunacy from this jerk:

http://www.libertariannews.org/2014/02/22/radical-disruptive-change-is-imminent/

This time he's claiming that MIT professors are actually putting out courses in this nonsense.
This guy needs to be locked up in the loony bin.

Well just because you work at MIT doesn't mean you're not a loony.

Peter L. Hagelstein is an associate professor at MIT. His continued belief in cold fusion and his ongoing research into it has allegedly resulted in his not receiving a full professor position and losing his lab

I cannot find evidence of Mitchell Scwartz having tenure at MIT.

 

[The Don]

I loved the prediction. Fully anonymous Bitcoin wallets and abundant free energy sources.

Another prediction from this thread started in 2011

http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=205790&highlight=silver

silver is about to undergo an exponential increase in price.

Since then the price of silver has roughly halved.