Foolmewunz
Grammar Resistance Leader, TLA Dictator
And what have you done in the great crusade, other than posting trollish remarks on an internet forum?
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(I mercifully cut out the part where you mention maintaining your dignity. Only because I'm trying to be serious here, and I couldn't stop laughing when I read it.)
G4, are you really citing the OU dot com forum... Where they've been discussing Finsrud's work of art for more than two years, now? Where they've pretty much concluded that it's fixed magnets combined with pendulum? It's a variation on a clock!
They even have a good animation there of how the pendulums are being used! Did you skip the thread in the forum on Finsrud? How can you cite it as a great source if you refuse to listen to the arguments there (too).
Finsrud, himself, has stated that anyone who wishes to reproduce his objet should make it clear that it's just that.... art, not an OU device or PPM.
The posters at OU.com are free energy fan boys. Much like many of the Steorn peanut gallery. But when push comes to shove (or maybe that should say "when push pendulum comes to shove pendulum") they're mostly posting "wow, wouldn't it be neat if.....".
You got all caught up in the Wow Effect of Steorn, and it's sad that the bubble has burst, but it's time to open your eyes. Finsrud's little work of art has been out there, with variations, since about 2003. It's a well-tuned mechanism (and as someone remarked, Sean McCarthy should've hired him to do his construction), but it's no more OU than my car is when I take the brake off on a hill. If the hill is long enough, and you film only the downhill run, it'll appear that there's some sort of miraculous force at work. If you keep the camera going until it gets to the flats, the car will still be moving, but more slowly, and eventually, it will stop.
The pendulum is the energy source. Give it a push and it gives the impetus* to the magnets. But eventually (and as Finsrud has stated), it runs down. The finer-tuned his mechanisms, the longer it runs.... BUT SOONER OR LATER IT RUNS DOWN.
*No, I'm not a scientist and I'm not even sure that I'm using even a good approximation of the right terminology, here. But I think that everyone can figure the gist of what I'm writing (as it's been said 132 times before in this thread, alone).
I'd eat crow and buzzard and vulture if OU was real. So far, it's not. The waste of time on these dreams is what makes Steorn and others nearly criminal in my mind. There are legitimate alternate energy sources out there, and they need to be explored, invested in, and researched. Carnival sideshows like Steorn are an abomination because they diffuse all the excited energy of you true believers, and have you investing your hopes in nonsense!
(I do not include Finsrud in that.... it's the greasy fan boys who've tried to elevate him to OU Deity! He's an artist, and evidently a very clever mechanic!)
