the biggest invention since IT?? Seriously, this looks big.

Science News, reported by Reuters:

Irish Inventor Constructs Free Energy Device

January 23, 2002 8:00 CDT

According to a recent report from Reuters, an Irish inventor says that he's spent the last 23 years trying to develop a power system capable of replenishing its own energy source, and the most amazing thing just happened: he's succeeded. For "security and privacy reasons" he's declined to give out his name to the public, but that's all he's keeping to himself. He wants everyone to know what he's accomplished and how it works.

The premise is almost too good to be true: self-replenishing energy that goes on indefinitely-or at least until the parts to the machinery it's running wear out. The Internet is full of similar claims already. A quick search on "zero point energy" or "free energy" brings up pages of people who proclaim loudly that they've achieved it through magnets, coils and even crystals. Consequentially, skepticism for an accomplishment that actually does what it's supposed to do runs high among both professional and public circles. To date, every one of them has been disproved as being non-functional and deceptive in advertising.

This newest device is named, "The Jasker", supposedly a name derived from family abbreviations. The inventor claims it can be built to scale using off-the-shelf components and that it has the ability to power anything that requires a motor to run. Projections for use start with the home market and extend eventually all the way up to the automakers. They claim that their energy is emission-free and that the only cost required is that of the installation of the device itself.

Tom Hedrick is the only person associated with the project willing to provide his name to the press, and that may be because he is chief executive of a company that's trying to set up a way to license the product for use in the United States. In an interview with Reuters, he insists that this device is so phenomenal that it "shatters the laws of science".

Experts in the field are quick to point out that a device such as the one described here defies the very most basic law of psychics: thermodynamics. Simply put, it's impossible to get out of something more energy than you put in. Since that fundamental law has not yet been disproved, a device such as this would be impossible by their terms. Which leads to one of two conclusions: the makers of the Jasker are either Nobel Prize-winners or they don't know what they're dealing with. Which scenario are correct remains to be seen.

Preliminary demonstrations seem impressive. A prototype roughly the size of a dishwasher ran for a total of just over two hours, using four 12-volt car batteries as an initial power source. At the end of the demonstration, power levels on the batteries showed that rather than expending any battery-life on the project, they were slightly more charged at the end of the experiment than they had been in the beginning. Running on just their power alone, mainstream science would say that the batteries used in this experiment should have been drained completely in about one and a half minutes.

Source: Reuters

Cosmiverse Staff Writer

I don't just like to share things. I was wondering if anyone knew anything more... kind of like how that guy here got the blueprints of IT somewhere online and showed it to us all a good many months before it's official appearance.