Free Energy for all - Irish Company's Wonderous Perpetual Motion Machine!

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Irish company claims to have broken first law of thermodynamics
I'm looking forward to how this plays as out. If there is even the slightest grain of truth then hurrah! I noticed the ad in the Economist on Saturday but didn't know what it was about. Why can't we just sink more money (literally) into wave power generators, we have enough of those in Ireland.. waves. It's a long way from donkeys and turf.

― Major Alfonso (Major Alfonso), Monday, 21 August 2006 23:34 (nineteen years ago)

The Irish burned donkeys for energy?

― Aimless (Aimless), Monday, 21 August 2006 23:41 (nineteen years ago)

A Modest Braying

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 21 August 2006 23:42 (nineteen years ago)

Fattening kids for the boiler ned?

Seriously, animal waste such as bone meal is incinerated.. and sometimes those incinerators are waste to power ones.

So yeah.. burn donkeys for light, sure why not?

― Major Alfonso (Major Alfonso), Monday, 21 August 2006 23:58 (nineteen years ago)

The energy isn't being converted from any other source such as the energy within the magnet. It's literally created

er, no? i like a thrillpowered science tale as much as the next man, but the energy is being converted from somewhere, yes?

i find it hard to believe that any scientist has "off the record" or otherwise been "quite happy to admit that it works" without attempting to spread the word that our model of the universe has been turned on its head!

― Slumpman (Slump Man), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 01:17 (nineteen years ago)

turned on its head!

Alternatively, and without reference to donkeys, turned ass-backwards.

― Aimless (Aimless), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 01:22 (nineteen years ago)

Even "quite happy to admit that it works" is a very different proposition from "believe that energy is actually being created out of nowhere."

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 01:26 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, that's like if I said my Camry ran on water, and other drivers were happy to admit, at the very least, that it did indeed seem to move up and down the street.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 01:28 (nineteen years ago)

Yay us! Fear our donkey torching wave machine of doom! Soon your Camrys will be ours...

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 07:55 (nineteen years ago)

The whole thing's nutty and nutty things (like cornettos and pralines) bring joy to my squirrel-like heart.

― Major Alfonso (Major Alfonso), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 09:43 (nineteen years ago)

Remember guys, the Canadians 'cloned a baby'. This is not the first instance of provincial types and 'major scientific breakthroughs' being bedfellows.

― Scourage (Haberdager), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 09:49 (nineteen years ago)

(that was a joke, btw.) ;-)

― Scourage (Haberdager), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 09:50 (nineteen years ago)

"Utah Briefly Famous"

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 09:56 (nineteen years ago)

How many Nobel prizes have Irishmen and women ever won?

― Scourage (Haberdager), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 09:58 (nineteen years ago)

Has Seamus Heaney won teh literature award?

― Scourage (Haberdager), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 09:58 (nineteen years ago)

I think we may have 4 Nobel Literature prizes

Seamus Heaney, William Butler Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett

And now by the eternal magnetic light we'll write even more! Muahaha

― Major Alfonso (Major Alfonso), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 10:02 (nineteen years ago)

Ernest Walton, 1951 Nobel Prize Winner for the first nuclear transmutation. I shook his hand once.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 11:57 (nineteen years ago)

NB: obviously unlikely to be followed by this bunch of chancers.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 11:59 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yes, I forgot about Walton. I used to take lecture in the Walton theatre in trinity. Not quite shaking his hand is it? Seamus Heaney bounced me on his Lap as a wee baby. Met him again not too long ago at a launch in Dublin. There are 5 Irish Peace Prize Nobel winners as well. Well maybe Trimble doesn't consider himself Irish. 4 then. Ok only one from the Republic, Sean McBride.

― Major Alfonso (Major Alfonso), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

Did he bounce you on his knee again?

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 06:57 (nineteen years ago)

future winners: Steve Staunton, Bono, Niall Stokes, Gay Byrne.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 08:24 (nineteen years ago)

ME!

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 09:07 (nineteen years ago)

I like the idea of someone really actually sussing out perpetual motion machines and giving a big FUCK YOU to all the evangelical "Ye canny change teh laws of physics" bods. Not that this bunch of chancers looks any more likely to do so than the last lot.

If we had shiny silvery magnetty thingies no-one would want smelly old oil. What would we accuse all the new wars of being about?

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 11:58 (nineteen years ago)

willy size

― i am teh_kit! (g-kit), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 12:01 (nineteen years ago)

Donkeys for burning...

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 12:03 (nineteen years ago)

I like the idea of someone really actually sussing out perpetual motion machines and giving a big FUCK YOU to all the evangelical "Ye canny change teh laws of physics" bods

The fact that they advertised this in the Economist, and not in New Scientist for example, says to me that all their claims are aimed at potential investors and not really at the scientific community at all.

― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 12:09 (nineteen years ago)

well it is potential investors who will win big on this, and not the LuSoRs in the science community with their laws of physics shite.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

what the hell is a bunch of chancers? I mean besides the obvious context.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

if anybody comes back and tells me "term used to describe a group of men from an island nation who perpetrate 'free energy' con games" I'm quitting smoking

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

A chancer is a very irish term.
Someone who is "chancing their arm"
Like Bush and the Iraq Al Qaeda.
Throwing shit at the wall and hoping it sticks.

Donkeys are bloody scarce these days. There's one down the road, and 2 ponys. Fit for burning and glue and little else.

― Major Alfonso (Major Alfonso), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

They're mine!

::tools up::

Let's roll.

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Thursday, 24 August 2006 07:41 (nineteen years ago)

Donkeys are bloody scarce these days

I blame that Scott Walker donkey-puncher fellow m'self.

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 24 August 2006 07:59 (nineteen years ago)

Donkey Hurtey.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 24 August 2006 08:04 (nineteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6e/WAP63.jpg/200px-WAP63.jpg

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 24 August 2006 09:27 (nineteen years ago)

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