This video is a horrible demonstration of how clueless people can be about physics. Companies pop up like this all the time, and make outrageous claims of “free energy”, which of course, violate some of the fundamental rules of physics that we have known for hundreds of years. Indeed, an entire field of physics is devoted to energy called thermodynamics. These fundamental rules allow you to view this very web page, and this company claims that the rules are wrong:
This is the worst kind of hoax, slickly presented, and with flashy quotes, like George Bernard Shaw’s “All great truths begin as blasphemies.” Which actually, is not a true statement to begin with, but I digress. The creators say that the scientific community won’t take them seriously, and this is likely because claiming you have created “free energy” is something that hoaxers and charlatans have been doing for years, and none of them have been proven correct.
Then they claim that the energy companies are against them, which is a laugh. If they really did find a free energy solution, the energy companies would be falling all overthemselves to *BUY* their technology, because free energy represents less cost, and indeed, an effective INFINITE return on your investment. The energy companies are not against them, the energy companies are ignoring them.
They even have the nerve to say “We want science to do what science is supposed to do.” Well, one of the things that science is supposed to do is parse away those things that are untrue, that is, throw them by the wayside, in order to find the things that work. And this is being thrown by the wayside. It is up to them to prove that their idea is valid, to the scientists. And I bet money that they can’t, and that every serious physicist or engineer has laughed at them. Still, after all the hoaxes, people still try to push free energy.
And for reference, here are the 3 laws of thermodynamics:
1) Energy can be changed from one form to another, but it cannot be created or destroyed.
2) The Potential Energy in a closed system will always decrease. This is called Entropy, it is a measure of disorder.
3) As systems approach absolute zero, Entropy decreases.
Rule number one there, kinda throws a wrench in their plan.
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