Dick Smith Offers 200k For ECAT Proof - Mullumbimby Toadlickers Gather - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: SgtRock
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 15, 2012, 03:32:11 am
content: Greetings EEVBees:--See below link for article from The Register:http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/12/smith_offers_ecat_prize/--Maybe DJ could interview some of those attending, making sure not to ingest anything offered by the locals. Good venue to show off any new didge licks. Seriously though, this is a good opportunity to interview Ian Bryce of Australian Skeptics. Just an idea.--Please see also the credulous "Gee Whiz" article from the Sydney Morning Herald at the below link:http://www.smh.com.au/environment/energy-smart/mullumbimby-helping-to-save-world-20120112-1pxj2.html--With top notch professional investigative journalists like the ones from the Sydney Morning Herald covering this Earth shaking event, things are hotting up nicely. Next thing you know Tilba Beerburrum roving Science Reporter for The Sydney Weekly Dispatch and Coupon Shopper will also be there to chronicle history being made. I predict a major discovery."There are two possible outcomes: If the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery." Enrico Fermi 1901 1954Best RegardsClear Ether

author: mobbarley
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: January 15, 2012, 04:21:42 am
content: I haven't been following the ECAT news but wasn't it supposed to be demonstrated by now? Where is my free energy?

author: Rerouter
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 15, 2012, 04:28:24 am
content: i have to laugh whenever i see the term "free energy" being used in relationship to anything, even if the reaction is correct, one still needs to purchase the fissionable hydrogen and nickel, though i suppose if it magically became copper it may offset the costs, but still, never truely free. only cheaper

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 15, 2012, 11:14:23 am
content: I just found this (Google ad in Gmail, so it cost them a dollar or something for the click)http://www.hojomotor.com/The video is frigg'n hilarious, I almost barfed up a lung!Dave.

author: firewalker
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 15, 2012, 11:21:09 am
content: Trolololololol.Alexander.

author: firewalker
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 15, 2012, 11:28:29 am
content: SOPA/PROTECT-IP doesn't seem to bad now... Ha?Alexander.Quote from: EEVblog on January 15, 2012, 11:14:23 am

author: mobbarley
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: January 15, 2012, 12:00:59 pm
content: Quote from: EEVblog on January 15, 2012, 11:14:23 ammmmm perpetual motion from magnets.... I have never seen this on the internet before.

author: Unknown
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 15, 2012, 12:15:28 pm
content: Quote from: EEVblog on January 15, 2012, 11:14:23 amGreat! This would be a perfect parody, except that it drags on for too long. The only sad thing is that I don't see any evidence that it's not serious.Quote from: firewalker on January 15, 2012, 11:28:29 amExcept the SOPA/PIPA crowd is smarter and richer.

author: mikeselectricstuff
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 15, 2012, 01:08:36 pm
content: They offer a 60 day money-back, but admit that they are likely to disappear soon! Classic rip-off and run scam.Since when did energy companies have the power to shut a website down.

author: joelby
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 15, 2012, 04:00:23 pm
content: Quote from: EEVblog on January 15, 2012, 11:14:23 amIt's too late for me to care to watch the video, but I like how the "Breaking news on.." banner uses JavaScript to insert the current date. News can only break so many times before it's well and truly broken!

author: SoftwareSamurai
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: January 15, 2012, 04:06:22 pm
content: Personally I seriously doubt the ECAT is "overunity". Itmaybe "free" energy, but I seriously doubt it derives whatever "extra" energy it accumulates from some nebulous "universal energy" or "quantum foam" or whatever the currently popular term is for "out of thin air" is these days.Having said that (and at the risk of giving the spotlight to potential crackpots), there's lots of links to be read concerning the ECAT on thePure Energy Systems Network.I agree with Dick Smith: These "inventors" of such seemingly supernatural devices really need to hand over their working versions to a dozen independent, professional, reputable scientists for full deconstruction, documentation, and measurement. Only when all twelve scientists agree that a device actually does generate more energy that it consumes will I actually give it serious consideration. Until then, I always assume such deviant energy production claims are a work of fiction at best, a scam at worst.

author: M. András
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 15, 2012, 04:17:38 pm
content: Quote from: mikeselectricstuff on January 15, 2012, 01:08:36 pmthey simply cut the power offtheir costs? its a joke, and asking money for a "technology" what they want to share for a better world? absolute a joke

author: Unknown
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 15, 2012, 10:57:16 pm
content: Quote from: EEVblog on January 15, 2012, 11:14:23 amI just hope and prey that the Gillard/Brown Government doesn't see this video, they've fallen for every other claptrap theory on energy, so I'd hate to think of future taxation having to pay off a national purchase of HoJo motors.

author: vk6zgo
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 16, 2012, 01:35:45 am
content: Australia has the answer to hand for free energy.All we have to do is attach alternators to Bob Menzies' & Ben Chifley's remains & obtain free power as they turn over in their graves at what their successors have done to their political parties!VK6ZGO

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 16, 2012, 06:43:16 am
content: Quote from: vk6zgo on January 16, 2012, 01:35:45 amTrue perpetual motion!Dave.

author: SoftwareSamurai
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: January 16, 2012, 02:12:29 pm
content: Speaking of patents, I have a serious gripe about the whole patent process.We're told that patents are suppose to include enough detail for someone with areasonableamount of knowledge in the given field to successfully reproduce the device being patented. Yet there are tons of patents that have been granted that (IMHO) are so vague and incomplete that even a certified genius couldn't reproduce a working copy of the device as described. And I believe this is intentional. These crackpots carefully craft their so-called patents with enough techno buzz words in hopes that when someone comes along and actually does create a working device of whatever, they can sue for patent infringement. It really ticks me off.IIRC, the patent officeuseto require a working prototype of every device being patented. But then after some time decided to drop that requirement because they literally ran out of shelf space. I think that was a mistake. I think working prototypes should still be required. I would also like to see them put in a requirement that all patent applications must first be given to a class of science students in a college or university. If they can't successfully recreate the device in the patent application, then it should be rejected. I know that sounds harsh, but I think it would greatly thin out a lot of these scammers.