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Australian Perpetual Motion Machine Runs on Snake Oil
Wired: Gadget Lab —
The perfect start to the week -- watch the reporters at Sky News Australia being gratefully hoodwinked by a rather earnest chap with an old motor and a few magnets.
This is yet another take on the perpetual motion engine, this time a motor which magically produces five times the energy that is required to run it. Any real questions are carefully avoided in favor of open-mouthed wonder at a future without power stations, a world where energy is free, and the inventors, John Christie and Lou Britts, could stand to make "millions" by selling a box to every house in Oz.
The machine has ...
Australian snake-oil perpetual motion machine
Boing Boing Gadgets —
Another day, another investment scam promoted by clueless TV journalists. Science is fun! In this case, Sky News Australia fluffs a perpetual motion machine, which purports to generate more energy than it uses.
"We don't need to prove the claims," says one of the pushers. "... no physicist or engineer has looked at our motor or our figures and says it doesn't work."
Would it be too geeky to play spot the logical fallacy? Home of the magical fuel-additive pill company that hoodwinked sports stars and politicians alike, Australia seems particularly vulnerable to this sort of escapade. ...
Australian perpetual motion machine: Don’t call it a comeback
CrunchGear —
And we’re off! Sky News offers a calm, intelligent look at an amazing power generating device that uses magnetic attraction and repulsion to run a motor infinitely with very little power input. The story is quite convoluted and nothing is independently confirmed, but expect this to hit your house ...
Two Australian Men Claim To Have Invented A Perpetual Motion Machine (i.e. free electricity)
GadgetReview —
Using magnetic attraction and repulsion, two Australian men have claimed to produce a perpetual motion machine that will produce infinite electricity. The concept has long been disputed in scientific communities due to laws of nature - it’s incredibly difficult, if not impossible, to produce more energy then what you’re initially putting in. They hope to sell the machines for $5,000 each, and liberate homes and businesses from the money sucking power companies some time next year. Sounds like someone watched a shit load of Lost?
Does anyone know why everyone in Australia looks like they’re from the ...
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