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 Free Energy Machine Down Under - March 2008
Two Australian inventors have unveiled the world's first commercial free energy machine capable of powering a house with permanent, clearn, green and virtually free energy. The machine, developed by Brinsmead mechanical engineer John Christie and Edge Hil electrician Lou Brits, has an international patent pending and is expected to go on the market for $4000 - $5000. There are in fact a number of free energy devices around the world that are being developed, but this seems to be the first commercial one, although it still requires the inventors to raise $500,000 to start their production plant. Click here to see a YouTube video on this invention. |
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Quackbusters Exposed As Scientific Frauds — Jan 2008
Many of you will be aware of the US based quackbusters Stephen Barrett, who runs Quackwatch, and Michael Shermer, the director of the Skeptic organisation. Both these quackbusters will put down anyone and any theory that disagrees with current orthodoxy. Less well known but a rising star on the UK quackbusters stage is Ben Goldacre, who has a skeptics column in The Guardian national newspaper and a blog called Bad Science. What all these quack-busters have in common is that they appear to be defending science, when in fact their are defending ideology. The difference is subtle and easy to miss for someone not scientifically literate, but these men are actually political rather than scientific animals, working feverishly to defend the interests of powerful industrial, technological and political organisations. Investigative journalist and author of Dirty Medicine, Martin Walker, has now written an esposé on this sort of quackbusting called Cultural Dwarfs and Junk Journalism in which he shows that quackbusters like Goldacre are actually scientific frauds with political motives. This book is available as a FREE download at Slingshot Publications. |
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Scientific Justifications for New Age Philosophies
Andrew Paterson— 08/2007 |
| As long as we try to justify or explain our spiritual experiences with scientific philosophies we only bury ourselves deeper in ignorance by clutching to the illusion of understanding. [more >>] |
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Free Energy Going Public — Sept 2006
Free energy is the future. It is generated by special generators able to extract energy directly out of the quantum vacuum. As a result, we will no longer have to burn oil which produces green-house gases, or nuclear fuels which also produce greenhouse gases in their manufacture and extremely dangerous waste. There are many inventors who claim to have invented a free energy device, but most have not held up to scrutiny and the remainder have found it difficult to be taken seriously. Now a company in Dublin, Ireland — Steorn Limited — has issued a dramatic challenge to the world's scientific community: "Test our technology and report your findings to the world." So far, 3,500 scientists have responded to this challenge, and these will be narrowed down to 12 of the most eminent, who will be given a chance to test Steorn's technology and see if it really can produce free energy. If it can, this will give the green light for alternative energy production and will encourage other free energy devices onto the market. The future of energy looks bright! Visit Steorn at www.steorn.com. |
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Quacks, Quackbusters and the Myth of Certainty
Andrew Paterson— 01/2007 |
| Quacks and quackbusters may have disparate beliefs but both share the same blind certainty in their own truth. AP examines the the limits of science and the myth of certainty. [more >>] |
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Mindless
Alternatives
Andrew Paterson—07/2005 |
| Just because a system is
alternative does not automatically give it credibility
or equivalence to established orthodoxies — most
alternatives out there are pretty mindless. [more >>] |
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Breakthrough in Solar Panel Technology — 2005
After ten years of research, a team at the University of Johannesburg led by Professor Vivian Alberts, has developed an extremely thin and flexible metal alloy solar panel made out of copper-indium(gallium)-diselenide (CIGS). These new panels are not only more efficient than conventional ones, they are also much thinner and much cheaper to make, and have attracted £45m ($85m) investment from the German company IFE Solar Systems which is one of the global leaders in solar energy. What also makes these panels unique is their flexibility which opens up a whole host of possible applications. |
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The
Quantum Reality Map
Andrew Paterson—12/2004 |
| With the recent release of
the film "What The Bleep Do We Know?",
quantum theory is once again in the public imagination.
Here is a short rundown of the philosophical implications
of the quantum reality map. [more >>] |
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What
Happened to Gregg Braden?
Andrew Paterson—03/2004 |
| The reaction of a former
Gregg Braden fan to a lecture he gave at London's
Alternatives on the 29th March 2004 promoting his
latest book, The God Code. [more >>] |
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The
Joe Cell Breakthrough
Schiffer—1999 |
| To date, Alex Schiffer has converted
four car engines to run on orgone energy using the
Joe Cell Method. This is a clean and freely available
source of energy that will revolutionize society. Although
nobody as yet fully understands how this process works,
following are three explaination of how the Joe Cell
might work. [more >>] |
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SCIENTIST has done an interesting
piece (Mar 2005) on "13 things that
don't make sense" in the scientific
world. We can think of a lot more, but
considering this is an orthodox science
magazine, we felt it was worth summarizing
their list here: |
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The
Placebo Effect: Fabrizio Benedetti
of the University of Turin has done some
excellent work on the placebo effect
by showing that a morphine-blocker, naloxone,
works even if the a saline placebo is
being used instead of morphine! |
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The Horizon
Problem: How did the universe
become so uniform in its background radiation
when its size and the limit to the speed
of light prevents any hot or cold spots
evening out their temperatures? |
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Ultra-Energetic
Cosmic Rays: Physicists in Japan
have reported over the last 10 years
cosmic rays so powerful that there is
nothing in the universe scientists can
think of that might have caused them. |
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Homeopathy
Research Results: Madeleine
Ennis, a pharmacologist at Queen's University,
Belfast, wanted to prove once and for
all the homeopathy was bunkum. Only problem
was that her research shows that it works. |
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Dark Matter: If
our understanding of gravity is correct,
then the galaxies should spin apart with
centripetal forces. To fudge this one,
scientists have invented "dark matter" — matter
that cannot be detected (very scientific!). |
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Mars' Methane: In
1976 the Viking Landers picked up carbon-14-containing
nutrients in the Martian soil. This has
not been corroborated by other missions
but some scientists stick by the claim. |
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Tetraneutrons: Four
years ago scientists at the Ganil accelerator
in France detected six particles that should
not exist according to current laws of
physics — tetraneutrons. |
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The Pioneer
Anomaly: Now that both Pioneer
spacecraft have done their bit of planet
studying, they should be drifting off
predictably into deep space. Problem
is that they are accelerating away slightly
faster than they should. |
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Dark Energy: For
the expansion of the universe to agree
with General Relativity, it was proposed
in 1998 that dark energy was hidden in
empty space. Problem is it has never been
pinned down so Relativity itself may need
altering. |
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The Kuiper
Cliff: Beyond Pluto there is
a region of space called the Kuiper belt
that is made of icy rocks. These rocks
stop suddenly as you go out which hints
that there might be a large 10th planet
sweeping them. But it remains unseen. |
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The Wow Signal: On
15 Aug 1977 scientists at Ohio State University
looking for intelligent signals coming
from space came across one so unnatural-looking
that one of them wrote "Wow!" by
the data print out. It has never repeated. |
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Variable Physical
Constants: Australian astronomers
researching light from quasars in 1997
noticed anomalies in their data that
can only be explained if Alpha, a physical
constant that determines how light interacts
with matter, once had a different value. |
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Cold Fusion: This
one was viciously dismissed by the scientific
community when Fleishmann and Pons at Utah
University first unveiled their lab results
in 1989. Now, even the US Department of
Energy is giving it the thumbs up. |
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"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
"The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.
"Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
"The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
"It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."
— Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994 (Source: www.planetary.org) |
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News: Einstein — Genius
or Plagiarist? - 5 Dec 04
Professor Friedwardt Winterberg has recently
published a paper in German scientific journal Z.
Naturforsch showing that Einstein may well
have plagiarized David Hilbert's work in the
development of General Relativity.
A 1997 paper published by Corry, Renn and Stachel
in Science had argued that Hilbert had amended
his paper on seeing Einstein's finished work,
but this has now been disproved. In fact, Einstein
continued to put forward his incorrect derivation
of General Relativity after Hilbert
had derived the correct equations. But Einstein
may have had some underhanded allies: Hibert's
original proofs for his paper preceding Einstein's
have been deliberately mutilated, with key sections
cut out that have helped obscure this issue.
Science is almost invariably a collaborative
venture with each person building on another
person's work. Einstein's name has been synonymous
with genius because he had the knack of deriving
highly original theories out of thin-air, with
thought experiments. Now we may know where his "genius" came
from. (For more information, read Christopher
J. Bjerknes's book, Albert
Einstein: The Incorrigible Plagiarist or
visit his website.) |
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| Everything associated with Einstein
is synonymous with genius, and yet there is substantial
evidence that Einstein was a plagiarist
who stole his best ideas from his contemporaries. Even E=mc2 was NOT his equation, but had been put forward by others in the late 1800s. See Bjerknes's books and website. |
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| The last
century was the atomic age, but this one
could well turn out to be the zero-point
age. |
| Hal
Putoff |
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| Any research that
even hints at 'free energy'
is instantly regarded as a misguided attempt
at 'perpetual motion' by the conservative
scientific community. In truth, however, utilising
the ZPE is analogous to building a windmill or
a hydro-electric dam. The energy is there; all
we need to do is tap into it. |
Jeff Sargent |
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