On Thu, 13 Nov, Natalia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Perhaps some may remember my mention of Tesla's experiments with >over-unity devices.
Tesla was a very unfortunate case. I don't know whether it was late-onset schizophrenia, or some sort of organic brain damage, possibly due to decades of inhaling O3 in his HV arc generating facilities. The trend to madness is quite evident in the records of his yearly press conferences, which make increasingly grandiose and absurd claims, while his demonstrations of his claims dropped to zero very early on. He made a major advance in his youth with the development of AC power and transformers, so people kept paying attention, which is why we still have the press conference reports to look at. Were he anyone else, they would have been ignored for the nonsense which they are. It must have been all very sad. > We recently retrieved our files and revisited the >website of Dr. Tom Bearden, I think you'll find the doctorate is bogus. He's one of hundreds who are able to reproduce the defective behaviour of Tesla's later years, but with a perfect absense of any of the actual advances which characterized his youth. > http://www.cheniere.org >who, along with four others got a patent on their Motionless >Electromagnetic Generator, U.S. 6362718, Mar.26, 2002. >It was apparently replicated by Jean Louis Naudin in France. Patents are distressingly easy to acquire, since the demise of the requirement of a demonstration of a working prototype. There are whole websites dedicated to "patent absurdities". Bearden is a notorious producer of such exhibits. His work has no merit whatsoever. This crowd has been around for decades, and they produce nothing but words. Apparently, that's enough to bring them sufficient income to keep doing it. If there was anything real in their nonsense, actual hardware would have made its way into the world over 30 years ago. It hasn't because there's nothing to it. [...snip silliness...] >Perhaps those amongst you with the technical expertise will enjoy >tearing this one apart Not worth the trouble. Everyone with paper in the physical sciences gets visited by an earnest Tesla-nut at some point in their lives, usually early on, and wastes an hour or two drifting through the vacuous verbiage that passes for "content" in their material. It is interesting to note how not one adherent to this stuff has any significant training in real science. that's because the math (what microscopically little there is) is bogus nonsense, but seems to be designed to impress the gullible. It's just another cult, like UFO abductions, or Atlantis, or whatever. Great fodder for study by psycho-sociologists, though. -Pete _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework