At 05:01 AM 10/8/03 +0900, Keith wrote:
>Hello Walt
>
>All fair enough, just want to comment on this bit:
Please do :-)
>For my part, I'm sceptical about these claims, but I'm not really
>negative about it, though many are, "free energy" is almost a
>blasphemy to some.
With just cause. It's a bit like Heinlein's comment that "When a man speaks
of his honor, make him pay cash."
>I do believe there's an answer to the energy
>problem, a REAL answer, that remains to be found, but all the snake
>oil doesn't help at all, it discourages and hampers any real
>research. It's the scammers I'm against, not free energy per se.
I'm with you, although I'm personally more concerned with folks using
alternative energy technology in an attempt to with a Darwin Award. I don't
mind it so much when fools loose their money; I'd just rather they didn't
lose body parts since it gives people grounds to talk.
>So far the scepticism's been well-founded. Look at this one, for
>instance, from about 18 months ago - I haven't checked the links, no
>need, sadly:
<snip>
Again, we're on the same page, probably the one that bears Jefferson's
comment that,
those who wish to be
ignorant and free,
want what never was
and never soon shall be.
>We had rather an interesting discussion here awhile back on what to
>do if you'd discovered a viable, cheap, energy source anyone could
>use anywhere, true energy independence - how would you handle it? How
>would you stop it getting bought out and locked up in a little box in
>back room somewhere, for instance?
There's nothing more radical than a working model of a better way, so I
would (we are) just get on with it, build a working model of the concept,
and see that the information was as widely dispersed as possible.
Here's an example from the current edition of our newsletter -
http://www.windward.org/notes/notes63/wal63_b.htm
>"1635 - first of many English perpetual motion machine patents
>granted. - by 1903, 600 such patents had been granted. Free energy
>claimants love impressing people with patents (most people don't
>understand that a patent can't promise feasibility)."
>http://www.phact.org/e/dennis4.html
Well, a fool and his money are soon parted. [I do seem full of cliches
these days, so I hope you'll bear with me :-)
Still, I'm more respectful of someone's assertions when they've gone
through the exercise of filing a patent application, and been successful,
than I am for those who have secret methods that they don't dare off up for
public scrutiny because "you know who" will scarf up their work and cheat
them out of their just rewards.
Pah!
My perspective is that it's a grand, never-ending relay race in which we
each get the privilege of running a lap or two.
We stand on the shoulders of giants, and if we can advance the cause even a
little bit, then that's great.
Well, back to work. Thanks for the kind words and the frank thoughts.
Walt
http://www.windward.org/
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