See that scary man? That there is Archer Quinn, self-proclaimed savior of mankind. He's prepping a
free energy device that he plans to unveil on June 20th of this year, on which date he predicts "the oil reign and those who governed by their money and crushed the people by the taxes and control of the most basic of needs shall be put down for all time." Yeah, pretty wild stuff. And if that wasn't enough, he's decided to nickname his gravity-based device the "Sword of God." His prior experience involves some sort of "thermal accelerator" (pictured) and a myriad of other inventions, so he doesn't seem to think breaking Newton's laws should be much of a problem. Guess it won't take long to find out. This should be a fun one.
[Thanks Chris; via
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 4)
Mark @ Apr 28th 2008 12:16PM
OMG! PRAISE THE GODS WE HAVE A SAVIOR OF MANKIND!!!
AutoTom @ Apr 28th 2008 12:58PM
yea this guys a nut, read below
"I guess if there is a god, to give a person the ability to end global warming and destroy the filth that control the planet in one single move, would be somewhat of a miracle so I nicknamed it the "Sword of God", though spare me any religious rhetoric, I simply believe it a little unusual that I have never found anything I can’t do"
nikola @ Apr 28th 2008 1:06PM
Engadget,
Focus on the tech reviews and fanboy headlines. Your ass has no business posting disparaging, insulting rants like this. Labeling someone a "crazy" simply because their inventions focus free energy concepts insults EVERYONE who reads your blog who believes we haven't discovered everything there is to know..
This kind of 5th grade name calling definitely takes this site down a notch or two.
Chuckles McGee @ Apr 28th 2008 1:11PM
OMG UR SO RITE HE KNOWS HOW TO STOP TEH GREEDY COMPANIES FROM TAKING ALL THE MUNEY!!
@Nikola
No one's going to be called a crazy if you claim to have a more efficient device. When you claim to be breaking the laws of thermodynamics without any evidence, that's when you call him a crazy. Come June 20th, we're all going to know his act is just smoke and mirrors.
Jordan @ Apr 28th 2008 1:13PM
Nikola, take a chill pill. I enjoy reading stuff like this.
If you believe there is no such thing as gravity, that does not change the fact that there still is in fact gravity. If you believe you can make a free energy machine, that does not change the fact that you can't make a free energy machine.
This man is crazy.
Earl Jr. @ Apr 28th 2008 1:17PM
@ nikola
I am not claiming we have even scratched the tip of the scientific iceberg, but I can definitively call BS on this for one reason: thermodynamics. You are never going to get more energy out than you put in.
Be sure you have your facts straight before you take the editors to town.
nikola @ Apr 28th 2008 1:18PM
Jordan, if you believe everything to be invented, already has been you are the one thats crazy. 50 years from now people will be doing things we thought impossible, not necessarily because they broke the law of physics, but because they found a new science, a new technique, a new approach, etc, to do it. Blanket labeling early innovators "crazy" is insulting, especially since this is supposed to be a politically neutral blog. I'm just one guy that posted, you can bet more than a few others are turned off as well.
danny @ Apr 28th 2008 1:20PM
It is humorous that so many individuals accept the teachings of those who were once considered "crazy" as laws of science (Newton, Galileo, etc.) but are unable to even entertain the ideas of one label as yet another "crazy". History does, in fact, repeat itself. Maybe not this time, but someday we will see technological advancements that blow our previous "laws" of science out of the water.
Take, for example, Darwinian evolution. It was once a plausible theory, but now most esteemed scientists vehemently oppose it's possibility. We need to start realizing that what we think we know now could very well be viewed as something as silly as using leaches to cure diseases.
Jordan @ Apr 28th 2008 1:23PM
@Nikola
I'm not saying science & technology won't advance. I never said that. I'm saying it is physically impossible to make a machine as efficient as this man is making claim. Look at the solar system, even it is not free energy. One day it will collapse on itself, one day planets and comets will fall from their orbit, one day the Sun will blow up.
PaulB @ Apr 28th 2008 1:39PM
@ danny
"Take, for example, Darwinian evolution. It was once a plausible theory, but now most esteemed scientists vehemently oppose it's possibility"
I'm not sure I follow you. Most esteemed scientists don't question the validity of evolution as a theory. Pretty much all of the arguments are about the finer details rather than about evolution by natural selection.
Geir E @ Apr 28th 2008 1:45PM
I think the machine is powered by his Ego, because from his description he think god created him as a kind of superhuman that excel in everything he do - including beeing a lawyer with no school after he was 13 years, how did he pass the bar (i thinkt he closest in Australia is the Priestley 11) exam with no formal education?
And he thinks the aussie goverment is nazis. Lovely guy.
looseinthedeuce @ Apr 28th 2008 1:48PM
@danny
Did you really say most esteemed scientists don't hold Darwinian evolution to be scientifically true? Most new evidence redraws lines on a species map, but it always reaffirms the theory.
zed @ Apr 28th 2008 2:20PM
@danny
it's not enough to be ridiculed, to become accepted science it also has to be right.
Michael @ Apr 28th 2008 2:21PM
I heard Tom Cruise took him in to the spaceship and he copied their technology. So it has to be true because I mean Tom Cruise is as trustful as a politician with the FBI raiding his house.
Lorien @ Apr 28th 2008 3:00PM
I'm suprised no one has picked up on this yet. Gravity is energy. If you convert one type of energy to another (gravity to motion or electricity) you are not breaking any laws of thermodynamics.
BuddyBoy @ Apr 28th 2008 3:03PM
@nikola
politically neutral blog?
You seem to misunderstand what a blog is "politically neutral blog" is an oxymoron.
Stephen @ Apr 28th 2008 3:13PM
@AutoTom's quote
" .. I simply believe it a little unusual that I have never found anything I can’t do"
How about get a hair cut and loose some weight?
Jordan @ Apr 28th 2008 3:15PM
@Lorien
Then it wouldn't be free energy would it?
Tonbo @ Apr 28th 2008 3:26PM
"I simply believe it a little unusual that I have never found anything I can’t do."
Words of a man who hasn't been taking his Lithium.
@Lorien I don't know any physicist who could consider gravity a form of energy; it is a potential field.
Ytril @ Apr 28th 2008 3:28PM
@Lorien
Gravity is not energy. Gravity is one of the four fundamental forces (strong and weak nuclear forces, electromagnetic force, and gravity).
The energy humans witness from gravity is merely an object's gravitational potential energy transformed into kinetic energy while existing in the earth's gravitational field (such as water through a dam - converting the water's potential energy to kinetic energy to electrical energy through electrical generators).
Gravitational potential energy does not come free or cheap. The ability to harness this energy in sizeable, useful amounts is expensive and time consuming (Hoover Dam, 3 Gorges Dam, etc.)
Jake @ Apr 28th 2008 4:23PM
Look you're going to make CRAZY claims you got to be able to back it up.
speedo-steve @ Apr 28th 2008 4:59PM
Dead Man Walkin'
Craig B. @ Apr 28th 2008 7:28PM
Seeing his correspondance at http://www.inventored.org/caution/archer-quinn/ , I could accept that he got his law degree at age 13 without going to school....
bobartig @ Apr 28th 2008 8:49PM
@ danny: Are you serious? Darwinian evolution is one of the most well understood and coherent principles of biological science, having relevant applications throughout medical science and biochemistry, developmental biology, genetics, anatomy, you name it. Evolution is one of the most reproducible, and well understood scientific theories, and it is the foundation of practically all biological sciences.
Those vehement "esteemed scientists" were lying. They are either not esteemed, or not scientists. And don't you dare cite Behe. His notion of Irreducible Complexity has been repeatedly torn asunder, as the very examples he cites (i.e. bacterial flagellum), have been demonstrated on a genetic level to have been composed of proteins and structures that appear in a number of evolutionary predecessors. He also, under oath, promoted the teaching of Witchcraft and mysticism on equal footing as science, if it would mean spreading the religious zealotry of ID into public schools.
GreezyG @ Apr 28th 2008 12:19PM
His mullet is the secret to free energy!!! Business in the front...party in the back yeehaw!
Rohit Kapur @ Apr 28th 2008 12:19PM
He looks a bit like Nicholson. . .
AutoTom @ Apr 28th 2008 12:59PM
jack Nickolson you mean?
Jeff @ Apr 28th 2008 1:02PM
u mean that golfer dude?
Jeff @ Apr 28th 2008 1:06PM
I hope the device fails... Free energy isn't worth the price of potentially having statues of this guy.
Marcus @ Apr 28th 2008 1:07PM
Jack Nicklaus?
Dahk @ Apr 28th 2008 1:35PM
Actually, kinda like a mix between Jack Nicholson and Anthony Hopkins.
Janthony Hopkolson sounds cooler than Archer Quinn. Sorta.
Eric @ Apr 28th 2008 2:13PM
Jack Nicklaus brought me golf clubs last Christmas
Scott G. @ Apr 28th 2008 7:22PM
He looks like a mix between Ron Jeremy and Anthony Hopkins in "Mask of Zorro".
Timmy @ Apr 28th 2008 12:19PM
Looks like he's going to do the belly slide of death.
Bobs @ Apr 28th 2008 5:19PM
I say we load him into the LHC
For those who dont know what the LHC is, its the large hadron collider, a bigass particle accelerator.
Saad @ Apr 28th 2008 12:24PM
There is no such thing as a free lunch
Terpy @ Apr 28th 2008 12:27PM
There is such a thing as free publicity however.
Oinquer @ Apr 29th 2008 8:25AM
but it seems to exist free energyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
Reader @ Apr 28th 2008 1:42PM
Seriously, I need to make a free energy site and load it with ads. I could use some extra cash.
Mikey @ Apr 28th 2008 12:26PM
He is smart enough to create a free energy device, but not smart enough to proof read/use grammar check/spell check...
"Genuine Perpetual motion machines, produce motion, not effect. This machine produces motion, which in turn drives and everyday generator. the size of the machine determines the size of the generator and the output."
makishima @ Apr 28th 2008 12:41PM
No one ever said that smart means that you have infallible grammar and spelling. Why do you think there is a stigma that doctors have terrible handwriting? Maybe he's simply to busy making said free energy machine to be bothered with how his grammar or spelling were in his press release? Sorry just had to play devils advocate to that one :P
601210 @ Apr 28th 2008 1:08PM
@makishima
I always thought they have bad handwriting because they have to write out long words many, many times throughout the day.
IMO, the savior of the world should have good grammar and spelling.
nikola @ Apr 28th 2008 1:18PM
You do know that he didn't type that himself and was being interviewed by the website this is posted, right? How would someone else's grammer/punctuation reflect on him?
danny @ Apr 28th 2008 1:20PM
Not to mention that that is a transcript of an interview with him. In simple terms that means someone else probably wrote that, not him.
rp @ Apr 28th 2008 2:42PM
They all have bad handwriting because they are all left handed. All the smart people are, it's the cool thing to do these days. Right handedness is so 20th century.
ZeroCorpse @ Apr 28th 2008 3:25PM
People generally have either natural intelligence leaning toward math and numbers-based activities, or leaning toward words and language-based activities.
This guy is clearly the 'math' sort. I'm skilled with words, but couldn't do advanced math to save my life. I know mathematicians who can barely spell, but who can figure out the complete measurements of a room without using any instruments to do so.
Cut the guy a break. If he's going to save us all from dependence on petroleum, I'll consider him a hero.
Nutsy @ Apr 28th 2008 12:29PM
He has long hair tied back... Hardly a mullet...
And while free energy machines might be "difficult" to get. Why all the slagging off so soon?
Give them a chance... if they screw over... Then start slagging.
Seriously... What if some one gets it right? And gets slagged off before he even gets to demonstrate it. And decides to pack it in before he’s done because of all the negative shite that’s thrown at him...
Don’t you want a free energy machine?
Nutsy @ Apr 28th 2008 12:35PM
Oh and heres some interesting stuff...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCANbMBujjQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvB3PiPBozU
The thing is... If some one can actualy make it and try to bring it to the public... They usealy get stopped some how by the big energy industry.
Like any large industry they dont like change... And if they see something threatening there buisness they would do there best to stop it...
James @ Apr 28th 2008 12:37PM
"Difficult"? I'd classify breaking the laws of physics as a little more the "difficult".
coffee @ Apr 28th 2008 12:38PM
So you're saying he'll pack it in if a few assbags on the internet throw him some crap?
He invents the solution to the entire world's energy problems, and he throws it away because Engadget users mocked his mullet?
There's nothing to see here. Dude should call the press when he's ready to demonstrate it, not before.
I have a free energy machine. He's 14, he mows the lawn when I tell him, takes out the trash, etc. Okay, not free, he eats a lot. But it's a decent trade off.