Archer Quinn
promised the world a working demonstration of his homemade free energy device called the "Sword of God" by June 20th, but it looks like we're getting a sneak peek a little early: Quinn's detailing the build on his blog, and it's just about as pigs-in-trousers insane as you'd expect. It's hard to even pick one quote as an example here -- Quinn rails on about how he destroyed his first machine because he didn't want Arab nations to starve without oil money but then a picture of Dubai's opulence changed his mind, how "gravity wheels" are perpetual motion machines, how Nikola Tesla presented BS theories, how Australian Nazis are reading his email, and on and on. Most importantly, however, he continues to update on how his project is going. We're not sure if he's done yet or what (it's not exactly easy to follow) but it looks like something's ready -- anyone want to bet if it works? We also have a very nice bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
[Thanks, Curt]
posted May 5th 2008 8:47PM
Actually, I've long said that we should be using our prison population to power our cities.
Life Sentence + Giant Hamster Wheel Powered Turbine = Free Energy
Well, we're feeding them and housing them anyway, and they're not DOING anything in prison but working out and raping each other, so why not be productive? Why not put our worst criminals to work?
It's not cruel or unusual punishment. There's no torture. They'd work in shifts and have all the normal 'comforts' of prison; We'd just expect them to spend their days walking in the giant hamster wheels instead of doing laundry or making license plates.
And let me also suggest that in states that still have the death penalty, we'd be far better off to use the condemned as fuel, rather than to use a bunch of energy to kill him. Just conk `em on the head with a big mallet and then toss them in a furnace. Free energy!
Of course, we'd only do this once there was NO doubt the man was guilty of a truly heinous crime... But once we're sure someone is a mass-murderer, why not use him to heat the prison or throw him in with the fuel used in your local power plant?
We're such a wasteful society!
After seeing my last comment posted next to my avatar with a picture of my 2 year old I feel slightly disturbed.
What a nut???? Is the popcorn ready yet??
Is this guy a Bond villian? I think we are back around to guys with the three musketeers mustache being evil. Who knows the world hasn't been held ransom in a while... Here's to hoping!
This guy is nuttier than squirrel turds!!!
"Quinn rails on about how he destroyed his first machine because he didn't want Arab nations to starve without oil money ," -guys That is exactly why we DO need this ASAP!, what's wrong in this head, this brains are skewed on backwards!
a lucky idot discovers this by chance and this is what he wants to do, what a maggot, this guy only wants fame, -to score 'mother-teresa popularity,
cu%t i hate him!
What sheds doubt on his capability to successfully execute on his promises are the promises themselves.
Put up or shut up. Nobody cares about what you "are going to do" or what you "think you can do." What have you done?
Until there is something real to talk about, that is all this is. Attention whoring talk and mental masturbation.
You call your motives into question by trying to excite the public with theory.
You had a working unit you destroyed? Well guess what! I had a blue unicorn that could ride rainbows and shoot lasers out of its ass. But I destroyed it too. I was afraid the Nazis would use it to take over the world and my conscience weighed in. But now I see the Nazis are bad, so i'm gonna take his ashes and put him back together...
Stay tuned! I will change the world! Muhahahhahhaa.
He lost me the moment he said the magic BS word of most Free Energy projects.
MAGNET
A magnet is nothing more than a battery. It wears out and expends its energy. It requires energy to charge a magnet.
lolz, what horsesh!t
Every "newton is wrong" example is so flawed its hilarious. I can't wait to see this guy fail.
This guy is on meth.
This guy hasn't invented any thing new. Head on over to this website to see that they already have plans for the same exact then he is building.
http://www.fuellesspower.com
They call it the gravity motor
How much do you want to bet that June 20th he has a web counter showing number of hits and a comment about how many suckers he got to visit that day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you read what he updated on, he attempts to explain how Newton's law, and thermodynamics, is flawed. He uses an example with a gold balance to try to explain what he is talking about. He explains that "newtonians" would believe that the more weight that is on both sides of a balance, the larger the force would need to be to throw the scale off-balance (due to larger friction on the center axis). He seems to assert that he figured out a way around this force, I believe; which is what makes his machine work. He does a summation of this phenomena (balance-arm example) spread over a whole wheel, which is what seems to cause his over unity. Does anyone care to help objectively analyze what is plausible and not with his potential discovery? We need to determine conclusively WHY it can't work, and explain it simply, not with someone else's (Newton's) law you don't understand. Or, if possible, we need to figure out WHY this could be possible; what could he really disprove? What laws would need to be rewritten? Don't bash, analyze his methods and claims, and conclusively back up your argument.
@James Tusick,
From what I can understand, in his example of the weight balance he erroneously equated power, torque, and force, which essentially made him think that when the weight of the gold is doing more work than Newtonian physics says it should. He thinks that since the weight of the gold is both lifting the weight on the other side AND rotating the scale, that you're getting two types of energy output from a single energy input.
"For Newtonians say the increased weight on the [center axle] (and these scales also have no bearings) would prevent small weights from making the left side go down due to [friction], as the load increases so does the increase weight to break balance to one side."
What he doesn't understand is that it's a balanced rotating system, so you operate in terms of torque, not force alone. If Newton's equations are constructed within a rotating frame of reference, the proper terms to provide the given results appear quite well.
He hasn't come up with a working model yet that he has described, so it's hard to tell exactly what he thinks he is building. My guess is that he thinks he has devised a way to convert between force, torque, and acceleration in a way (outside of Newton's laws) that fails to conserve energy as required by the laws of the universe ... of course he's calling it all "power and force" so it's very difficult to follow.
I would compare his excitement to a child's fascination when they learn that they can balance their dad on a see-saw simply by scooting out far enough. It's true, but it's not going to produce any energy, even if you try to cycle it. You can't "cycle" a one-way street. Not even using magnets or complex diagrams or rants about US energy policy.
What we REALLY need, is some anti-matter!
Not to put too fine a point on it, but there are numerous sources of energy where we don't have to put as much in as can be retrieved; there are numerous demonstrations of such approaches, too. Radiometers take advantage of flying photons and will run all day as long as they're in the light. The "dipping bird" uses "free energy" from the sun to repeatedly evaporate and condense a liquid, turning that into a weight transfer that can provide spare torque at the pivoting axis. Solar panels capture free energy from the sun that would otherwise just bounce elsewhere -- including back out into space. Etc. These things are, as described in this poor guy's page, essentially perpetual in that they'll last as long as the materials that make them up survive (to us, it's perpetual... none of us are going to be around when the sun burns out and point a finger and say, "See, I told you asshole, NOT perpetual!")
He claims -- and I'm not backing him up by any means -- that gravity can be made to do work by using it to turn one side of a wheel down; then (he claims) that the wheel can be freed of some amount of the work of lifting the weight back up by using magnets, which (he claims) can provide lifting energy for free, thereby making most of the weight's effect drive downward under gravity's force.
My guess -- without having put pen to paper -- is that the magnets will weaken (if they can do the job at all) as they do work (moving mass through a distance) and so that in the most optimistic view, this will fail even if everything else about the design is brilliant and perfectly executed. Magnets will support something that's not moving without weakening; because work is moving mass and that's not moving mass.
Just my 2 cents.
"Free" energy is all around us. He's right about that. In the sense that we didn't create it, we can't use it up, and using it won't have any dire consequences. But as far as I can tell, this is a side effect of the sun, whereas gravity is something else entirely.
On the OTHER other hand, if someone develops a "gravity shield" of any nature, all bets are off. ;-)
@Ben,
I would effing LOVE to see a gravity shield - it would have to exist as a subsidiary of spacetime, but it would be friggin SWEET!
Magnets do weaken, but not the same way that batteries do. Batteries weaken simply because their molecular structure slowly moves out of alignment ... kinda like friction rubbing down a clutch plate. Think about magnets like springs. Sure, they'll move something, but only if it has been stretched out by some other force, and it takes energy to stretch it. In Quinn's design, the magnets are supposed to pull the moving parts back into place so that their torque/energy/power/whateverhecallsit is overbalanced - that's called "overunity". That's a great idea, but since it takes a certain amount of work/energy to move the parts OUT of place AWAY from the magnets, it can't work.
Now, if you can come up with a way to make a gravity shield, a magnetic flux shield, or a device that generates power by slowing the earth's rotation (basically harvesting inertia), more power to you.
It's only "free energy" if it can work in a completely closed system without any outside input. If it uses something from outside itself (like solar power), it's a stray energy device.
"My discovery was based on the use of satellites, for those who don't understand a satellite keeps trying to fall to the ground but once momentum is applied and the ground keeps falling away at an equal speed it cannot."
Right... That's why satellites never have thrusters on them to keep them in orbit and why dead satellites and space stations fall out of orbit and burn up when they reenter the atmosphere.
@ David
Wouldn't it be right simple to harvest inertia? You know what happens when you suspend a big ball on a cable on the planet's poles, it spins. Well just make a huge ball and hang it from the axle of a generator, then give it a good shove.
We are just not desperate enough yet to try something like that. Damn.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqogBfD1jh0
well F..k me if there are not 500,000 net crawlers around the world about to look like complete d!ckheads.
His site reminds me of :
http://timecube.com/
The guy has been involved in numerous frauds, trying to get people to pay up 100$ for "plans" of his varied inventions and scams. He's been flagged by numerous inventors groups (his real name is Kevin Thomas, doesn't a fake name set off a few bells?). Check out the link or google "Archer Quinn":
http://www.inventored.org/caution/archer-quinn/
This has been going on since at least 2004, why and how Engadget can get duped like this is beyond me.