Archer Quinn calls it quits: "You may have been able to prevent the straw from falling, maybe not."
By Paul Miller 
posted June 4th 2008 12:15PM
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So the problem here is that we're monkeys? Is that to say he could demonstrate perpetual motion if we weren't monkeys? If only we could be more ape-like somehow....
If only he weren't simple. If he had said "Your planet is crap because you are all apes" that would be correct...
Eat That Creationists!
So the problem here is that we're monkeys? Is that to say he could demonstrate perpetual motion if we weren't monkeys? If only we could be more ape-like somehow....
I think he's going for the Ron Jermey look
Agreed, he looks a hell of a lot like Ron Jeremy...
another good read
http://www.inventored.org/caution/archer-quinn/
The problem is that it is difficult for chimpanzees to have ego's big enough to run his "wonder" device...
ALSO, i am just letting you know. this is NOT the last you will hear about this guy.
as soon as he falls off his meds again (i assume he went back on them and realized what was going on for a few minutes), and has another moment of "clarity" he will have another great post for us.
Stupid monkeys? Say it isn't so-- Frieza lives!
Hey, the solution is simple: provide a WORKING prototype. Physics isn't so wedded to Newton that he can't be overthrown (Einstein did it). So there you go. Put up or shut up.
good bye and good riddence..... ;)
Ah, the ramblings of an idiot.
"...Newtonians have lectured the world on gravity and the speed of acceleration increasing with height..." - Newton determined that acceleration was constant always, 9.81m/s^2. Way to go. Can't get through Physics 101 w/o knowing that.
"You simply never learnt how to build a river" - OK, you got me there. :P BTW: its learned, not learnt.
As for the water crap: I think what hes saying is (at least at the end) is questioning the water cycle, because he thinks that water is like a rope that is continuously pulling itself, so it will go through Hydro systems etc, and still end back up at the top. So, he is considering the water as free energy because it is an endless loop outputting power through hydro stations but not running out.
If this is the case, he fails to recognize a wonderful thing called the water cycle, where energy from the sun (which is not a free energy source either) causes the water to evaporate, redistributing it further up the system.
> "You simply never learnt how to build a river" - OK, you got me there. :P BTW: its learned, not learnt.
No, in British or Australian English, learnt is perfectly acceptable. Even some Americans use it. Knock the guy for being a loon, but know what you're talking about before you criticize his grammar (which is, in general, appalling, I admit).
It is funny that the one grammar issue you talk about is not even incorrect, given his wealth of horrible sentences.
From his very first paragraph its clear he doesn't understand basic physics. He seems to think you can get free energy from "momentum from fall" because if you position a wheel with weights at 7 and 1 o'clock and let go, it spins past the horizontal before levelling out. But the problem is that's not where it started! No matter what you do, it will never get back past 12 o'clock without adding external energy (like you grabbing the wheel and putting it back there), which gives a slightly less exciting "spinning wheel" as opposed to "free energy machine".
I wonder what his electricity bills are like.
I actually read that. I feel dumber just having read his convoluted attempt at logic. Conservation of momentum and energy be damned. You can pump the water at a base of a hill back to the top and regenerate electricity if you use a siphon. What? Screw being able to back up his idea with numbers, real world numbers. He has his "hydros" that act like a rope. What?
My brain hurts and I'm suing engadget for exposing me to the clinically stupid.
Hi i have a free energy machine and will show the world at the end of june . Oh wait, i changed my mind. Makes me mad he is a fool
He could not properly explain his "Discovery".
He used the same confusing language that all the other "Free Energy" scams use.
He claims it is "Too easy" so he gives up.
I suspect that he realied that his scam was not going to instantly make him ritch, so he gave up before he invested any more money in this scam. The only thing he is smart about is that he pulled out before it cost him money.
"Last post
Signed
Just another idiot"
I think he's about to head to the clock tower with a semi-automatic. :-(
I like monkeys
Seriously, were you expecting something else?
We all know, as a fact, that this kind of things are just BS...
Wow, what a knobjockey.
yeah i knew this would be a bloody fake, it's not possible
i emailed him before proving him wrong but he is just some sick fucker.
Please tell me this man is on full suicide watch.
Actually, I think I'd rather him NOT be on full suicide watch - he's botched everything else he's tried - it would probably be humorous to see the results.
Or, you could just put him on camera 24/7 so that you could see his attempts....
If only I'd been intelligent enough to recognize the genius of his stupidity.
For starters, Quinn has no concept of force as opposed to torque. None at all. He instead splices in nonsense about lift, fall, pull, and rotating friction, which really makes his diatribes quite incomprehensible.
Aside from that, I think I might know what part of his idiocy stems from. Since he's never understood torque, he seems to think that a rotating wheel with equal weights affixed on opposite sides is somehow the equivalent of equal weights hanging from strings that are hung on pulleys so that one coming down will lift the other one up. He thinks that because two weights on a rotating wheel will oscillate as they come to equilibrium rather than just slowly moving to exact equilibrium and stopping, that there is a flaw in Newtonian physics equations and that he can somehow exploit this flaw in order to create free energy.
If he actually understood Newtonian physics, he would know that an object in motion will stay in motion unless an outside force acts upon it. So on a rotating wheel, there isn't any reason for momentum to cease at equilibrium - in fact, that's the point where the sum of the torque on the wheel is zero, so it CAN'T stop.
Quinn's an idiot, but whoever once tried to teach him physics in highschool should be shot.
"[W]hoever once tried to teach him physics in highschool" probably died of brain hemorrhage while trying to make sense of Quinn's homework!
Fun reading, but this person clearly has psychological problems. We shouldn't laugh. He needs help.
I wonder what he says when he can't get his girlfriend (paid?) off.
"BAH! This is too easy! You don't deserve sex!"
Does this guy do anything intelligible? Why is he receiving this attention? He doesn't even speak like a real person!
What a freak. He belongs in a an Alfred Hitchcock movie as an extra garbage man.
"You look but you do not see, you hear but you do not listen. Your planet is crap because you are all monkeys."
Hmmmmm, that sounds familiar, Archer Quinn,
or should I say,
ANDREW RYAN?
We await the completion of your undersea utopia, objectivist master!
Mr Quinn,
Monkeys need free energy too.
Please reconsider your stance. Besides, it gets really cold at night in Melbourne now and I want to reduce my heating bill. Uhm, I mean we are reaady to demo our free energy product soon.
Regards,
Steorn Investor Relations
http://www.steorn.com
Mr. Quinn might not be able to produce free energy, but I on the other hand know a very simple method to do it.
Of course you will need a rather large room in every house, and the room would need to be set on a platform with hydraulics to shake the device....if you haven't figured it out yet its a watch.
You could use the concept of a watch that needs kinetic energy to wind it and build it on a large scale, and the "second hand" movement could turn a generator which would inturn produce free energy. Then use the minute hand, or hour hand movement (depending on how long the wind would power the device) and let that send a signal to the hydraulic pumps the rock the "watch" back and forth to re-wind the entire machine.
The concept is simple, free (after purchase of course), fairly clean (gears will still have to be oiled/greased) and of course the only thing would be mechanical failure. Depending on how efficient you can make this device though would determine it's size.
But having the watch itself generate the power required to shake itself is in a round about way perpetual. The only thing that makes it not perpetual is the fact that you have to initially start the device by applying an electrical charge for the first initial shaking of the entire device.
But yeah... You would just use the same turbine generator that a small water mill uses the generate power, or like a windmill.
The only major downfall to the entire design is the crunching of gears the the winding mechanism. But it could always be placed in a heavily insulated cellar.
Why try to invent new technology that does something that technology that has been around for hundred of years can do more efficiently?
If that system worked it would be a violation of physics as we currently understand it.
Each step of the way the system leaks energy. Every time energy is converted from form to form there is an inefficiency. All your doing is creating a fancy way of converting kinetic energy to electrical energy and back to kinetic energy. When you go from K to E you waste a lot of energy in friction. When you go from E to K, you lose quite a bit in the moters and wires as heat.
Sorry, your idea wouldn't work the way you wanted.
Archer for totalitarian ruler of Earth.
For all his ills, and his genious Igrant him this.
To get on engadget and then detract the whole world while he gets on and build this and then launch on teh date he said is pure genious. Imagine his por server getting nailed with all this traffic. Then desct into madness silence....
Then a month later while the worlds backl is turned hi whole project explained documented so anyone can create it and on you tube. For al for free to play with...
Now go look for your self he has thirty so videos up explaiing everything.
The fact of this free energy rubbish puzzl;es me. Its not free we have just undrestimated the power of magnets. If a magnet will hold an object aganst gravity is that not energy.
Will the earth always rotate around the sun... is that free energy, will the earth always spin, is a black hole not unlimited energy. If we understand all thee concepts at a macro level then why is so unbelievable to harness the power of the sinilar force magnetism to do the same work.
Check it out..
http://www.surphzup.com/gpage5.html