I do indeed remember – apparently they’d discovered how to harness zero-point energy or something, but couldn’t explain how, and all their demos kept failing. They were fairly convincing-sounding and Elizabeth Holmes had nothing on these guys! 🙂
I recommend the book The Impossible Dream. It’s fascinating – the key takeaway is that in Celtic Tiger Ireland there were a surprisingly large amount of small investors with 50 grand to spare, people who had sold property or otherwise had come into a bit of cash, and were able to fund these guys. It’s these small investors I feel sorry for, chasing a dream with their life savings. Sure, they should have known better but most weren’t professional or savvy investors. Just lucky. Then very very unlucky.
I remember them very well. My brother was into them at the time.
Another example of how instead of or alongside defamation laws we need laws against purposefully misleading people regardless of provable financial impact but that would not be tolerated by any of our authorities who often rely on disinformation. It would be basically asking Fine Gael to stop being Fine Gael.
Nowhere near “free energy”, more like 1% extra output at best with a lot of caveats in between.
The other bullshit going around the free energy field is via magnets hooked up as very basic magnetrons (which you get in microwaves) which then can power a lightbulb or a small pc fan for example but they all are fed through wireless transmissions of excess electricity from power lines close by and can even be made sensitive enough to pull in excess energy from just floating voltages around a house that’s badly earthed.
Put them out in a field somewhere away from electricity sources and they consistently fail.
Some day maybe, but not from the likes of these charlatans.
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I do indeed remember – apparently they’d discovered how to harness zero-point energy or something, but couldn’t explain how, and all their demos kept failing. They were fairly convincing-sounding and Elizabeth Holmes had nothing on these guys! 🙂
I recommend the book The Impossible Dream. It’s fascinating – the key takeaway is that in Celtic Tiger Ireland there were a surprisingly large amount of small investors with 50 grand to spare, people who had sold property or otherwise had come into a bit of cash, and were able to fund these guys. It’s these small investors I feel sorry for, chasing a dream with their life savings. Sure, they should have known better but most weren’t professional or savvy investors. Just lucky. Then very very unlucky.
https://www.easons.com/the-impossible-dream-barry-j-whyte-9780717188048
I remember it well, it was hilarious.
I remember them very well. My brother was into them at the time.
Another example of how instead of or alongside defamation laws we need laws against purposefully misleading people regardless of provable financial impact but that would not be tolerated by any of our authorities who often rely on disinformation. It would be basically asking Fine Gael to stop being Fine Gael.
They collected [23M in investments](https://fora.ie/steorn-shaun-mccarthy-liquidated-3097083-Nov2016/). Clearly I’m not thinking big enough..
https://youtu.be/g4tO0kBOzqk
It was basically a variation of the bedini motor.
Nowhere near “free energy”, more like 1% extra output at best with a lot of caveats in between.
The other bullshit going around the free energy field is via magnets hooked up as very basic magnetrons (which you get in microwaves) which then can power a lightbulb or a small pc fan for example but they all are fed through wireless transmissions of excess electricity from power lines close by and can even be made sensitive enough to pull in excess energy from just floating voltages around a house that’s badly earthed.
Put them out in a field somewhere away from electricity sources and they consistently fail.
Some day maybe, but not from the likes of these charlatans.