Don't be silly now .

I left Water and grass for the reindeers and the beer I left for Santa was gone the next morning so that kind of proves it doesn't it?

Come to think of it my missus had a wry smile too that morn

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When the administrator posted asking people what forums they would like adding, I considered it a serious mistake - and, as I predicted, he got large numbers of suggestions for mostly silly forums, which would attract hardly any posts. One which did get a fair few suggestions was this one!, but ALL were from serious Alternative Energy buffs - you know the ones I mean!. I pointed out at the time, that the forum was going to attract more nutters than serious posters - and (as usual!) I was right!

The small number of genuine and serious posts could quite easily have fitted in the General Electronics Forum, where they had been previously!.

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Uhhh...what happened to the grass?

 

I believe this forum is good for wind power, water power, biogas generators, solar, thermoelectric generators, etc.

There have been plenty of legitimate posts along those lines, but the ones about plain quackery sure have been more pervasive.

Some guys just get so excited about these claims that they can't see it's a fraud.

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His wife probably didn't want the reindeer to get stoned, so...

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The ones that I posted were like "name this component". To get peoples comments, have a laugh and figure out the illusion.

The old and obscure parts in "name this component" will not help 99% of the people here but it was fun, some dig the internet looking for them based on the little they can read from the part. Others recall them from an old job or a surplus box in the garage... Or a shape of something they work with (RF guys). And yes the components are related to electronics.

Just make alternate energy about the real deal.. The ones that are under 80% efficient (that is for the new guys). Wind, water, biogas generators, solar, thermoelectric generators, etc.

I guess Nigel was right, it was fine until the nutters showed up. But I thought it was fun until then.

I am not with Nigel 100% as the section should not be here but I see his and others points. If it is not alternate energy (see above) it does not belong here.

Side note:

DK: Grass was used to make bio-fuel and get Santa back home. Guess it depends on the grass.

 

http://pesn.com/2007/01/12/9500446_S...loyment_Plans/

Here we go again..

 

I'll give those guys credit - if nothing else, they are persistent.

http://www.steornorbo.com/2007/04/go...y_the_13t.html

though the timing seems just a tad odd...

 

sigh.


http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/04/s...ated-tomorrow/

 

Wonder how long it's going to take to reveal the illusion. I know these guys are set to make money in the end. People have messing around with wheels and magnets for hundreds of years, with many claims of perpetual motion. Why would this one be any different?

 

I just went to the demo link from the article, 1:05PM and 1:12PM EDT and nothing there yet.

Will check again later. Does anyone else have an other links?

 

I think it was 1:00 London time, not sure how that works out in real time... Could have been yesterday, might be tomorrow, maybe they just haven't decided yet...

Perhaps the only working prototype was 'stolen' or damaged in transit (roads aren't the smoothest from what I've heard...). After all the talk and debate, and any real information by Steorn, I totally expect to hear only excuse and delays. There are just too many things about it that point to a scam, Cold-Fusion seemed more possable...

 

It was 1PM London time, July 4. Then changed to 6PM London time. Recently updated to 11PM London time.

Maybe "the time variance in magnetic fields" is making it hard to keep track of the machine. They probably know where the machine is, but not when.

 

mneary.. They are waiting on the right solar flare to fire it up on.

I went to look, a camera out a window and the other three are down. Guess I will have to wait for the movie to come out.

 

The next we hear is a huge breaking news on CNN- "an entire six block area of London has just CEASED TO EXIST. Now this is the area in which Steorn promised to demonstrate their miraculous new device, at the time any relation is purely speculative however."

Somewhere right now, Wil Smith or Keanu Reeves is desperately trying to stop this catastrophic experiment and save the world. I think we're probably up the motorcycle chase scene by now.

I remember Tilley's magic self-recharging EV that required no electricity and drove on forever did some laps around the track for its well publicized demo (it had a bunch of deep cycle batteries and an electric motor in it but the batteries were supposed to recharge themselves somehow by the mere act of driving) and then declared "a wheel bearing failed" and they had to take it home for repairs.

Someone there actually had the same type of car and volunteered to swap their wheel bearing out to "fix" it so they could continue. Tilley declined. Nope, has to go back.

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