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Scientists announce perpetual motion energy machine. But they need more government money to make it work. This could be worth BILLIONS !!!!!

Image above - how unlimited free energy will be created, according to one company.

I am glad I didn’t graduate from college with a STEM degree. Imagine having to explain to my family that I’m writing federal grant applications to create the worlds first perpetual motion machine. Or working on new Pentagon weapons. I sleep better at night having an honest job.

The links below are to a secretive corporation called “Spectral Sensor Solutions”. It’s not only a defense contractor but also claims to have invented a free energy machine. But the company has no Wikipedia page, and their own website hilariously opaque about what they're doing with the government grants they already get. “Lasers” are hinted at.

We’ve been promised unlimited energy before. Nuclear power was supposedly going to be so cheap we wouldn’t even need electric meters. Tapping just 3% of the sun’s rays would generate an order of magnitude more electricity than we could ever use. Wind turbines would more than pick up the slack after sunset. Not to mention cold fusion, hot fusion, turning switchgrass into gasoline, turning used French fry oil into diesel, tidal energy . . .

Everything listed above failed to live up to some overblown promise. Most of them are expensive, require exotic minerals which are scarce, or have a huge footprint. If these things actually lived up to their promise, we wouldn’t be looking to get free energy from harnessing the earth’s rotation.

The scientists involved promise – they PROMISE – that with enough taxpayer support, they can make it better than nuclear, fusion, solar, wind, tidal, hydrogen, and capturing moonbeams with magic crystals.

Here is how harnessing the earth’s rotation is supposed to work (exact quote from their press release): “make a cylinder of manganese-zinc ferrite, a weakly conducting material known for its magnetic shielding properties. Then you align the cylinder along a north–south axis, but you tilt it a 57-degree angle. This makes the cylinder harmonious with both the earth’s rotation AND magnetic field”. Once you do all that, you get free electricity.

But Spectral Sensor Solutions doesn’t have any photos of this amazing device. Not even an AI generated mockup. All they have is a cartoon. See image at top, pasted from their press release. If you gave me 2 minutes time Midjourney, I could come up with something snazzier and more believable.

Reminder to congress and the White House: free energy and perpetual motion machines are impossible due to the laws of physics. (Thank you for decades of work Einstein, Erwin Schrodinger, Nils Bohr, and Max Planck). There’s no free lunch, no matter what the guys at Spectral Sensor Solutions claim.

I’m a cynic and skeptic and about government grants. America spends trillions on weapons, but we lose wars to ragtag armies like the Taliban in Afghanistan. We’re still subsiding people to buy solar panels and EV batteries and windmills because they’re ridiculously expensive. And after a couple of decades those gizmos will need to be recycled, something we haven’t figured out how to do yet. Dumping those 300 foot long wind turbine blades offshore to make artificial reefs is their best idea so far.

So, my theory is that if America builds a bunch of these mysterious manganese-zinc-ferrite cylinders, not only will it be astonishingly expensive, it might require a footprint the size of Greenland. Or slow down the earth’s rotation. Or sap the planet’s magnetic field. Watch various Hollywood disaster films if you want see what happens then.

Sorry, but I have to turn down your grant request, Spectral Sensor Solutions and Princeton University. We already have a bunch of energy miracles and weapons that never lived up to their promise. And a $37 Trillion national debt to prove it.

I’m just sayin’ . . .

This Tiny Device Generates Power From the Earth’s Spin (PR claim)

Experimental demonstration of electric power generation from Earth's rotation through its own magnetic field | Phys. Rev. Research (full research paper)

Spectral Sensor Solutions - Home (official company website)

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jehova · 31-35, M

It requires gravity? Id hope we can soon acheive perpetual motion in space too.

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SusanInFlorida · 31-35, F

@jehova it requires the orbital rotation of the earth, sun and moon. which they regard as limitless/free.

just the way atomic power, wind and solar were sold to the public.

jehova · 31-35, M

@SusanInFlorida in space perhaps gravitational forces such as orbital inertia around the sun might be combined with magnetism to produce "perpetual force"\motion?

MethDozer · M

@jehova gravitational force and magnetism is an energy input.

jehova · 31-35, M

@MethDozer an "environmental constant"?

MethDozer · M

@jehova If you use a device to tap into the gravitational, rotational, and/or magnetic forces then your device has an every input island isn't a perpetual motion/energy device. It is relying on input and dependent on those being present. You're not creating energy from nothing, you're just harnessing and changing energy that is already present. Also magnetism isn't any type of energy, it is a force. Same as gravity. Forces can't create energy, they can be used to concert energy to other forms. Rotating a stator in a magnetic field for example, or vice versa converts kinetic energy into electrical energy. Energy cannot be created or destroyed, just converted to other forms.

jehova · 31-35, M

@MethDozer transfer of energy! Yes so its just being harnessed at a lower loss\with fewer inputs. Energy cannot be "created" or destroyed only collected and transfered?

MethDozer · M

@jehova yes

jehova · 31-35, M

@MethDozer same page if we tap into rotation of the planet eventually the planet will slow on its axis or in its orbit? Which would stop first? Id think on its axis.

MethDozer · M

@jehova the earth has slowed down. The earth rotates due to angular momentum from jts formation as cosmic dust collapsed to form it.

MethDozer · M

@MethDozer If I stand in a spot, I am applying a force on the earth and vice versa, but there is no energy being created.

If I throw a ball the ball has kinetic energy but it has no force. Once the ball hits something it exerts a force on what it hits since it is transferring that energy to the object.

Force and energy are related but they are not the same. Energy is not a force and force not energy

jehova · 31-35, M

@MethDozer based on the data we have. Also as more people and added weight has it slowed the planet's rotation or might it be as earth slowly becomes further from the sun.maybe energy is being lost as resources are extracted and "used up". Idk

MethDozer · M

@jehova people have not added more weight to the earth

jehova · 31-35, M

@MethDozer only transferred. Yet when a valcanoe goes off or a comet hits. Does that change the mass of the planet?

jehova · 31-35, M

@MethDozer lets say every person on the planet moved to only one hemishere would that alter the tilt of the planet on its axis?

jehova · 31-35, M

@MethDozer when it was only the 2 people it was a total mass of maybe 300kg. Now with 9 billion ppl no mass has been added? Idk.

MethDozer · M

@jehova People don't create mass out of nothing. We are just rearranging mass that was already there. Until we are born and eat somewhere in space and come back to poop and die on the earth we are just part of the the mass that was already here.

jehova · 31-35, M

@MethDozer my hypothesis is energy(sunlight) is converted to matter(fruit) by plants. Eventually it falls decays to dirt and the planet adds another layer of dirt. Energy into matter. But no added weight?

MethDozer · M

@jehova plants aren't converting energy into matter. They are using the solar energy to drive chemical reactions that restructure the mass of matter they take in from the earth to create new chemical structures.

MethDozer · M

@jehova the mount of mass added to earth through solar energy is infinitesimally small. Immeasurably small.

jehova · 31-35, M

@MethDozer yet i can weigh the fruit produced in pounds. And the reessembly of atmospheric gas into matter is a change in state of matter. Minisule but measurable.

jehova · 31-35, M

@MethDozer do you buy fruit at the store by the gram\pounds of is it unmessurable?

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MethDozer · M

@jehova the plant is merely using the solar energy to rearrange atoms, not create them.

jehova · 31-35, M

@MethDozer ok to extract them from the air environment and surroundings and rearrange them into a form that organisms convert into energy through digestion used to live. Therefore all of it is energy from sunlight converted into matter. Looks that way. Someday we will uncrack the process.

MethDozer · M

@jehova no it is absolutely not sunlight converted into matter. It is using sunlight as an energy source to rearrange matter.

The process has been I cracked long ago you just aren't comprehending it

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