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Re: Irish company challenges scientists to test 'free energy' technology

one of the mistakes that people looking for free energy often make is not knowing their math.

Ive seen so many inventors who think if you pulse a motor on and off, instead of supplying it with a steady power, that it will use less input power than its putting out

and they proceed to build devices, usually getting obsessed with how the motor wires are wound, but the dont understand the concepts of DC power, AC peak, average, Root Mean Square (RMS), phase shift...ect.

This is what all that math you learn in college is for, if you are going to be an engineer, so you understand the differences. But these basement inventors use typical meters (analog or digital) that are not able to measure pulsed waveforms correctly, and give you the true RMS current or voltage

so as a result they are sitting there with Fluke 83 DMMs, and sure enough the meters are saying the system is putting out more power than is going into it

but if they had spent a few bucks more for a Fluke 87 (True RMS DMM) they would see that the laws of physics really are laws, and you cant break them.

its very possible the guy in the link has made a similar mistake, and really believes he has made a breakthrough - but usually when they are asking for investors they know their system doesnt work.

The real test would be to hook the output to the input. If its putting out more power than it takes, it would run faster and faster and faster, all by itself, until it self destructs from the centripital forces.

Thats the video I wanna see!

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