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"Free Energy" Does not Violate Laws of Physics

    Free Energy refers to energy that you get without going through some utility meter.  (The machines you build to collect and use free energy still cost money to build and maintain.)

-- George Wiseman, Eagle Research

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    Free energy does not mean perpetual motion.  Extracting power from the vast sea of energy that surrounds us is no more perpetual motion than a photovoltaic cell.  It does not violate the second law of thermodynamics.  It is a conversion of energy from one form into another form that is usable -- not the creation of energy out of nothing.

-- Sterling D. Allan, Greater Things

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Devices that are sometimes billed "free energy machines" or "zero point energy" machines are anything but free.

Free Energy Devices are Not Free
The devices cost money to invent, prototype, manufacture, distribute, sell, install and maintain.  The "free" part is the source of energy, which is readily available without cost, including being renewable so it is not exacting long-term detriment to the environment.

Sterling Energy Quotient (proposed)
A relevant question needs to be asked with each proposed device, and that is, "what is the Energy Quotient?"  In other words, how much does it cost to produce one kW of energy output?  ("HP" output would be more applicable to some devices.  A thrust output would be a third category requiring an Energy Quotient rating.)  All of the above costs need to be calculated into the equation, and then compared with other energy devices for a fair comparison to be made.  Unless someone already knows of such an algorithm, I'll propose the name: "Sterling Energy Quotient" and will coordinate the establishment of standard procedures for determining. the SEQ_kW of a device.

New Science
Some of those "free energy" sources are not readily understood, and may seem hard to believe; but if an inventor is able to tap into an energy source that is "free," more power to him/her (pun intended).

Analogy
Here's an analogy to something most people today understand, but which a less educated person would not understand and would consider "magic."

Take at look at Vapair.com  There you will see a unit that extracts water from air. You and I understand that this is done through water vapor condensation on coils of low temperature. It isn't magic at all, yet sure enough water is being extracted out of air.

Conservation of Energy Maintained
Likewise, these "free energy" machines are no more "magic," for they are only converting energy from an unseen yet real force. Though we might not fully understand what that is, it is nonetheless there. No "conservation of energy" maxims are being violated.

New Physics Discovered
Often, however, a new set of rules of physics are being discovered in the process.

Sterling D. Allan
May 14, 2002
updated July 8, 2003

See also

• Answering Karn: Why Chase Free Energy - Open letter to Phil and all the other establishment scientists who balk at "free energy." (PESN; Dec. 12, 2004)
• Alternative Utilities - index of Tesla and other free energy related devices, resources, directories, symposia, essays, etc.

Page posted by Sterling D. Allan May 14, 2002
Last updated December 12, 2004
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