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Tom Booth wrote:Well, I'm undecided, personally. Just because something can be faked doesn't necessarily mean that it is in all cases.

As James Randi said, of course, but, the explanation of how to fake it is probably more likely than the explanation that it works by magic.

That pump is not an orifice.

. https://seftonmotors.com/products/volo-one-engine That is legitimate. 1.4 watts at less than 12 volts will have difficulty charging a cellular phone. Won't reliably charge a car battery. See also: https://www.modelenginemaker.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=f14ca83123a78849c93d21730cd1e632&

Why would anyone pay for something that doesn't work?

No. Indoctrinated does not equal educated. Education teaches to be skeptical, inquisitive, and comprehensive. Only the well educated would realize that.

I agree with calling the Essex a beta. I was pointing out the similarity of the gamma beta debate ah, to the square rectangle classification. All squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are squares. All betas are gammas, but some gammas have the displacer cylinders further apart than others. ...

Skepticism born from fraudulent practices, isn't ignorance. Belief/disbelief isn't part of science. A scientific experiment doesn't care what the experimenter believes. Beliefs cloud judgement. Beliefs can obfuscate scientific papers. Humans are fallible. They fall into the trap of beliefs, and even...

MikeB, I agree with your last two posts. Tom doesn't seem to want to prove himself wrong. His experiments typically output zero work, meaning that all the heat supplied, whether it makes it into the engine or not eventually ends up in the room's air at that lower temperature. This makes it 100% irre...

All betas are gammas, but not all gammas are betas. Alphas are different, and similar.

Super charging. Same thing. Getting more air and fuel into the burn chamber. The engine must be sized and designed to handle the extra heat, otherwise the extra heat just gets blown out the stack. Higher internal gas pressure is one design parameter that helps here. Don't know what increased buffer ...

Battery charging works best at amperages reflecting the capacity of the battery. Car batteries at around 10 amps. 2 is considered a finishing or equalizing charge rate. Less would be a "trickle charge", at best. Trickle charge isn't usually enough for a good charge. Furthermore, lead acid ...

I find it odd that people accept a COP of 300 or 400 for a real heat pump, when the Carnot COP is 600 and 800. But have great revulsion to the same Carnot engine getting 16.67% or 12.5%, when a real engine gets 8.333% or 6.25%. It seems like a big incentive to cherry pick, or just plain deny simple ...

It's funny how an "offer that can't be refused", leaves all those inventors, poor, discredited, often I'll, and followed by ever becoming more stubborn fools.

Only the well educated seems capable of seeing through their veil of lies, and self delusion.

Entropy IMHO is more easily thought of as uselessness of heat, and or dispersion. The same amount of heat at a lower temperature is more useless, higher entropy, lower pressure, larger volume. Able to do less work. Can't heat up your coffee, warm you in the winter, melt an ice cube. Temperature need...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy Entropy is defined by calculus specifically a differential equation. The following is a line from Wikipedia: "So we can define a state function S called entropy, which satisfies 𝑑𝑆 = (𝛿𝑄rev)/𝑇 ." This when integrated on both sides becomes S=∆Q/T . Bu...

Nothing I've seen is more obviously faked than those garbage cooler unit videos. Nice try. There are scads of them too. The amazing thing is how many people those fraudulent videos seem to fool. Take a look at how uneven the coils develop frost and location of first frost. How little an amount "...