The following quote was sent to me by Scott Little.
"A more self-willed, self-satisfied, or self-deluded class of the
community, making at the same time pretension to superior knowledge,
it would be impossible to imagine. They hope against hope, scorning
all opposition with ridiculous vehemence, although centuries have not
advanced them one step in the way of progress."
Henry Dircks, Perpetuam Mobile, or A History of Search for Self-
Motive Power from the 13th to the 19th Century, 1870, P.354
http://t i n y u r l.com/3vuopax
The above quote was Dircks' description of perpetual motion seekers.
As a bona fide member of the free energy lunatic fringe, I must admit
to seeing much of myself in the above description. It seems human
foibles in general were the same foibles in the time of Dircks,
Shakespeare, the bible, or the egyptian pharaohs. They are
timeless. Dircks lambasts those who would engage in Alchemy, or the
search for perpetual motion. And yet the discovery of the unstable
nucleus, and its hitherto untapped energy, and alchemy, discounts
Dircks' view, however well he may have described the personalities of
those engaged in such Quixotic enterprises, both then and today. In
addition to our foibles it is today thankfully still inherent in the
diversity of human nature to quest for the secret key to the
limitless energy that nature has hidden beneath its clockwork. If it
is not found our future looks bleak. If it is found, it is not known
if we are ready to handle it. We live in interesting times.
And then there is the derision failure brings for our Quixotic
efforts, even today. Some familiar names already appear in wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_perpetual_motion_machines
Who will be next?
It seems to me the best thing we can do is to move forward yet
constantly be on guard against our own self deception, to work as
diligently to disprove as well as prove our conclusions, to struggle
to get nature's true response to our view of her.
Scott Little is a former vort (or vortexian might be more
appropriate), a semi-retired employee of EarthTech International, and
a guy that I know from personal experience approached many free
energy concepts with an open mind. He has extensive experience with
calorimetry applied to free energy devices.
http://www.earthtech.org/experiments/ICCF14_MOAC.pdf
http://www.earthtech.org/capabilities/dual/
http://www.earthtech.org/capabilities/vwfc/
Best regards,
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
