Seth Murray wrote: > I know that to us EV-minded folks and certainly anyone who knows > anything about electricity or physics this whole thing is ludicrous - > energy from nothing? No way! But there are a good number of people who > see nothing wrong with it...
Exactly so. Science you don't understand is magic. And magic can do anything, right? > I can easily believe that someone like these Delorean folks would try > to cash in on this ignorance. There are three categories of people who develop such inventions: 1. They truly are uneducated about the science and physics of the device. They honestly believe it works, based on their limited knowledge, but are being fooled by inaccurate or incomplete measurements. 2. They are con artists, who know full well that it doesn't work, but are hoping to fool people to make money. There are deliberate tricks to make it look better than it really is. 3. The device really does work. They have stumbled onto some sort of breakthrough invention. They don't understand themselves how it works, but are trying to learn more about it. (There is a fourth possibility; they are highly knowledgeable and know fully well what they are doing, and deliberately set out to invent such a device. An example would be Dean Kamen and his Segway. But Tilley has not claimed any such detailed technical knowledge.) We really don't have enough information yet to decide which category they belong in. I for one will remain skeptical, and await further information to determine whether to believe them or not. > I am just starting college at Worcester PolyTech here in Massachusetts. > Turns out that GM gave the school an EV1, but they just garaged it and > nobody knows where it is! Let us know if you find it! It would be very interesting to see if they left the EV drive system in it. If so, it might be a wonderful opportunity to reverse-engineer it, so that others could build an EV1 clone. :-) -- Lee A. Hart Ring the bells that still can ring 814 8th Ave. N. Forget your perfect offering Sartell, MN 56377 USA There is a crack in everything leeahart_at_earthlink.net That's how the light gets in - Leonard Cohen
