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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=159144723-21092006><FONT face=Verdana
color=#000080 size=2>Thanks, Leigh</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=159144723-21092006><FONT face=Verdana
color=#000080 size=2>I'm generally a skeptic on so-called "free energy" systems
(involving the use of permanent magnets), but at least I've now get a better
understanding of the claims. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=159144723-21092006><FONT face=Verdana
color=#000080 size=2>There is another similar text on the site, but this page
has pictures:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#000080 size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=159144723-21092006><FONT face=Verdana
color=#000080 size=2><A
href="http://www.cheniere.org/correspondence/082606.htm">http://www.cheniere.org/correspondence/082606.htm</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#000080 size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=159144723-21092006><FONT face=Verdana
color=#000080 size=2>IANAP (I am not a physicist), but the obvious objections to
such systems seem to rely on apparent violations of the Second Law of
Thermodynamics.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#000080 size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=159144723-21092006><FONT><FONT
face=Verdana><FONT color=#000080 size=2>Bearden does pretty well in making a
case that some 'proven' aspects of the physics of asymmetrical Maxwellian
systems [that Lorentz allegedly arbitrarily discarded], particularly
that... </FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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face=Verdana><FONT color=#000080 size=2></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=159144723-21092006><FONT><FONT
face=Verdana><FONT color=#000080 size=2>"the proven asymmetry of a dipolarity
(separ<?XML:NAMESPACE PREFIX = ST1 /><ST1:PERSONNAME
w:st="on">at</ST1:PERSONNAME>ed opposite charges) will absorb ordered virtual
photons (and their virtual energy) from the vacuum and coherently
integr<ST1:PERSONNAME w:st="on">at</ST1:PERSONNAME>e it into observable real EM
photon energy, and thus emit real observable photons continually without any
observable energy input" (as he claims was implied and predicted by Nobel
winners Lee and Yang, and allegedly proved experimentally by Wu in
1957)</FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=159144723-21092006><FONT face=Verdana
color=#000080 size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=159144723-21092006><FONT face=Verdana
color=#000080 size=2>...have been dismissed unfairly:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=159144723-21092006><FONT face=Verdana
color=#000080 size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=159144723-21092006><FONT face=Verdana
color=#000080 size=2>"...the implic<ST1:PERSONNAME
w:st="on">at</ST1:PERSONNAME>ions of th<ST1:PERSONNAME
w:st="on">at</ST1:PERSONNAME> vast revolution in all of physics has not even
made it across the campus from the physics department to the electrical
engineering department."</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=159144723-21092006><FONT face=Verdana
color=#000080 size=2>In the combined texts he quotes luminaries like Feynman,
Wheeler, Hawking and Davies in support of the underlying
principles.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=159144723-21092006><FONT face=Verdana
color=#000080 size=2>Hawking says <FONT face=Arial><EM>"</EM><EM>Thus the
universe can double the amount of positive m<ST1:PERSONNAME
w:st="on">at</ST1:PERSONNAME>ter energy and also double the neg<ST1:PERSONNAME
w:st="on">at</ST1:PERSONNAME>ive gravit<ST1:PERSONNAME
w:st="on">at</ST1:PERSONNAME>ional energy without viol<ST1:PERSONNAME
w:st="on">at</ST1:PERSONNAME>ion of the conserv<ST1:PERSONNAME
w:st="on">at</ST1:PERSONNAME>ion of energy. …"It is said th<ST1:PERSONNAME
w:st="on">at</ST1:PERSONNAME> there's no such thing as a free lunch. But the
universe is the ultim<ST1:PERSONNAME w:st="on">at</ST1:PERSONNAME>e free
lunch."</EM> [Stephen D. Hawking, <SPAN class=GramE><U>A</U></SPAN><U> Brief
History of Time</U>.].</FONT></FONT> </SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=159144723-21092006><FONT face=Verdana
color=#000080 size=2>Bearden claims:"The only reason we input energy [into
current generator designs](such as cranking the shaft of a gener<ST1:PERSONNAME
w:st="on">at</ST1:PERSONNAME>or) is to forcibly break symmetry by forcibly
producing an internal dipolarity in the gener<ST1:PERSONNAME
w:st="on">at</ST1:PERSONNAME>or."</FONT> </SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=159144723-21092006><FONT face=Verdana
color=#000080 size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=159144723-21092006><FONT face=Verdana
color=#000080 size=2>I'd be interested if anyone knows of (or perhaps even can
make!) a comprehensive rebuttal to Bearden's arguments on their own
terms (not just a citing of apparent conflict with the Second
Law).</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2><FONT size=2>
<P>Sandy Pollard<BR></FONT></FONT></SPAN><BR></P></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B>
peakoil-bounces+sandy.pollard=dewr.gov.au@act-peakoil.org
[mailto:peakoil-bounces+sandy.pollard=dewr.gov.au@act-peakoil.org] <B>On Behalf
Of </B>Leigh Kite<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, August 30, 2006 3:50
PM<BR><B>To:</B> Peakoil Discussion<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Peakoil] Correspondence
from Bearden<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Reference Irish Steorn/free energy thing, here's
some correspondence on Tom Bearden's web site</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>(Bearden took free energy public in his books and
survived an assassination attempt for his efforts).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="http://www.cheniere.org/correspondence/082106.htm">http://www.cheniere.org/correspondence/082106.htm</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Cheers,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Leigh</FONT></DIV>Notice:
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