
Why 'Free-Energy' Investigation Makes Sense
Date: Monday, December 27, 2004 @ 18:35:18 UTC Topic: General
Chris Zell writes (free_energy yahoo list): It is likely that 99% of the devices claimed to provide 'free-energy' are fakes or simply the result of measurement errors.
.. but if that was true, we would still be wise to explore the remaining 1%, wouldn't we?
The idea that no useful device could exist because of lack of development seems to be sheer nonsense to me. Market forces are powerful - but not perfect, in bringing practical inventions into public view. Just because you can't buy it at Walmart, doesn't mean it was never real.
There are a number of inventions that may have been "forgotten" simply because of poor timing, no money or just bad luck such as the Bourke engine or Farnsworth's Multipactor tubes.
Let me expand on the money factor: development costs can be high enough to bury a useful technology. If the technology is sufficiently radical, funding may be prevented by 'sneer review' - in which ridicule blocks the entry of potential venture capital - and if you can't visualize strong profit emergence , you can forget about market forces completely. I've seen breathtaking results of seaweed extracts against cancer reported by Japanese researchers. I doubt you'll ever see a product brought to market.
I found similar results in my search for a multiple sclerosis treatment: cheap effective therapies lie dormant while expensive drugs ( i.e. profitable drugs) are brought to market. The Swank diet and linoleic acid were barely looked at while interferon was tested ad nauseum. It happens.
I once read that every system of knowledge is also a system of ignorance - depending on what gets excluded as 'impossible'. Meteorites were once thought to be frauds because everyone knew that stones couldn't fall from the sky.
Finally, we need to consider an analogous situation that easily involves the same - or even greater intensive analysis by humans: the stock market! I defy anyone to attempt to reason that this field of knowledge involves less intense research and brainpower than science. Now, you wouldn't expect to ever find a "perfect" stock, just sitting there, unbought at a low price, would you?
And yet it does happen! I held shares of Continental Homes for some time - which were hugely profitable , with solid fundamentals, and great projections for future growth. At one point, the P/E ratio was 4 ( !!!!!).
The stock just laid there, dead in the water because everyone "knew" it was a poor investment! No one of any note bothered to investigate any further! Eventually, I doubled my money - and read the messages on internet investment boards that said things like "why on earth was this stock so cheap? Why didn't somebody see this????".
The world isn't perfect. Consider the remarkable "1%" that just might lie out there - unappreciated, "impossible" undeveloped ...
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