Re: Breakthrough harnesses energy from water??

From: Eugen Leitl (eugen@leitl.org)
Date: Wed Jan 08 2003 - 13:52:20 MST


Uh. Hello? Is this still the extropians list? I had to check the headers,
just to make sure.

On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Charles Hixson wrote:

> But plants do that all the time, so that's not proof of a scam. OTOH,

1) Plants do not. The claims' language alone was garbage. Just to click on
   that link proves you're gullible enough to believe the spam you read.

2) If you claim you have a perpetuum mobile, it's not my job to prove that
   you do not. Ahem.

> plants collect solar energy at a rather low rate, so this, if it's true,

But plants self-reproduce. I've still to see a PV array that overgrows the
area from a seed like a pond of hyacinthes.

> probably also operates rather slowly. I wonder if it would compete with
> solar cells.

No chance. Because solar cells are not a scam.
 
> OTOH, the page sure sounds like a scam. But that could just be their PR
> guy.

Hey, listen. I've got an incredible offer on a piece of real estate in
Brooklyn. Game?



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