Debunking "free" energy
Like most people, I rarely watch terrestrial TV anymore - I watch a digital smart TV that has apps to show me BBC iPlayer ,4, itv-hub, along with Netflix, Prime, YouTube etc... still baffles me how the UK BBC gets away with the stealth TV License bill / tax, it should be a subscription like all the other services... but that's for a different discussion.
However, we were watching this TV Show "The Capture" (cos Freya was hassling me that I needed to watch it), which is about mis-using AI/ML technology to fake video output for CCTV content - the point being people will believe what they see on a screen / digitally. It was actually a good story line.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m00085sx/the-capture
This has become a grey area of concern recently due to the whole deep-fake tools that are free to download nowadays. Just ask the fake UFO/UAP creators what tools they use, admittedly some of them are Hollywood movie quality level - however that's usually the give away, they are too good.
This raises the question: why do they do it? for the fame, the notoriety, the...the...ah, the clicks... the number of views, which is linked to revenue, which equates to making money for "nothing". Welcome to the online digital, instagram, fbook, tik-tok, youtube corrupted world where anyone can upload anything and if they've created enough of a following they can make a lot of money by influencing people to click/view their content. Yes, we all have a choice, we can choose to "not" click or view content, but, it is human curiosity and trust that is being slightly abused - again, yes, this can be traced back to the snake-oil sales men of the American wild-west, it's always been a "thing". However, it still irks me that a fresh younger generation is growing up with this digital world and in their innocence they will start believing what they see / view as being true as they have nothing else to compare it against.
At the age of 50 (yes, shock, horror, how did that happen?!), I was seeing a few items appearing in my "recommended" list on YouTube that showed some rather convincing videos about solar panels, alternators, perpetual motion machines and eventually a couple of videos like the one's below.
Now, I will say my interest was piqued by the quality of the content and the simplicity and subtle slickness of how it was executed. I watched the first video and it raised technical and engineering questions in my mind such as, how....well, that was it really, "how"? I could understand that you could potentially use magnets and copper wires to generate electricity if you switched N and S of the magnets in a rotational motion - the exact details eluded me but I understood what a car alternator does and roughly what it contains inside; so the raw components seemed feasible; however, the "how" does the electricity get generated from the copper-wires and "moved" along to generate enough current to 50Hz and 220volts in order to power a light bulb....The implied reference to Tesla (the original man, not the company) jogged some reference that he managed to do something with electricity in the thin air...however, I believed that he was just transmitting that power from a base tower to receiving towers through the air (rather than inside cables), even using this to light up light bulbs, but even he was still putting power into this (I'd love to see copies of his electricity bills) and didn't he put X in and only get X-2 out, therefore getting out less than was put in? TESLA coil info here.
I then did what you do, I watched another of these videos and then I started to doubt myself. Maybe this is a "thing" after all.... maybe it was down to the strength of the magnets or something? Therefore, I decided to purchase some of the raw materials and gather some other components from the garage... and then I decided to find time from distracting myself from doing personal work (yes, that is a VR setup that I was just using to access the Mission ISS)
and set aside some time to actually copy / remake what was shown. I spent, maybe 20minutes doing this... this was when the penny dropped. I originally setup a huge bolt and wrapped the raw copper-wire around it and then started to connect to the scotch-blocks and I thought to myself, before I connect the light-bulb, I'll put the volt-meter on the terminals and "see" how much voltage is generated. Then as I was getting the magnets out of their super-safety containers I then thought to myself, "oh, if I put the magnets near the copper-wire and bolt, what happens if the magnet then attracts itself and sticks onto the copper-wire and bolt? then surely I'd get a shock trying to remove it?"
..and that was when I realised that at the age of 50, I'd fallen for the snake-oil....I chuckled to myself (people don't use that word enough nowadays, "chuckle"..... lol ) of course this could never work, for that main reason I just thought of.... then I rewatched the video and noted that he used covered wiring - so I repeated the same thing, y'know, just incase. I then did the thing with the magnets, watching the volt-meter... nothing showed, nothing moved. I got ALL the magnets together to make a mega-magnet, repeated, still nothing, I twiddled all the dials on the volt-meter (it's an old analog version, not digital - that tells you a lot), nothing... then the same sort of realisation of someone losing their religious faith in one crashing moment (when they realise that the "good book" is not what they thought & that alien life forms are real & god is something very different to what they had always assumed), I then chuckled to myself. You numpty. Of course this could and would never work, how could it? I made myself a cup f tea and thought about it for a further 5 minutes. There is a glimmer of potential hope that it might or could work and that is what the main draw is/was - and the fact that video editing trickery had shown it to be working meant that it was believable, it was a religious miracle of sorts - however, as I had taken the time to actually do the "science thing" and repeat the exercise, rather than believe what I'd been shown / told, that I then had first hand experience of being duped.
This may seem harmless enough, again, no real difference to all the fake UFO videos out there, "who are they harming?"... well, it is actually eroding the trust of believing what you see and seeing as the future of the human race seems to be being pushed into a visual / material world (hello, Virtual Reality MetaVerses), this maybe the planting of some very bad seeds that could end up going the wrong way and in the next 50years the human race turns away from the potential of a digital future of advancement and reverts back to an ignorant backwards analog world - a repeat of the dark ages, anyone?
Well, if it does go back to the dark ages, they'll need plenty of lights... "hey, there's this great video about making your own light-bulbs light up without having to plug in, you should see it"
chuckle chuckle chuckle....
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