Even if they don’t work for their intended purpose, they are great demonstrations of magnetism or chemistry. A lot can be said about the builds themselves.

Inevitably these folks fail to build free energy generators, overunity devices, or whatever their pursuit is, but they all do seem to learn something in the process. In some cases, these are the folks who truly believe they can have a chance to violate the laws of thermodynamics. Sounds a lot like the average Hackaday reader, doesn’t it? I have to admit I went into this article with the same disdain for the enthusiasts that I have for the scammers, possibly even more. These are the backyard tinkerers, the ones who put down their computers, pick up their tools, and try to build something. On the other side of the coin lie the enthusiasts. These are the folks who know their “discoveries” are nothing more than snake oil. Scammers deserve disdain and public shaming.

Obviously this man and his staff need your money to continue their work. Supposedly, his “Searl Effect Generator” SEG has been built several times, but the prototypes generate so much power they create their own anti-gravity field and fly off into space. Searl especially deserves note because he’s been at it for decades. Names like John Searl, Muammer Yildiz, and M. Eventually that will lead you to a place where the scammer attempts to part you and your hard-earned money. Somewhere in the video or description will be a link to a website with more information. Catching a scammer is easy – they’re looking for money. Now it’s convenient to find them all in one place.īrowsing the tubes, it’s easy to break free energy videos down into two major groups: enthusiasts and scammers. The human race has been reaching for impossible dreams of perpetual motion and free energy for just about all of recorded history. In this case, I mean the many videos dedicated to free energy, overunity devices, perpetual motion machines, or anything else that violates the laws of thermodynamics by trying to get out more energy than is put in. Spend enough time on YouTube, and you’ll eventually find yourself in one of the many dark corners hiding within it.

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