What I found from http://www.free-energy.ws/ that fits the hype is:
"In the simplest terms, free energy is any energy that is provided by the natural world. In science, energy is defined as "the ability to do work". Free energy is called by many names, such as renewable energy, alternative energy, or non-conventional energy, to list a few. Examples of free energy technologies include a wind generator on a remote homestead, or a solar panel on the International Space Station. But this is only the tip of the iceberg. Free energy also includes amazing technologies like a car powered by a water fuel cell, a battery charger powered by the earth, or a home furnace powered by permanent magnets. The best free energy systems deliver energy at no on-going cost to the user, without detrimental effects to the environment, and at extremely low costs for the maintenance of the equipment." They leave out the most important free energy source, though, the one the IPCC and other governmental long rang plans are committed to having us use for growing the economies by literally 10^15 times their present size in real terms over the next millennium... The free energy of ingenuity bye itself will simply make rapidly multiplying wealth independent of the need for resources. It'll probably take 50 years to accomplish it, or so they think. As Bjorn Lomberg (author of 'Cool it') explains, in 100 years it'll raise the average income of people in the developing world to $100k per year. You can see how it is supposed to work in the long published economic projections on which the world's global warming plan is based. www.synapse9.com/design/ClimateLags.pdf Phil Henshaw ¸¸¸¸.·´ ¯ `·.¸¸¸¸ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 680 Ft. Washington Ave NY NY 10040 tel: 212-795-4844 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] explorations: www.synapse9.com -- "it's not finding what people say interesting, but finding what's interesting in what they say" -- > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Smith > Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2007 10:32 PM > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > Subject: [FRIAM] Zero-point energy and ESP was: "free energy" > > > Guerin - > > Very well stated.... > > However, considering the source, it is very much more likely: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-point_energy > > Don't (ever) forget that "newage rhymes with sewage". > > The ever-recurring "zero-point energy" scam that people > fool themselves with at least as often as perpetual motion > devices. Or better yet, contrive perpetual motion devices > which aspire to tap said "zero-point energy" > > In my apprehension, Zero-Point energy is nearly useless > and therefore mostly boring except for the related Casimir > effect which will likely play an important role in practical > nanomachinery which does not necessarily exclude biology. > > In fact, is would surprise me if there were no significant > nanoscale effects in biology. I don't track closely enough > to have examples or counter-examples. It seems at least > likely that the Van der Waals force is significant to > biological processes. (shit, before I could hit "send" my > parallel research discovered that Gecko glass-climbing is > attributable to Van der Waals) > > It reminds me of the time I was at a party in Santa Fe and > had someone ask me if I used "ESP" in my work. I told > them that "absolutely, I use it all of the time!" Of course > it took at least 15 minutes of mutual misunderstanding > before I realized they were talking about > "extra-sensory-perception" and I was talking about "easy > structured programming" (a lab developed visual programming > language pre-processor for Fortran which used ... if you can > imagine... ascii-art diagrams of block-programs to design and > self-document and make modular Fortran IV code! It parsed > Whiles and Untils (comparison done at the end of the loop > instead of the beginning) into if/then/goto structures > similar to RatFor. > > I found some line-printer output from my ESP > coding days while cleaning out my files... I should like > offer it to some museum maybe... too bad I threw > away my MANIAC manuals 3 moves ago! > > > Damn... I'm old. > > - Steve > > - Smith > > > > On Dec 26, 2007, at 5:47 PM, Stephen Guerin wrote: > > > Free energy is the amount of energy in a system that is available to > > do work. A > > room with all its air molecules equally distributed will > have energy > > but no free > > energy. If you put a heater in one corner of the room and a cooler > > in an > > opposite corner, this second system would have free energy and a > > device could be > > introduced to extract work from it. > > > > How living systems identify sources of free energy and construct > > devices to use > > it is a central question in complex systems research (or should be > > more). Both > > Boltzmann and Shrodinger suggested living systems struggle not for > > energy but > > for free energy. > > > > Here's a recent working paper abstract from Eric and Harold > Morowitz: > > > > Harold Morowitz and Eric Smith have a very approachable working > > paper on Origin > > of Life: > > http://www.santafe.edu/research/publications/wpabstract/200608029 > > > > ABSTRACT: Life is universally understood to require a source of free > > energy and > > mechanisms with which to harness it. Remarkably, the converse may > > also be true: > > the continuous generation of sources of free energy by abiotic > > processes may > > have forced life into existence as a means to alleviate the > buildup > > of free > > energy stresses. This assertion -- for which there is precedent in > > non-equilibrium statistical mechanics and growing empirical > evidence > > from > > chemistry -- would imply that life had to emerge on the > earth, that > > at least the > > early steps would occur in the same way on any similar planet, and > > that we > > should be able to predict many of these steps from first > principles > > of chemistry > > and physics together with an accurate understanding of geochemical > > conditions on > > the early earth. A deterministic emergence of life would > reflect an > > essential > > continuity between physics, chemistry, and biology. It would show > > that a part of > > the order we recognize as living is thermodynamic order > inherent in > > the > > geosphere, and that some aspects of Darwinian selection are > > expressions of the > > likely simpler statistical mechanics of physical and chemical self- > > organization. > > > > -S > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2007 3:48 PM > >> To: [email protected] > >> Subject: [FRIAM] "free energy" > >> > >> At a Christmas eve party here in Santa Fe (the city very > >> different) , a number of new age or whatever folks were > talking about > >> "free energy" which they claimed was a scientific reality. Being > >> somewhat of a sceptic and cynic, I cried out a Dickens' > humbug. 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