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Chris X. Guldi (xguldi@mail.ameritel.net) wrote:
: Forgive me for joining in late on the topic, but are we discussing
: Joseph Newman's energy machine?
: 
: Is anybody familiar with Joe's machine.
: 
: According to Joe his machine utilized the electromagnetic flow around
: the earth to produce electricity. It's kicked of with a battery which
: is then charged as the machine rotates, while at the same time
: powering up your house.
: 
: He's even built a car utilizing the machine as a power source, it was
: heavy, went slow, and real jerky, but it drove.

Mr. Newman's "energy machine" was simply a generator with a twist (a bad
one it turns out) and nothing more. A complete write-up on this machine
was in Discover Magazine a few years back as an example of crackpot science.
I had the opportunity of "discussing" this machine with Mr. Newman on camera
( WDAM channel 7 in the Hattiesburg viewing area ); he spouts more drivvel
per second than anyone I have ever heard - congressman included. His "theory"
was that he was tapping not the earths field but the "gyroscopic" motion of
certain field particles (only he knew what these were; I could never get
him to tell me their properties - he didn't seem to understand the concepts
of mass, charge, angular momentum etc., indeed he denied vehemently that
Newton's second law was valid!). In honor of the "importance" of this
gyroscopic motion, he named his first born son "Gyromas" Newman.
Mr. Newman sued the patent office when his "machine" was denied a patent
(for obvious reasons). The judge forced him to turn over a "working model"
of the machine which he did. It was tested by competant engineers who
pronounced it an ordinary generator (with a slight technical adjustment)
with ordinary properties which conserved energy and had the usual efficiency
for devices of that type. Lastly, some wealthy southern investors lost
their "shirts"investing in his automobile drive - the car actually "ran" on
a large number of car batteries; when "tested" in the New Orleans Superdome
the car never did run; the usual excuses were given.

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Lawrence R. Mead (lrmead@whale.st.usm.edu) 
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