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Comment Re:Hoax (Score 1) 986

How do you know the engine works, if you aren't allowed to open the hood.

When I open my hood, there is nothing there to assure me its "working", other than a rotating fan, some noise, some heat and a big chunk of metal.
How could I know its working? It could be all batteries and speakers and butane lighters inside that chunk of metal.

Does the car move, well, lets see....

Step 1 Open door, get in car.
Step 2 insert key
(You can see where this is going)....

Nobody I know disassembles a motor in their new truck to make sure the goddamed thing runs.
Even for new an novel things like a Tesla, nobody I know insists the dealer take it appart and show them every winding and bolt.

Ultimately it comes down to "Do you really Care"? If your are a motor head, you probably do, but mostly as a point of interest.
But on the other hand, if you view it just as transportation, and it came with some kind of warranty and performed acceptably on the test drive, then for transportation purposes who cares if its 40'000 well trained mice under the hood who eat gasoline and poop only tail pipe emissions, or electric motors or an internal combustion engine, or batteries and fans and speakers making throaty sounding roars.

Manufacturer said it would do THIS, and when I tried THIS it worked, or it didn't. And it worked for all the other people who bought it for many years, and none of them came around with stories about their mice escaping en mass and killing their cat.

I don't open my cell phones either. Not on purpose anyway.

Comment Re:Hoax (Score 1) 986

But you know THAT it works. It got you from A to B in time T.

You'd be amazed, (or probably you wouldn't) to know just how many people haven't a clue about what's under the hood or how it works.
Met this girl once who seriously thought that electricity originated at the breaker panel. She was 19 at the time.

Comment Re:Hoax (Score 1) 986

It certainly gives you insight into THAT it works.
Which seems to be all the "inventor" is willing to disclose.

Note: I have no opinion about how it works, or even if it works. All I'm pointing out is that these investigators seem to have reasonable credentials, and they are still hedging their statement, but standing behind their measurements.

Comment Re:You missed something major (Score 1) 986

Right, they were not allowed to do destructive testing and break the ceramic casing on the wires.

It was about as big around as a 50 cent piece, and maybe 2 feet long.
So lets say the device (which the heated up till it was glowing) hid a batter that could generate the
excess 1.5 megawatt-hours. Wouldn't such a battery ALL BY ITSELF be a significant invention?

You haven't shown any other possible source for the independent measurement of 1.5 megawatt-hours, of energy.
The guys who measured it, have better credentials than you.

Comment Re:Any suffiently advanced tech... (Score 2) 986

He refuses to allow input monitoring (i.e. the Ecat is always plugged into an external power source, and he refuses to allow an ampmeter to be run on it).

Did you read even a few pages of the PDF?
Cuz I feel like you didn't.

The PDF documents exactly the devices used to monitor input power

PCE-830 power anlayser
3 phases, measures power and analyses harmonics, with memory, interface and sofware

The PCE-830 power and harmonics analyser is used for measuring one to three phases of electrical quantities for alternating current (AC). This power and harmonics analyser also measures such parameters as voltage, current, frequency, harmonics and power as well as indicting, according to standard EN50160, harmonic values, interharmonics and asymmetrics. Interferences, such as interruptions, leaks, overloads or transience (from 16s), are detected with their corresponding values. The backlit LCD, with high resolution, can show up to 35 parameters simultaneously. It can have up to 3 clips attached at the same time. In the data logger mode, it can save up to 17,470 readings (3 phases / 4 conductors) and in a simpler set-up (1 fase / 2 conductores) it can save up to 52,400 readings, split into 85 groups. All this makes the PCE-830 power analyser the ideal instrument for taking measurements over long periods of time. Measurement values obtained can be sent to a computer and be processed with the analysis siftware which comes included. The device comes with everything needed to measure and analyse from the moment the device arrives. Although the power analyser comes calibrated from the manufacturer, an optional laboratory calibration and certificate that meets ISO standards can be ordered seperately with the device or when a recalibration is required.

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Comment Re:Hoax (Score 2) 986

Explain that part about explaining inputs and outputs being "meaningless".

The size of the element alone precludes it having stored 1.5 megawatt-hours by chemical or other known means.
Further, they did analysis on the metal isotopes (maybe you missed that part). Start reading the PDF on page 27.

Since the machine needs to be charged with fuel for each run and the fuel changes isotopic composition by the end of the run, your objections as to "perpetual machines" are moot and misplaced.

Nobody made any such claims.

Their measurements indicate more power is output than was input.
These experts haven't figured it out. They are not exactly idiots. Google them.

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