Reply #5: Bullshit stories of "free" energy always have several things in common.

[Speck Tater]

All of them always include a story about how either the government covered the whole thing up, or the big oil companies bought up the patents.

They always "disprove" the laws of thermodynamics, proving that some crackpot in his garage always seems to outsmart the very best minds in the world. That works in science fiction, but it NEVER works in reality. And NOBODY ever violates the laws of thermodynamics. EVER.

Some mysterious somebody is always trying to break in and steal the super-secret invention.

There is ALWAYS some excuse why a working device has NEVER been demonstrated in public, or before a panel of qualified experts. (There are also always stories about how it WAS demonstrated in front of some group of unnamed "experts", although no actual names are ever forthcoming.)

There are always claims of patents, 14 in this case, but nobody can EVER produce an actual, valid patent number. Strange.

The secrets of the device have always either been "lost", or deliberately destroyed by the inventor to protect his secrets, or destroyed by the CIA or some other alphabet soup agency.

The inventor is ALWAYS misunderstood, harassed and persecuted.

Anyone who has taken (and understood) freshman physics knows that this is whole story pure bullshit.

This story has ALL the earmarks of the kind of pure bullshit that only the gullible and scientifically illiterate would ever fall for.