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NEWS:
Look at the Sept
17th USA today full page add for Dennis's new 45 city nationwide tour to
promote a new free energy design (he seems to be dropping the other
products and the Fisher engine -which was never proven) The new "design"
promises to make free energy
with wires and magnets
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This whole thing smells a lot of a pyramid scam. Dennis already did
a nationwide tour in 1996 to promise free energy machines to be installed in
homes before the end of the year.
I'm a skeptical electrical
engineer fascinated by the 100's of people who have claimed to have free
energy. I saw Dennis Lee's full page ad for energy independence and
apparently paranormal devices. For the sake of the world I wish such
extraordinary claims were possible, but I'm concerned for his many investors
if this follows most similar
claims I've studied.
On September 23 1996, 3 other engineers and I went to hear him speak for 5
hours at the Philly Corestates Center (it cost him somewhere around $100,000
to put on that show). It reminded me of shoppers home network, professional
wrestling and Jim Baker. Among the many things we think deserve further
skepticism are:
- He seems to think the
entire government and American industry is part of a huge international
multi-generational conspiracy to suppress his truth. Dennis's
militia and patriot movement rhetoric (and constant religious talk)
avoids the only important question does the free energy machine work?
- He has been getting in
trouble. with the Law since long before he
got into free energy claims
- He implied that one Browns Gass machine ran on
water, with out explaining the huge quantity of energy needed for
electrolysis. He also referred to a machine running on air without making
it obvious that the air was compressed from another source. I would have
been impressed if the machines were left running for more than 5
seconds.
- His scientific
references frequently confused units of measure to derive unbased
conclusions. I've since been told he lacks a science education and his
former technical "experts" won't deal with him.
- At one point he
compares static torque with dynamic torque to imply that
his weak air powered engine would have more power output than a
regular engine by comparing its stalled torque to that of a running
engine.
- His biggest claim was
a briefly described device that could harness latent heat from the air
ultimately into electricity. I would have been more convinced if he had
left such a machine running while lighting light bulbs with no wires
attached through the whole show. Many engineers and scientists have
reviewed his theory and found it flawed and basically in violation of
natural laws of nature. I'd be more impressed if a team from the
publication "SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN" "CONSUMERS
REPORTS" would investigate his claims than lawyers. Dennis ignores
my open $5000 prize offer
for proof of a free energy machine and James Randi's offer
of a million for proof.
- One of his machines
with just little wheels rotating was claimed to put out more energy than
put in - it quickly stopped in perpetuity.
- He constantly
interchanged units of power, force and energy. . He also operates much the same
as Joe Newman.
- Many of his devices
just ran a short time on a charge of compressed air and stopped -others
were not demonstrated. I don't think his investors understood that he
offers no real proof of claims.
- He told us he had a
brick battery which put out a volt of power. Power is not measured in
volts (only in volts times amps) - besides you can get a volt out of a
potato too, but the power level would be less than a watch battery. .
- As a rule of thumb,
warning lights go on for me when I hear people say stuff like: God
gives me direct revelations, this invention needs a little more work to
be demonstrated, I want people to invest with no business plan or formal
contract. Yep when I hear a guy talking about God and money in
the same breath I get the feeling that it's Money that's doing the
talking. Also, most deals that 'are good for today only'
are really about not giving you a chance to think it over - especially
deals offered to exhausted people in a mass hysteria way past midnight.
- A few late breaking
odd things about BWT: his people lacks education, but can't supply
any engineers who support the theory. Pat Robertson once lost
$150,000 on an early scheme of Dennis's. They claim to have sold all 2000
dealerships. ( currently priced at $25,000 ) Dennis claims to
receive revelations direct from God. His people says even they aren't
allowed to access the machine. Dennis claims OJ is innocent and a group
of Indians will supply hundreds of millions needed to manufacture the
machines. Dennis keeps promising
a fair demonstration but ends up hiding behind a growing list of
excuses not to demonstrate. As of 1999, they have been trying to get
whole churches to put up "Seed Money". Dennis claims he
will sue me.
- Dennis's claims of
high COP of heat pumps are mixing apples with oranges - because his
units under test are SOLAR POWER ASSISTED! And there's an element
of multi-level marketing in the dealerships.
Dennis should be open to my offer to personally test his
devices in the presence of main stream press people I'd love to see a
chance for 3rd party engineers (like me) and scientists to do a hands on
examination of his machines. In the year since I made an offer to prove his
device, he's been unwilling to respond to me. For centuries, people have made
false claims of free energy
similar to Dennis's - such people constantly hide behind claims of
secrecy and the excuse that evil forces are trying to stop them. Some also
simply stop working on their free energy machines and start something else
with out finishing it either. I think most people of science are like me -
they love their countries, humanity and the environment and would love to see
a machine which could make cheaper safer nonpolluting energy. Every segment
of business (except the power industry ) would greatly benefit. How many
Americans really want Iran and Iraq to continue getting hundreds of billions
of oil revenue?
Dennis also claims that the steam engine has been designed wrong ! Dennis
also won't offer open proof of an alleged antigravity machine. Dennis has
changed from calling Yull Brown the greatest man alive to the most greedy man
he has ever met - he also thinks OJ was innocent.
I feel that trained people in the skeptical movement are better
qualified to examine extraordinary claims than Dennis's dealers. Skeptics
usually takes on paranormal claims (astrology, ESP, dowsing, ufos) - but we
feel that Dennis is fair game since his free energy machine would have to
violate the laws of thermodynamics. James Randi has promised to pay Dennis
$1,000,000 for simple proof of the machine. The scientific people who joined
me at Dennis's show did not see Extraordinary evidence for Dennis's
extraordinary claims - but we are open to any evidence which may arrive.
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