Perpetual Ignorance

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Perpetual Ignorance

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The local government of Odessa, MO have fallen for a perpetual energy scam, to the point of offering a company up to $90 million in bonds to "build facilities to make home generators that use magnets to make electricity, produce food products from soybeans and rice, and manufacture portable medical emergency rooms that could be sent quickly anywhere in the world."

This has elements of politics, science and even religion. I had a hard time deciding what forum category to put it in.

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A Utah company announced Thursday that it planned to build a manufacturing and research complex in Odessa, Mo., that could eventually employ more than 3,000 people.

Officials in Odessa were clearly happy in the hours leading up to the announcement. Rep. Mike McGhee said that Odessa would be producing technology that would be “world-changing” and that the announcement would shake the earth and the product would be the equivalent of the light bulb.

The Odessa Republican was referring to a home generator developed by Maglev Energy in Largo, Fla. The home generator, which Manna of Utah is licensing, uses magnets.

Kram, asked if the Maglev technology worked, said it had a patent. Reminded that a patent didn’t necessarily mean that something works, Kram said there were two letters from “GE Aviation” that said it worked. The letters weren’t immediately available.

Mayor Bamvakais in an interview said he was convinced the project would happen. He said he had visited Florida and seen the generator work. He said he has confidence in the Manna executives, including CEO Gleason.

“He’s very much a Christian man of his word,” he said.
From a follow-up article:
And Bob Park, a physicist at the University of Maryland known for debunking perpetual-motion machines, said the enhanced efficiency claimed for the generator sounded like a direct violation of the second law of thermodynamics. That law holds that there is some cost when energy is moved, which would reduce the efficiency of such a generator.

But that’s not how some state and local officials view it, including a handful who went to Florida to see the machine. Missouri state Rep. Mike McGhee, an Odessa Republican, said last month when the project was announced that Odessa would be producing technology that would be “world-changing,” the equivalent of the light bulb.

Odessa’s Board of Aldermen will have a meeting this evening on the proposal, but it is closed to the public because it deals with development matters. The mayor said Odessa had offered the developer, Manna of Utah, a site and agreed to provide $90 million in revenue bonds for the project.

Manna of Utah announced last month that it wanted the home generators to be the “centerpiece” of the proposed manufacturing complex, which would also make food products and portable emergency rooms and have a research and testing center. The complex would eventually employ 3,400 people, Manna said.

The Utah company is licensing the generator technology from Maglev, which has had it for at least five years and got its patent in 2008. The company has yet to make the technology commercially available.

Park, the Maryland professor, said the generator’s patent at one point described generating electricity and energy from permanent magnets, but he said those contained only a small amount of energy. Overall, the patent is obtuse and poorly written, perhaps on purpose, he said.

“It is my personal opinion, based on years of experience in debunking perpetual-motion machines, that the language in this patent is deliberately obfuscating,” he said.
Tim
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