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A few interesting things about Newman from the Life magazine story on him
If anyone were to assume that Joe Newman's "Energy Machine" will do as he claims, then they should expect Mr. Newman to gladly and truthfully answer the following questions:
1 - Knowing that it requires an
RPM of 3600 to power a Generator for auxilliary power, as a back-up to
"Grid" power, why doesn't Joe Newman run his prototype at 3600 RPM ?
Joe runs his motor at 50 or 100 RPM.
2 - Why doesn't he reveal the amount
of voltage required to power his motor for the average home ?
Dr. Roger Hastings (Whom Joe quotes when it suits
his purpose) has stated that it would require between 10KV and 20KV to
run Joe' motor in the average home.
3 - Joe Newman refuses to answer questions
concerning approval by UL and NEC (Underwriter Laboratorys) and (National
Electric Code).
Anything that is manufactured and is to be connected
to any type of dwelling MUST meet the following National Standards:
NFPA 70, 1999 edition, National Electric Code.
Standard Building Code (Latest Edition).
NFPA 101 Life Safety.
NFPA 850 Power Plants (As applicable).
Underwriters Laboratorys.
Factory Mutual (As an insurance issuer, Factory Mutual set guidelines for the entire insurance industry).
Local Authorities having jurisdiction.
Federal Communications Commission.
Throughout the United States, local authorities
WILL NOT approve anything that doesn't meet the bare minimum National
Standards. Mr. Newman would have to bring this device to each Committee
for every standard that has to be met, BEFORE they can be installed.
Can you imagine the response from the local Power Company when you tell
them that you are going to install a transfer switch between them and your
Newman Device? They will completely disconnect you from the grid.
The Utility Companies do not want anything connected to their system that
may jeopardize the integrity of the grid. This is the reason for
having Electrical Inspectors into a dwelling before a certificate of occupancy
can be issued. Only AFTER the Certificate of Occupancy is issued,
will the Utility Company hook up power.
4 - How can Joe Newman sell a motor for $7,000.00,
when, by his own statement, he has $6,000.00 worth of Neodymium magnets
in the motor.
Joe Newman is demonstrating a motor with Neodymium
magnets inside. This is what he is using as a selling point.
The only way he could sell the motor for the asking price, is to replace
the Neodymium magnets with Ceramic magnets which are only 1/3 as powerful.
Whoever purchases one of these motors with Ceramic magnets inside, is going
to find out that it will not produce as stated by Joe Newman. In
addition, this is known as "Bait-and Switch".
5 - Why will Joe Newman not let anyone else
test his motor ?
Joe Newman wants everyone to accept his word
that the motor performs as he says. He does not give any results
for a "Locked Rotor" Test. He doesn't even use a Dynamometer.
He says: "You cannot stop or choke-down the motor using two hands".
Furthermore, he will release no specs for the motor performance, so it
can be independently verified.
Joe likes to refer to "Honest Thinking Individuals".
Well, when "Honest Thinking Individuals" ask Joe these questions, he and/or
Evan Soule' immediately classify that person as a disbeliever, and a pawn
of the Power-Brokers. YOU MUST ACCEPT JOE NEWMAN'S WORD ON BLIND
FAITH !
Joe Newman/Evan Soule' refuse to use words like Perpetual Motion, Over Unity, Free Energy, etc. What they DO say is that Newman's motor has over 400% "PRODUCTION EFFICIENCY", compared to Input Power. (Circumlocular chicanery). This really awes the "Layperson".
If anyone is seriously considering buying one of these "White Elephants", please take the time to get satisfactory answers to the above questions.
Another independent account: I took Evan Soule's advice and tried to call Newman directly. I got a hold of his wife and she was very nice (one investor told of Newman cussing him out over the phone). She agrees the show was a disaster but insists the people who made the machine were incompetent and that something was lose and dragging and that Newman has been working with people to get it right. She said a few independent engineers would make measurements (couldn't put me in touch with them or the scientists who have looked at it in the past). She didn't know if Newman would be willing to have me look at it. She says he may do another show in Phoenix and have a local radio show involved. I'd certainly be willing to do a debate on the air if anyone can get me on (same offer goes for Dennis Lee ) Stay tuned, I'll try to directly call Newman next week. Newman has dumped me off the Newman email list and purged my posts to the Newman bulletin board.
Anyone
can get on the free_energy email list from:
http://www.onelist.com/archives/free_energy
Great Links
Click to see story of how . the state stepped in and took the little girl to safety
book review - to be eventually posted on list and as new page
this is certainly the tallest and most thick book
in my entire collection of
crackpot literature. It reads very much
like Dennis Lee's tomes: with
lengthy copies of letters from supporters, copies
of court documents and
plenty of talk of God, conspiracy and obligatory
butchered science. I had
to laugh out loud when I perused through an entire
chapter of embarrassing
rejection letters from various scientific sources.
I now understand how
Newman snookered a few real science people:
he drew such an incredibly wide
net over decades, of course he was able to find
a few foolish ones. The
letters from Hastings make him look like a kook
as well. The book has no
mention I can find of Newman marrying the 8 year
old girl - lots of news
coverage of "look at what our local boy has done"
but none of the stories
covering the little girl or financial victims.
It did mention an estranged
son, ex wife and daughter. There was a
hilarious picture of Newman demoing
two balloons strapped together with some pitch
about alternative propulsion
systems. A real free energy nut can never
restrict him self to just solving
our energy problems - No they have to also make
claims about curing
diseases, remediating nuclear waste, promoting
world peace, fixing the
economy, stopping hurricanes, etc. Among
some of Newman's claims in the
book are:
running for president in 2000
having cursed out and threated to beat
up his dad
Y2K is going to be a time of disaster
God has some savior to arrive in 2000
400 years ago, Nostradamus predicted Newman
would arrive
Newman being skilled at stealing cigarettes
at a young age
Newman wasting over a million in a failed
attempt to get a patent
how the May 2000 planetary alignment will
bring calamity
how atmospheric phenomenon like rain and
hurricanes are magnetic in nature
ESP with magnets and wires
etc
One thing I was interested to find is that the
"30 scientists and engineers"
that Evan incessantly chants about include many
people who aren't. I only
counted only 20 of them who could be considered
engineers - most all of them
were from Newman's locale. No mention is
made of the many people who took a
look and were unable to be convinced to sign
something. Also conspicuously
absent was any answer to the bottom line question:
"if you have overunity,
why not just create your input power only from
excess output power". I
guess Newman's life's work has really been evading
that question.
It also appears that Evan really put together
the book. Strange this copy
has his older mailing addresses the whole way
through. In other news, as of
8/24/99, the Newman web pages still make no response
to objections raised on
the Krieg-Biss pages.
