Review - Dennis Lee of ITEC, UCSA and BWT speaks on free electricity in Connecticut
The following is authored by an anonymous
skeptic and available at:
http://www.phact.org/e/z/lee_rev.htm
On Friday, September 17, 1999, USA Today ran a full-page ad that began with "Tired Of High Electric Bills...How About NO Electric Bills? This Machine Could Give You FREE Electricity For The Rest Of Your Life..." This was followed by a picture of something that looked like a squirrel cage within a squirrel cage. Below this picture, the ad continued with an invitation to "One Of the FREE MEETINGS Across the U.S.", descriptions of what will be demonstrated, and a note that you will be invited to "sign up for a cooperative program" for a mere $275 to take advantage of this "revolutionary technology".
The 1999 Dennis Lee US Tour is under way! If you've never heard of Dennis Lee and Better World Technologies, you may want to visit his web pages at http://www.ucsofa.com. But definitely be sure to visit Eric Krieg's web pages at http://www.phact.org/e/dennis.html which are far more enlightening than Lee's. Eric is a fellow skeptic who saw a similar ad for another Dennis Lee show several years ago and attended that show with several of his colleagues from PHACT (PHiladelphia Association for Critical Thinking). They wrote and solicited many science-based critical analyses of Lee's "revolutionary technologies", whose claims blatantly violate physical laws. Eric has written critically of Lee in Skeptical Inquirer magazine. As a result, Eric has been branded by Lee as "not a friend, Christian, or seeker of truth"..
The USA Today ad continued with the usual pseudoscientific claptrap surrounding perpetual motion machines. It mentioned running cars on water, electric motors more than 200% efficient, lights that stay lit without being plugged in, etc. It also said "Do not let skepticism keep you from having the most enLIGHTening experience of your life, and witness one of the greatest scientific breakthroughs of the 20th century!"
Well, skepticism is what it's all about folks, but not with Dennis Lee. Skepticism can keep your money in your pocket. But that's not where Dennis Lee wants it.
As a long-time skeptical fan of perpetual motion machines and the scams that so often surround them, I was drawn to this show like a fly to flypaper. Certainly not in the same way as were potential "investors" (and I use that term loosely), but drawn nonetheless. There was a show scheduled for the next evening, the first show on Lee's 47-city nationwide tour, and it was only about 10 miles from where I live. I'd wanted to see one of these shows ever since I had first read Eric Krieg's pages, and here was my chance.
As directed in the ad, I arrived at the Lincoln Theater on the University of Hartford campus in West Hartford, Connecticut, at 6:30 -- a full half-hour before the show was to start. There were maybe two-dozen people standing around, waiting. I walked up to a table where several people were sitting and filled out a registration form for my 'ticket' to see the show. Having done this, I made my way to a clear spot and sat down to wait.
Looking around me, I noticed that a large percentage of the people appeared to be of retirement age. One gentleman asked me if I knew what this show was all about. Knowing that I was "on their turf", I played dumb and answered, "No. It's something about free electricity." I looked around the room and "like lambs to slaughter" popped into my head. It pained me to think that some of these people were about to be taken in by Lee and were going to hand over $275 as a result. I wanted to shout that Lee's claims violate physical laws and that the demonstrations are nothing more than cheap stage tricks and bad measurements that only make it appear that laws are being broken so you'll give him money. But I knew if I did, I would be branded "devilspawn", "evil", a "non-believer" and probably shown the door. So I bit my lip and kept quiet -- I wanted to see the show.
Let me apologize right now to the lambs who were slaughtered that night in part as a result of my silence. But I later determined that some of the people there may have already been part of the Lee machine. Some of these people may have been invited to the show by local "dealers" or may be "dealers" themselves. I felt that a lot of the crowd was strongly pro-Lee, and any visible skepticism on my part would be worthless. I envisioned myself as James Randi at a Peter Popoff faith healing. Sure, I could try to set somebody straight. But chances are my efforts would be disregarded and I would be considered a "subversive" or a spy sent by "Big Business" to disrupt Lee's wonderful effort to bring these "suppressed" technologies to the world. So I kept quiet.
The doors opened and we filed into the auditorium. I took a seat in the third row near the center. The stage had an assortment of machinery ranging from the squirrel cages depicted in the ad to a Brown's gas generator, Briggs & Stratton engine, lights, motors, and an oscilloscope.
Lee came on stage and identified himself as Director of Research of Better World Technologies. He mentioned United Consumer Services of America, which comprises some 2000 dealers across the country, and he said an opening prayer. At the conclusion of this prayer, numerous "amens" came out of the crowd, the loudest from two women sitting right in front of me.
Lee spoke of wanting to improve our world. He said that he can't tell us so much about these technologies that we could build them ourselves, he can only tell us enough so we can understand where the energy comes from. He put of a slide of the old "cat carrier" joke (the handle attached to a structure that traps the cat between a muzzle and a screw) "to see how we can figure out how things work". It's a lame joke, but this crown found it quite entertaining.
He said that he won't show us a working free electricity machine because a working machine "changes the politics", and "this technology is easier than the politics". There were numerous nods in the audience and one woman in front of me said "amen". He said "We'll show you the peanut butter. We'll show you the jelly. But we won't show you how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich". This seems to be the case of many perpetual motion inventors. They'll demonstrate part A. They'll demonstrate part B. But for some obscure reason they won't demonstrate parts A & B working together. Never mind that in actuality, parts A & B working together violates physical laws and they can't demonstrate them working together. But if you have faith... And after all, you've seen part A working and part B working, so what's the problem? We just can't put them together tonight because that "changes the politics".
But if you have faith... And faith is what Lee is all about. Faith doesn't generate electricity, but it sure prompts people to spend $275 on the hope that someday they will have a free electricity machine installed in their home. On technical matters I have no faith, as no faith is required. The laws of physics demand certain things from me, and in return I expect the same from them. "Believers" and "unbelievers" are treated the same. My heart sank deeper by the minute during the show. I was saddened by the lack of skepticism in the crowd, by the apparent inability to see through these silly statements and dodges around legitimate proof of the claims, and the buzz of faith in the silly science that Lee was promoting. But then I thought to myself, "Hey, I'm here and I'm skeptical. Maybe there are others here who are equally skeptical and are equally quiet." I looked around the room to see if maybe the investigative reporter I invited from the Hartford Courant showed up. I couldn't tell, but maybe I did have faith -- faith that there was at least one other person...
Lee moved on to the Brown's gas spiel. He mentioned that they won't be able to run the machine or the engine tonight because of the Connecticut State Fire Marshall, and he used that as an opportunity to rail against government restrictions on our freedom. More nods from the crowd. He talked about the automatically-adjusting flame temperature, sublimating tungsten, implosions, and all the other usual stuff anybody familiar with the Brown's gas phenomenon (a psychological phenomenon) has heard hundreds of times. He appeared flabbergasted that the State would keep them from demonstrating such a "safe" gas. After all, it implodes rather than explodes. What harm could come from that?
Lee moved on to a "one horsepower electric motor" that he powered with a standard 9V battery. A large disk with the letters BWT spun on the shaft at a few hundred revolutions per minute, the crowd "oohing" and "ahhing" at this marvel. He had what looked like a standard table lamp, which he had an assistant unplug. The lamp stayed lit. The skeptic in me observed that the base of the lamp was more than large enough to conceal a very large battery pack, but I never had an opportunity to examine it closer. It struck me as nothing amazing at all. In fact, I doubt the electrical cord they unplugged was connected to anything inside the lamp. I might not have been impressed, but the nods and "amens" coming from the crowd told a different story.
Lee mentioned that Better World Technologies is "working on the premise that something is wrong with our society. We've lost the edge of free enterprise." He told us that "God is the creator Who gave us physics." Then he said that Big Business builds in "planned obsolescence". With this, I agree to a certain point. But Lee fails to understand that there's a lot of competition in the real world. If some of these things he claimed were true, surely somebody would have broken ranks with the "status quo" big business and implemented some of these technologies for a competitive advantage. But no, Big Business wants to enforce the status quo and suppress all these advanced technologies.
Lee then turned his attention to an AC motor that was connected to a blower. He falsely claimed that if you have a 10 hp AC motor, it draws 10 hp from the wall regardless of the load it's driving. According to him, if it's a 7 hp load, the motor still draws 10 hp, and it outputs 7 hp to the load and uses the other 3 hp to heat up the windings. He told us this was the way the motor was designed so that it will destroy itself over time and force you to buy a replacement. Big bad business once again. He asked, "Who gets the advantage?" Scattered through the audience came "the people building motors", "the power company". The woman in front of me said "GE". I was starting to get a headache.
He then introduced some sort of power controller that "gives your motor a brain". Before engaging this controller, the motor drew 7 amps at 120 volts for an electrical input power of 380 Watts. (To be honest, I don't know exactly what he was measuring, but he was happily reading the numbers off the displays.) After engaging the power controller, the motor drew 5 amps at 90 volts for an electrical input power of 200 Watts. There was never any measurements of the output shaft power of the motor. However, that didn't faze the crowd, who "oohed" and "aahed" once again, with the woman in front of me yelping "amen!". Unreal.
He then turned to some other motor turning a generator that lit a bank of light bulbs. He said that with conventional AC power, the electricity "resonates" between your motor and the electric company, passing through your meter each time. You get charged for the electricity each time comes into your house, but you don't get any money back when it "resonates" back to the electric company. There were moans of disgust through the crowd. He them introduced a tank circuit that would allow the electricity to "resonate" between your motor and the tank circuit, avoiding those repeated trips through your meter and saving you money. More "amens" and "yeahs" from the crowd.
Then we moved on to "magnetic energy". He spoke of the magnets you use to hold papers to your refrigerator. When you stick one of these to a metal cabinet, "energy flows from the magnet into the cabinet". There's so much energy in a magnet that it could keep the magnet stuck there for "eighty years". He asked "Wouldn't you like to plug your appliances into magnets rather than the electric company?" More enthusiastic "yeahs" from the audience. He then showed a cigarette pack sized flashlight with a bulb that looked like one of those LED based things. He had the house lights lowered and shined the light around the stage. It was pretty dim, and really only illuminated things within a foot or so. Nevertheless, when he said that it could stay lit continuously for 480 hours more "yeahs" came from the audience.
He then said that he wanted to show us a levitating magnet. However, his machine shop had a power failure (ironic, eh?) and they weren't able to complete it in time for the show. Rest assured, it would be ready before Monday's show in Boston, so you can see it there. I was getting the impression that there were some Lee groupies in the audience that follow him across the country like Deadheads on a Grateful Dead tour. However, I assume these groupies' enthusiastic reactions to Lee's show weren't due to marijuana, recreational pharmaceuticals, or good music -- these people were high on free energy and the expectation that they were going to "stick it to" big business and the electric company as soon as Lee came through with his free electricity machine.
Continuing with his demonstration of "magnetic energy", he mentioned that conventional magnets don't stick to aluminum or copper. He had an assistant hold vertically a hollow aluminum tube approximately 18 inches long and 2 inches outside diameter, with maybe a quarter inch wall thickness. He dropped a "conventional" disk-shaped magnet through the tube and it fell straight through. The then picked up a "very special magnet" (cylindrical shaped with an aspect ratio close to one) and dropped it through. I heard a faint 'clink' as soon as it entered the tube, then it took about five seconds for it to fall out the bottom end. He repeated this exercise with the copper tube. He then passed the aluminum tube through the audience for inspection. The open ends of the tube were counter bored maybe an eighth of an inch by an eighth of an inch, possibly concealing a seam. But I could find no evidence of a magician's gimmick, and it appeared to be a simple aluminum tube. Nobody was able to inspect the "very special magnet", though. He summed up this demonstration with the statement "There's a lot about magnets we don't know."
[Note: actually everything
about magnets has been known for years.
That demonstration is an old one.
The falling magnets magnetic field moving through a conductor sweeps
electrons cross wise in the conductive tube. These eddy currents create a counter magnetic field to the
magnetic field of the magnet causing the magnet to fall slowly. This same effect of inducing eddy
currents is why good motors and transformers have laminations of metal core alternated
with insulators to avoid this power sapping effect]
Then he moved on to Tesla. No free energy show is complete with out copious references to Nikola Tesla, inventor of everything from electricity to radio, but eschewed by mainline scientists because they were afraid of him for some reason. (I don't know, having a unit of magnetic flux density named after you strikes me as quite an honor.) . Lee spoke of "dielectricity" and told us Tesla's work examining how electricity can pass through a capacitor. Capacitors contain insulators, so electric current certainly can't flow through them. However, he told us, Tesla observed that "dielectricity" with high voltage and low frequency can pass through an air capacitor. We can therefore send electricity through air. He claimed that Tesla sent 2000 Watts of electrical power through the air over a distance of 26 miles at 99.9% efficiency, and challenged any scientist to do the same over copper wires. He also told us that "dielectricity" has no "electromagnetic frequency" (EMF according to Lee) at all, and you have more EMF in your microwave oven. He mentioned the paranoia surrounding power transmission lines and cancer, which elicited more groans from the audience.
He demonstrated some of the properties of "dielectricity" using a circular fluorescent light that was burnt out. He connected a wire between it and some sort of power supply and the light illuminated between the wire and the location where he held it. I noticed that as they were making and breaking the connections, the "flat line" trace on an oscilloscope on the other side of the stage jumped. There sure seemed to be a lot of interference coming from this "dielectricity" with no EMF. He also mentioned that some battery was being charged during all of this. He was sort of hard to follow sometimes. Not that it made much sense anyway
Lee then showed us a small EM scanner that he claimed could detect any sort of EM field from quite a distance. His assistant held the pickup to his wristwatch and the rest of the detector to the microphone and we could hear a 'tick' each second. He pressed the fact that we were actually hearing his quartz watch tick off the seconds. The crowd was quite impressed.
Lee then went on to discuss "The Fourth Law of Motion". What? There are only three laws, you say? He asked the audience what the third law was, and somebody replied that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Lee explained that the fourth law is that you can take that reaction, turn it around, and add it to the action -- effectively doubling the output of something like a motor. He showed us a drawing of a motor and some gears, and explained how "status quo" scientists are so stupid they mount the frame of a motor rigidly to a structure and only use the shaft to power something, effectively throwing away half of the available output. His drawing purported to mount the frame of the motor to other gears, and gear that motion in with the motion of the output shaft. The "conventional thinking" regarding the effect of this gearing setup would be to double the torque while halving the speed of the output shaft - leaving the output power unchanged. Not only would it not buy you anything, it would add the complexity of getting the electricity to the now-rotating motor frame and add additional frictional losses.
He showed a chart that listed "measurements" on a reference motor mounted conventionally as 219 rpm, 13 volts, 15.5 amps, 200 Watts, and 6# of torque (he said inch-pounds when he spoke). The "measurements" on the motor mounted Lee's way were 438 rpm, 14 volts, 12 amps, 168 Watts, and 7.5# of torque. Wow! The input power went down, but the output torque went up slightly and the speed doubled! I don't place too much trust in Lee's numbers, because the figures he gave for the conventional motor work out to a thermal efficiency of 7.8% (usually electric motors are upwards of 70% efficient). It's hard to make sense out of numbers when you really don't know how they were measured, and when they're nonsensical anyway. I've seen better science presentations at middle-school science fairs.
After presenting these "impressive" numbers, he asked the crowd, "Why aren't they doing it? Why aren't they doing it?" Again, numerous "amen’s" and "yeahs" from the crowd. This was looking more like a religious revival by the minute. Pretty creepy for a supposed technical demonstration.
He then stated the obvious, that if you double the rpm of a motor while keeping the torque constant, you'll double the power. He claimed that his technology for doing this was patented.
The next demonstration was to show this funky motor mounting in operation. He had some motor in a frame with some gears. The output shaft appeared to be loaded with a prony brake comprising a strap hanging over a drum, with one end of the strap fixed and the other supporting a weight. With the motor mounted conventionally, his measurements showed 20 volts, 50 amps, and 70 rpm. His assistant made some changes, supposedly reconfiguring the machine to "use the reaction", and then his measurements showed 20 volts, 40 amps, and 400 rpm. Seemingly impressive. However, I couldn't tell whether the shaft was spinning the same direction as before. With the prony brake configured as it was, the direction of rotation would have a big effect on the applied torque. Not only that, but the low-torque "conventional" configuration may have had trouble getting through a "startup transient" with the prony brake and could have been bogged down, while the high-torque "Lee" configuration could have spun up right through this regime. Nothing amazing at all. The crowd was impressed, but I was aching for a closer look. But again, recognizing that I was surrounded by True Believers and would be tagged "an unbeliever" if I spoke up, I kept quiet.
He then moved over the rig with the oscilloscope I saw jittering earlier. He described it as a "weird DC motor", but he was going to show us "an AC waveform". He looked at the crowd and sort of questioned "A DC motor with AC electricity?" He then turned it on and it spun a water brake dynamometer. As it spun, he had an assistant come over and supposedly read the current on the oscilloscope. (Shunt resistor? Inductive loop? Who knows? Details like that are apparently unimportant in the Lee science world.) Anyway, the waveform looked like high-frequency noise but with some definite periodicity, and its mean was zero. I couldn't tell whether the scope was AC coupled, or if the current to voltage transducer they were using transducer (whatever it was) to provide the signal to the scope was AC coupled. Either way, they were most likely missing any DC component and looking only at the AC component. Lee even said that scientists believe that the current might be some combination of AC and DC (which it almost certainly was, with the DC component "thrown away" by the instrumentation), but he laughed that off, as if an AC signal with a DC offset was impossible. After all, what do scientists know? They can't make free energy, can they?
The periodic noise was probably commutator noise. That didn't stop them from quickly reading 1.5 amps from the peak to peak size of the noisy waveform, and using this in their input power calculation. Again, the crowd was impressed. I was, too. But I was impressed at how naive and sloppy they were. The Lee people really don't seem to have a clue. If they do have a clue, they certainly don't have any ethics using those bad measurements in the way that they do. If Lee had any scientific background, he concealed it well from me. However, to the rest of the crowd he was the consummate researcher.
Then it was time for the big demonstration. He turned his attention to the big squirrel cage thingy that was pictured in the USA Today ad and had been sitting center stage all evening. He identified it as a "CRD", or counter rotation device. The inner squirrel cage had several motors mounted in it, some configured as motors, others configured as generators. I think I was drifting in and out of consciousness at this point from the mind-numbing level of idiocy on stage, but I believe he was trying to convey the impression that the motors would drive the generators, while the whole thing makes free electricity. Of course, it wasn't configured to do that right now because "that would change the politics". He turned it on, it spun for a few minutes, lightbulbs lit, and the crowd applauded. I looked around the room, hoping that nobody recognized me. I was truly embarrassed to be there.
Well, that was the end of the demonstrations, but the "meeting" was far from over. It was now time to work the crowd. He said "You and us, we're a team." "Big business won't make this happen. We have to make it happen." He then went on to say "We have the peanut butter, and we have the jelly. We believe we'll put them together and give you a free electricity machine. Apparently he's been talking to his lawyers, as he told us several times that "We have to watch the way we say things." I took that to mean exactly what it meant -- that he can't say he has a free electricity machine or that he will produce one. But he can say that he *believes* he will produce one, and that's what he said. Heck, if I recall correctly, the CEOs of several big tobacco companies swore before congress that they didn't "believe" that smoking caused cancer.
Lee continued, "We're not saying that we have a black box. But wouldn't it be neat if somebody could give you a black box that makes free electricity?" (More "yeahs" amd "amens" from the audience.) Sure that would be nice. It would be nice if Michelle Pfeiffer showed up on my doorstep in a nightie with a a bottle of cabernet, a suitcase full of $100 million in small unmarked bills, and a note from the IRS verifying the I had no tax liability on it. (Hey, at least Michelle Pfeiffer wouldn't have to violate any physical laws to show up at my door.)
I have to apologize. At this point my notes start becoming sketchy. I believe my brain had started rebelling that I was subjecting it to such nonsense. And this whole Lee show was amazing nonsense.
Lee then spoke of his "medical laser camera" that can see inside the human body or through a three foot thick wall. (More "yeahs".) But it's not being used by the medical community because the "FTC" still has to test and approve it and that will take years. He said it could be used to find landmines as easily as if they were sitting on the ground. "When scientists say something is impossible, they really mean they just don't know." The crowd seemed to be eating all this up. They seemed to really believe that every scientist in the world was incompetent or in the pocket of Big Business, and that Lee was their savior with all this technology that the status quo scientists just couldn't figure out. He then went on about the Fisher engine, that he had a falling-out with Fisher. He said "I've had three attempts on my life." Some in the crowd gasped and shook their heads.
One of Lee's assistants brought out a bicycle with "run flat" tires, and he had a couple people from the audience come up and stick an icepick through the front tire. I failed to see what was so amazing about this, as the way they were squeezing the tire sure made it appear it couldn't support much load. But the crowd liked it anyway. When he asked "Wouldn't you like tires like that on your car?" Just about everybody in the audience said yes. But, Big Business wants to maintain the status quo and make you buy new tires when they go flat or wear out.
Lee spoke of a telephone that would allow you to talk between China and the US without using wires or satellites, and to talk all day for free. When he asked us if we would like such a phone, the crowd went wild. There was much applause, cheering, and more "yeahs". Sheesh.
"Do you want it?" <clap, clap, cheer,
cheer>
"Do you want it? <clap, clap, cheer, cheer>
Heck, all we were missing were the cheerleaders.
"God says, 'I send you prophets, and you kill them'. Well, the US does that to inventors!" The women sitting in front of me had disgusted looks on their faces and muttered something I didn't catch. Lee continued, "I've had three attempts on my life." Then he said that there have been no attempts in the last eight years. He then said point blank "I am a man sent to you from God."
By this time he had sat in a chair he had pulled up to the edge of the stage. He was almost doing a stream-of-consciousness thing, speaking of being thrown in prison and not charged with anything. He mentioned that in response to his USA Today ad he got two phone calls from bigwigs at major corporations asking "Are you serious?" He said "We're going nationwide" and there were more "amens" from the crowd. He then said "I've got to be sent from God. Why? I would have been toast long ago." To many in the crowd, this man probably was God. I was no longer at a technology show, or even a science fair at a failing middle school. I was at a cult meeting. I was getting more creeped out by the minute.
"My God answers my prayers. He will heal your land." "The fire marshall wouldn't let us turn on the Brown's gas machine. Do you feel protected?" The woman in front of me said, "No, I feel cheated."
Lee continued with more paranoid talk. He spoke of an incident in 1988 where he was arrested when he showed his free energy machine. He told us that the people who arrested him said they would kill all of his witnesses if they testified at trial. He claimed that the "father of the 747" was one of his chief scientists.
"God is not a god of fear."
He spoke of hooking up his free energy machine to the local utility and selling them electricity. He tossed in a little gun control paranoia for good measure. Lee continued with a long rant on how utilities and rich people are bad.
"Let me say again that we haven't shown you a free electricity machine. We've shown you the most unique motor you've ever seen and a way to double torque." He again repeated "We didn't demonstrate a free energy machine -- we demonstrated the parts of it. You have to assume whether we can put the parts together." Again, it looks like Lee has had some long conversations with his lawyers.
At this point, the show was basically over and it was time to suck in the crowd. His assistants passed out envelopes with sample "Certificates of Beneficial Interest" and applications to join. Credit cards accepted. A question and answer session ensued. Not one single question addressed any technical aspect of the show. Apparently Lee had done a fine job showing these people that mainstream scientists are idiots, free energy was possible, and the only details to be worked out were the contractual ones so the people could get the free electricity machines in their homes. One gentleman asked for the number of the patent Lee had mentioned earlier in the show. Lee backpedaled, and said that it was "patent pending" and there was no number yet.
There were more questions about how many people need to be signed up. What happens if I move? Am I responsible for moving the machine to my new house? Who is responsible for maintenance? Are any special permits required? Will it make less noise than the one on stage? The woman in front of me was reading the number off her credit card and filling out the application. People all over the room were filling out the application.
People had been filtering out for the past fifteen minutes. It was about 10:30pm and I was tired. It looked like nothing more was going to happen other than the actual slaughtering of the lambs, so I got up and left. The whole experience made me feel sick. I am appalled that so many people could be sucked in by such chicanery. And this was only the first city of a 47 city tour.
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The
following is a review by David G of the Mansfield Ohio show:
Got into the Mansfield show and so did the press. I have several
things to report from the
show. Mostly what Dennis said in synopsis form ( very long):
- about 250-300 people attended (many got a copy of my handout outside)
- Dielectricity Demonstration:
+ Says that transfer through the air is 99.9%
efficient, yet when he stood at a distance from
the source, the lamp was dimmer than when he touched the source.
+ Says no EMF with this device!
- Stated repeatedly "I am not going to give you a demonstration of a free
energy machine"
being extremely careful with his wording.
- Used the "magnet on the refrigerator is a magic source of energy"
fallacy.
- Says there is a "flow of energy" between the magnet and the fridge.
- Says he is a Vietnam vet - does anyone know if that's true?
- Constantly used the term "Peanut butter and Jelly Sandwich" to
describe a free-energy device
without saying free energy device.
- Counter Rotational Device:
+ Showed the mini-CRD before and after the magic dust
was placed on it. It had a brake
using some type of belt to apply torque. His conclusion was that since
the torque on the
brake was the same, and the rpm was 2x (making great pains to step through the
calculations
for the people who did not know about algebra) then the CRD was 2x over unity.
+ Said that he did not believe in over-unity and he
never showed an over-unity device
(seems like a direct contradiction - but you have to have Dennis's genius to
understand it). If
this is true then his dream for free-energy is not attainable.
+ Wanted to ask a question about the friction material
used since many dynamic
coefficients of friction for certain materials drastically reduce with
increased rpm which could
account for the effect (or maybe something was tightened under the
table), Unfortunately I
was not allowed to ask questions ( I may still get this info) since dissenters
and nay-sayers are
not welcome to ask questions or see the equipment up-close (they may sabotage
the stuff).
- Professors are brainwashing students with their hair-brained scientific
theories, which are
stifling innovation.
- Public officials are conspiring to take Dennis out and they better watch out
because Dennis
has the power to take out the economy in one swoop with this free energy stuff
so they just
better behave - or else.
- Neutrino Man Demo: This may be the next free energy device for 2000???
- Dennis is on a mission from God and he claims he is a prophet from God in so
many words.
- Developed a heat pump in 1988 that is 3x more efficient than any other.
- Has 7 ways to create free energy - those big scientist guys don't have one!
- "Is there one person out there that doesn't want free energy for 275.00?"
He asks a question
but he doesn't say he can do it - pretty slick. This stuff permeated the
entire 1/2 of the show -
like "I believe I can build a free-energy machine"... "I think I
can make a peanut butter and
jelly sandwich"... " By the end of the year I believe I can put a
free energy machine on
everyone's house" etc.
- The plan he is about to offer is not from Dennis Lee, it's from God - so
don't blame Dennis
if it doesn't work.
- If we lived in a free country, Dennis could charge 5K for the machines, make
them for 3K
and everyone would be happy - but noooo - that would be too easy and besides,
they would
have to work or those mean gov't officials may get nasty. So the only
thing to do is give the
machines away - that way the attorney generals can't get Dennis with the goods.
(have to start
getting indigestion after eating this stuff).
- The Plan
+ God gave Dennis this plan see - and just forget that
he has an investor who will invest 1
Billion in free-energy devices - this is God's plan.
+ We need the people to get involved - after all it
would be much too easy to just make a
machine and start making electricity - then take the 200,000 dollars from one
year's
electricity and build more etc. No, that would mean that Dennis would get
rich and he
wouldn't want that because then he would change and become a conspirator (all
the big guys
are you know).
+ Compares himself to Noah and says that anybody was
welcome to get on the ark - funny
I don't remember God RSVPing anybody but Noah and his families.
+ Goes through the coop thing.
- As his sales pitch starts, many of the people start to leave - Dennis hurries
the hand-out of
COBI info before they leave.
- Sanyo corporation is a dealer for BWT (could we check this out??)
- Call your friends and pack the demonstrations
- We don't sell dealerships - buuuut we do have several people who want to sell
theirs (does
this make sense since they are about to be millionaires?). The guy he
called Marc is the same
guy that talked to me at the Akron show - pretty smooth sales guy.
Several people - 4-5 -
went to talk with Marc and later Dennis in another room (no doubt to get the
full blast sales
pitch for the unavailable dealerships). It seems as if the whole event
was concocted to distill
the crowd down to these poor folks who would then get the full blast sales
effort for the big
money.
- Y2K lamp was getting dim after about 2 hours.
- Dennis says that they de-regulated the power companies because he
demonstrated to the
congress at Washington in 1996.
- He sells millions of dollars in Brown's Gas machines.
- His plan for installation of the units will occur all at one time (to thwart
the Attorneys
General) but - no one knows the place or the time (just like Jesus according to
Dennis).
Got to discuss some of the stuff (smelly stuff) from the
show and what I thought of it.
Dave G
INTERACTION WITH BETTER WORLD TECHNOLOGY
Update on BWT cult
activity in Indiana - 
Charlie Doyles account (a former major supporter)
-
also Information for Media
people
Why Dennis Lee should trust Eric to
help evaluate and publicize the free energy machine and my open letter to Dennis Lee
Dennis's Lee's people respond
-slamming Eric
A CLOSER LOOK AT CLAIMS OF DENNIS
Eric's FAQ page concerning
examining Dennis Lee's amazing claims (read before asking me ?'s )
Eric's Page examines claims by
Dennis Lee that the government suppresses inventors
Tom Napier's investigation of Dennis
(excellent!)
Tom Napier's Free Energy FAQ
page (new!) and Milton's Free Energy review
Tom Napier makes a scientific
evaluation of Dennis's machine
Interesting Quotes From Dennis's
Literature
A
funny article about Dennis in Skeptical Inquirer and a review of my speech
about Dennis
Bob's
review of Dennis's July 12 show
RELATED PAGES
Eric's characteristics of Cult
Leaders
how Dennis is very similar to
Joe Newman the similarities are down
right eerie
Eric's History of Perpetual Motion
and Free Energy Machines
Eric's experience with Amazing
claims in 1986 (not all that great)
Posting of another Amazing claim of
free Energy
Eric's Page examining
Pphact.orghology of fringe inventors
300 MPG Carburetor is there such a
thing? ( debunks a common urban legend)
What about strange claims involving BROWNS
GAS?
Did the British get the steam engine
wrong? ( by Tom Napier)
OPEN DISCUSSIONS OF DENNIS
A
report from someone who worked with Dennis Lee of Better World Technology
Open
discussion about claims of Dennis Lee (old )
How you too can get rich
as the next free energy messiah ;)
Malcolm's
review of the theory for Dennis Lee's free energy machine
Evan
Soule's response to Eric's mention of the Newman Machine
A
review by P.M. of Dennis's Indianapolis show (of minor interest)
Dennis
Lee Free energy emailings a list of Eric's postings (this is very lengthy)
. FREE ENERGY FAQ
· ForClick to
subscribe to free_energy
of my prize
for proof
how to become a Free Energy con man· what about 300 mpg carburetors?
· Eric's discussion of real forms of
free energy
· FAQs
· Subscribe to the Dennis Lee email list
· Dennis Lee's Official page it's well done.
· http://www.phact.org/e/dennis4.html
- history of Free Energy claims (Dennis ain't the 1st one playing this)
dennis's promises
back to Eric's main Dennis Lee
page
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