I seem to remember a few years back this guy made a lot of noise about a "free energy" (ahem) device he'd invented and claimed he was giving the plans to China and Russia as a way of getting back at the UK government for some slight or other, then promptly dropped off the face of the internet in protest(?) I guess he's back.
IIRC it worked by using a big gyroscope to stay stationary while the earth rotated, causing 1 rotation every 24 hours. So not technically free energy, just taking it from the earth
I was quite worried that he'd gone off the deep end when he published that video
The way I understood his "free energy"-device back in the day, was supposedly trying to induce a current into a set of coils from the very tiny discrepancies between the earth's rotation and that of its magnetic field. How the gyroscope would play into it, is anybody's guess (alignment, I suppose?). Obviously, none of this would work, and I don't think he was in a particularly good place back then.
I remember him showing a cube with an outlet and a switch that could power a lightbulb. He eventually revealed that inside were just a bunch of lithium ion cells taken out of disposable vapes
That’s not a very charitable interpretation. He was distraught about not being able to get his wife into the UK and was lashing out. He removed the video, he knows it was silly. Hopefully the situation was sorted.
Yeah UK marriage visas are fucking expensive, long and humiliating.
Its one of those things that was borne out of tabloid panic (IMPORTING WIVES AND FAMILIES!!) which means that now everyone has to go through pain until a scandal or another panic causes a change.
I don't know the specifics of the UK marriage visa process but as someone who went through the American one, I feel like it's not that bad in terms of visas. There's the usual bureaucracy but nothing terrible. Obviously my experience is Trump 1 through Biden administrations, Trump 2 has made it worse.
Whatever came of his hydrogen/electrolysis project? He has talked before about how those big control panel boxes he made and the high voltage transformers were to contol some kind of high power electrolysis rig that would make a huge hot-air-balloon-like flame. Not sure if that was some kind of free energy effort or if he just wanted to make fire with electricity.
A stoichiometric mix of hydrogen and oxygen, which is what you get when you electrolyse water, will straight up detonate when ignited. A normal party balloon of the gas is like a gunshot when it pops. A 1meter diameter balloon will probably wake up a whole city.
He probably did it at a small scale, and realized how phenomenally stupid it is and declined to pursue the idea further.
I'm not sure I'd call it grim, per se. Blood Meridian takes that label for me, almost at the exclusion of all else in what could loosely be called the "western" genre. Lonesome Dove is more just very... gritty. And packs a serious emotional heft. Great book either way.
"The people on top desperately want us gone, and when it happens it'll happen so quickly you won't know what hit you. Software engineers need to recognize this common threat and organize (labor) sooner than later. Even more important is for all engineers to plan for an imminent future where developers are not paid like they are now, if at all. We have it good, but we will be automated away like everybody else, just a little later."
Remember this when some corporate talking head talks about this stuff like it wasn’t predictable or preventable. Or when a coworker talks in a defeatist manner about it.
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