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THE world may soon be able to buy one of the Far North's most controversial yet revolutionary inventions. The Cairns creators of the Lutec 1000 free energy machine have resurfaced after six years of steering clear of the public spotlight, having been granted patents in at least 60 countries around the world, including the US, China and India.
Engineers John Christie and Lou Brits, who have endured intense criticism after they first unveiled their invention in The Cairns Post in 2001, are now preparing to construct a prototype of their revolutionary power device they hope to market within the next two years.
The dynamic duo said they felt somewhat vindicated they had been able to land patents for their device and have had the Lutec verified by an independent engineer. "When we first kicked off, there was a huge fuss about it and people said we’d never get patents for it," Mr Christie said.
"They said it would never work, so we couldn’t get patents, so it’s a good thing to see now." The generator works as an energy amplifier, generating up to 10 times the amount of electricity it consumes. The Lutec draws its power from a bank of batteries, with the motor turning due to powerful permanent magnets at its core being attracted and then repulsed from steel cores of fixed coils. It does not work via perpetual motion, rather it relies on natural magnetic forces and a pulsed electrical input.
The results of the generator were verified by independent engineers from SGS Australia following a test earlier this year, which confirmed the energy output from the generator was indeed greater than its input. Mr Christie said he and Mr Brits were currently working on a production prototype to suit the domestic market, which they hoped to produce locally. "If we go with our plan now, there is no reason why it couldn’t be available in Australia in two years," he said.
The engineers’ invention has drawn the ire of many people over the years, including the Australian Sceptics Society. Mr Christie said it had been a roller-coaster ride since they debuted their invention, involving occasional death threats and rumours of their untimely demise. "Last year I was apparently killed in a hotel in north Perth somewhere, according to the internet," Mr Christie said. "I was really quite surprised."
The first three prototype Lutec motors were built in our spare time over a five year period, out of pre- used parts, acquired from the then two Cairns rubbish tips. No fortunes required there. The Skeptics one hundred thousand dollar challenge. For over fourteen months we attempted to get them to arrange for the challenge, but at that time they didn't have the money because their financial backers had pulled out. For anyone to say we didn't accept their challenge is wrong, they simply couldn't get their act together.
They claim to have "investigated" and subsequently published a so called scientific report about our machine. This is much closer to science fiction than to reality. They have never seen the Lutec1000 running and in the "report" they even say they doubt it exists. How is it we don't even know what they look like. Maybe they came in the dark in a flying saucer or while we were away, could it be they have the mysterious key they are making such a fuss about.
Regarding our demonstrations in "special buildings" owned by us. We have demonstrated the Lutec 1000 to groups of scientists and business people from many countries, including the USA, China, South Korea, Singapore, Europe and Russia. Sadly, very few from Australia. Almost all of those demonstrations have taken place in laboratory/class rooms hired from the Cairns College of TAFE Faculty of Technology. We don't own that.
Independent scientific evaluation has been conducted by five well regarded professors of electrical engineering. Two of these are particularly highly regarded and internationally published experts. They were sought out by US business people to validate our calculations and methods of conducting our input measurements . The US people were seeking to do their own independent due diligence into our invention, with a view to commercializing it in the US Canada and Mexico.
Following a long process of confidential negotiations, this is now in the final stages of documentation and is expected to be implemented within the next twelve months or so. We expect that this explanation should clear the air and hopefully allow us to get back to the task of completing our pre production prototype in peace.
The problem with Lutec
Unfortunately there’s a big problem: The inventors of this machine made some mistakes and miscalculations. The demonstrations shown on Youtube and elsewhere are probably genuine films of the output of the Lultec machine powering light bulbs or other devices. The problem is that the machine is actually consuming significantly more power to do so than it is outputting.
This video does a pretty good job of showing their mistake…
Now here’s the problem: Determining electrical power in watts by simply multiplying volts times amps works when you’re dealing with a simple purely resistive load and where there’s no inductive or capacitive reactance involved. For example, if you have a light bulb hooked up to a battery, then multiplying amperage by voltage should give you the total wattage.
Unfortunately this will not work with circuits that involve alternating current motors, which have their own internal reactance. What this means is that the actual measure of the current and voltage using simple meters is not a true reflection power. Part of this comes from the fact that reactive loads on an AC circuit can cause the voltage and amperage to cycle at different phases. If this is not complicated enough, it also is worth noting that AC volt meters are generally designed to provide what is known as RMS voltage, but this value may not be completely accurate depending on the circumstances and how much reactive power is present on the line.
Further complicating the calculations is the fact that their input power is AC which goes through a transformer and then a rectifier. This results in what is known as a Non-linear load. Most AC voltage and current meters are designed to provide accurate readings of sinusoidal current and voltage, but non-linear loads will produce a non-sinusoidal voltage curve. When connected to non-linear loads they will not provide accurate readings.
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Agreed 100% that they are not using good measurements. A REALLY REALLY big one could be the input power, because if you measure AC going into a rectifier with a conventional meter it will give a much lower reading than it really is. (most meters use a simple RMS average based on maximum voltage observed over a certain time period, but rectifier load pulses and is not a sin wave, so you need a special meter.) Actually, in this circumstance they should dispense with the volt and amp meter and instead use a compensating AC wattmeter – someting like what you have on your house, it is designed to show true power consumption even if it is on a strange curve.
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May 2010 The licensing of what was formerly Lutec technology is now being handled by Evergreen Enterprise International, Ldt (EEI) of Hong Kong. They claim "the ability to Amplify Electricity. 1 Kilowatt can now become 4.25 Kilowatts or multiples thereof via the Evergreen Electricity Amplifier (EEA)." No products are available commercially yet that we know of.
Aug 2010
Engineers unveil Lutec 1000 free energy machine - The Cairns creators of the Lutec 1000 free energy machine have resurfaced after six years of steering clear of the public spotlight, having been granted patents in at least 60 countries around the world, including the US, China and India. They claim to have had an independent validation recently of their device which "amplifies" input power by as much as ten times. Expected to market in 2 years.
"This invention has recently changed hands, as John Christie and Lou Brits have since sold their intellectual property and rights of their free energy machine - for approximately $30,000,000 AUD! Apparently they are now working on wind turbines."
Originally posted by FoxfilesMulder
"This invention has recently changed hands, as John Christie and Lou Brits have since sold their intellectual property and rights of their free energy machine - for approximately $30,000,000 AUD! Apparently they are now working on wind turbines."
That's about $110 million US in today's dollars.
In 1872, Keely invited scientists to attend a demonstration at his laboratory at 1422 North Twentieth Street Philadelphia, of a machine which he asserted was motivated by a new and hitherto unknown force. Keely announced that he had discovered a principle for power production based on the musical vibrations of tuning forks and that music could resonate with atoms or with the aether. Public interest was aroused and within a few months the Keely Motor Company was formed in New York, with a capital of $5,000,000.