OverUnity prize money 15825 US$ total until now

[plengo]

@hartiberlin,

Thank you for the explanation and the link to the software.

Fausto.

[Paul-R]

Most of these (false) assumptions are derrived from the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics.
Which states that "entropy occurs in an ISOLATED system"
The problem i have with this assumption is that: Mankind has NEVER invented an "isolated" system.
EVERY system we have/use/experiment-with is effectively altered by other systems, to some degree.
Therefore the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics DOES NOT APPLY to man-made systems.

Replace "isolated" with "closed" and you are O.K. Petrol engines and gas turbines
are what the law's drafters had in mind. Without the second law, you wouldn't have
Pratt & Whitney - (unless they were making biscuits, I suppose).

The thing about new energy systems, and OU is that it is investigating new fields
that are not really understood, and not really provided for.

[sm0ky2]

Most of these (false) assumptions are derrived from the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics.
Which states that "entropy occurs in an ISOLATED system"
The problem i have with this assumption is that: Mankind has NEVER invented an "isolated" system.
EVERY system we have/use/experiment-with is effectively altered by other systems, to some degree.
Therefore the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics DOES NOT APPLY to man-made systems.

Replace "isolated" with "closed" and you are O.K. Petrol engines and gas turbines
are what the law's drafters had in mind. Without the second law, you wouldn't have
Pratt & Whitney - (unless they were making biscuits, I suppose).

The thing about new energy systems, and OU is that it is investigating new fields
that are not really understood, and not really provided for.

what i am saying would still apply to an ICE, the difference here being , the ICE generates more heat than any surrounding system, and thus IT is the system effecting the others.

If you ran that same engine, inside say a volcanoe - there would be energy from the surrounding systems adding into the energy from fuel-combustion.

In the standard case, energy from the ICE transfers to the environment as Heat-Loss.

"closed" and "isolated" can mean the same thing in this sense. Not to mean a closed-loop necessarily. But closed from outside influence. Which never actually occurs.

[Sepero]

Hi there-

I would just like to submit my device into the contest. Unfortunately, I do not have the resources to create a prototype. If I am unable to win based on that merit, then hopefully it may gain a little public exposure, and possibly serve as encouragement for others.

For anyone wondering, I did not originally release my design with the intentions of winning the contest (even though that would be really nice). I mainly released it because I am against patents, and that it will hopefully improve society as a whole.

I do not consider myself an inventor and I am not a scientist. My design is very simple in concept, and should be able to be easily understood by most laymen.

The device should theoretically be able to generate electricity any where on earth, 24hrs per day.

I have made a video to illustrate, here is the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be0vmwa9AAs

Cheers,
Stephen Pinker

[hartiberlin]

Hi Stephen,
This is just converted Solar Energy.
It takes a lot of energy to heat water from 98 to 101 degrees Celsius.
You can only run this, when the sun shines..
so not at night..
so unfortunately no free energy system...

Regards, Stefan.