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Free energy claims and organizations of an unscrupulous nature.

Overview

• Download interview with well-known FE skeptic (13 Mb; mp3) - On March 31, 2008, Sterling D. Allan conducted a live, 1-hour interview with Eric Krieg as part of the Free Energy Now radio series. A look from the perspective of one who is highly doubtful about many of the free energy claims and claimants. After ten years, his offer of a $10,000 prize for a free energy demo is still unclaimed.

Bogus Plans

• Electromagnetic > Magniwork >
  Magniwork Energy internet scam - Internet fraudsters are raking in thousands of dollars a day with a scam selling plans for what alleges to be an electromagnetic free energy machine capable of powering a house. One estimate puts sales of the guide as high as 5,000 copies a month, making the scam worth up to $3m a year. (Off-Grid; Oct. 8, 2009) [We've not yet received a scrap of evidence supporting the claims.]
  

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  Featured: Buyer Beware > Electromagnetic > Magniwork >
  ACTION: Report Magniwork (Scam) Ads to Google and Clickbank - Easy steps presented for you to be able to lodge a complaint about the fraudsters who are selling plans for what alleges to be an inexpensive electromagnetic free energy machine capable of powering a house, though no supporting evidence has been given. Let's stop these hucksters who prey on the free energy believers and give the field a bad name. (PESWiki; Nov. 5, 2009)
  

Alternative Energy Companies

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  Featured: Fuel Efficiency > H Injection > HAVC >
  Dateline Accuses Dennis Lee of Fraud - Citing credible third-party testing of an HAFC installation on a Honda Accord, a Dateline special paints Dennis Lee as a charlatan preying on good people who want to see fuel economy improvement, and who believe that a conspiracy keeps these technologies from going forward. (PESWiki; April 8, 2009)
  

• Tilley Foundation - Proven fraud. Uses stolen technology that is semi-legit; inflates claims of its capabilities, bilks investors. History of taking the money and running.

• Future Horizons - Entertaining site with numerous kits and plans for sale; but science is often shoddy, claims stretched or outright bogus, and ethics questionable.

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• Cycclone Magnet Engine - Company claims to have an all-permanent-magnet engine. The company has been under investigation by the Australian Securities and Investment Commission since April 2006.
  

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  Featured / Buyer Beware: Electromagnetic > Boswell >
  Boswell Power Production Unit Videos Posted - Claims that something turning in a 5-gal. bucket elevated on a 4-foot PVC pipe, having 12-gauge wire coming from it is producing 5.4 kW and has been powering his home for months. Documents PG&E vehicle stopping by the day after he posted his video. (PESN; April 14, 2009)
  

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  Featured: Electromagnetic > Bedini SG >
  Magniwork free energy plans = bogus claim; say they'll remedy that - Magniwork has been selling a set of plans for a free energy device they say could be scaled to power an entire house. However, it turns out that the device is nothing more than the Bedini SG circuit, which, though interesting, has never been embodied in a self-looped system with energy left over for practical use. They've apologized and removed the Bedini stuff. (PESWiki; June 2, 2009)
  

• N-Motion: The Perpetual Motion Vehicle Company - Snazzy-looking website gives the appearance similar to Tesla Motors, Co (a legitimate electric car company), but with no supporting technology. A "perpetual motion" company with no "perpetual motion" working technology. (PESWiki; Jan. 30, 2007)
  

• Electromagnetic > GMC Holding > SEC Files Action On Fuelless Motor Fraud - The US Securities and Exchange Commission has filed an action against GMC Holding Corporation (GMC) and its CEO, Richard Brace, for defrauding investors by issuing false press releases touting the company's development of a motor technology device capable of generating unlimited energy. (PESN; Feb. 27, 2008)
  

• AKOIL Power Generator fraud charge - An energy professional who closely inspected the company and the technology on-site recounts the frustration of trying to verify the technology with an adequate test procedure. (PESWiki; Oct. 19, 2006)
  

• Latest News on Perendev - 1) At least 20 customers are documented as not having received the goods they paid for, but they are powerless to complain or receive remedy due to the way the paperwork has been ran. 2) Another public demo canceled. (PESWiki; Nov. 5, 2007)
  

• GEET - Paul Pantone has working technology but has ripped many people off in his business dealings at Global Environmental Energy Tehcnology.

• Europositron Rechargeable Aluminum Batteries Alleged as Fraud - The "inventor" of the battery, Rainer Partanen, is being held in custody for fraud. Europositron Ab has sold stocks to hundreds of Finns for at least 1.3 million Euro, but police say there is no actual product. (PESWiki; Nov. 6, 2007)
  

• Hydrogen Injection > HAFC >
  Hydrogen-Assist Fuel Cell Warning from Former Installer - Richard Coyle said the units sometimes work at first, but then the improvements go away, and in their place some serious problems arise such as stuck idle motors, boiling water and gunk in the motors, plugged air filters. (PESWiki; July 22, 2008)
  

• Solar > Citizenre > Citizenre: A House of Cards? - Jeff Wolfe asserts that the new multi-level distributor company that claims to be able to offer solar power at or below grid energy pricing toward the end of 2007 does not have its act together and is actually diverting solar customers away from real technologies to false hopes. (Renewable Energy Access; Feb. 12, 2007)
  

Busted

• Hydrogen > Genesis World Energy > Kelly Sentenced for Stealing Funds Invested in Bogus Fuel Technology Venture - Genesis World Energy founder lied about the technology and its alleged partners, defrauds investors, misallocates funds, including $2.5 million from around 500 New Jersey residents. (PESN; Nov. 15, 2006)
  

Defunct

• NJ Bureau of Securities Ready to Tighten the Screws on Genesis World Energy - Disgruntled eyewitnesses say one the bench-top model used by GWE for proof of concept demos is nothing more than a slight modification of a fuel cell devices sold at Hammacher Schlemmer.

Alternative Energy Plans

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  Electromagnetic >
  LEGO electromagnetic motor hoax by Tom A - In February of 2009, Tom Altman(?) posted a video on YouTube showing magnets around a wheel with an inductive coil supposedly firing from the incoming magnetic flux to kick the magnet along. It turns out, though, that a hidden capacitor, pre-charged-was assisting the kick. (PESWiki; Sept. 19, 2009)
  

• Calloway Magnet Motor - Says that after two decades of finding out what won't work, he is ready to divulge how to build an operational all-magnet motor. Ends up being an intentional wild goose chase. (PESN; Feb. 10, 2006)
  

• MXLO Magnetic Motor Plans - Of 14 known independent replications from the MXLO plans, not one working device has been produced yet. Plans are neither easy nor adequate as claimed on the site.
  

Misc.

• Aged Tires: A Driving Hazard? Video - Did you know vehicle tires have a shelf life? Check the inside rim of the tire and look at the last digit of the 3-digit sequence. Is it over 6 years old? You may have a problem with tire separation. "New" tires need to be checked for manufacturing date. (ABC News; July 18, 2008)
  

• Watch out for Jiffy Lube: Is Your Mechanic Honest? - 5 out of 9 stations visited in California by NBC4 investigative team in Los Angeles stiffed the investigators, charging for services they did not perform, as documented by hidden cameras. (NBC4)
  

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• Directory:Spoofs
• Directory:Humor
• Directory:Skeptics

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