What happened to Edwin Gray? Can his invention save the world from global warming?

Question

What happened to his invention? Can it save the world from global warming? Or is this just another hoax? He was featured on a newspaper once...

Answer 1

Oh God.  Another perpetual motion machine invented...

zzzzzzzzz........

Yes it's a hoax.  They always are.

Answer 2

Edwin V. Gray died in 1989. (or 1992, it was unclear when he died)

His own nephew described him as paranoid, secret, and greedy.  He wanted too much money for his invention, he put a patent on it, and so it really died with him.

People tried to replicate his machine, but didn't get encouraging results.

His son said he was gifted in the art of lying, and when trying to get him to put the machine in a car, he never stepped up to do it.

I don't know, seems like he might have been lying about the whole thing.

Answer 3

Nobody's invention, no matter what it was, could alter nature!

I have looked at the link, and a video on that page that Liss refers to.

It is quite painful to watch, as the quality is so poor.

It does prove to me however that he (Edwin Gray), was just another conman.

It looks like he was only demonstrating some already well known electrical effects on what happens to insulators like plastic when a high D.C. voltage is applied across it's  faces.

As the voltage is increased, the insulator begins to distort.

A large instantaneous voltage applied would cause a very rapid distortion and cause the disk to jump.

The higher the applied voltage, the greater the distortion, hence the higher it would jump.

This process also works in reverse.

If you strike the insulator to distort it, a voltage is produced across it.

Some insulators and materials are much better than others.

This process is used in nearly every piece of electronic equipment today, including the computer you are using right now!

What is used in electronics is either quartz, or ceramic.

Even an electronic cigarette lighter uses this principle to generate the spark to ignite the gas.

So once again, I have to say that basic physics can not be altered by wishful thinking or anything else.

Answer 4

LOL   what was it? another magic 200 mpg carburetor?  google him..

Answer 5

Yep perpetual motion at its best (worst) a bit like the Tesla myths of mystery inventions lost, although Tesla was a great engineer the myths about some of the things he did are also silly.

Answer 6

He claimed to have invented a perpetual motion machine, raised lots of money by scamming investors and never demonstrated a working prototype.

Answer 7

Liss is right about this one.

Answer 8

I didnt realize that we needed to "save" the world from global warming??

Seriously, please try to keep all of this in perspective...  Have you ever wondered where all that CO2 came from??? Let me give you a hint... It used to be in the atmosphere, and we know that during the time it was that there was considerably more life thriving than there is today...  Also, did I mention that plants thrive in CO2 levels that are nearly 5 times what your natural atmosphere is??

In short, we are guests on this earth and we really do need to act like guests.  Meaning we do need to be kinder to our environment than we are today.... Believing as guests that we can actually "save" anything is just silly, though...

I Hope this helps, because no science data disputes what I am saying..... :)