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- October 29, 1990
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- By WARREN E. LEARY
- AP Science Writer
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- WASHINGTON (AP) -- Government engineers say a backwoods inventor's
- amazing energy machine has a number of unique features but lacks a
- critical one -- it doesn't work.
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- The National Bureau of Standards said Thursday that more than two
- months of court-ordered testing has failed to prove Joseph W.
- Newman's claims that his controversial machine produces more energy
- than it consumes.
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- "At all conditions tested, the input power exceeded the output
- power," the government's standards-setting agency said in a report.
- "That is, the device did not deliver more energy than it used."
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- Newman, who terms himself a self-educated, backwoods inventor from
- Lucedale, Miss., who used common sense to come up with his machine,
- immediately rejected the test results as biased and meaningless.
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- The agency by its own admission used unconventional instruments and
- methods to reach its conclusions, said Newman, whose quest for a
- government patent has attracted national attention.
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- "I do not accept these results at all," Newman said in a telephone
- interview. "I predicted this decision. It's just another example of
- the injustice I'm fighting against."
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- The bureau's report said that because of unusual electrical
- characteristics of the machine, it had to design a test plan and
- combination of instruments specifically for Newman's non-standard
- device. But it said it carefully checked the instruments to assure
- the accuracy of the tests.
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- Newman said he would not accept results coming from unconventional
- testing that could not be repeated by others.
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- "If I built my own test equipment and said that it proves my machine
- worked, no one would give me much credit, no one would believe me,"
- Newman said. "But that's what the Bureau of Standards has done and
- they expect people to believe them."
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- The inventor has been trying for six years to get the U.S. Office
- of Patents and Trademarks to issue a patent on an energy machine
- that defies accepted laws of physics.
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- Patent examiners say the invention looks like yet another proposal
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- for a perpetual motion machine, one that would produce more energy
- than it uses so that, theoretically, it could run forever.
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- This has been the goal of inventors for centuries, but conventional
- science says it is impossible.
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- Newman contends his device is not a perpetual motion machine, but
- a revolutionary energy source that uses the previously unknown
- magnetic properties of copper coils to release more energy than it
- consumes.
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- U.S. District Judge Thomas P. Jackson, presiding over Newman's
- suit against the patent office, ordered a new trial date after
- getting results of the tests he ordered from the bureau.
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- John P. Flannery, Newman's lawyer, said Jackson set Dec. 8 as the
- date for a non-jury trial to determine if the inventor will be
- awarded the patent.
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- Flannery said he asked the judge to permit Newman to examine the
- special equipment used to test the energy machine, but that Jackson
- refused to order it. If the Patent Office does not allow examination
- of the test devices, Flannery said, he would seek another court
- order to do so.
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- The Bureau of Standards said that during the testing, it found that
- Newman's device "behaves in a manner which is entirely consistent
- with well-established laws of physics."
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- A device would be called 100 percent energy efficient if it simply
- transmitted all the energy coming into it back to the outside, the
- report said, and it would have to show an efficiency of greater than
- 100 percent to make more power than it consumed.
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- The bureau said the efficiency of Newman's machine ranged between
- 27 percent and 67 percent, depending upon the test being run.
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- Never did the energy coming out of the machine exceed the battery
- power going into the device to get it running, the report said.
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