Nutter by proxy
Having worked in the alternative energy sector for 10 years I have been privileged to meet a whole rainbow of charlatans and whack jobs.

At a conference in San Francisco hosted by one of the USA's national laboratories where start up companies with renewable energy based business plans pitched their ideas to a panel of venture capitalists to compete for funding. It was essentially like a Dragon's Den type affair, except the venture capitalists were very polite and actually gave words of encouragement to some of the most ill-conceived business plans and technologies I've ever seen.

Myself and two colleagues got invited to a 70 year old philanthropist's hotel room to witness the ground breaking technology a physicist had brought to him. He thought we might be the very guys he was looking for to take it from a protoype to the earth shattering energy revolution it would undoubtedly become.

He unpacked it. Plugged it in. Air crackled. The smell of ozone was getting stronger as the air became ionised. We stepped back as he flung his arms enthusiastically around bare wires carrying some terrifying voltages.

To the untrained eye it might have looked like a large plastic vitamin jar lined with sticky backed aluminium tape, on a spindle in a perspex bracket, with a bent copper rail hovering over it. With the force of 10,000V from the stepper circuit attached to its jacksie it begin to rotate.

According to the inventor on the phone what we were actually witnessing was in fact a rotating gravitational wave and the solution to all our energy needs.

After switching of the lights and seeing the voltage breakdown through the perspex we informed him what in fact he had created was a DC motor. A really shit DC motor.

Two things made me thankful that day. 1) the rabid physicist had hung up after a passionate speech about how people like me needed to open our minds to over-unity devices (perpetual motion machines) and zero point energy (star trek). 2) The old guy still had all his clothes on when we turned the lights back on.
( Draconacticus Reject shampoo. Demand real poo!, Fri 16 Mar 2012, 17:14, 13 replies)

Nice.
I like that.
(username failed moderation, Fri 16 Mar 2012, 17:18, closed)

i like that you like it :)

( Draconacticus Reject shampoo. Demand real poo!, Fri 16 Mar 2012, 23:27, closed)

But
You still fucked him though.

That's what people usually post on here if a woman is involved in the story..... equality and all that.
(Barnetboy, Fri 16 Mar 2012, 17:24, closed)

Of course.
We took it in turns. Who can resist the seductive aroma of Werthers Originals and Old Spice?
( Draconacticus Reject shampoo. Demand real poo!, Fri 16 Mar 2012, 23:23, closed)