Everyone's heard of the old proverb, 'necessity is the mother of invention', thought to have originated with Plato, and there are plenty of historical examples of its truth in action.
It describes the situation where a need arises for which there appears to be no immediate solution, in the end someone often invents something that solves the problem. If you really need to find a way to do something you will find a way ..........eventually. It might take more than 300 years to do it!
All the developments in the field of medicine, for instance, have been achieved through research necessitated by the needs of people seeking longer, healthier lives.
Man first discovered fire to light the darkness of the caves he inhabited and to keep warm. The wheel was invented to help move himself and his possessions from one place to another; boats to move on water; sails to speed up that movement and reduce the need for oars and oarsman. Windmills to grind corn and pump water for irrigation etc.
The list of inventions designed to relieve a human need is vast but now there is a need for a clean and cheap or even free kind of energy, to produce electricity. This is not a desire, it is a desperate need. 300 years of fossil fuel-derived energy has resulted in global warming. The icecaps are melting, sea levels are rising, low lying lands will be submerged. The weather is becoming more variable and extreme.
We have been taught that gravity-enabled engines that can work continuously without the assistance of streams of water, or strong winds, or specially arranged weights, are impossible, but this should not necessarily blind us to anything which might appear to contradict this long held opinion on the matter. If there is good evidence that the current view might be erroneous, then the evidence is worth re-evaluating no matter how certain the over-riding consensus is, that the evidence is misleading.
Johann Bessler went out of his way to provide the best possible evidence that his machine was genuine without allowing anyone to see the inside and learn how it worked. Apart from his ruling prince, Landgrave Karl of Hesser-Kassel, a man of unimpeachable reputation, no-one ever saw the internal workings of his wheel. Karl stated it was genuine and we have no reason to disbelieve him, nor any doubt that he fully understood the device.
No matter how convinced the sceptics are that his wheel was a fake, not a single one has come up with a sensible explanaton which tells us how he faked it. No-one can explain how he managed to fool so many people for so long, including some of the brightest scientists of the age.
Ever since I first encountered the legend of Bessler's wheel I have known intuitively that such a machine was possible.
Yet despite the utterly convincing evidence that Bessler did not lie, we continue on our way seeking answers to a question which has already been resolved - how to obtain cheap, clean electricity.
Please share the following link and donate if you wish to aid my granddaughter's treatment.
www.helpamy.co.uk/
JC
No matter how convinced the sceptics are that his wheel was a fake, not a single one has come up with a sensible explanaton which tells us how he faked it. No-one can explain how he managed to fool so many people for so long, including some of the brightest scientists of the age.
Ever since I first encountered the legend of Bessler's wheel I have known intuitively that such a machine was possible.
Yet despite the utterly convincing evidence that Bessler did not lie, we continue on our way seeking answers to a question which has already been resolved - how to obtain cheap, clean electricity.
Please share the following link and donate if you wish to aid my granddaughter's treatment.
www.helpamy.co.uk/
JC
