Armstrong's ignorance of basic science

Martin Armstrong in trying to defend himself about his own "new" ideas gave us an example from his personal life, encountering a "smart" person who tried to get his perpetual energy generator off the ground, and not wanting to take a $50 million offer for it.  Here is the story from his website (note the spelling mistake in the title):

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In Tokyo, a man came to me with a magnetic engine. He wanted me to help him and take it public. He left me a scooter and told me to test it out. You plugged it in once and thereafter it self-generated power and did not need to be plugged in again. I was skeptical at first. I asked him why he was coming to me? He said he had been to all the top auto manufacturers and everyone wanted to buy it. He was offered $50 million and turned it down not because he wanted more, but because they wanted to shelve it so it would not see the light of day. That was another project they ensured was killed in my affair.

Honestly, I am personally astounded by how low Armstrong's knowledge in basic science is.  He, supposedly, the person who created some artificial intelligence program or Socrates that can predict all the financial markets in the entire world, simply doesn't understand the most basic law of conservation of energy from high school physics.  Well, yeah, according to his Martin Armstrong Wikipedia Page he did only have a high school degree, and NO college degrees, but that should have been enough education for him.  Maybe he didn't even pass any of the science classes?

Ideas on Perpetual Motion Machines have been long time coming, and according to Science Explained: The Physics of Perpetual Motion Machines, NONE of any perpetual motion machines are real so far.  And even if a 100% efficient machine can be built, NO energy can be extracted for use, or else the machine will lose energy and stop.  But Armstrong, a "great forecaster", cannot even understand something that is so basic.  Not only that, during the last 20+ years of his life, after the supposed "encounter" with this Japanese scooter man, he is UNABLE to come to this basic understanding of law of energy conservation (energy+mass, if you include nuclear reaction).  The scooter man said that his machine "self-generated power and did not need to be plugged in again".  And Armstrong believed what he said, and Armstrong HAS the scooter that the man left to him.

Honestly, such falsehood from Armstrong really requires no further explanation to expose him as a con artist.  I highly suspect that Armstrong made up the whole story.  Whether he made it up or not, it is BLATANTLY apparent that Armstrong has very little understanding of high school physics.

And I will be highly suspicious of anything "intelligent" that he may say, given his low level of basic scientific knowledge.


Finally, here is the most likely motivation for and line of thought of this story: He needed some hype to raise his statue to superhero status.

He usually does that by equating his own fake achievements with those of other trusted role models by using The Fan Email Confidence Trick while at the same time spinning yet another conspiracy theory to distract from the real cause of his past criminal conviction. Tried and tested.

COMMENT: Martin – I just watched the documentary called “Newman” on Amazon Prime, and the story made me think of you and your trials with the government. It is about an inventor who came up with the machine that outputs several times more energy than it takes as input. It could have solved a number of our energy issues but was squashed by the powers-that-be. The inventor died an angry, distrusting, bitter man.

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