Have you ever heard the expression "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence?"

Don't show me a free energy device. That's skipping a whole bunch of steps. Start by showing me proof of even the tiniest violation of the First Law. That's a Nobel Prize on its own.

The fact that this doofus has been working on this machine for as long as he has, without publishing a paper establishing a violation of the First Law, is enough to tell me that this machine plays by the same rules as the rest of the universe.

Would be cool if the Second Law wasn't true either, though! The whole "heat death of the universe" thing bums me out.

It’s been a large enough box to encompass the observable universe so far.

Anyone who builds a genuine free energy device that works is an instant billionaire. I don’t buy the narrative that power companies would want to silence the technology - they’d rather use it for themselves and pay whatever it takes to get it (for a power company, paying the inventor even a billion is a small price to pay for infinite free energy, and a billion is big enough for anyone to set whatever morals they have aside and just take the deal).

If “free energy” was a thing, power companies would already be using it.