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According to the comments in the http://www.e-catworld.com/2013/09/brazilian-company-building...

"RAR energia is a big hoax created by a design student."

http://fotoforensics.com/analysis.php?id=4685127bd7fc0cd632e...

Yeah, was about to comment that that is a very nice bit of CGI. Something about the matte colour of the metals trips my detector. And the lighting on the workers, the too-perfect luminosity of the light sources, that "composited" feel. If you look at the first picture, it's probably the weakest - look at the 3 transverse beams.

Amazing work, though - right on the edge of genuine photorealism.

update: "foto oficial nº14" is also a weak one. Look at the workers up the top, the lighting on them is strange. And that guy observing from what seems to be an impossible position, missing the bottom half of his body.

Geeze it's good though - just that subtle uncanny valley in the lighting, and even so, I wouldn't bet my life on it!

update 2: actually, I don't know what to believe. It looks composited, but it's just so damn detailed, maybe I'm trying too hard. Would love to know the truth.

A surprising amount of resources dedicated to something anyone with a high school diploma knows is impossible.

Sigh.. yet another over-unity and/or perpetual device? At least they got to build a nice steampunk toy, burning their investor money :)

This reminds me of Steorn Orbo that generated a lot of hype many years ago, and turned out to be a dud as expected.

"to pick up and take the energy contained in the planet gravity"

Really? :-(

This could well be a "Cara de pau" strategy where Senhor Ribeiros shows the pics to VCs or other companies, convince them to invest, take their money and literally exit fast.

Here's an English summary of the "engine" (by a third-party) with a link to some of the patents claimed by the inventor: http://www.e-catworld.com/2013/09/brazilian-company-building...

The construction company will be sued for low quality work that prevents the device from running?

What were they thinking? 'Our small model didn't work but that was because of the relative large friction force, so we just need to build a larger prototype?'

I don't see how this should work!

That someone believes this is, frankly, embarrassing.

The engineering looks the part though. I'd call it a magnificent Rube Goldberg machine, but at least his machines served a purpose.

My first thought is that this is some giant troll job.

Has to be an attractive looking hoax. I can't believe anyone would actually spend that much money without a LOT of due dilligence.

Lack of proper respect for the laws of physics.

Why do they always build the prototype so big?

They should have made a timelapse video out of it, it would be much better than tormenting my mouse wheel.

Does it not bother anyone that the same machine is "built" in 2 different buildings?

the lack of webdesign called for a hoax. If such thing was true, they'd be showering with dollars and would have a got a decent design.

Up-voters, you hooked me up. Nice job.

Regrettably, Google Translate can't translate the text embedded in the images. Can anybody translate further?

Here is some more info, looks like a perpetual motion machine to me. http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:RAR_Energia_Ltda_Grav...

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