Heritage College
Thane Heins: "Turning physics on its ear, Has college dropout done the impossible and created a perpetual motion machine?"
Submitted by esaruoho on October 13, 2008 - 10:30Thane Heins is nervous and hopeful. It's Jan. 24, a Thursday afternoon, and in four days the Ottawa-area native will travel to Boston where he'll demonstrate an invention that appears – though he doesn't dare say it – to operate as a perpetual motion machine.
The audience, esteemed Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Markus Zahn, could either deflate Heins' heretical claims or add momentum to a 20-year obsession that has broken up his marriage and lost him custody of his two young daughters.
Thane Heins: 'Holy crap, this is scary,' inventor says
Submitted by esaruoho on October 13, 2008 - 10:20Feb 04, 2008 04:30 AM, Tyler Hamilton, Energy Reporter
It all began back in 1985, when Thane Heins, having studied electronics at Heritage College in Gatineau, Quebec, started thinking about how magnets could be used to improve power generators.
But it wasn't until after the 9/11 attacks that he started seriously experimenting in his basement, motivated by the desire to reduce our dependence on oil and the countries that back terrorism.
