Felix Würth
Felix Würth | |
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| Known for | "Centrifugal Power Machine" claimed to produce over-unity output |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Free-energy technology |
Felix Würth is an inventor known in the "free energy" scene for a centrifugal machine claimed to generate more usable energy than it consumes. He is listed in The Worldwide List of Dissident Scientists.
Work
Würth developed a "Centrifugal Power Machine" built around eccentric, seemingly unbalanced masses rotating about their own axles. Promotional material claimed prototypes exhibited "over-unity" behaviour, with efficiencies quoted at around 135% and projected figures reaching several hundred percent. Würth described the device not as a perpetual-motion machine but as an "open system", arguing that the law of energy conservation applies only to closed systems and that his machine draws energy from an external source.
The claims fall outside accepted physics, in which no device can deliver more energy than it takes in. An independent analysis by physicist W. D. Bauer, published on Hans-Peter Gramatke's survey of perpetual-motion proposals, concluded that a proper mathematical treatment of the mechanism obeys Hamiltonian energy conservation and predicts no over-unity behaviour for any cycle.