The Infinity Coil - by Brian Dunning
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So yesterday my friend Greg pinged me about a paper he’d acquired, the instructions for building an “Infinity Coil” from a company called Dark Age Defense:
What is Dark Age Defense?
Dark Age Defense is only a digital survival blueprint developed to make sure you are more than prepared for blackout day. It has a step-by-step manual for building an infinity coil and is in operation in a minute to produce electricity.
Dark Age Defense reveals the critical stage you should follow and take action to protect your family in the aftermath. It reduces the extra electricity used, keeps your family out of the dark, and keeps your electricity cost low.
Dark Age Defense guide instructions, demonstrate how to enhance the infinity coil that creates a force field around your place for your safety. It is used for navigating challenging situations using the infinite coil procedure, which is based on the theories of Nikola Tesla.
What’s a guaranteed way to ID a scam product? Easy: they invoke Nikola Tesla. This is not just Brian blustering. Tesla was a really good electrical engineer with some super creative ideas. He didn’t actually invent anything new that we know of; but he was the first to patent a lot of things in the United States that had already been developed in Europe. (Most of the things he’s known for, like alternating current and the induction motor, had already been invented by others when he refined and patented them.) He also had some pretty crazy ideas, none of which were successful, and all of which we now understand couldn’t have worked the way he hoped. So when you see a far-out product like this Infinity Coil marketed with the claim that it’s based on the ideas of Nikola Tesla, it’s virtually guaranteed to be bullshit.
But let’s actually look and see what this thing is supposed to do.
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