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Lets be clear, I am NOT posting this as a "Is this legit?" kind of manner, this is DEFINITELY a scam/hoax/joke. But the sheer density of this one, the almost tangible effort that exudes from the material, is quite unusually high. As if a chemistry/physics textbook, a thesaurus and a particularly heavy brick collided at high speed with a financially embattled Nigerian Prince. Behold, Phoenix Energy: http://www.freeenergynews.com/Directory/Induction/PENV/PENV_Rev-4_Induction-Energy_Re-Heat_Stm-Waste-Ht-Energy-Recov-Electric-Pwr-Plant_11-1-2015.pdf http://phoenixenergynv.com/ tl;dr - Heat water to make steam, use steam to power turbine generator, use a bit of the generated electricity to heat water to make steam... Or, as they put it: "Phoenix Energy of Nevada (PENV) has developed and is prepared to field a new extremely innovative, evolutionary, revolutionary, disruptive and transformational cutting-edge electric power plant design and technology known and described as the PENV Steam Waste Heat Energy Recovery Dry Cooling Reverse Condenser Induction Energy Induced Feed Water Re-Heat Electric Power Generation Plant." There are plenty of people out there who, for one reason or another, do not have the tools to tell this kind of material apart from real work, and the drag that this exerts on all manner of things (from bona-fide scientific research to school curricula) can be felt by all. We should be showing stuff like this to schoolkids, along with real research, and explain to them why "pseudoscience" exists and how to spot it - although a decent scientific education would do this automatically, not everyone is, or can be expected to be, scientifically-minded. It is the non-scientifically minded that are most vulnerable to this, and since the actually-scientifically-minded do not appear to get a larger say in these matters, teaching these things to otherwise-skilled people is incredibly important if we want to live in a science-enabled world, and not one of arbitrary, emotional choices. The above should not be taken as derogatory to those mentioned that are not-scientifically-minded, equal merit goes to people of all types of intelligence. People cannot be expected to be experts in every field, we must specialize, and there are very many non-scientific disciplines worthy of a lifetimes effort. For example, I wish very much that I was taught more about finances and economics at school (inb4 "economics IS science", sure, maybe, but you know what I mean!). However, the scientific disciplines underpin a great deal of our current society (drugs, cars, safety, lighting, utilities, global climate change, recycling etc etc.), so deserve special attention from everybody.