Who are your favorite cranks?

My personal fav is a chubby george lucas looking guy called david pares who claims to have a prototype warp drive.

He even has a paper, look at how cute and earnest he is

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fusor.net/doug-coulters-solar-power-star-in-a-jar/
video.vice.com/en_us/video/outsiders-doug-coulter/55afd234091d63551dfee805
theverge.com/2015/9/2/9247913/time-cube-is-gone
brilliantlightpower.com/electrical-power-from-water-to-oxygen-and-dark-matter-form-of-hydrogen/
youtu.be/jUBheBH9eio
oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2013/10/post_373.html
google.com/patents/US20060073976
youtube.com/watch?v=r9BV6nb79fA
spacewarpdynamicsllc.com/the-artificial-inducement-of-a-loca
physicsfromtheedge.blogspot.com/
briankoberlein.com/2014/02/25/testing-electric-universe/
thefullertoninformer.com/
vixra.org/author/jonathan_tooker
google.com/patents/US20040102810?dq=ininventor:"John St. Clair"&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjNttHAz7jVAhUDQSYKHTvMD98Q6AEIUjAG
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youtube.com/watch?v=e0vu-jQWCZo
web.archive.org/web/20160215184843/http://www.gregoryhensley.com/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newman's_energy_machine.
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Oh, I like thread. This could be a good thread.

There's Doug Coulter; he seems like an actual scientist though. Just lives out in the middle of nowhere. Trying to build his own fusion reactor.
fusor.net/doug-coulters-solar-power-star-in-a-jar/
I really recommend this video.
video.vice.com/en_us/video/outsiders-doug-coulter/55afd234091d63551dfee805

As far as cranks, there's the infamous Gene Ray of the defunct timecube . com who claimed to be basically god and have a different knowledge of time.
theverge.com/2015/9/2/9247913/time-cube-is-gone

One of my recent favorites was found on Veeky Forums, actually. Brilliant Light Power claims to make a shit ton of energy from somehow dropping the lowest electron orbital of Hydrogen down even more or something.
brilliantlightpower.com/electrical-power-from-water-to-oxygen-and-dark-matter-form-of-hydrogen/
The video is good fun.
youtu.be/jUBheBH9eio

I also forgot Marlin Pohlman. He's pretty interesting.
oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2013/10/post_373.html
He filed a patent for essentially a time travel machine.
google.com/patents/US20060073976
I like to believe the theory and say his drug and rape charges are just so he got abducted by the government to build his device lol

Definitely Ken Wheeler. He's a shitty photographer who has a Youtube channel showing off his large collection of lenses. In his off time he goes on batshit insane rants about how all science is wrong and only he understands magnetism. He frequently posts on Veeky Forums pretending to be a follower.

Very nice!

What do you think of Andrea rossi? It's astonishing how long he's been stringing people along with his e-cat thing.
This thing looks amazing! Some truly streampunk crankery youtube.com/watch?v=r9BV6nb79fA

>He even has a paper
link?

spacewarpdynamicsllc.com/the-artificial-inducement-of-a-loca

I have to admit, he's not acted at all like a scammer with this, he's not selling anything and as daffy as he is there is a small, irrational part of me that hopes he's actually on to something-can you imagine the uproar if a random astronomy professor invented the most important invention since the wheel in his garage?

DIE SONNE IST KALT

Is Mike McCulloch a crank? Or is his theory actually somewhat credible? he claims it might explain why the emdrive creates anomalous thrust and eliminate the need for dark matter

physicsfromtheedge.blogspot.com/

>spacewarpdynamicsllc.com/the-artificial-inducement-of-a-loca
this is hilarious

pretty much no math, and the few bits and pieces there are, are literal high school level