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EcoWatts and its fake free energy gadget is back in the limelight again, with the BBC Breakfast Show falling hook, line, and sinker in an interview with the company’s “CEO” Paul Calver. Calver stated that “we’re still getting to the question of why it works,” explaining to a BBC presenter his bewilderment at his very own creation. The response from the interviewer? “The point is it does.” Unfortunately, the point is that it nearly certainly doesn’t. Ben Goldacre used his excellent Bad Science Guardian column that week to dig up some dirt on the dodgy company, and managed to find a scientist who gave his stamp of approval to a similar free energy gadget four years back: “Using the apparatus provided, it’s true, that scientist could get incredible results: the meters would read zero, and yet water would boil in around five minutes. considering the meters provided weren’t working.” The company that provided that former gadget along with the “broken” meters? EcoWatts.

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