"Amazing British invention creates MORE energy than you put into it - and could soon be warming your home," said the <em>Daily Mail</em> "It violates almost every known law of physics."

Well, that'll teach those so-called scientists a lesson. The device is a heating element made by a company called Ecowatts, and it is claimed to make more heat energy than you put into it. Has anybody validated this claim?

Find out over at Ben Goldacre's <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/nov/10/badscience" target="_blank">Bad Science.</a>

And of course, you can find further tales of free energy that sadly wasn't in <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Far-Out-Weird-Facts-Science/dp/1932857877/ref=sr_1_9/202-8936751-5706231?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1194693098&amp;sr=8-9" target="_blank">Far Out</a>...