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Man believes machine caused rain
Peter Stevens with some of the glass panels off the rainmaker machine.
IF you have had enough of the rain then you had better have a word with Peter Stevens, of Casino.
Mr Stevens claims his rain machine, invented by Jack Toyer in the 1970s, is responsible for the current downpour.
“The effect will last until March 16,” Mr Stevens said.
The machine, which Mr Stevens claims works by charging light rays, was switched on in Tamworth on January 16 for three days. It was then taken to Inverell, Coonamble, Manilla and Armidale, and was switched off on February 16. The result was, according to Mr Stevens, the current rain being experienced across Northern NSW.
The machine can create lows and highs, in other words it can make rain and it can stop it, MrStevens said.
The machine was rebuilt by Mr Stevens in 2006, during the drought, from Mr Toyer’s plans.
It has since been used in locations around the world including Death Valley, Nevada, where it is claimed to have produced about 2cm of rain, and Baghdad, Iraq, where Mr Stevens said the machine made it snow for the first time in 100 years, on January 11, 2008.
Mr Stevens said the machine was 100 per cent effective and farmers who used it only had to pay his fee if it rained.
Condobolin farmer Iain Tyack reckons his neighbours would think he had ‘lost the plot’ if they knew he had used the machine twice on his 3000ha wheat farm. Both times it resulted in rain.
“I keep it pretty quiet,” he said.
Mr Tyack said the first time Mr Stevens switched on the machine at his property, in September last year, it made his hair stand on end.
“It was scary. He was making clouds appear right in front of me,” Mr Tyack said.
“Then he would turn the machine in reverse and make them disappear.”
And while it did rain, it was not enough to save his crop.
The rain machine was used again on his property in January this year. It’s still raining.
“We have had 16 inches,” Mr Tyack said.
Mr Toyer used the principles of Dr Walter Russell, who devised a theory of psychics and cosmology revealed in his book The Secret of Light.
Mr Stevens said he would never say he had made it rain, for fear of being sued for adverse rain-associated events, instead he said he was a weather predictor.
The Bureau of Meteorology declined to comment on Mr Stevens’ claims.
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Posted by Dessyp from Grafton, New South Wales
05 March 2010 6:52 a.m. | Suggest removal » | Post reply »
i think i saw one of those machines last week, Elvis was using it!
Posted by jacktoyer from Casino, New South Wales
05 March 2010 11:26 a.m. | Suggest removal » | Post reply »
Utter garbage !
Isn't there anything more news worthy?
And yes i believe it was Elvis with the help of Michael Jackson.
Next there will be a story on his hydrogen fuel cell
or "Joe,s cell " as he calls it
Posted by equarights from Rockhampton City, Queensland
05 March 2010 12:35 p.m. | Suggest removal » | Post reply »
Someone has been growing too much "hooch"on the farm with all the rain around? And smoking it as well?
Funny story if nothing else!
Thanx
Posted by india from Australia, None
05 March 2010 1:27 p.m. | Suggest removal » | Post reply »
Any sunshine making machines around?
Posted by crick from Brisbane Region, Queensland
05 March 2010 3:10 p.m. | Suggest removal » | Post reply »
Does that mean that he could be hold responsible for damage it caused in QLD
Posted by steve2473 from Evans Head, New South Wales
05 March 2010 3:17 p.m. | Suggest removal » | Post reply »
Gee ,, what a load of rubbish, where was this so called machine a 2 years ago when the farmers were crying out for rain. And honestly is this the best the Northern Star can do? I mean come on get real for heavens sake.
Posted by emissary from Bexhill, New South Wales
05 March 2010 4:48 p.m. | Suggest removal » | Post reply »
Did any of the posters check the basis of this invention? Google Walter Russell. It may sound far fetched at first but history is full of geniuses that were crucified by the establishment.....Tesla (who invented the modern AC motor that our electricity supply depends on, and radio (note - Marconi did not invent radio), William Riech, Royal Rife who was curing cancer decades ago without drugs, the list goes on and on. I can not vouch for Peter Stevens as I have not personally checked him out, but keep an open mind people. Thanks to the Northern Star for at least publishing the article, even if it was just for teh sensational aspect - it reminded me about Walter Russell - I had forgotten about him
Posted by cqtiger from Gracemere, Queensland
06 March 2010 7:18 a.m. | Suggest removal » | Post reply »
in that case I will be sueing him
Posted by debbiemagee from Maroochydore, Queensland
08 March 2010 11:33 a.m. | Suggest removal » | Post reply »
Next thing he'll be claiming that there's a man in the sky who created the world and sent his magic son down to be killed.
Posted by ingventor from Casino, New South Wales
23 April 2010 3:57 p.m. | Suggest removal » | Post reply »
thankyou
you have style and Courage for your Qualification and ethics
Tall poppies are easy targets
getting the Idea is easy commitment to the dream is the life style
Dr Walter Russell a real gentleman not many left
Again Thankyou
Peter Stevens
Posted by Sylvain from Frances, South Australia
26 April 2010 8:17 p.m. | Suggest removal » | Post reply »
This device is nothing else that an ameliorated Wilhelm Reich"s cloudbuster. It's using orgone energy discovered by his author which contradicts the second law of thermodynamic about entropy.
Changing the climate wants to know the main rules of meteo science and could be dangerous for the whole planet if not applied. Only very few persons as Joel Carlinsky, James Demeo, John Trettin and Jürgen Fischer are habilited for such a work (and they even recognized to have made some mistakes which turned to true disasters!)