Topic: Energy
"One, Two, Three... Overunity!"
- Steorn
Are Steorn's demonstration skills
improving? McCarthy refines Over Unity claims in Steorn's latest public experiment, promises more good things to come:
"Bring your own meters next week" says Sean.
by creator
(libertarian)
Tuesday,
January 12, 2010
♣ Two Down, More Experiments To Come
Steorn is continuing along a very intentional path of revealing and demonstrating its "free energy" technology to the world. Sean McCarthy, CEO of the small Irish company, demonstrated and explained three "key principles" of Steorn's Orbo technology, today, comparing and contrasting the Steorn Orbo with replication attempts by others.
As part of the "run up" to today's experiment, Mr. McCarthy recently promised the following:
"We will be conducting another live experiment... which we expect will be far more interesting than the one
that we did before the Holidays."
My personal impression is that he delivered on that promise, or at the very
least made a sincere effort to do so. In a clear attempt to improve company transparency, he encouraged anyone to bring their
own test equipment next week. "Bring your own meters" he said "come in and measure it yourself,
" offering to let anyone make their own measurements on a running Orbo. "Yes, you can put a load in the
system, you can fire LEDs, you can do all of that, we encourage you to try it!"
While bringing the internet
streaming system on-line today, Sean's audio test suggested the title for this article: "One, Two, Three - Overunity!"
Mr. McCarthy seemed in a cheerful, upbeat mood despite dealing with a rib broken when he recently slipped on the ice.
As the demo began, Sean illustrated the difference between the replication attempts and the actual Steorn motor with
a "side by side" comparison between an Orbo-configured motor and a "conventional" pulse motor. The setup
was fairly simple: a common power supply and common control components were switched between the Orbo and the "conventional"
motors. A variable resistor in the supply was used to adjust the supply to one or the other set of coils in the motors.
Unfortunately,
although not surprisingly, he did not detail exactly what the differences are between the "conventional" motor and
the Orbo. However, he surely gave us plenty of clues!
Here's what I saw and heard:
Today's public demonstration featured a list of what Mr. McCarthy called "key principles" of Orbo operation.
These principles were enumerated
as:
- Suffers no Back EMF
- Produces an Inductance Energy Gain
- Performs work.
Mr. McCarthy
attempted to demonstrate each of these principles. He showed through the use of an infrared imaging camera that the demonstration
Orbo generates heat in its coils.
Let's take a closer look at each of these three key principles.
Orbo Exhibits "Absolutely NO CEMF"
This
part of the demo was a deliberate repeat of the first demonstration, with some additional clarification and explanation. He
showed, perhaps more clearly than the original demonstration, the contrast between a conventional pulse motor (scope image
on the left of the page) and an Orbo motor (scope image on the right of the page.) The "classic CEMF" image on the
left shows the varying current profile as the magnets approach and leave the coil position, while the "Orbo no CEMF"
shot on the right shows an extremely flat lack of current interaction with the magnets.
Throughout today's presentation, McCarthy also attempted to address questions and objections that have been raised
since the first experiment shown in December.
One of those questions has been about an apparent delay between voltage
and current waveforms on the displayed oscilloscope traces. A close-up scope shot shows that the current actually begins to
rise as soon as the voltage is applied.
"What's happening... here is... we have
a very significant change in the inductance of the core material." - Sean
Two high-end Tek scopes were used in the demo, with one showing the mathematical product of the voltage and
current curves as absolutely flat all the way across.
Orbo Produces an Inductance Energy Gain
Mr. McCarthy said
that, unlike conventional motors that exhibit inductance losses, the Orbo actually shows an inductance gain.
"The obvious place to look for the energy is in inductance loss... When you remove the voltage supply across
the coil, that field will collapse and generate electricity... what Max is going to do now is to demonstrate that not only
is there no inductance loss, but there is also an inductance gain..."
The inductance of both motors was measured
statically by manually positioning the rotors at the entry and exit positions of the coils while reading the inductance on
an industrial LCR meter. For the the "conventional" pulse motor, the inductance was 7.25 millihenrys - unchanged
from entry to exit. The Orbo, however, showed an inductance of 961.0 mh at the entry point but 984.0 mh at the exit point.
Sean
next discussed the equation ( E = LI2 / 2 ) that calculates the energy stored in an inductor.
"What's important about this is, the following, in that, if you consider the energy
contained in inductance is defined by this very simple equation which is a half ell eye squared, ell being the inductance
and eye being the current, that, when we fire the coil in an Orbo interaction, ell is in fact lower, so it costs us less energy
to build the field, the current remains consistent because we have no back EMF through the interaction and when we dis-apply
the voltage, ell is higher and what that actually means is that we've gained an inductance gain through the interaction."
- Sean
He concluded by emphasizing that the electromagnetic components themselves actually return more electrical energy
and/or heat than is put into them.
Orbo Performs Work
Sean said that this is obvious - it is obvious that the
rotor moves, which requires work. The rotor turns by means of the magnet pairs... work being done is thus "witnessed
by rotation of the motor."
He corrected a minor error from last presentation by demonstrating that the Orbo
turns clockwise regardless of input current direction.
Sean concluded by stating that the sum of all the outputs, including
the heat, rotational energy, and electromagnetic energy coming from the system demonstrates a coefficient of performance (COP)
that is greater than 100%. "There is more energy being output than is being put into the system" he said.
Of
course, there was no direct explanation of the design differences between the "classic" motor and the Orbo - simply
a comparison and contrast of how the two different units behave in action.
Admission of More Evidence Needed
"To
move from COP to Over Unity, we have to recognize that there are other energies in the system" Sean said.
Steorn
plans to demonstrate this with a week-long experiment to be streamed live. They intend to show that the Orbo magnets do not
lose any energy, and promise "a cumulative energy display showing energy in, energy out, and the inherent domain
energy of the magnets."
A slide shown during the presentation stated:
"However
certain components (such as the magnets used) store energy, to prove over unity we must prove that the energy of these components
does not degrade during the interaction."
The final experiment, scheduled for the last week of January, is
intended to show what we've all been waiting for... direct electrical input to electrical output. Sean explained:
"The reason we've taken this approach to introducing Orbo is that these systems can
be quite complicated and have lots of moving parts, we have seen several attempts to replicate on the internet..."
McCarthy
expressed concerns that trying to overload a prototype would result in early mechanical failure. Regarding replication attempts
to date, Steorn has put a video on the You Tube Steorn Official site that addresses some of the errors made during those attempts:
"While
we encourage people, and we actively want people, to attempt to replicate what we're doing, what we'd like to do is
first of all to show some problems in replication, and specifically what we're going to do now, what Max is going to demonstrate,
is why these anomalies exist, and why these systems aren't a proper Orbo configuration."
The Question
and Answer Session
Questions from today's audience were much better both in quantity and quality than those after
the first demonstration. Please consider the following partial summary not as a transcript, but as a combined paraphrase of
the audience questions and a partial, edited quotation/paraphrase of Sean's answers.
Q: How much
greater than unity is Orbo output?
A: About 150-200% in this test... it comes down to very specific
arrangements...Theoretically there really isn't much limit...
Q: Have you measured the system
with a calorimeter?
A: Yes, with our own... We will do so rigorously with a German company. By
the end of month you can expect to see full measurements, and the test results will be put on our site. We will also be doing
some supercooling tests to eliminate questions about thermal issues.
Q: Is Orbo based on Zero
Point Energy?
A: A really great question - if you believe in it. "Give me a ZPE meter and
I'll tell you..." What we're really doing is modifying time frames... Let scientists come on and develop theories
for it afterwards... Scientifically, yeah, there are some big questions, but it's not our world to enter into that.
Q:
Why the battery?
A: An absolutely brilliant question... Unfortunately I started to read the internet
again which is not a good thing if you're me because there's all these things said about you... What we need to do
with this interaction is deliver current in a very, very defined, in a very rapid response... We need to deliver the current
virtually instantaneously." We have an effect that has huge value, not just commercially - that requires developers to
adopt it.
More than once in his presentation, Sean used the analogy of the first hard disk drive... pointing out
that, while the first drives were physcially huge, very low capacity, and incredibly expensive, it now costs only about $60
for a terabyte drive that fits in your pocket. He expects Steorn technology to follow a similar pattern. He repeatedly stated
that Steorn as a company is not natively suited to product development.
Rapid development is important to us as
a company... to us as a species... this is real, this is not some guy in his garden garage going "whoopeedo, I've
solved the world's energy problems." We're trying to encourage developers to make that potential a reality -
we can only carry that so far.
Q: What will you need to make battery smaller?
A:
Buy a smaller battery! ... It's about the Current response time, trying to reduce resistance in the circuit. We're
using a 1.2V battery for the reason that it matches the resistance of the number of coils we have in these systems that you
see... We will be doing some things, from next week you'll be able to come in here, and the system's up here, you
can bring your own meter, you can measure it... measure it yourself... and a lot of this is about having as much transparency
as possible... From next Monday you'll not have to believe the good looking French fellow or the ugly fat Irish fellow,
OK, you come in and measure it yourself, and we'd really encourage you to do that.
Q: Can
you put a load on the system?
A: Yes, .... but "what's the point?" There's a
lot of engineering required to go from prototype to practical systems... Yes, you can put a load in the system, you can fire
LEDs, you can do all of that, we encourage you to try it...
Q: Are there any outside factors which
may influence the result of the experiment, weather, temperature, presence of special persons?
A: Yes,
there are real-world things that can, but that is not directly relevant to the core principle - you can stick [Orbo] in a
Faraday Cage, you can isolate it, the effect will still be there... When people ask "What have you guys been doing for
six years?"... It takes a long time to get to two magnets and a coil.
Q: If you drop the
strength of the magnets by half, what happens? Have you tried bringing it down to the minimum level of magnetism?
A:
It still works - We've tried a lot - we're playing around with the permeability of the core material... Two fields...
You've got the applied field from your magnets and the field generated by the electricity that you're pumping into
the system.
It's not linear in that fashion but in fact if you talk about power output, power output is
really defined by speed, because if you consider there's no counter EMF, we're not degrading the torque imparted to
the rotor.
In a typical motor, as you go faster, the back EMF increases, the current flow drops, which means
your torque drops in line with the speed, because with no back EMF the torque imparted to the wheel is always the same whether
you're doing 1rpm or a million rpm but power output is obviously, torque is obviously, energy over speed so...
Power
is surprisingly not an issue for this, its about how fast you can cause the system to move and that's really again one
of the great misnomers of Orbo, and maybe we're responsible for this because we really haven't put a lot of information
into the public domain, we're a commercial entity, we're not required to.
But ultimately the faster
you go the more powerful the device is.
Q: Why don't you have a prototype that demonstrates
load? This is not very convincing to the general public.
A: We do. That's not our goal. We're
not selling anything to Joe Public. We're trying to sell to the product development community.
Q:
Would it not be in your interest to give a better demonstration?
A: Look at the responses before
London... we were called frauds, con-men, and so on. What we're saying is so fundamentally against science... We're
dealing with a mind-set... London was a mistake... We failed.
Our target community [is] the people who can
make this into something that can charge your phone... pump water... A billion-dollar hard disk drive plant is what
is needed to produce practically useful Orbo devices... The engineering required is highly comparable to that of a hard disk
drive... Our demonstration is immediately useful to the product development community. [Orbo's] not going to be in the
local WalMart at the end of January.
Q: You'd think the product development community would
be jumping all over themselves to do this?
A: What makes you think they aren't? There are people
knocking our doors down for Orbo. We made it very clear that until we're ready to commercialize we won't. We've
been innundated with requests from people to do that. Ultimately when it comes to February 1st, we'll see how many
developers actually get involved.
Plenty of Clues Available for Replicators!
Add today's demonstration
to the many already published photographs, videos, and attempted replications, and serious experimenters have a wealth
of information to work with.
Mr. McCarthy commented repeatedly today on the two magnets at each position on the Orbo rotor,
and said that "two magnets and a coil" pretty much sum up Steorn's work over the past six years. "We're
modifying time frames" he said.
You can find many other clues in today's presentation as well as in other
articles I've written in this series (see list below.)
We Haven't Seen "The Holy Grail" Yet, But...
To
see what I consider "The Holy Grail" of free energy, or "Proof of Steorn," please read this article about the criteria I am looking for. Sean McCarthy did claim Orbo will work in a Faraday cage and that an electrical input versus electrical output demonstration is coming up at the end of January.
As you know
if you've been following this story, I am an optimistic member of "The Steorn 300," and I'm quite happy to be reporting on what, if "real," is undoubtedly one of the biggest stories of
the century thus far. If you've enjoyed reading this, you can affirm that by offering your thumbs up or your thoughtful
comments from any perspective.
Steorn has said that they will publish the video of their second experiment/demonstration
tomorrow, Wednesday, January 13th. However, meanwhile, you can find it on YouTube starting here.
Note: Please follow the links below for previous articles in this series.
© 2010 Dann McCreary (aka creator)
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