Explanation given: Schwartz says it's an 'electromagnetic device'. Hmmm, that's a little thin on the "explanation" front.
The first thing he does is he "activates" it. NOTE WELL: First it must be turned on and activated, and the first thing it does when he flips the switch is light some LEDs, and the electricity for that comes from WHERE, exactly? There *must* be an internal power source to allow it to start up, yet he *never* mentions that. In order to do its initial "power up" and "agitate the plates" (as he says it does) and do its seek-out-and-find operation so it can connect to the Earth, it must be using internal battery power, since it's not running yet (and hence not "self-powering" yet) and it's not plugged in. Just how much battery power does it have on board, anyway? Since the power needed to start it up is never mentioned, we don't know. It's "grounded to the earth" but there's no ground wire, as they show us after it's "activated". So, the statement that it's "grounded" is just misdirection, like most of what he says. I loved the bit where they pick up the case and turn it over -- this is pure stage-magician stuff: see, the box is solid on all sides. Unfortunately for the demo that little operation also shows that it's not "grounded to the earth" no matter what he says about it; the claim that it's grounded was a simple lie. It weighs 42 pounds, just 8 pounds of that are electronics, the weight is "mostly case", he says -- bloody heavy case, eh? Or maybe it's case and batteries, eh? It has "no moving parts" and "no carbon footprint"; he says this as though the second follows from the first. For that matter, even if the only energy it uses was the energy required to manufacture it, its carbon footprint would be nonzero, but again, this is all just part of the "patter" which goes with the "trick" of lighting the lightbulbs. In short, this video positively screams "scam". MJ wrote: > http://www.overunity.com/index.php?topic=7842 >
