From: Terry Blanton
* We did Bedini, shields, pivoting mags while rotating, static push-pulls, and found the magnetic field was conservative. In every case. * Heck, it's all in a warehouse (not like the one at the end of Indiana Jones) and available if anyone can come up with some idea we might have missed. There's even some capital left. Not trying to prolong your agony, but did you try the toroid as a release 'gate'? (just curious, given Steorn's claims) The main reason to do so, would be your massive system is a superior "test bed" (compared to Steorn) due to the strong attraction mode, and they did claim some degree of success (before reality intervened). Obviously, the power expended to a "release pulse" using a regular solenoid can be partially recovered (CEMF) which you have no doubt maximized and found it to come up short. . so the only advantage to a toroid, in place of a solenoid, would be that the flux (from the approaching rotor) apparently (with a good design) gets vectored 90 degrees and captured in the toroid, instead of opposed in a head-on bucking mode. The appropriate metaphor would be something like "breaking the fall" which many observers may understand completely (unless they are fascinated by tightrope walkers or Cirque du Soleil where it is the difference between life and death ) . In the end, it will probably still be the sad refrain: "I fought the law and the law won" . but who knows?
