On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 2:31 PM, Esa Ruoho <esaru...@gmail.com> wrote:
The result is that a permanent electric field is "frozen" into the gel > material, with positive and negative poles. This polarized electric field > then interacts with the two dissimilar metals to generate an electric > current, in a way that is analogous to how the magnetic fields in the > "classic" perpetual motion machine Orbo interacted with one another to > generate force. The electric field frozen into the gel material works in a > way that parallels the frozen magnetic fields of permanent magnets. > This description does not make sense to me. Even if there was a way to build a permanent "electret" that is analogous to a permanent magnet, I do not see how it would work. It seems to me the current would quickly saturate the potential of the electret and would drop off to zero. Eric
