Electrets have been made for hundreds of years. These electrets, if
shorted, and then opened will have the charge return and a high electric
field will once again be present. In the shorting, charge was conducted
from one plate to another, so work was done. Electrets are odd devices.
Electrets are not a "gel" they are a capacitor made with a wax that is
melted and solidified between the two conductive plates with the wax
solidifying while in the electric field ("pole-ing") The Orbo is probably
a large parallel stack of such electrets with a circuit that will take the
charge being discharged and switch it to an appropriate voltage to charge a
lithium battery inside the box very slowly. Afterwards, the internal
battery can be used to charge a cellphone battery that is externally
attached.
The real question is not whether this would work, the question is for how
long. Obviously, if you filled the Orbo with the best lithium batteries
you could find, there will be a certain energy stored. Can you get more
than this from the Orbo in the 1 year that it is warranted? Is it better
than just a good battery?
Note also that electrets will de-pole if you heat them to approach
melting. Better not leave Orbo in your car in Phoenix in the summer.
On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 5:07 PM, Eric Walker <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 2:31 PM, Esa Ruoho <[email protected]> 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
>
>
