Assuming that Steorn really are shipping a product soon, and the Oz-Reds as
well - it should not take long to find out most of what is going on. Actually,
I doubt that the device operates by rectifying RF and I doubt that it is
overunity. There could easily be a major breakthrough in ultra-capacitors,
however.
The best thing which could come out of it, assuming both Steorn and ADGEX have
found the same bona fide energy anomaly – is that both devices will illuminate
the underlying technology better than either alone - so that whatever is at the
core of it can be understood and improved.
These new products are too close in time for it to be coincidental. The big
question is: are we seeing an anomaly or is it the work of two different scam
artists coming out within weeks of each other?
From: Bob Higgins
RF shielding enclosures are a technology all of their own. I worked for a
major manufacturer of communications equipment for 37 years, and we had many of
these, including enclosures that you could work in ("screen booths"). The
trick is in the door - you must keep the contact periodicity in the seal to be
a small fraction of the wavelength of the radiation that you are sealing
against - preferably soldering if you really want to keep it out. Most box
mfgrs. use a fingered copper gasket that insures near continuous contact. The
problem is that if you have a contact gap that is near a half wave of the
frequency of interest, it becomes a slot antenna, that will re-radiate the RF
inside the box. The bandwidth of the slot will be determined by its area and
can be quite wide.
Proper Faraday cage boxes are constructed with copper, and are certainly
copper, silver, or gold in the contact area and gasket. Copper oxide is
conductive while aluminum oxide is not - so you cannot use aluminum reliably
for this purpose.
With a perfect seal, there will be some leakage due to the resistance of the
metal; however, the amount that leaks in directly through the metal is small
compared to the amount that leaks in due to a bad gasket/door seal.
Jones Beene wrote:
Bob,
Well – I looked this up online, specifically wrt Wi-Fi which is primarily the
RF of interest for recharging since the end use is cell phones. This frequency
will be around 2-3 GHz. In the video below - it was 2.4 GHz.
As this video shows, a single Faraday cage reduces the RF signal - but only by
half !... and grounding the cage does not improve that. I am shocked (so to
speak) to see that the effect of a metal cage is so small for this frequency.
Of course, a signal which is reduced by half is still able to recharge an Orbo.
This is Steorn’s gimmick, apparently. They assume that their audience believes
that a single Farraday cage allows no signal, when in fact, it reduces the
signal by half. Adding a second Wi-Fi router would presumably bring the signal
back to an uncaged level!
To do this right, Steorn (or the customer) would need at least 3 and probably
four nested Faraday cages and also to turn off all Wi-Fi. That way it should be
possible to do an accurate test.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eUCyR7jesk
