On 12/16/2009 11:06 AM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote:
That's my conclusion as well. I've come to the conclusion that the
weakness of the demo is part of their design. They will start taking the
covers off, so to speak, having aroused a host of obvious objections.
They will address these objections one at a time. It's designed to
exhaust skepticism, not for the skeptics, but as the skeptics are
perceived by potential investors. When you have raised a series of
objections to the demo, and then all of them -- except the fundamental
one based on theory -- have been shown to be spurious, an investor may
well conclude that this is a case of knee-jerk rejection of "new
technology."
And to find the real energy source (or to rule out that there is such)
would require being able to take the thing apart and examine
exhaustively every part, and the reassemble it and it still works.
That's why "independent replication" based on specifications is so
important.
You have tacitly assumed the device on display is faked in some way.
I don't think so. That would be extremely dangerous. Observers are
allowed to come right up to it, from what I've seen in photos on the
web. One fortuitous discovery by a suspicious observer, and their whole
house of cards would be down around their ankles. If they're caught
faking the power source, they're dead meat. That could not ever be
explained away.
Far smoother, far safer, is to exhibit a device which does exactly what
it appears to do, and which gets its power exactly where it appears to
get it, which is the battery. There is no way an observer can
"discover" anything bad about the machine, because there isn't anything
bad to discover.
The ultimate weapon in a confidence game is not sophisticated gadgetry
or dazzling special effects. It's words.
Confidence, aka trust, is the coin of the realm here; the ultimate
blunder in a confidence game is to do something which destroys the
confidence of the marks. Getting caught with a phony gadget would be
such a blunder.
(Incidentally, if they had a hidden power source, they could publish
battery drain and torque numbers, and show that the power out is
conclusively higher than the power in.)
