http://www.steorn.com/
The al-Jazeera ad is there under the "Watch the advert" button.
And Sean describes the technology, sort of, (absolutely no critical
details, and the bottom line is, "trust us"). Very slick.
They are claiming that the battery is merely an "energy reservoir."
That the generator is producing more power than is being used to run
the motor. Sean notes that much energy is dissipated as heat in the
coils, so he estimates the over-unity ratio as three to one.
Entirely possible it will come out later that the claim is that the
battery simply doesn't run down as fast as expected. In other words,
they aren't doing the supercapacitor substitute for a battery, with a
voltage readout showing charging, because there is no charging, "we
don't quite have the output up to the necessary over-unity level that
would show actual increased charge, but our studies show that more
energy is being generated, if we include the Joule heating, than is
being input from the battery."
Nothing is actually is demonstrated, because the devil is completely
in the details, details that aren't being shown. What you see is a
spinning rotor. So it looks like a demonstration. However, in order
to understand the demonstration, one would have to characterize all
the components, know the voltages as they vary at many points in the
system, look at the currents in every leg, and then do an analysis of
power distribution. And there are lots of places to get it wrong.
A simple analysis, not complete, would look at the voltage across and
current through the coils, where heat is being dissipated. If the
rotor rotation is roughly constant, and if it's very low friction,
which is expected, then all that movement is a red herring. How much
power is being sucked from the battery, and how much power is being
dissipated in the coils? If, with constant rotation, the latter is
greater than the former, they have a demonstration, at least a first
order one. They could easily have shown that: voltage/current display
for a supercapacitor replacing the battery, and power consumption of
the coil (voltage times current). Because these will be time-variant,
it can get a little tricky, if I'm correct, but it's a standard problem.
As the rotor turns, there will be increased consumption of power at
certain points in the rotation cycle, and increased generation of
power at other points, as energy is dumped into rotation and then
sucked out. It would be simple to display all this so it could be
seen. If they wanted to.
Of course, if they could show steady increase in
battery/supercapacitor charge, that would be a real demonstration,
but is more than over unity. His estimate of three times unity being
necessary may be correct. Or does he say that they are getting three
times unity. I'm not inclined to watch it again.
At a certain point for me, slickness starts to be perceived as
sliminess. Yuck. The Orbo noise, er, music, is starting to grate.
