One thing should be kept in mind. Steorn claims that it noticed an
anomaly. It has never described the exact nature of the anomaly, not publicly.
Thus much of the criticism is simply an assertion that an anomaly is
impossible. Steorn quite directly confronts this, with a truth:
anomalies are not expected through accepted physics.
The business plan of Steorn, though, is to keep the anomaly secret
and sell the secret. They thus avoid direct and cogent and open
criticism of the experimental work that underlies their years of
confident claims.
We are left with three hypotheses.
1. They are total scam artists, there is no basis for believing that
over-unity is possible, what they found wasn't an actual anomaly, and
they know it, it was rather something that can be made to appear to
be an anomaly, through sufficient obfuscation.
2. They believe there is an anomaly, and they actually found one.
They are concealing the information for publicity purposes. They are
aware that the funding necessary to create a practical application
from the anomaly is greater than they could manage with existing
capital. Besides, it's possible that, for some reason, the anomaly
isn't actually practical, and they don't want to be on the losing
side of that possibility. They want to shove that risk off to bigger
pockets. With a real anomaly, they have figured out how to make money
even if it isn't practically useful.
3. The anomaly is an artifact, a result of an incomplete
understanding of the physics involved and how to measure the energy balances.
Steorn is pursuing an approach designed to maximize their profit
while minimizing their risks. For example, consider possibility
three. What is Steorn selling? Two things: Disclosure, and a set of
products. Products for what? Investigating the anomaly!
There is a similarity to my own business plan, except for one thing:
I'm totally disclosing everything, from the start. What I will be
selling is not disclosure, that's free. It's simple products for
investigating the known (or believed) anomalies involved in cold
fusion experiments, starting with a codeposition experiment optimized
for low cost and neutron detection, basically reproducing the Galileo
protocol (or a close analog), which was designed by SPAWAR.
However, the nature of the alleged Orbo anomaly has become more
visible. They are using the effect of a toroidal coil on a ferrite
core to control the attraction of permanent magnets on a rotor to the
core, which attraction, when the ferrites are "open," will cause
rotary motion, but which, without the control, will "cog."
Now, we can look at that configuration and expect no energy gain, but
we are assuming that there is no anomaly. Until we see evidence for
an anomaly, that's rational. The only evidence we have (those of us
who haven't received the disclosure) is Steorn's confident assertion
of things like over-unity, to a ratio of three. I.e., with so much
power used to flip the ferrite state, they are gaining double that
power in the rotor.
If this were true, however, why the need for very-low-friction bearings?
Where is the pudding? Still in their fridge. Where it's been for
years. And we know enough about Steorn, from what has come down,
what's in the record (there is lots of stuff on the Village of the
Banned site), that they are deceptive, they have actually admitted it
at one point. (I.e., that they released misleading information in
order to lead possible Men in Black astray.) They have suppressed or
reframed negative information. For example, they recruited a jury,
named it, and supposedly provided the jury with evidence. The jury
concluded, apparently after being frustrated by lack of full
disclosure, or, alternatively, with the shallowness of what was
disclosed, that there was no reason to believe there was an anomaly.
They then used this jury conclusion as if it were some outside jury
of scientists with their minds fogged by conventional theory. And
they eliminated the earlier references to how the jury was formed and
the history.
In other words, I trust them not in the least. Not because of
conventional physics, but because of how they have behaved. Which
anyone can discover with a little digging.
