----- Original Message ----
> From: Stephen A. Lawrence <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Thu, January 14, 2010 4:10:25 PM
> Subject: Re: [Vo]:steorn talk#2 today at 5pm irish time + closeup shots of
> steorn talk#2 demo-rig
>
>
>
> On 01/14/2010 03:02 PM, Terry Blanton wrote:
> > The Orbo is a motor as I am sure we will all agree. In order for the
> > motor to be OU, it must be outputting more mechanical energy than
> > electrical energy it consumes.
>
> Not exactly -- not the way the term has been used to describe the Steorn
> motor.
>
> Granted, Sean's "300% OU" would lead to this conclusion. However, his
> fundamental, most basic claim is that the motor has no back EMF, and
> consequently *all* input energy appears as heat in the coils.
>
> If that were true, then the motor would be OU if it did any mechanical
> work at all, no matter how small the amount. The OU thing here,
> however, is not mechanical_work/input_energy, but rather
>
> (mechanical_work + heat_in_coils)/input_energy
> To determine if this is actually OU it would be necessary to stuff the
> whole thing into a calorimeter, which is, I think, the test the firm in
> Germany is supposed to perform.
>
> If it could be shown that the motor was, indeed, OU by this test, it
> might still be the case that (mechanical_work/input_energy)<1, which
> would make it impossible to either close the loop or even get any useful
> work out of it, *but* it would still be an incredible, amazing,
> remarkable, stunning achievement (or a measurement error, of course).
The purpose of a _motor_ is to convert electromagnetic energy into useful
motion. The purpose of the orbo is to turn electromagnetic energy and motion
into heat. Therefore it is misleading to call it a motor.
If the orbo can produce more output heat energy than it uses in input energy
then it is similar to the purpose of a _reactor_.
Harry
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