Excellent way of simplifying the concept, Stephen. I also thought of a way to determine the mechanical energy imparted. All we need do is have a time-stamped video as the spinny thing spins up. If you know the mass of the rotor, you can calculate F=ma and solve for the force. This will get you pretty darn close to the mechanical energy imparted by the magnetoelectric propulsion. Mind you, it won't be linear.
Terry (now where's my physics and calculus text books?) On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence <[email protected]> wrote: > OK, folks, we're all talking about it but nobody's quite said it. This > apparently novel motor is actually just a new manifestation of a very > old concept. > > The Orbo, as described, is a perpetual motion machine which uses > magnetic shields. There is just one thing which is unusual about it: > > Instead of using physical shields, moved by solenoids, it uses an > electronic shield (the toroidal coil), and it uses saturation of the > core to "block" the field. > > The result of the use of these "active shields" is that all the while > the "shield" is "in place" there is a large current draw. This large > current draw, which goes to heating the coils and nothing else, throws a > lot of dust in the air and makes the analysis of the motor more confusing. > > The thing the large current drain distracts from is that this machine, > just like *all* perpetual motion machines which use magnetic shields, > loses in exactly one place: The cost of moving the shields. In the > case of Orbo, that's going to manifest itself in the transients as the > coils are turned on and off. > > Once the shields are in place (or, in Orbo's case, the coils are fully > energized) the behavior of a magnetic-shield perpmo is simple. It's > only during the acts of putting up the shields and taking them down that > it's hard to understand. > > Any analysis of the motor which does not pick apart the exact behavior > of the transients during coil turnon/turnoff is going to leave out a key > piece of the puzzle. Furthermore, any analysis which leaves out those > transients is likely to arrive at the conclusion that it's OU -- just as > any analysis of a classical perpetual motion machine using magnetic > shields which neglects the cost of moving the shields is likely to > conclude that the machine would work. > >
