On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote:
> Esa Ruoho <[email protected]> wrote: > >> So I guess they have to wait till Steorn's Orbo 15kW heater instead of the >> 18kW. I dunno, why would alt.energy/FE people be so interested in Andrea >> Rossi's E-Cat if it is so radioactive? >> > I don't get the Orbo claim. I have not been following this, but isn't it > some kind of magnetic motor, or a rotating perpetual motion machine? Why are > they now talking about a heater, and not a generator? How is the heater > supposed to work? > The Steorn anomaly thing started as an anomalous measurement while they were working on developing a microwindturbine for their ATM surveillance system that they were commissioned to create. They spent a load of time trying to figure out what they were measuring wrong and eventually realized that they were actually cancelling BackEMF - which seems to be some sort of friction which is accepted as a "must-always-happen"-type event by regular Electrical Engineers. So they've been trying to demonstrate it to engineers and to the public, that BackEMF can be cancelled or "tuned out" when certain magnetic interactions are happening at a certain speed. They've also been producing calorimetry measurements this way and that way, saying that not only did their Waterways Dec2009 demonstration cancel out BackEMF and thus act as a self-running device (at a certain RPM), but that the extra energy that the interaction pulls into the system was dissipated as heat. If they are now getting towards a 3rd party product, the first Orbo-using device, which, as http://twitter.com/SteornOfficial has referred to it, was 1kW around 20th March, 3kW around 27th March ( "3 kW - in the palm or your hand - just so cool!" ), and the latest Tweet from SteornOfficial, as a response to a person who asked them, stated "Yep, within the next 4 weeks we plan to release info on a 15 kW heating element.". So let's see what kind of information they release this time, altho I'd be more interested in an Orbo iPhone charger, to be honest - that could take off way better as a dinky geeky d-i-y kinda device than these heaters. Anyway, Godspeed to both Rossi+Steorn & Co and everyone else, we could use anything that functions (both measurably and as an appliance) AND doesn't comform to the Mainstream opinions of Cold Fusion or Magnetic Interactions.
