On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 11:35 AM, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson <svj.orionwo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> That may be so, but OC's "dream" variation is, IMO, categorically > different than what "Alsetalokin's" original configuration appears to > show. IMHO, OC "dream", specifically the dynamic animation displayed > out at the web site, is therefore irrelevant. OC's animation cannot be > used in any practical way to help explain "Alsetalokin's" contraption, > precisely because OC is rotating the stator magnets in the wrong > direction. Unquestionably true. I wasn't clear. OC's dream came first; but, was the origin of Al's idea to create the device he did. > Alas, a burning debate that remains answered in my mind is whether > "Alsetalokin's" original demonstration was a clever fake. Based on the > fact that, as I understand it, few replications have shown much > success, it is sensible to come to a conclusion that trickery may > indeed have been involved. The consensus at the time was it was driven with a compressed air nozzle. T
