On 11/13/2011 4:19 PM, Mary Yugo wrote:
... With just a moment of thought, I can remember some of the most
prominent recent scams promoted by Allan on his site. One of these
is, of course, Steorn. ...
Allan (or at least Hank) is still promoting Steorn. Checkout this
fairly recent and very positive article:
http://pesn.com/2011/09/14/9501914_Steorn_Drops_Four_Bombshell_Documents_Validating_Orbo/
Checkout the section on "Document #2" which is available for all to read at:
http://www.steorn.com/orbo/papers/jm-rice-report-28april-2008.pdf
Here is Hank's summary of it:
"So in short, when it comes to Steorn's permanent magnet based Orbo
technology, this author's answer was, "Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!"
Which is sort of true, but if you bother to read the paper yourself
carefully you will see that the author has made an error in the sign of
the energy result and so it was a loss rather than a gain! So the
answer should be "No! No! No! No!"
OK mistakes happen. But having gone to the trouble of writing to Allan
to point this more than a month ago, I would have expected that there
should be some sort of note of correction added to say that this
"Document #2" is in fact probably the worst indictment of Steorn's Orbo
possible!
How long do you think Steorn has known that their energy gain was a
misinterpreted energy loss? In their paper titled "Asymmetry and energy
in magnetic systems" (probably late 2008), the way they pussyfoot around
with words to avoid saying whether they measured a gain or a loss, while
all the time implying that it was a gain, suggests strongly to me that
they discovered their mistake before that paper was written!
