/snip/ > * There is the initial report showing the system ran 4000 watts for > 100 hours that showed a well-thought out overunity test. It was a 3rd > party test, paid for by the company. The report remains confidential, > but it was impressive enough to get Sterling Allan on a plane. /snip/ We just don't have enough to go on yet. Sterling's FFG review is that the observed power output is supposedly well in excess of the total energy available at the input. Meaning, if the power is actually being consumed at the published rates, the demonstration would be over in less than 1/6 of the time shown.
What I witnessed, along with three other scientists that I brought along -- all more qualified than myself -- was a 5 kW unit powered by four batteries, running for three hours continuous, driving a load of approximately 4 KW. According to the amp-hour rating of those batteries (102 Ah each), without being recharged from an external source, they should have lasted only 35 minutes before running down completely, no longer able to power the system. The load was roughly 4 kW, comprised of: - a two-burner stove, each burner consuming 1 kW (rated power according to manufacturer) - a toaster that consumed 850 Watts (rated power) - a pancake maker that consumes 1 kW (rated power) - A 40-Watt fan (rated power) http://pesn.com/2012/02/22/9602042_South_African_Fuel-Free_Generator_Preparing_for_Market/ In Sterling's article, these are all based upon published ratings, and not actual, continual measure. A great deal of assumptions could be false. Lets look just at the burners, for example: - two-burner stove, each burner consuming 1 kW (rated power according to manufacturer) Does this mean that the metal was built to withstand 1 kW, or consume 1kW during peak usage? If it is 1kW when "turned all the way up", was it actually "turned all the way up", or was any additional resistance in-line? Assuming the burners were each meant to consume 1kW, were they wired in series or parallel? It's counterintuitive, but in series, you would have doubled the curcuit resistance, halved the current, halved the voltage drop across each, and actually dropped circuit power consumption in half. In short, we do not even remotely have the necessary information to determine if the FFG is a simple trick, or something more. Like so much else, it's purely wait-and-see at this point.
