How could anyone be surprised that there is negativity towards Sterling's capers?
As you pointed out, this is exactly the same as countless free energy scams Sterling has been involved with. The South African trip, Perendev, Mylow, Intelligentry, Green Power - you name it, Sterling's fallen for it. I've been reading his site for years and just when I think Sterling couldn't be fooled again, he is. Sterling raised ~$4000 for his supporters for this trip, with talk of extended videos and validations, and some 'investigative journalism' of the amazing Yildiz magnet motor that will usher in the new age of free energy. Instead all we get is weak excuses and useless videos, plus a motor that barely works powering a 30 watt fan for a few hours. This is the second time Sterling has done this recently, with his South African trip coming to mind as a similar boondoggle where he raises money then absolutely fails to deliver. It's not science or journalism - it's more akin to uncritical fandom for free energy. As this point, Sterling is an increasingly depressing example of the perils of magical thinking, which is unfortunately so common. His continual boosterism has crossed the line from an interest to a pathological obsession. As Sterling's personal finances teeter closer to bankruptcy (he posts them on the site), he appears to be willing to do and say anything to promote the illusion of free energy just around the corner. Apart from his fervent belief in the supernatural (e.g. he believed due to numerology he would be president in 2004 - see http://www.greaterthings.com/Word-Number/People/SDA_President_04), he has also had several emotional breakdowns on PES video's recently, and it saddens me to see he is unable to put aside his obsessions and realize that he really needs professional help at this point. His BS filter is so broken that he doesn't appear to do any research at all on the schemes he promotes, nor does he follow up with previous schemes. A recent example is the Nigerian inventor Gabriel Ohiochioya Obadan and his Cogar 'reactor' posted last week. The first hit on Google for that name is a recent SEC document illustrating the inventors involvement in a $1m scam, but Sterling (a) didn't do the research and (b) removed comments pointing this out on his blog. Extremely troubling. An older example is the 'sponsorship' of PESwiki by Green Power/Michael Spitzauer several years ago, where Sterling was directly paid by one of these schemes. Although there is a vague warning now on the PESwiki page for Green Power, Sterling never mentioned that Spitzauer had a previous history of fraud and deception (e.g. a six year prison sentence in Austria in 1992 for fraud, and another $1m in fraud in Seattle as shown in this 1997 article http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19970929&slug=2563209) and Green Power Inc ended up bankrupt in 2011 (http://www.thenewstribune.com/2013/01/17/2438485/port-of-pasco-to-sell-parts-from.html). Spitzauer raised $20m for Green Power, much of which came from unsophisticated 'Mom and Pop' investors in rural Washington, and Sterling directly benefited from the proceeds. As for Yildiz and his 'motor', he's been working this story for 33 years allegedly. The trail of broken promises looks exactly like every other similar story on PESwiki, and will end the same way. AF ----- Original Message ----- From: Jones Beene <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: Sent: Friday, April 12, 2013 4:42 PM Subject: RE: [Vo]:Yildiz motor in Geneva -- ran 5.5 hours then broke down It is a surprise that there is quite a bit of negativity on vortex for this demo. That skepticism could be related to the 5 or 6 other similar claims on Sterling Allan's PESN site which show signs of scam or trickery, but what is specific problem with this one ? ... A noted professor (Duarte) has been allowed to check for hidden batteries or motor - and says there is no trickery. Magnetic fields store energy, not a lot of energy compared to chemical, but it takes energy to align magnetic polarities and this amounts to stored spin-energy. I’m not sure that the energy density of a magnet can be compared to chemical energy from a battery in a meaningful way - yet it is still stored energy. If the magnetic field itself can used for "fuel" in the sense of energy extraction, and this demo indicates that it can – then when we recognize that it is notably NOT a heat engine, we can rationalize the apparent low energy density. If the operation is not covered by the laws of thermodynamics, then the work which was done could simply have been done in more efficient manner, to wit: magnetic spin going to a "spin sink" which is torque, avoiding heat as the intermediary. Most chemical reactions, as in a battery - operate as heat engines. Yildiz's motor produces almost no heat (only friction at the bearings). But the system could still be conservative in the context of another kind of input - “order” going to “disorder” in the magnetic alignment. This could mean that providing magnetic alignment is where stored energy enters the system and torque is where it leaves. Subjectively we assign a much greater value to torque than to heat. Energy per unit volume, or energy density has the same physical units as pressure, and the energy density of the magnetic field may be expressed as a physical pressure. This is relatively low thermally, even when magnets express an intrinsic static force which is high between each other, and mimics pressure. Given that the pressure of opposing fields in magnetism is large, that should be a clue that we are missing the important variable - spin. Enthalpy can derive from ordered systems going efficiently to disorder, as in demagnetization or from an input such as ZPE. In short, thermal energy density is the best known measure of the volumetric enthalpy of a system but it is not the only determinant of it. If ZPE alone is responsible, then perhaps there can be work done with no demagnetization, but the simplest explanation for an energy anomaly in a "magmo" is that we are seeing “order-to-disorder” enthalpy of a non-thermodynamic type: spin going to a spin-sink, which exhibits a higher-value for of energy - torque. Jones
