Re: [Vo]:Steorn Demo

2009-12-15 Thread Esa Ruoho
The Steorn Demo RIG - jpeg and PDF format. check it. http://www.steorn.com/demo/rig/ also something: http://www.steorn.com/demo/ Visit Steorn's Orbo technology demonstration at the Waterways Ireland Visitor Centre in Dublin What we're doing We are delighted to announce the live demonstration of

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Demo

2009-12-15 Thread Esa Ruoho
http://www.steorn.com/images/rig01.pdf

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Demo

2009-12-15 Thread Esa Ruoho
*Latest Steorn Press Release* Steorn is pleased to announce that public demonstrations of its controversial Orbo technology will begin today in Dublin and continue for the next six weeks. Orbo technology, which has been in development for six years, provides free, clean and constant energy at

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Demo

2009-12-15 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 12/15/2009 07:45 AM, Esa Ruoho wrote: http://www.steorn.com/images/rig01.pdf So there's a battery in it. So, it's not self-running; it runs from battery power. So, what is it supposed to be, exactly?

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Demo

2009-12-15 Thread Esa Ruoho
yeah, thats what all the dogjaws on twitter are harping on and on about. perpetual nonsense powered by a battery. there has got to be a reason why they just show it directly. i hope we'll figure out why eventually. i understand that the WITTS delay line generator, for instance, requires batteries

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Demo

2009-12-15 Thread Esa Ruoho
to see the shit-storm: http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23steorn On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Esa Ruoho esaru...@gmail.com wrote: yeah, thats what all the dogjaws on twitter are harping on and on about. perpetual nonsense powered by a battery. there has got to be a reason why they just show

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Demo

2009-12-15 Thread Craig Haynie
So... if the generator recharges the battery, then why not just disconnect the battery and run the thing with the power from the generator? I think it's a crock... Craig (Houston)

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Demo

2009-12-15 Thread Esa Ruoho
This is the eternal argument, and the last one that people come up with. There appears to be an imbalance that the battery-fed circuit gets from the battery, that the circuit balances out and some of the balancing reaction is tapped for doing work. Most of these start as energysavings and

[Vo]:Executive Director of the AIP says cold fusion is wrong and fraud

2009-12-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
See: http://blogs.physicstoday.org/newspicks/2009/12/opinion-scientific-integrity.html Dr. H. Frederick Dylla, Executive Director and CEO of the American Institute of Physics (AIP) wrote here that: such concepts as polywater, cold fusion, andhuman clones are examples of scientific

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Demo

2009-12-15 Thread Craig Haynie
... Let's see what their (Steorn's) reasons are for requiring a battery. If it really is transformation that they're tapping, they'll have to explain away the battery-requirement like a bunch of adults. Of course theyll be mocked for having a battery by anyone who believes they're doing

RE: [Vo]:Steorn Demo

2009-12-15 Thread Mark Iverson
Its explained in the YouTube video, Steorn Orbo Technology Launch 2009 The lower two rotors are a motor with PMs on the rotors and small coils (electromagnets?) on the stator. The EMs obviously require some DC electricity. The topmost rotor is a small generator which produces AC. To charge

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Demo

2009-12-15 Thread Esa Ruoho
Sterling D. Allan weighs in. (or something). http://pesn.com/2009/12/15/9501594_Steorn_demos_e-Orbo/ On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Mark Iverson zeropo...@charter.net wrote: Its explained in the YouTube video, Steorn Orbo Technology Launch 2009 The lower two rotors are a motor with PMs on

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Demo

2009-12-15 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Personally, I just wish the damned contraption was hooked up to a light bulb. Hell! If the thing was doing nothing more than powering a couple of energy efficient LEDs, for several weeks straight, now THAT would impress me more than the current battery recharging configuration. For me,

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Demo

2009-12-15 Thread Esa Ruoho
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JikYfmEdF8 Steorn Orbo Technology Launch 2009 On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 8:31 PM, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson svj.orionwo...@gmail.com wrote: Personally, I just wish the damned contraption was hooked up to a light bulb.

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Demo

2009-12-15 Thread Esa Ruoho
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/emergingtech/0,100183,39938307,00.htm

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Demo

2009-12-15 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 10:53 AM 12/15/2009, Craig Haynie wrote: We on this list, are indeed patient, but there are smoothing circuits and capacitors which could take the power from the generator and turn it into the equilibrium of a battery. Craig (Houston) That's what I thought of immediately. A nice big fat

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Demo

2009-12-15 Thread Craig Haynie
Personally, I just wish the damned contraption was hooked up to a light bulb. Hell! If the thing was doing nothing more than powering a couple of energy efficient LEDs, for several weeks straight, now THAT would impress me more than the current battery recharging configuration. The battery is

RE: [Vo]:Steorn Demo

2009-12-15 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 12:35 PM 12/15/2009, Mark Iverson wrote: Its explained in the YouTube video, Steorn Orbo Technology Launch 2009 The lower two rotors are a motor with PMs on the rotors and small coils (electromagnets?) on the stator. The EMs obviously require some DC electricity. The topmost rotor is a

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Demo

2009-12-15 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
From Craig: Personally, I just wish the damned contraption was hooked up to a light bulb. Hell! If the thing was doing nothing more than powering a couple of energy efficient LEDs, for several weeks straight, now THAT would impress me more than the current battery recharging

RE: [Vo]:Steorn Demo

2009-12-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
The battery is puzzling, but they do not hide it, so I do not see how it could be part of a scam. Mark Iverson wrote: so it should be easy to demonstrate that this thing could be kept running for weeks, months when it should draw down the battery in a matter of days... Hours, not days.

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Demo

2009-12-15 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 12/15/2009 01:53 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: At 10:53 AM 12/15/2009, Craig Haynie wrote: We on this list, are indeed patient, but there are smoothing circuits and capacitors which could take the power from the generator and turn it into the equilibrium of a battery. Craig (Houston)

Re: [Vo]:Executive Director of the AIP says cold fusion is wrong and fraud

2009-12-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
The author has now allowed a few comments, although not mine. He still claims that cold fusion was mistaken. - Jed

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Demo

2009-12-15 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 12/15/2009 02:09 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: The battery is puzzling, but they do not hide it, so I do not see how it could be part of a scam. Mark Iverson wrote: so it should be easy to demonstrate that this thing could be kept running for weeks, months when it should draw down the battery

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Demo

2009-12-15 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 01:37 PM 12/15/2009, Esa Ruoho wrote: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/emergingtech/0,100183,39938307,00.htm From that page: The device is powered by a large 10,000 mAH 1.2v nickel metal hydride rechargeable battery. Steorn says that this is recharged by the device itself, but has not

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Demo

2009-12-15 Thread Terry Blanton
It's a freakin' Bedini motor. Geeze.

RE: [Vo]:Steorn Demo

2009-12-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: It would be nice to have some definite indication of how much, by putting a mechanical load on it. Something like a miniature de Prony brake. I mean that since the machine produces mechanical motion, it makes sense to measure that directly, rather than -- say -- converting it to

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Demo

2009-12-15 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 12/15/2009 02:04 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: I'm not going to reject Steorn just because it flies in the face of solidly established theory, and it certainly does that far more than cold fusion -- which really just contradicted a poverty of imagination, not actual conservation of

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Demo

2009-12-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: Hours, not days. Toys that operate with D batteries run out in an hour or so. Wrong comparison. D-cell powered toys are typically doing significant work. On the other hand, small induction motors that do nothing but rotate do *not* run down a small battery in an

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Demo

2009-12-15 Thread Esa Ruoho
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence sa...@pobox.com wrote: In the case of Steorn, one company is claiming that all physicists for the past century or so have been befuddled over the way magnets work; only the folks at Steorn really understand it, and we should believe them (and

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Demo

2009-12-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: The correct comparison here might actually be to compare Steorn with one (hypothetical) researcher who claims that all of the positive CF results can be explained away by the results of one experiment he's done, and the theory he constructed based on it. Would you

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Demo

2009-12-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: The correct comparison here might actually be to compare Steorn with one (hypothetical) researcher who claims that all of the positive CF results can be explained away by the results of one experiment he's done . . . That would be Kirk Shanahan. Real, not hypothetical. Also

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Demo

2009-12-15 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 12/15/2009 02:56 PM, Esa Ruoho wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Stephen A. Lawrencesa...@pobox.com wrote: In the case of Steorn, one company is claiming that all physicists for the past century or so have been befuddled over the way magnets work; only the folks at Steorn really

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Demo

2009-12-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: Is there any evidence that they're not a scam? Well . . . the fact that they publish what appears to be a full schematic and it includes the battery is weak evidence that they believe what they say. Scammers hide the details. Assuming it does not work, a

[Vo]:Executive Director of the AIP says cold fusion is wrong and fraud

2009-12-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
[Here is another message I wrote to some well known cold fusion researchers.] Edmund Storms wrote: Apparently, the only information that impresses him is what he observed. He seems unable to evaluate the huge amount of information obtained by other people. Hopefully, he now has a reason to

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Demo

2009-12-15 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 12/15/2009 03:47 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: Is there any evidence that they're not a scam? Well . . . the fact that they publish what appears to be a full schematic and it includes the battery is weak evidence that they believe what they say. Scammers hide the

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Demo

2009-12-15 Thread Esa Ruoho
Jed, I'm on a channel where a person who's a member of the SPDC or SKDC or whatever its called nowadays,talks every once in a while, and he remarked this about the rig-exploded-view: The rig explosion doesn't give everything eg. the kind of windings, the metrics, the magnet orientation So there's

[Vo]:De Broglie wave wrapping

2009-12-15 Thread mixent
Hi, If the H atom electron is seen as a ring and this ring is allowed to vibrate along it's axis, then for small oscillation amplitudes the natural frequency of oscillation is the same as the rotational frequency of the ring. However if the axial oscillation is forced to a sub-harmonic, then the

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Demo

2009-12-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: They're trying to suck in people who don't understand why their claims are totally outrageous, nor why their demos actually do nothing to support their claims. I agree they are suspicious, and they give a bad name to magnet motor o-u research -- which is a

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Demo

2009-12-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: That depends. If he is making a lot of money and enjoying high status then he may be lying. But if he has invested his life savings in the oil, and destroyed his marriage, and he is one step away from being a homeless bum then I assume he believes it. Along similar lines, consider

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Demo

2009-12-15 Thread Harry Veeder
http://www.steorn.com/demo/ Apparently the demo is open to the public each day from 10am to 7pm after 7pm do they replace the battery? ;-) harry - Original Message From: OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson svj.orionwo...@gmail.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Tue, December 15, 2009

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Demo

2009-12-15 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
You may very well be right, Jed, and I just have too jaundiced a view of humanity. However, I had one further comment on the stupidity versus maliciousness issue. On 12/15/2009 04:54 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: [ ... ] It's exactly like the Newman motor, which had

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Demo

2009-12-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: When the issue of Newman's motor came up on this list, and I asserted that their comparisons were meaningless because they didn't measure input and output power, I received a number of extremely obnoxious, and ultimately highly insulting, emails from a

RE: [Vo]:De Broglie wave wrapping

2009-12-15 Thread Jones Beene
-Original Message- From: mix...@bigpond.com Matching lattice spacings may be at least one reason why CF is so temperamental One of the lattice spacings of Zr4.28Zn0.9Ge3 is a very close match to the x-ray wavelength required for H[n=1/9]. At level 9, the fusion time for DD fusion

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Demo

2009-12-15 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
From Mr. Lawrence: ... This is not the behavior of someone [Newman] who is confused or ignorant. A confused, ignorant person who didn't quite understand what he was doing would not see the need to dodge the trap in the question, what is the output power?. An honest person would try,

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Demo

2009-12-15 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 02:50 PM 12/15/2009, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: On 12/15/2009 02:04 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote: I'm not going to reject Steorn just because it flies in the face of solidly established theory, and it certainly does that far more than cold fusion -- which really just contradicted a

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Demo

2009-12-15 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 02:55 PM 12/15/2009, Jed Rothwell wrote: Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: Hours, not days. Toys that operate with D batteries run out in an hour or so. Wrong comparison. D-cell powered toys are typically doing significant work. On the other hand, small induction motors that do nothing but

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Demo

2009-12-15 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 02:58 PM 12/15/2009, Jed Rothwell wrote: Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: The correct comparison here might actually be to compare Steorn with one (hypothetical) researcher who claims that all of the positive CF results can be explained away by the results of one experiment he's done, and the

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Demo

2009-12-15 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:01 PM 12/15/2009, Jed Rothwell wrote: Also Yoshiaki Arata. He claims that all other experiments in this field are mistaken, and only his results are valid. He and I don't get along well because he says things like that. Yeah, it puts me off my feed, too. He's going to die, as we all

Re: [Vo]:Executive Director of the AIP says cold fusion is wrong and fraud

2009-12-15 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 10:33 AM 12/15/2009, Jed Rothwell wrote: The AIP published a textbook by Marwan and Krivit. Some researchers feel they should not tell Dylla this, because he might take steps to cancel the next AIP session on cold fusion, or prevent publication of the book. I wrote to them: No, Jed, that

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Demo

2009-12-15 Thread Terry Blanton
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: The Bedini motor had a fan on it, which would presumably create some drag so that's certainly more interesting if it actually ran for years. Did it? Well, how many of these are there and how many have

RE: [Vo]:Steorn Demo

2009-12-15 Thread Hoyt A. Stearns Jr.
As a Steorn Non Disclosure Agreement signatory and knowledgeable insider, I have a few comments: The energy in the battery does not go to the kinetic energy of the rotor, it is used as an easy way to modify some parameters of the device. Steorn does have all permanent magnet motors ( so they

Re: [Vo]:Steorn Demo

2009-12-15 Thread Jed Rothwell
If the battery is being used for control electronics then it is reasonable. It should not be difficult to confirm that is its purpose. There is no harm is reserving judgement and leaving open the possibility that the gadget is real. If it is not real, a million people will pile on to the

Re: [Vo]:De Broglie wave wrapping

2009-12-15 Thread mixent
In reply to Jones Beene's message of Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:06:28 -0800: Hi Jones, [snip] -Original Message- From: mix...@bigpond.com Matching lattice spacings may be at least one reason why CF is so temperamental One of the lattice spacings of Zr4.28Zn0.9Ge3 is a very close match to