On Wed, 9 Dec 2015, Bob Higgins wrote:
This motor is certainly not a perpetual motion machine, but it is an electrostatic motor. It bears a striking resemblance to a Wimshurst generator, which could be used as a motor, and also to Jefimenko's electrostatic motors. Electrostatic motors are real - the original demonstration may not have been faked. The Earth's electric field varies from 500V/m to >50kV/m and this can be harvested to do work as Jefimenko showed with his motors (I have an electronic copy of his book somewhere).
Yeah, Jefimenko couldn't get them to turn using balloon-wire antennas, until they tried it from the top of a parking garage. Nearby buildings had been acting as a shield, and their balloon-wire wasn't high enough. Indoors, the shielding effect is 100%.
Weird: the orbo box (maybe) is based on the same electret-like effect that (maybe) is powering the black disk electrostatic motor. Maybe! Both may rely on insulators actually being large resistors.
Also, here's a cool one below, dunno if it's been discussed: Waller motor, electrostatic PM hoax? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YreCJDvIX2Q
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