Harry, they've stated that it will work inside a Faraday cage, so it's not an energy-harvester using RF as power-source, like the ADGEX ELFE and the forthcoming ADGEX Tachyon products will be.
So we'll see. That leaked investor-video contained this nugget: "Shaun showed the internal components of a PowerCube, described how the energy generating Orbo power pack works, and even demonstrated the process of manufacturing a simple device of this kind. The Orbo battery (or power pack) is made up of three components: two dissimilar metals and a layer of chemical gel that sits between them. The two metals can be sheets, or "basically any physical format". Shaun compares the resulting combination of components to a galvanic cell. However, in a galvanic cell, the chemical agent would be chemically eroding the other components; but in the Orbo battery, the chemical layer is completely inert and has no chemical interactions with the magnets. The process of producing an Orbo battery involves taking these three layers, two dissimilar metals separated by a chemical (the formula of which is "not that simple"), heating them up to just beyond the melting point of the chemical, and then very slowly cooling them, which allows the chemical gel to retain an electric field that is impressed up it. The result is that a permanent electric field is "frozen" into the gel material, with positive and negative poles. This polarized electric field then interacts with the two dissimilar metals to generate an electric current, in a way that is analogous to how the magnetic fields in the "classic" perpetual motion machine Orbo interacted with one another to generate force. The electric field frozen into the gel material works in a way that parallels the frozen magnetic fields of permanent magnets. The term for a device with this sort of permanently frozen electric field is "electret", a portmanteau of "electric" and "magnet". Shaun states that when polarized the right way, "what you end up with is something that is positive and negative." "It doesn't matter what you do to me, I will always polarize." The Orbo battery is thus an electric field version of the original magnetic Orbo. "So it is consistent, similar, and in many ways an incredibly simple piece of technology." According to Shaun, Steorn's first battery prototypes were built approximately 2 years ago, and are still outputting power 24/7. Shaun says, "we know theoretically these materials will hold an electric field for circa 800 years." ( http://dispatchesfromthefuture.com/2015/10/new_video_reveals_internals_of_orbo_powe.html ) On 25 January 2016 at 22:26, H Veeder <hveeder...@gmail.com> wrote: > This new Orbo product is reputed to employ "electrets" - a material that > retains a dialectric charge for hundreds years - which is the electric > equivalent of a permanent magnet. A lot of research is being done on > electrets for use in energy harvesting, so this time Steorn may be > marketing a product that is consistent with established physics. > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_harvesting#Electrostatic_.28capacitive.29 > Another solution consists in using electrets, that are electrically > charged dielectrics able to keep the polarization on the capacitor for > years.[51] It's possible to adapt structures from classical electrostatic > induction generators, which also extract energy from variable capacitances, > for this purpose. The resulting devices are self-biasing, and can directly > charge batteries, or can produce exponentially growing voltages on storage > capacitors, from which energy can be periodically extracted by DC/DC > converters. > > > Harry > > > On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 3:11 PM, Che <comandantegri...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> A kinder, gentler hatchet-job. >> >> >> >> On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 12:31 PM, H Veeder <hveeder...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Fact or fiction: Irish firm invents everlasting battery >>> >>> Is Steorn’s Orbo technology a non-polluting, supercheap source of power >>> – or a delusion ? >>> >>> (article and video) >>> >>> >>> http://www.irishtimes.com/business/fact-or-fiction-irish-firm-invents-everlasting-battery-1.2506832 >>> >>> >>> Harry >>> >>> >> > -- --- http://twitter.com/esaruoho // http://lackluster.bandcamp.com // +358403703659 // skype:esajuhaniruoho // http://esaruoho.tumblr.com/ // iMessage: esaru...@gmail.com //
