They have likened to The effect in The Orbo-powergenerator to be Piezoelectric in nature. Feels to me like it is hearing something and transforming it into droplets that it spews forth and that are Directed into The Lithium-Ion battery.
Sent from some iDevice. Written by Esa. > Eric Walker <eric.wal...@gmail.com> kirjoitti 26.1.2016 kello 3.05: > >> On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 6:27 PM, Bob Higgins <rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> Electrets have been made for hundreds of years. These electrets, if >> shorted, and then opened will have the charge return and a high electric >> field will once again be present. In the shorting, charge was conducted >> from one plate to another, so work was done. > > Thank you for the clarification about the existence of electrets. What I > don't understand is how you'd get a replenished potential out of one without > doing additional work. If we consider the shorting to be doing work > analogous to allowing a ball to roll down a hill, converting potential energy > into kinetic energy (of the electrons in the current), what then moves the > ball back up the hill after removing the short? > > Note that there was a claim that the Orbo works in a Faraday cage; if true, > it seems like some kind of ambient potential in the environment isn't being > tapped. There was a suggestion that the Orbo made use of a thermoelectric > effect. That sounds like three things -- a lithium battery, a stack of > electrets and some kind of thermoelectric device or effect. Could such a > thing be made to do useful work? > > Eric >
