Unfortunately, the bullet-proof case for net energy gain was not made at
the time. There is apparent gain, but not proved gain.
Brian Ahern ran the test for many days using a very high capacity
battery array. At the end of the test, the battery pack appeared to be
fully charged, but there's the rub "appeared to be".
LIPO batteries are well-known to present a pseudo voltage which is
higher than the average voltage, especially in a case where HV BMEF is
present ... and thus a large pack which seems fully charged could in
fact have lost a great deal of charge. That is because measuring the
voltage is the easy way to determine state of charge, and when it is
known that pseudo-voltage happens, the results cannot be relied on.
Bottom line. Although we want want to think the battery pack was fully
charged, the deal was not closed and doubt remains.
The best way to have made the case of real gain would have been to
actually drive the EV around until the battery pack was fully discharged
and then work backwards from the mileage driven to determine the real
state of charge at the start.
Sadly, circumstances prevented that from happening, so although it
appears there was gain, the level of proof does not support that
conclusion. Even more sadly, the inventor then became incapacitated and
the vehicle was sold. The remnants of the device (magnetic billet) have
been tested but there is still no good indication of the apparent gain
seen earlier.
The one detail which cannot be doubted is the cooling effect. That alone
is worth something.
Chris Zell wrote:
Another overlapping mechanism to add into the mix for the Manelas
effect, which is probably a "Maxwell's Demon" in its own special way
is related to the organizing mechanism mentioned by Chris... and it
has a name: Doppler cooling
Sounds kinda red shifty to me. Not sure how we extract energy from it.
