On Jul 28, 2009, at 7:51 AM, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote:
Explanation given: Schwartz says it's an 'electromagnetic device'.
Hmmm, that's a little thin on the "explanation" front.
Makes me wonder where Schwartz obtained his doctorate. My favorite
part is where he says the device "makes electrons". He's also a bit
unclear himself as to whether those are each 100 watt or 1000 watt
light bulbs! The light looks like 100 watts each to me, which would
make the output 300 W, not 3000 W.
The first thing he does is he "activates" it. NOTE WELL: First it
must
be turned on and activated, and the first thing it does when he flips
the switch is light some LEDs, and the electricity for that comes from
WHERE, exactly?
There is an enclosure to the back left that looks like it would just
hold a 12V Everstart motorcyle wet cell battery from Wal-Mart, the
same kind I'm using for my Marinov ball bearing motor experiment at
the moment. Must be projection on my part.
There *must* be an internal power source to allow it to
start up, yet he *never* mentions that. In order to do its initial
"power up" and "agitate the plates" (as he says it does) and do its
seek-out-and-find operation so it can connect to the Earth, it must be
using internal battery power, since it's not running yet (and hence
not
"self-powering" yet) and it's not plugged in. Just how much battery
power does it have on board, anyway? Since the power needed to
start it
up is never mentioned, we don't know.
It's "grounded to the earth" but there's no ground wire, as they
show us
after it's "activated". So, the statement that it's "grounded" is
just
misdirection, like most of what he says.
I loved the bit where they pick up the case and turn it over --
this is
pure stage-magician stuff: see, the box is solid on all sides.
Unfortunately for the demo that little operation also shows that it's
not "grounded to the earth" no matter what he says about it; the claim
that it's grounded was a simple lie.
It weighs 42 pounds, just 8 pounds of that are electronics, the weight
is "mostly case", he says -- bloody heavy case, eh? Or maybe it's
case
and batteries, eh?
It has "no moving parts" and "no carbon footprint"; he says this as
though the second follows from the first. For that matter, even if
the
only energy it uses was the energy required to manufacture it, its
carbon footprint would be nonzero, but again, this is all just part of
the "patter" which goes with the "trick" of lighting the lightbulbs.
Hey! It has bismuth! It *has* to be real! 8^)
In short, this video positively screams "scam".
MJ wrote:
http://www.overunity.com/index.php?topic=7842
Best regards,
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
