On Tue, 29 Dec 2009, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote:
But there is the tantalizing middle. They find that they "almost" close the loop.
You're giving them the benefit of the doubt. Count how many times you have to do that! It's very telling.
Their acting very Newman-esque and using a battery? Rather than using a five dollar supercapacitor? They're either insane, or they're scammers.
So they think that they are actually over unity, but with losses that maybe with better engineering they can fix. All it takes is more money.
If they're insane, then they'll talk themselves into using a battery and never actually try a supercap, even in private. They'll have all sorts of important reasons why they cannot ever try a supercap. Oh, and by "insane," I mean the same as "fooling themselves." There is a threshold past which the self-fooing becomes a complete break with reality.
Were you here when "Doctor" Stiffler was presenting his LED overunity device? One of his odd behaviors was, rather than just sitting down and honestly demonstrating his claims, and always sticking with straight un-twisted discussions, he claimed to be making youtube postings to "mess with the heads" of skeptics. In that case, nobody knew which of his videos were hoaxes intended to mislead "skeptics", and which were honest experiments. Steorn mentioned doing something similar.
But this is the real and present tipoff: their development of extremely low-friction bearings. That is an abandonment of over-unity and indicates a desire to become ever more and more sensitive, allowing more spectacular demonstrations where a tiny effect is accumulated.
Definitely! That's the Newman fallacy: pretending that a whirling massive flywheel represents a huge energy output. With low-friction bearings, you can spin a fairly large wheel for months using just a few 10s of cc of battery volume. That's how the fake PM machine sculpture built by David Jones of Nature journal accomplished its feat. (I replaced those hidden batteries myself more than once over the years.)
Though it obviously is. They claim there is no energy going there, but that hasn't actually been shown except by a gross and coarse display that would completely miss the tiny amount of energy expenditure necessary to make that rotor accumulate angular momentum.
Why not just use a supercap and remove the whole battery problem? Watch the capacitor voltage rise slowly as excess energy comes from nowhere? Stick a Zener across it to keep it from overvoltage. There's really no sensible excuse for their bizarre setup, unless it's obfuscation. Their setup looks sensible unless one realizes what the lack of a supercap implies about their collective mental state.
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