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Steorn has unveiled its over-unity Orbo device, which promises perpetual motion, to the public in a gallery in Dublin
An exploded view of the device, giving an overall sense of its construction. (The diagram is also available from Steorn's website.) The pick-up coils whereby the battery is recharged are positioned separately from the main driver coils, apparently configured as a fairly standard brushless DC motor — which can be 90 percent efficient or more.
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What is this pile of effing nonsense doing here?
This is worthy of "Hustle"! Produce a load of pseudo-scientific gobbledy-gook, then charge people to "learn" about it. That would appear to be the real business these guys are in.
Get real - it's a dynamo driven by an electric motor, however you try to dress it up. And you CANNOT get more out than you put in. If you could the universe would cease to exist. 1.2 Wh of battery will keep a rotor on good quality bearings with minimum air resistance turning for a hell of a long time - nothing magic about that.
There's about as much science here as a shampoo advert.
I've been following the progress of these magnetic motors for some time now and I have to say they look convincing.
Don't dismiss something because it flies in the face of what you think you know.
A lot of scientific advances came from seemingly impossible concepts and even the greatest minds get it wrong.
Remember Einsteins letter to Born where he states that "I am convinced that He does not throw dice" referring to the Copenhage interpretation of Quantum mechanics.
An interpretation which has since given us the transistor, a purely quantum mechanical device impossible to explain with conventional physics which nevertheless has had the most profound impact on our lives and the world as a whole.