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Originally posted by Arbitrageur
I'm following your logic on starting with fully discharged output batteries. Makes perfect sense.
Now, how do you measure what you had to put in to charge the battery? If people are trying to measure non-sinusoidal waveforms with meters designed to give accurate readings only with DC or sinusoidal AC, could they be making measurement errors?
Originally posted by cupocoffee
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
I'm following your logic on starting with fully discharged output batteries. Makes perfect sense.
Now, how do you measure what you had to put in to charge the battery? If people are trying to measure non-sinusoidal waveforms with meters designed to give accurate readings only with DC or sinusoidal AC, could they be making measurement errors?
You got me there. I don't know.
Is there no simple way to measure how many amp-hours are used up from the input battery?
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
Originally posted by cupocoffee
And as for me, I'm not going to spend thousands of my hard-earned cash just to try to convince a handful of pessimists in a forum thread.
Well, if you have $200 a month average electric bills like a lot of Texans do, it doesn't take long to spend thousands on electric bills, so it would pay for itself in a couple of years then all the electricity in your house would be free! So why not do it to save money? You just need to spend maybe another $800 on a large AC inverter and you can run your household electricity from batteries.
Originally posted by cupocoffee
So what it really boils down to is, WHO has the courage to do a completely fair and unbiased test and publish all the data - even if the results are actually positive? Who's willing to put their credibility on the line?
Well, Rick Friedrich from New Energy Congress, for one - but now he's just Bedini's "buddy" and he's in on the "scam".
See the problem?
Originally posted by cupocoffee
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
Has he sent it to an independent lab to have them confirm his calculations?
Bedini has, reportedly, refused to allow independent investigation.
Is that true and if it really works why wouldn't he want someone to independently confirm it works? If he got a testimonial from an independent test lab, it would help him sell more "kits", right?
It's obviously not true. He has allowed people like Bearden and Lindemann and Friedrich to work with him in his lab
So what it really boils down to is, WHO has the courage to do a completely fair and unbiased test and publish all the data - even if the results are actually positive? Who's willing to put their credibility on the line?
A couple of NASA scientists, Mike Nelson and Ken House, who work on the Space Shuttle project in Huntsville, Alabama have been following the free energy world for years and would like to believe that Tesla type of technology is possible that harnesses limitless energy from the environment via electromagnetic means.
However, this is not a free-for-all invitation for anyone who thinks they have an overunity device. Mike and Ken's pre-requisites are pretty stringent.
In their spare time, they are willing to put their reputation at stake in validating bona fide electromagnetic overunity (more energy out than what was put in). But "spare time" is the key word. They don't have much of it, so they don't want to spend time on things that haven't first been tested to show overunity by others; and they want to review the data that has been collected.
Originally posted by cupocoffee
Well, Rick Friedrich from New Energy Congress, for one - but now he's just Bedini's "buddy" and he's in on the "scam".
See the problem?
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
Well that's why I kept talking about an INDEPENDENT test lab!
Originally posted by cupocoffee
Friedrich was an INDEPENDENT person. He started out as a member of Sterling Allan's New Energy Congress, he started replicating Bedini's School-girl motor and other stuff, he was thoroughly convinced of the validity of the technology, and he moved to Idaho to work with Bedini full time.
They are smart to do the screening by reviewing the data collected first. I see all kinds of problems with the data collected on the tests I've reviewed. There are a lot of ways to get it wrong.
Originally posted by Phage
These guys?
they want to review the data that has been collected.
source
I mean, we have all seen how much flak and ridicule Steorn have taken for saying the same thing, right?
Originally posted by rnaa
They wave their hands a lot and give some bull manure explanation why the two batteries are incompatible or something. But the fact remains if the output battery is being charged in a way that makes it useful for me to run my radio or whatever, then they, being Electronic Engineering Geniuses an all, can figure out how to connect that output battery to the input. But they can't, and they won't, because they aren't.
Originally posted by cupocoffee
Have you ever considered that it might actually be advantageous to leave it as an open two-battery system and NOT close the loop?
I know Bedini has been doing it that same way for years, with an input battery and at least one output battery, and he claims that it works better that way too.
Originally posted by buddhasystem
Again, the fact that it's not being done is another red herring.
I know Bedini has been doing it that same way for years, with an input battery and at least one output battery, and he claims that it works better that way too.
Why am I not surprised?
Wait a minute, this thread isn't even about Bedini, but the way we got to talking about him is that I mentioned none of these things including the one in the OP seem to be working models, they only sell licenses, etc.
Originally posted by cupocoffee
Bedini has proprietary systems that he hasn't released yet.....
And we are still waiting for the release of his proprietary systems in 2010?
1981-1999
John Bedini claimed development of several free energy devices.[72][73][74] Bedini has, reportedly, refused to allow independent investigation.
Reader Mike St. Clair refers us to a review that appeared in Home Theater & High Fidelity back in March of 2002, written by reviewer Jason Serinus about the Bedini Dual Beam Ultra Clarifier, yet another quack "high-end" audio device. It can be seen at www.bedini.com/jsreview.htm. The home page of this line of nonsense can be found at www.bedini.com.
Advertising on the site says, "Don't miss this opportunity to experience the only patented and proven process for all digitally recorded media. . . . If you haven't yet tried our Clarifier then you truly have not heard your systems [sic] total capability." That certainly sounds like a very firm and confident claim, don't you think? Says Mike:
Many people on the audiophile forums have raved about the results of the Bedini Clarifier. It [claims to] improve the sound of your CDs by spinning them and bathing them with "electromagnetic beams." I wish I were making this up. If you add it to the challenge, I might come up with a person or two (in Florida, no less) that actually think they can pass the test.
I assured Mike that such a device certainly comes under the JREF Challenge, then I sent this message to the Bedini people:
To Jason Serinus and/or anyone who thinks they can detect the effect of the Bedini Dual Beam Ultra Clarifier: Please refer to my web page at www.randi.org/jr/080504string.html (#8) and see the million-dollar challenge made there. To date, I've not had any response to this offer, a tactic you also may wish to adopt.
No, none of those 13 people I e-mailed about the audio challenge weeks ago have replied, a fact that I'm sure will not surprise my readers. They won't because they can't. They're fakers, irresponsible quacks, and they've gone under that huge rock where the other fakes have retreated.
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
Wait a minute, this thread isn't even about Bedini, but the way we got to talking about him is that I mentioned none of these things including the one in the OP seem to be working models, they only sell licenses, etc.
Then you cite Bedini and say he's got something that works, then when we start asking questions about it you play the "not yet released" card?? :shk:
But Bedini's item isn't a working model, it's an "experimenter's kit" which means he doesn't make any claims it will actually work.
Originally posted by cupocoffee
Yes, and you said that the inventors should be building and selling working models, like the Atmos clock. And I pointed out that Bedini and Friedrich are selling a unit, exactly like what you asked for.
Anyway, buddhasystem pointed out that the electronics to swap batteries automatically are trivial - so why don't YOU do it? The schematics for the School-girl motor are free, you just have to join the Yahoo group and get them, so why don't YOU make one that swaps batteries automatically and runs indefinitely?
Originally posted by cupocoffee
Anyway, buddhasystem pointed out that the electronics to swap batteries automatically are trivial - so why don't YOU do it?
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
But Bedini's item isn't a working model,
If you read my previous post you'll know exactly why I won't do it, Bedini is a known scam artist with his DVD enhancer, that's a complete fraud without a doubt. So why would I waste time trying to work on a project from a known con artist.