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Originally posted by Arbitrageur
Now some hoaxes are intentional fraud, but some inventors have actually fooled themselves into thinking their device actually works. Bedini's has enough components that he may actually not know how to measure its efficiency properly. So I don't know if it's intentional fraud or just incompetence in that he really doesn't know how to make proper efficiency measurements. I've seen both cases.
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
If I thought he was committing fraud I would have said he WILL go to jail for fraud, but I said that experimenter's kit description may keep him OUT of jail.
"Experimenter's kit" is code for "don't expect it to work, I make no guarantees". I think you could sell experimenter kits for cold fusion the same way and as long as you don't claim it actually works, you can get away with it.
Originally posted by cupocoffee
There will always be people coming up with whatever excuse to say that the technology doesn't work, even when the inventors are already building and selling the devices or licensing the technology out to third-party companies.
Originally posted by buddhasystem
I suggest everybody tries to consider this one more time: selling "kits" has become a trademark of the snake-oil business of extraction of energy from vacuum, and IMHO Arbitrageur hit the nail on the head explaining why. Liability baby, liability.
Originally posted by cupocoffee
Originally posted by buddhasystem
I suggest everybody tries to consider this one more time: selling "kits" has become a trademark of the snake-oil business of extraction of energy from vacuum, and IMHO Arbitrageur hit the nail on the head explaining why. Liability baby, liability.
So if Bedini gives it away for free, like he did the School-girl motor, and hundreds of people start replicating it then it's just "claims with no evidence".
Originally posted by cupocoffee
Oh come on. A famous and successful electronics genius who doesn't know how to measure things properly, I really don't think so.
Anyway, I'm sure there will be enough people replicating these 10-coil units in time, just like many people have successfully replicated his earlier designs.
John Bedini claimed development of several free energy devices.[72][73][74] Bedini has, reportedly, refused to allow independent investigation.
In 2003, Bill Muller of Canada claimed to have some kind of OU device. Independent tests found it under unity.
Originally posted by buddhasystem
I haven't seen a single claim by a person ....
If you feel so passionate about it, buy a kit or build one from scratch and try the trick.
Originally posted by buddhasystem
I haven't seen a single claim by a person who would run the motor
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
Has he sent it to an independent lab to have them confirm his calculations?
How do you explain this?
History of perpetual motion machines
John Bedini claimed development of several free energy devices.[72][73][74] 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?
originally posted by buddhasystem
If you feel so passionate about it, buy a kit or build one from scratch and try the trick.
originally posted by Arbitrageur
I haven't seen any meaningful claim. Like "I bought it and built it and tested it and here's the results in a format like:
Total watt-hours in over a month
Total watt-hours out over a month
Originally posted by cupocoffee
It's obviously not true. He has allowed people like Bearden and Lindemann and Friedrich to work with him in his lab, there's the books he's published with Bearden where they give you the schematics, there's the Yahoo groups where he has people building the School-girl motor and more advanced designs, and now these latest kits.
Obviously, he wants people to investigate and double-check and test and replicate his work. Or he wouldn't be collaborating with Friedrich and giving out schematics and kits.
I know that he has proprietary systems that he's developing, like solid-state systems. Maybe that's what your source was referring to.
It's obviously not true. He has allowed people like Bearden and Lindemann and Friedrich to work with him in his lab, there's the books he's published with Bearden...
It's obviously not true. He has allowed people like Bearden and Lindemann and Friedrich to work with him in his lab, there's the books he's published with Bearden...
Originally posted by rnaa
The operative word is independent. Those guys are his buddies and they are all running interrelated scams. They are not independent, unbiased, laboratories.
Originally posted by wmd_2008
Like others have said here I want to see one of these machines do some REAL work not spin in a lab with so many wires you dont know what is connected to what, NO machine can even be 100% efficient energy is lost to friction heat etc so like others have said YOU could put YOUR money were HIS mouth is, buy a kit and have it tested.
[edit on 24-6-2010 by wmd_2008]
Originally posted by cupocoffee
Originally posted by buddhasystem
I haven't seen a single claim by a person who would run the motor
Look at peswiki.com where they have all the data on the School-girl motor replications and in Bedini's Yahoo groups.
Marcus Wagner's "Self-Running" Variation of John Bedini's Simplified 'School Girl' Motor-Energizer
Brief Description
Using a damaged variable resistor, Marcus was able to plug the output straight into the input battery. Observed increase in battery-voltage, with output-to-input current apparent over unity short-term. First reported Jan. 8, 2004.
Trying to duplicate the effect. So far not able to get a resistor to same state.
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.
No I've already said my first guess is that people don't make proper measurements and don't account for the charge/discharge state of the battery. It's a lot harder to get accurate measurements on some of these complicated setups than you seem to think.
Besides, if I were to buy one and tell you that it does work, you guys would just go "Bah you're just one of Bedini's buddies and you're in on the scam".
I'm following your logic on starting with fully discharged output batteries. Makes perfect sense.
Originally posted by cupocoffee
reply to post by Arbitrageur
Okay my understanding is that the true test is to fully discharge the output battery and see how many amp-hours you get out of it, versus what you had to put in to charge up the battery.
The reason is that, according to Bedini, the "Radiant" energy is actually a different type of energy, it works like an etheric gas or plasma, it runs cool instead of hot and it doesn't show up on standard measuring equipment.
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
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.