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Originally posted by Arbitrageur
Don't use a wattmeter, but instead follow their suggestion to make the device do work like lifting a load of known weight with a string wrapped around a motor shaft.
Thanks for the link.
Originally posted by Mary Rose
To provide a good link: Watt Meter - Model 2330
What is unclear is if a spike is considered a highly distorted wave shape. To put it another way, there may be limits to what they define as "highly distorted", meaning it could be possible that distortion could be so great it's beyond the capability of even that meter to give an accurate measurement. I'd have to test it with some extreme spikes to see how well it did. I think an oscilloscope is better.
The Model 2330 watt meter allows broadband and high accuracy measurements of both sinusoidal and highly distorted wave shapes.
I didn't call him a charlatan until he started "accepting donations" for his coil which he has still not been able to make self-running which would prove it's over-unity. Now that he's taking money, he's crossed the line.
Originally posted by Mary Rose
I believe his intent is participation in an open-source community and is not the charlatan that you have called him. Perhaps a qualified engineer will join his project.
Anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars. The newer more expensive models can interface with software which is a nice feature.
About how much does an oscilliscope cost?
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
I didn't call him a charlatan until he started "accepting donations" for his coil which he has still not been able to make self-running which would prove it's over-unity. Now that he's taking money, he's crossed the line.
Vortex power, yay! I mean vorktex? Oops!
June 18, 2007 Electromagnetic > Magna Coaster Motor Co - Magnetic motor and generator produces electric power without using fuel. A home unit is planned for production in fall of 2008....
Richard told me that his idea is a spin-off of Howard Johnson's understanding of vortices around magnets, hence the name "vortex", except with a "k" interjected...
I want to hear some customer testimonials, where they have taken their homes off the grid! I mean this is the holy grail of free energy, to actually be shipping a working product, right? Well except for the $45,000 price tag, though he does have cheaper units.
To make a long story short, the machine and team in the video is Magnacoaster from about a year ago, the voice is Richard Willis, and they are now shipping product to their back-order customers.
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
Vortex power, yay! I mean vorktex? Oops!
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
However, I haven't yet found any updates since June when they allegedly started shipping. Shouldn't we have heard something more about this after they started shipping the holy grail of free energy 3 months ago?
Rasa's Zero Point Institute Announces Emerging Generators Galore
A theoretical physicist and networker in India describes the scientific basis for magnetic resonance generators. He said he has received his Vorktex generator from Magnacoaster, who is now delivering back-orders, and that this is but one of several variations presently being deployed widespread in the third world.
Caution: see note below: . . .
Postscript: Skepticism about Magnacoaster Shipping
June 13, 2012; 2:30 pm MDT
I just got off a call with a couple of people who were concerned about my positive statements above about Magnacoaster shipping units to some back-order customers.
Their experience has been negative.
Michelle of Canada, was one of the first people to pay full price for a ~4 kW unit, back in February 2009. He was told it should be done by March of that year. When it was delayed for a long time, Michelle asked for a refund, but was not given one. After another period of time, he finally threatened to take them to small claims court. They still didn't refund. Now they don't even respond to his emails. "We would fully support Magnacoster if he delivers a working product that does what is promised."
What made him especially mad was that the company continued to take new orders without clearly disclosing to people that they are still working out bugs and troubleshooting, not ready to ship; and have been doing that for more than four years now.
Customers are putting money down for a unit with expectation of delivery "in a few months". They are not putting down money as long-term investors; yet that is how their money is being used.
Even recently, if you go to the Magnacoaster Twitter feed, it reads like they are still deep in troubleshooting mode. Same on their YouTube channel.
Magnacoaster has not responded to my email and phone requests for an interview with Richard, though I did talk to two people there on June 8 who both said something to the effect that they are shipping out units for some back-orders. They said I would half to talk to Richard to get an official statement.
So at this point, all we can do is speculate that perhaps certain friendly interests are among the first to receive units, more along the lines of beta testing.
Until Magnacoaster is in full production with a unit that is essentially problem-free, I'm going to drop them down into the runner's up in our Top 5 exotic free energy technologies.
We all know that the development process is a challenging one. It seems to us that Magnacoaster needs to be more forthcoming with their customers and the likelihood of delay in delivery; and when customers ask for a refund, they should get one.
This is still a "buyer beware" situation, though we do hope Magnacoaster can get their act together.
You mean ridicule that vortex isn't spelled with a "k"? Except at Magnacoaster?
Originally posted by Mary Rose
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
Vortex power, yay! I mean vorktex? Oops!
Your point here is simply to ridicule?
I think the lack of function in Howard Johnson's design speaks for itself, so yes I was poking fun at the fact that magnacoaster's technology is supposedly based on a vortex (which neither he nor Howard Johnson demonstrated even exists) when he can't even spell vortex...how could I resist?
As of April, 2012, we do not know of anyone who has successfully replicated one of these motors, though many have tried, and many are presently making an attempt.
Thanks for the info, but even the theoretical physicist, if he really is one, doesn't claim he took his house off the grid with this "vortex power", and the other customers still aren't getting their shipments. So if this was supposed to convince me Magnacoaster is not worthy of ridicule, sorry but it had the opposite effect. In fact as Sterling points out, it fits the "pattern" he has observed:
Rasa's Zero Point Institute Announces Emerging Generators Galore
A theoretical physicist and networker in India describes the scientific basis for magnetic resonance generators. He said he has received his Vorktex generator from Magnacoaster, who is now delivering back-orders, and that this is but one of several variations presently being deployed widespread in the third world.
Caution: see note below: . . .
Postscript: Skepticism about Magnacoaster Shipping
That was in 2009 so now that eight years is eleven years. If Sterling lives long enough for that to be 50 years, I'm not sure the conclusion will be any different.
At that time, it seemed like an interesting attempt, but just another of so many thousands of tries at electromagnetic motor overunity. We certainly did not expect that they would come close to their objective of being ready for production by Fall of 2008. How many times have predictions like that proven futile -- like every time so far!
In the eight years I've been involved in this seemingly Don Quixotic quest for exotic free energy devices, I have yet to see a true overunity generator that can actually produce useful energy in a practical embodiment that would make sense in the marketplace.
They HAVE shipped some units and I was looking for some testimonials of people who have taken their homes off the grid. Even the so called "friendly" recipients of the units which have shipped, haven't claimed that, at least not in that update, right?
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
I want to hear some customer testimonials, where they have taken their homes off the grid!...
However, I haven't yet found any updates since June when they allegedly started shipping. Shouldn't we have heard something more about this after they started shipping the holy grail of free energy 3 months ago?
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
That was another poster who had a problem with NIST, not me. I have no problem with NIST, and I never said I had any problem with using NIST standards.
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
Regarding an alternative, the international standards body comes to mind, International Organization for Standardization (ISO). But in many cases, if the equipment calibration is traceable to NIST standards, it's also traceable to ISO standards, so there wouldn't be much difference.
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
And maybe I wasn't clear enough about what I was looking for in the updates:
I want to hear some customer testimonials, where they have taken their homes off the grid!...
However, I haven't yet found any updates since June when they allegedly started shipping.
He's welcome to post again, but I don't think the comment about NIST was helpful. Even if he's right that there are problems with the NIST report on 9/11, I don't see how this will affect the definition or measurement of a volt, amp, or kilogram among others. It is the latter which is relevant. The only other relevant standards body that I know of in the US is ISO, and that uses the same measurements and definitions as NIST, though there are minor differences. Collectively I think there are something like 20 different "kilogram" standards internationally, and NIST has one of those. There are slight differences between those 20 standards, but they are all pretty close.
Originally posted by Mary Rose
I would love to see a constructive discussion about how to go about verifying claims, but if Sterling Allan does not post again here it will be very understandable in view of the tone that has been set.
How about getting 35 watts out from 6 watts in, as shown in the following graph at 30 volts? You would think that's not a measurement issue, right? But it turns out that it is a measurement issue.
Originally posted by sterlingda
So now, back to the question of validation.
In the question of overunity, we're not talking about ultra-precise measurement capabilities.
Before we re-write the textbooks, shouldn't we make sure that the existing textbooks don't really apply?
We're talking about a complete revolution of science. We're talking about rewriting text books. We're talking about getting so much more energy out than in that you can self loop the input so that you have a base load power generator with no input required.
We obviously need some type of standards to be followed, as Shawn Bishop illustrated. I asked before and I'll ask again...do you have any alternative suggestions besides NIST? There is certainly no alternative to them when it comes to standards for what a watt, volt or amp is. But even if they certify a meter is calibrated to their standards, this won't stop someone like Naudin from misinterpreting the measurements. My guess is he may have been one notch off interpreting the oscilloscope scale setting since I don't think it's likely the scale knob was one notch off, though I suppose that might be possible if the knob was mounted on a round shaft.
Nah. We don't need NIST for this. They trail in the dust of history. They have shamed the world of science. They have pissed on the very high reputation that their mission implies. They have bastardized their legitimate claims forever. To hell with them.
Since Magnacoaster claimed in the dragon's den episode on youtube they get 50,000 watts out from 18 watts in, any idea why their top-of-the-line unit needs solar panels? If you don't know maybe you can ask them next time you talk to them? However I'm not sure if any answer will be logically consistent with their claims?
Originally posted by sterlingda
As for Magnacoaster, I spoke with Rasa a few days ago, and he said they would be rolling out the product the next day. Then the next day he said they were postponing for a while longer.
Originally posted by Mary Rose
Originally posted by primalfractal
He is a good man who means well with a bad temper and cognative dissonance. You hit a nerve because he had no logical reason to disagree but still gave the idea no possibility.
I am interested in that term "cognitive dissonance":
n. Psychology
A condition of conflict or anxiety resulting from inconsistency between one's beliefs and one's actions, such as opposing the slaughter of animals and eating meat.
In the context you're using it, you're saying that your father feels confused, or, you think he's confused but he doesn't think so?
The human eye has a blind spot – a small portion of the visual field, about the size of a pencil eraser – where the optic disk is located. We aren’t normally aware of this blind spot, but with one eye closed, any object passing through this small area will disappear momentarily. Our visual field appears seamless because of an optical illusion: Our mind conspires to fill in the blank area with the colors of what surrounds it. We have other blind spots too – a whole series of what psychologist Daniel Kahneman calls “cognitive illusions” – that our minds and our culture work to obscure.
Originally posted by primalfractal
I think these gyrotwisters help give an understanding of the principles and feeling of a vortex. You can start them without the cord if you have a real feel for the shape and timing of the movement.
The source of the light is pulled into the black hole along with the light...
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
In Disdain of Garbage Physics - Shawn Bishop
©Cyril Smith, March 2003
1. Introduction
Shawn Bishop has published a paper1 debunking the claims of Tom Bearden regarding the Motionless Electromagnetic Generator (MEG)2 and Jean-Louis Naudin’s replication of this device3. This paper is my response to Bishop, demonstrating that his arguments are seriously flawed.
2. Some Basic Physics Theory
I have used the above section heading to replicate that used by Bishop. . . .
5. Conclusion
Bishop’s paper is flawed on several counts
His equation (3) is incorrect.
He has not included the DC component of the input current.
He has not used the actual load resistance value.
For these reasons his calculations are not valid and should be ignored.
The matrices correspond to the polarization of a static infinite state of potential.This polarization, sometimes referred to as yin and yang, creates an expansion and contraction of this infinite potential into a finite kinetic state. These states of existence correspond directly to information systems. Thus the numbers represent the compression of the information in the system, the dense masculine aspect. Physicists tend to get stuck on this part by focusing solely on particles.