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In a public experiment conducted in Dublin, Ireland today, Sean McCarthy, Steorn’s CEO compared an Orbo based device with a normal pulse motor. Each device looked similar in size and shape was hooked up to the same supply/switch connected to an oscilloscope.

In the demonstration McCarthy attempted to show by the traces on the scope  that in the normal pulse motor, CEMF (counter electromotive force) was detected and in the Orbo system there was no CEMF. In the Orbo device Steorn claims that kinetic energy in the rotor is produced by torque generated by magnetic attraction between rotor magnets and stator coils and is unhindered by the opposing force that CEMF usually generates in a pulse motor.

McCarthy also attempted to show by use of a thermal camera that all that input electrical energy in the Orbo based system was released as heat and the rotation of the rotor was performing work over and above the input in electrical power — thus Steorn’s claim of Orbo being an overunity technology.

The experiment was followed by a fairly lengthy Q&A session in which members of the audience asked McCarthy about such things as the need for the battery in the current demo devices, Steorn’s business model and the potential usefulness of Orbo technology.

The demonstration was filmed and should be available via Steorn’s website before too long.

In addition to the sequence of experiments that Steorn will carry out in January (see previous post), Sean McCarthy made a few interesting comments on the Steorn forum about what we can expect. Here are some exchanges with posters on the forum today:

Q: westmorland:Sean, wrt your last input/output experiment, might you be able to invite independent people to bring their own testing equipment to measure the orbo’s input/output. There are likely to be people claiming that you have rigged your measuring instruments. Thanks!

A: Yes – we will be giving people the opportunity to measure a system for themselves.

Q: Paul Story:Hi Sean,

Could you also post some data of any long-term tests you performed regarding magnetic degradation (or lack of)? This is obviously a potential large fly in the ointment and glad to see you’re addressing it.

ETA: Specifically, I’m refering to comments you made in the early days that a partially magnetized neo can end up ‘more magnetized’ after repeated Orbo interactions that produce excess energy. Thanks.

A: Hi Paul – The second experiment listed above will be done over an extended period (7 days).

Thanks, Sean

Q: hugojpinto:Sean,

Do you have specific dates for these? I’d love to go and visit, but need to plan a flight.  Thanks

A: Hi Hugo – We will publish the dates on Jan 6th – we are arranging to have some independent parties witness the tests – the exact dates will depend on the availability of these parties.

Sean

Sean McCarthy has released a list of the experiments that Steorn will carry out during the January phase of their public demonstration. In a post on the Steorn public forum he writes:

During January we will be doing a sequence of live experiments – these will be streamed and then posted on our YouTube channel.

The sequence is as follows:

(1) Confirming that all the electrical energy input into an eOrbo interaction is output as heat.

(2) Confirming that there is no change in the domain energy of the components that make up an eOrbo interaction.

(3) Input to Output measurements – confirming eOrbo is Over Unity.

Thats the sequence – if you have any (rational) requests with respect to the first of the above three experiments, please post them in this thread.

Thanks!

Sean

The last of these experiments is the one that many people have been asking for - for a device to be confirmed as overunity then input/output measurements need to be measured. No dates are released but for the last experiment notice was given ahead of time on Steorn’s website.

As we watch Steorn’s public demonstration of Orbo unfold from Dublin (currently on a holiday hiatus) it seems clear that from Steorn’s point of view it is all leading up to one date: February 1st, 2010. That is the date that the Steorn Knowledge Development Base (SKDB) opens for business — and this is a crucial part of Steorn’s business plan. The SKDB is the “online learning and developing community for building and developing Orbo”.

To this point, Steorn has been recieving little, if any revenue from its Orbo technology. To fund their activites they have relied on investment capital and their expenses to to this date have to have been significant. They have a staff of around twenty people who have been conducting R&D for years, they have a sophisticated marketing operation and a substantial web presence which must have required lots of expensive technological investment.

On February 1st things change. To access the SKDB you have to pay a license fee and the cheapest license (Developer License) is €419.00. According to Steorn commercial licenses are going to be available in the 2nd quarter in 2010 but fees have not yet been disclosed. So finally Steorn hopes to start generating revenues.

Now an interesting question is this. What is going to be required to induce people to pay a license fee? This brings us back to the whole purpose of what is going on in Dublin. In this demonstration, Steorn’s task is to provide enough convincing evidence to support their free energy claims that people will be willing to sign up for the SKDB in significant numbers starting in February. If Steorn cannot do this than the effort will have failed from their perspective.

This makes the January phase of the demonstration crucial. While to date there has been quite a lot of interest in what has been on display, there are lots of questions and still much wariness and skepticism among many observers. Steorn has said “the fun starts in January” and have promised live validation and replication in 2010. It remains to be seen how effective that will be — but in order for Steorn to be successful they have to be more forthcoming about their technology to convince people in large numbers to start paying for entry into the SKDB.