We’re two and a half days into Steorn’s demonstration of its Orbo devices at the Waterways Visitors Centre in Dublin. There are three Orbo rigs with spinning rotors sitting on perspex display platforms. Members of the public can walk up to them and examine them, while online people can watch them via live video streams through Steorn’s web site. There are three cameras looking at the orbos from different angles, however to this point only two cameras seem to work. There are also times when the video streams go offline – sometimes for extended periods.
To this point there are plenty of reasons for people to doubt that they are looking at an overunity (OU) machine which produces more energy than is put into it. Those who are unconvinced point to three main issues with what they are seeing.
1. There is the presence of a battery – which makes some suspicious that we are just looking at a battery-powered motor. Steorn describe this as an energy reservoir which provide input necessary to fire coils in the device which allow the Orbo to create more energy than is input – and at the same time recharge the battery through a generator.
2. There is the fact that we have seen orbo rigs being unscrewed from their platforms and replaced by new ones. In a recent article Steorn CEO Sean McCarthy is quoted as saying “The systems are up, they’re running and I’m sure some of them will break – it’s a prototype technology . . . We have lots of spare systems and they’ll be replaced. People may be critical of that and I can understand that, but the fundamental point is that we’re demonstrating this system working”
3. As yet there have been no meters attached to the Orbo devices showing energy input or output, nor are they doing any work (such as lighting a bulb) other than spin and so it’s not possible to detect the OU effect from simply observing the machines with the naked eye.
Steorn have promised that in January there will be live validation and replication sessions which should help shed light on these issues. In the meantime the demonstration is open and it appears from the webcam that many Steorn employees are on site to meet the public. Perhaps at a live visit they might answer visitors’ questions. One commenter on an article at the blog Boing Boing said this:
Anonymous | #23 | 15:54 on Wed, Dec.16 | Reply
Saw it today in the docklands, spoke to one of the guys, said that in Jan they’re going to be hooking up all the equipment, oscilloscopes, amp meters etc, without those aforementioned devices it’s just a nice looking display with a nice looking girl watching over it!
So it seems there is still more to be revealed as the demo progresses.
