At his blog, http://globalfreeenergy.info, there has been a flurry of activity. Firstly, he’s the first person outside of Steorn to demonstrate a working, over unity Orbo. He’s clearly not a member of the SKDB, and has reverse engineered the tech on his own.

He’s also shown an interesting variation on the solid state Orbo, called the Hue. It takes advantage of asymmetrical magnetic fields and manipulated saturation curves–the key of the Steorn claim.

Both Hue and his tiny orbo replication are, according to his claims, showing over unity.

The interesting thing is Mr. Lowrance is being very open about his work, sharing plans and asking any interested parties to make a test. He’s even apparently attracted the interest of an engineer at NASA.

If you care at all about free energy, you need to be reading Paul’s blog.

My wife’s response to the April 1st reveal: “That’s reverse brilliant!” Historically April 1st may take on a new significance as the day that free energy was truly revealed to the world.

I haven’t really had time to formulate a full breakdown, but if you’re looking for some highlights:

The permanent magnet Orbo.

This is what started it all, and what didn’t work in the 2007 demo.

According to Steorn it has to do with combining two magnets and a ferrite core. It looks simple but from all we’ve learned, to get it to rotate it probably needs pretty specific tolerances, and worse, specific timing. Without electronics governing those timings, you could see how it would take a lot of engineering to guarantee that it keeps spinning. Also, any work to derive energy out of the interactions, like, say, a pickup coil, will throw off the timing of the interactions and pull you out of the sweet spot.

I’d say we will see these made but probably as novelties. Properly built, it can spin forever. A perpetual motion machine in it’s rawest form.

More on the e-Orbo

This is the configuration Steorn showed at the Waterways and used to prove the effect. It’s an over-unity motor, meaning every rotation it gains a bit of energy instead of losing a bit. It can spin forever.

All of the test data is presented in a pretty clear and cogent way, including calorimetry data. Enough info is given on the setup that it’s clear that calorimetry was pursued, and the outcome is favorable.

I’ll write more about it in a future article, but here’s the gyst: When an orbo isn’t spinning, it gives off a certain amount of heat. When it is spinning, it gives off more heat. The only way this is possible is if the system is generating excess energy. Another overunity proof.

The bombshell: Solid State Orbo

Not a super surprise to those of us who built Naudin’s 2sGen, but a big deal coming from Steorn. As they say, the entire focus of the SKDB is on developing the solid state Orbo tech. This is what will power your phone and your car.

In the image, we see a wide ferrite toroid wound around it’s circumference, with a shitload of copper wire. This is a LOT easier to wind than the coils seen in an eOrbo, but it doesn’t require and setting up a worrying about bearings and RPM and timings or any of that.

It’s most probably a flux exchanger, meaning a pulsed current is sent into that giant copper inductance coil, saturating the core. The core then probably dessaturates and feeds more current back into that huge coil, with a net energy gain.

It was amazing to see four of five of us kooks on youtube developing the 2SGen tech. To be able to work with thousands of well qualified engineers in the SKDB? This thing will take off fast.

This is a good sign, because clearly some people went to Dublin, made their tests, and found that the system was indeed OU and expressed interest in joining the SKDB.

This is a good sign for OU technology and for the significance of the Steorn claim.

It’s not necessarily good news for the world. How long will the SKDB be an exclusive club? If they get enough paid entries from large product developers, will the technology ever be made available for development by “the rest of us”?

Much of Steorn’s plans seem to have been hedging their bets–if they weren’t able to attract scientific or business interest, they’d have to go after the hobbyist/quack market. But clearly that’s not to be the case.

Which may all be for nought anyway. Indications seem to be that, while appearing simple, an Orbo is actually quite difficult to construct. It may not be possible to make one in a garage, or even a startup.

Imagine trying to make a hard drive in your garage.

Youtube user mschuckel comes out of nowhere with two great videos pushing the boundaries of what we’ve seen Orbo be capable of. By flipping the orientation of the stators 90°, he’s able to push his Orbo replication to over 5000 RPM. This may be the first time we’ll see someone not only go overunity, but actually pass their entire input voltage! We’re waiting with baited breath.

The most exciting thing here is the total realization that all Steorn has ever shown is a demo unit, a unit designed only to prove the effect and to be as transparent (figuratively and literally) as possible. mschuckel is under no such demands, and is able to push the Orbo well past the 1300 RPM mark that Steorn’s own demo units seemed limited by.

How much is hidden behind the walls of the SKDB? What else does Steorn have to share, and how much have they been holding back?

They’d better hurry and open up that SKDB; people seem to be moving ahead without them.

I had separated out the voltage and amperage, and used that to make my power calculation. What I should have done is figure the power first, then subtract the power with and without the coil and compared that to the output power:

7.14V * .146 A = 1.04 watts

7.10V * .132 A = .9372 watts

Total power usage = .1028 watts pr 102 milliwatts.

Total power output = 0.004 watts or 4 milliwatts.

Not very efficient at all!

I have reconsidered and detected more errors as well. I measure the current lost in the coil without a magnet present. The magnet causes an inductive gain and reduces the amount of loss in the coil. I measured the output with the magnet, so I should have measured the input with the magnet.

As some have suggested, I’ll try and remake the circuit with a 12v bench power supply. Integrating the current pulse without a digital oscilloscope will prove to be very difficult (impossible?). I’m trying to get access to one for that reason.

JL-Naudin breaks it down again, this time with a scope shot explaining exactly what’s going on. He also confirms what I said in the comments of the last post– that the max efficiency is governed not by the magnet but by the core size and material.

The part that surpised me most was the oscillation in the blue trace- as the core demagnetizes there’s a sine wave reverbation in the signal. That up and down rising and falling field will induce extra energy on top of what you get from that first massive rise and fall.

My next step will be to get a bigger core ( my local electronics shop has some pretty huge iron powder cores ) and see what we can get out of this thing!

Tonight I took some measurements with a multimeter on my 2SGen system in an attempt to determine the power output.

I’m using a tiny .75″ diameter coil and a large but relatively weak 2.5″ cermaic disc magnet. The toroid is placed directly in the air core coil and the magnet is held about .125″ above the core. The distant is optimized by hand to achieve the highest output in the multimeter. The output current is rectified with a 4148 4001 diode across the multimeter probes.

Input without coil

I disconnected the toroid from the system and took a measurement acros it’s power leads.
7.14V.
146 mA or .146 A

Input with coil

I reinserted the toroid into the circuit and measured between it and the ground.

7.10V
132 mA or .132 A

Difference = true input energy.
0.04 V
14 mA or 0.014 A
0.00056 watts or .56 milliwatts

Energy output

As stated above, leads from pickup coil are run through a flyback diode and connected to multimeter probe.

3.2 V
1.25 mA. or 0.00125 A
0.004 watts or 4 milliwatts

Effeciency = 714%. This simple generator would seem to create 7x as much energy as it takes to run it.

Please do ask any questions or offer any suggestions as to how I may better run these calculations. It’s hard to measure a pulsing circuit.

In this video I’m trying to break down this generator to explain about what it is and how it’s made so that you can better understand it, make your own replication, and play with it.

Another video to come tonight is going to explain why this thing works and why I consider it to be free energy.

Youtube user and overunity forum member Magluvin (get it? I always laugh) actually did this weeks ago in his series of videos around what he’s called the “Orbonbon”. A solid state magnetic flux generator.

Same principle. Naudin is a little more clear in his writeups and demonstrations, but there seem to be many ways to skin this cat.

There’s a very narrow range of timing.

Naudin’s circuit includes a variable resistor which effects the timing of the circuit. This allows you to tune the effect to your specific core. I tried it with two different cores, one about an inch in outer diameter, and one much smaller, made from different material. Each core has it’s own perfect frequency. Along with permeability, I’m thinking that we’re going to want to start rating materials with their saturation speed.

This is a great way to show that the Steorn effect is based on time variant interaction. If the timing is longer or shorter, the input power is the same but the output power varies wildly, and at the high end the effect seems to disappear altogether. There can be no doubt that something is happening between the magnet and the core, and that it only happens within a narrow time band. This for me gives credence to that idea that energy itself is a product of the magnetic field establishing and collapsing.

The core emits a very distinct vibration. You could run it through a guitar tuner to determine the optimal setting.

The magnet benefits from an air gap.

I tested the system with a crappy little multimeter. In my configuration, with a .5″x.25″ N42 neo attached directly to the core, I got 0.60 mA out of the pickup coil. Putting one piece of ~1/8″ corrugated cardboard increased that to .95 mA.  A second piece of cardboard, making the gap about 1/4″, lowered it back down to 40 mA.

Core size determines output.

Using a smaller core didn’t change the input current but decreased the output. My smaller core has a double winding, as well as a single loop around the circumference for each layer of turns, as outlined in Steorn’s patent. This is supposed to reduce any backEMF in the coil. However, the core I used, while having a high permeability, may just be too small to generate enough current.

I also tried a large, mysterious core from the electronics shop. I wasn’t able to get it to generate any current at all.

I’d say that the output is going to be determined by the amount of field the core can engage from the magnet. It’s not hard to apply too much magnetism, there’s definitely a point of diminishing returns. I used a .5″x.25″ disc magnet and added additional tiny 8mm disc neos until I saw the LED start to dim. Again, as with the air gap, it’s about finding sweet spots.

The core makes an audible vibration.

There is some physical interaction between the coil and the core. You can hear the 200hz pulse coming out of the coil, like a buzzer. There’s no audible sound if you hook the same circuit up to an air coil. You can hear the magnetic field forming, causing a repulsion or attraction between the coil and the core, and then disengaging.

The energy comes from the magnet.

This should be pretty clear from Naudin’s video, but it’s worth mentioning. This is not a transformer as some have suggested. Removing the magnet removes the effect. There is no detectable (by comparison, at least) interaction between the pickup coil and the toroidal coil. Within the addition of the magnet, no current is seen in the pickup coil.

Also, the effect is strongest with the magnet inside of the pickup coil, with the toroidal coil above or outside of the pickup coil. If you stack them, with the pickup on the bottom, then the toroidal coil in the middle, and finally the magnet on top, you get no output current. The current is coming from the magnet.

I can’t tell if it’s overunity.

It seems like it’ll be pretty hard to get this to self-run. I haven’t been able to get my hands on a nanoperm core yet, and I don’t have an optimal, Brooks pickup coil. So there’s definitely a lot of room for optimization.

The thing that will determine whether this can self run is whether a larger coil requires more current. The only factor that I can see that would cause that is the increase in resistance from the extra length of wire. If you can increase the max saturation of the core (how much magnetic field it can absorb on each pulse) without increasing the amount of input, then it’s an overunity technology. All we’d need is to find is the right balance of materials.

…but it’s still free energy.

This is a bit complicated, but it’s worth discussing now and this experiment goes a long way to making this point.

The energy coming out of the pickup coil is not coming from the battery.

This can be seen by removing the magnet from the system. You now have a static system with no energy coming out of the pickup coil. The energy going into the toroidal coil stays in the toroidal coil. The electricity generated from the battery in no way comes in contact with or inspires or transfers or induces any current in the air coil. The toroidal coil is a system into itself. The only work it’s doing is heating the coils (not enough that I could ever feel) and causing a bit of vibration.

When you stick the magnet onto the coil, you are causing a change in the toroidal coil circuit. You’re making it use less current. The work that’s causing the output is clearly not coming from the batteries.

This is a lot more complicated than just measuring input current and output current. There’s an incredibly miniscule amount of actual work being done energizing the coil, and it’s very difficult to measure.

I imagine you could do it in a few ways: You could get some fresh batteries, measure their voltage, and the run the system for a few days. You could likewise hook the output coil to an electric meter similar to the one on your house, keeping track of output over time. After the few days, you could measure the the batteries again and compare.

You could also do the calorimetric testing, running the system without the pickup coil and seeing how much heat is generated and calculate that against the output of the pickup coil.

Is it useful energy?

Well, it does light the LEDs. It’s clearly doing work. It’s probably confusing to a lot of people that you need quite a bit of energy on hand in the first place in order to get the free energy out. So it’s not like this is ready to replace batteries. But you could, for instance, make a huge s2Gen, a cubic foot or more, and end up with a net output of very usable energy.

Some concluding thought

This is a really worthwhile experiment to do if you’re at all interested in free energy. It definitely will help your understanding of Steorn’s claim and their experiments, such as what they mean by inductive gain and how that relates to the system, why the battery is inconsequential, how a system can be creating free energy even though there’s may bea net energy loss, and many more interesting concepts.

The bottom line for me is that I now have absolute confidence in Steorn’s claim–free energy is possible and there do exist contradictions of Noether’s theorem. Not all systems are symmetrical. Conservation of Energy doesn’t apply to everything.

This is going to be a very interesting century.