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Old 05-July-2007, 02:19 PM
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CEO Sean McCarthy tells SilconRepublic how it works. Namely, the time variance in magnetic fields allows the Orbo platform to "consistently produce power, going against the law of conservation of energy which states that energy cannot be created or destroyed." He goes on to say "It's too good to be true but it is true.
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...it's too good to be true, but it is true? This guy just loves things that defy logic, no?
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Here's the device's website.

Plagued by technical difficulties?

From what I can tell, it is debuting at an art museum. Granted, it is for technical stuff, but it still sounds like an art museum to me.
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They posted an ad in The Economist looking for scientists to validate their claims sometime last year. Apparently the process of evaluation started in January and they expect it to take the rest of the year.

If I remember right, they claim the machine usually runs at an efficiency of about 285%, and they say they've seen efficiencies as high as 400%. At some press demo, they had the machine running while connected to an instrument that gave live read-outs of the efficiency.

One would think that if they've already done groundwork like figuring out how to take that kind of measurement, it wouldn't take a full 12 months for a team of physicists and engineers to test that claim. Heck, with an efficiency like that I imagine an easy first test would be to just start it up and wait a few minutes while the thing runs faster and faster until it tears itself apart.
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Yeah, we talked about this in ATM a while back, I was wondering what happened with them. I can't wait to see their results.
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I already have one of these machines sitting on my desk. It just keeps running and running....

With the proper placement of a few magnets and some wire, I think I I'll be able to use it to charge my cell phone.
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I already have one of these machines sitting on my desk. It just keeps running and running....

With the proper placement of a few magnets and some wire, I think I I'll be able to use it to charge my cell phone.
With proper placement of a nuclear reactor, you could do a lot more than charge a cell phone.
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Wow... free energy for EVERYONE!!!

I knew it was the greed of TPTB that have been holding this secret hostage for allllllll these years!!
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Using the 'time variance of the magnetic field' is how a generator works in the first place. So, my question is: what magnetic field is time varying?

Mind you, I still think this is a hoax
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it's funny how these types never just connect the output to the input and let it get on with it.
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