Steorn - Summary 3

Thinking about what I’d like to see in a summary document it occurred to me that it may not be obvious to everyone what some of the terms used in the discussions actually mean. With that in mind here are some ‘facts’ about the technology as I see them:

The base output of this thing is mechanical. According to Sean, the quoted figure of 0.5W/cc includes the coils and other elements needed to convert this to electricity. We are talking roughly a half Watt in the approximate size of a sugar cube. If we relate this to quantities that we are used to dealing with, we might think of a 60W bulb or a 1KW electric fire. At first this might not seem very impressive. A 60W bulb would need around 120 ‘sugar cubes’ to power it. Remember though that this is a volume relationship, so a 5x5x5 stack would get us there. With LED and other energy-saving devices, we can get good quality lighting at under 10 Watts - a little over 2X2X2 cubes.

At the other end of the scale, imagine something the size of a small dining table (1 cubic metre). This volume would hold a million of these little buggers - a lot of sweetener or a lot of energy depending on how good you are at analogies.

That’s a half megawatt of power. If we were talking about a bank of batteries it would pack a powerful punch, but as a free energy device that keeps going and going and going, we start to get a picture of what all the fuss is about.

Knowing that this is the starting point for the coming revolution and recognising that it is likely to get even better in the near future, it’s likely that this thing is going to blow our socks off.

Talking of which…

I hear, from some quarters, that the output of a free energy device should be able to be routed back into the input to generate an infinitely growing supply of juice until it consumed the galaxy – or words to that effect. Forgetting the point that it would destroy itself before the universe, in the case of Steorn’s technology, this is not true. If an Orbo was an energy amplifier then, perhaps there would be some merit to the assertion, but it is not. For any particular configuration, there is a set energy gain and, unfortunately for those wanting to conquer the universe, there will be no death ray or planet eater to be seen anytime in the immediate future. So there!

If you have any suggestions for what should go into the completed summary, please let me know in the comments’ area.