OverUnity prize money 15825 US$ total until now

[wile_coyote7]

@dingo

You might want to try an old hard drive. The motor turns very smoothly and it's weighted with the platters still on it. I don't know how helpful this would be to your project. Just a suggestion. 

[RedGuff]

Hello. 
I add 1000 ? (more than 1000 $ !)
I just need that the documentation explains the serious calculations, including with an energetic point of view, without "fake", like demagnetization (Magnets stores energy), or radioactivity, and no danger, like corrosive exhausts.
(Cheque in ?, from the French bank "La Banque Postale" ), send by postmail, AFTER verifications.

[Humbugger]

"Okay, let me formulate the conditions maybe this way:

Run 24 hours / 7  days a week / 365 days per year with an output
of at least 50 Watts electrically
and only have a fuel or maintainance cost per year of less than 100 US$
including "fuel" and reparation."
[Quote of Stefan from earlier post in this thread]

@Stefan

You probably need to look again at this set of rules.  Under these rules, I could submit a standard AC line cord as my invention and win the prize.

50W x 24hrs x 365days = 438 kwh annual output

For $100 in "fuel or maintenance cost", where I live, I can buy electricity for $0.08 per kwh so I can feed in 1250kwh for $100 cost annually.  Any cost of $0.22831 per kwh or less gives 50W  24/7/365 for under $100 fuel cost.

You might want to check your $100 figure on other fuel sources as well; there may be existing fuel cells that could readily do the 438kwh given $100 in hydrogen or other ways. 

Seems to me you could get into legal conflicts unless your rules are defined more clearly.  It seems contradictory to say it must be over unity and then also to say it can use $100 worth of input fuel to produce $30 worth of electricity!

If you can manage to clarify the rules and conditions to absolutely avoid ambiguity, I might be willing to make a considerable pledge to the prize fund, assuming you don't ban me first for poking light fun at some of the more obviously unworkable proposals we see here sometimes [something I am trying to refrain from doing but occasionally fail in my restraint]!

Humbugger

[shruggedatlas]

I am sure you guys know this already, but the Randi Foundation is already offering a one million dollar challenge for anyone to show paranormal activity.  An overunity device would defy the laws of physics as we know them, and as such would probably qualify under the challenge.

[kinggeorge]

May I suggest that if the goal is to show the world that OU is possible, you change the rules to reduce the required energy output and the size / cost of prototypes. The device should be able to relace any currently used home appliance, like a simple Night Light, et. It should do the same work of said common appliance, without normal external power ( Except to jump start  it, if needed). It should continue to work for weeks or months and only fail due to hardware defects of being a low cost homemade product.

I have in mind a product that I think I can build, based of someone elses work, (that has not proven long tern self running OU yet).

This product coulp be made by anyone and could replace a low power AC powered device (not a night light by the way) used by millons in America.

These devices run 24 hours a day and if a OU repacement was offered (No added anything by user) I think they would break the American Mind Set, that OU is not possible and there would be a flood of SMALL OU appliances made that would force Big Energy to offer low cost OU power in many forms or go out of business.

Could also use the prize money and will split 50/50 it with Father of its concept.

Any yes, if correct this could be scaled up to meet the 25 Watt standard, but would cost hunderds of times more money than this $50.00 - $100.00 prototype.


George King