Thane Heins Perepiteia.

[LarryC]

Do you understand the relationship between the resistance and the inductive reactance of the coil, and the role each plays in phase angle. ?
The amplitude of the voltage in a coil has no direct relationship to the phase angle between the voltage and current.

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/Hbase/electric/phase.html

I'm sorry that I can't comment on this right now, but my new secretary turned abruptly and knockered me into next week

Almost walking normally, L

[hoptoad]

I'm sorry that I can't comment on this right now, but my new secretary turned abruptly and knockered me into next week
Almost walking normally, L

You lucky bast...d ! 

[CRANKYpants]

THAT'S MORE LIKE IT ... LAUGHTER IS THE BREAST MEDICINE!

SORRY FOR THE CAPS AND BEING A SEXIST PIG - BUT IT DOES GO IN LINE WITH THE TUDBALL THING.

Thane

[OUmon]

That's what has struck me - and educated me - more than anything in the months that I've been following.  When your observations went from intriguing to Dr. Marcus Zahn to something he wouldn't touch with a 10 foot pole overnight, I sat up and noticed. Mainstream science gets so many things so wonderfully right, but it doesn't do this stuff well at all.  If this effect can indeed be applied for positive outcomes then it is extremely regrettable that related observations and work may have been marginalized or dismissed outright for more than three decades.

Hi, JM - great photo, by the way!

I think it would be as well to allow for the possibility that Dr Zahn, and others, rejected this on the basis of a rational analysis rather than through some irrational bias of the mainstream establishment. After all, those folks know a great deal more about how this stuff works than you, or me, or Thane, or anyone else on this forum for that matter. And you'd have thought that after decades of this concept being "out there" at least one of those smart guys would have latched onto it and made his fortune, wouldn't you?

So when multiple people with letters after their names keep repeating the observation that this effect is completely explained through magnetic braking applied to the torque-speed curve of the standard induction motor, then I think one should at least consider the possibility that they may be, well, right. At the very least, it sets the scene for very simple experiments that could be done to refute their explanation - for example, to demonstrate the effect with a prime mover other than an induction motor, let's say?

[CRANKYpants]

SPEAKING OF PIGS - RIGHT ON CUE THERE DUDE(SS).

T