Roll on the 20th June

[dixiepnum]

ok guys....let's see...Archer's got a circular array and a gate that breaks the wall...

aren't we done now?

[Mark69]

@ spinner,

Hey man, dont go away, but add your experience to help in the positive.  There are things I am sure you know that many others dont.  I am new at this so I dont know much.   This is how it is gonna get done, everyone pitchin in and helping each other build.

Mark

[shakman]

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Do you remember I posted about using some sort of "antenna" to activate the block from a distance? I haven't gotten around to sketching the idea up yet but it's similar to what I think Archer has come up with however probably less effective, but maybe effective enough and simpler to implement. My idea was to run a small metal antenna from the running mags to skim the ferrite before the runner arrives then continue past so the ferrite is no longer active when the arm arrives. This might be worth a try, but will probably require quite a bit of fiddling to get the spacing right so there's not too much friction etc.
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I've been flicking between this and writing some songs on my guitar and putting them into GuitarPro so I don't forget them (love that little proggy!) and for some reason the thought of magnets and guitars floating around simultaneously in my brain made an e-Bow pop into my head (for non-guitarists, it's a cool little electromagnetic-bow device for guitar). This brought me back to my "antenna" idea(using an "antenna" to charge the ferrite ahead of the runners arrival... as per quote above) and I started thinking of Archer's demonstration with the neo blocks separated from the ferrite but the ferrite still picking up the field from within a certain range. Then it occurred to me, what if the "antenna" didn't have to actually make contact with the iso-ferrite? Then friction wouldn't be a problem... this is probably one for the scrap heap - just like half my songs - but I like to record these ideas, and hopefully someone else might find some of it helpful in the process.

For now, it's back to the guitar for me... 

shakman

[shakman]

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Archer: I apologize again for my rant against you.
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Hey mate, while we're handing out hugs, I'd like to apologise to you too. I was a bit rough before. I was just sick of the constant "scammer" taunts Archer was getting. For those of us that donated, we'd really hate to see Archer abandon this project because of the constant criticism. For me it's not the money that matters, but the fact that we might be able to make a big difference to the world. Whether or not Archer is the man or not is of no consequence to me, but I sure hope he is - I am a big fan of his larrikinism - he reminds me of a few of my mates. But someone needs to do something to change the direction we're headed. I'm not big on the whole "global warming/doomsday" stuff, I don't buy in either way on those debates, but I am terribly saddened by those in poverty that can't support themselves or their families while fuel and power costs soar through the roof making life all the more difficult. If nothing else, something that can generate electricity for free could save and better millions of lives. And if it can't be free, let's at least make it cheap and clean because regarless of who is wrong/right in the debate over global warming, we have way more to lose by ignoring it and being wrong than we do by confronting it and being wrong.

I'm glad that's out of my system. I might just go and write a song about that. 

shakman

[OU-812]

This is what the future will bring. It's not a prediction. It's a fact, as sure as the sun
will rise tomorrow.

1. AQ's deadlines will come and go without result.
2. His loyal band of Gullibles will slowly but surely drop off the bandwagon.
3. AQ will fade into obscurity having contributed nothing.
4. His place will be taken by another with a handful of magnets and camera.
5. The Gullibles will hail their new leader and even send yet more money.
6. Return to step one, change the initials and continue.


I know most people here will not accept this reality.

Believe me that it's even harder for me to accept, but for different reasons.

ERS

You forgot the part where rather than admitting not achieving OU/FE near the deadline, "I had it working last night and took videos but Big Oil Ninjas broke in and trashed my machine and video camera before I could upload the proof, but take my word for it, it worked."

@others Edison failed 3000 times before he found something that worked. So give everybody a little benefit of the doubt around here or some slack.

It is not that AQ is striving for OU/FE it is that he has presented himself as knowing how to achieve it and that he is enlightening the world with his existing knowledge.   You see the tone changes on the forum to be more accepting when he gets off his soapz box and acts like a normal inventor collaborating to find the solution.  As soon as he goes back to acting like he has found a solution (without a working system) and lashing out at everyone who asks for proof to the statements that "this will work" the tone goes back to an adversarial one.