STEORN DEMO LIVE & STREAM in Dublin, December 15th, 10 AM

[Cloxxki]

I can't stream here. Please a quick report?

[tinu]

Live stream of Orbo up and running. Orbo up and running. Pinch me, I must be hallucinating..

lol!
You’re just fine and not hallucinating.
It’s running from batteries. Even I (far from a great builder) can make a motor running 4-6months from 2 AA (2000mAh) batteries.
So, see you in …June-July 2010.

I guess Orbo is the biggest charade of all times…

[Staffman]

I've been watching the live feed.

I noticed that they have a couple of guys doing RPM measurements. At around 11:40-11:45 GMT, a guy came around, did a RPM measurement then started turning on a white little dial on the machine (not the hookup panel). Is that for friction? Was it winding down? A demo like this should be completely HANDS-OFF.

[gravityblock]

The orbo is using very little energy from the battery to keep it at a constant RPM because of the frictionless magnetic bearings it is rotating on.  I speculate when a load is put on it, then it will drain the battery really fast.  The orbo could spin for a long time on a single battery without a load.

Here's a video of a levitating homopolar motor running for a long time with a single pulse of current, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hHfkK4iGBQ

Edit:  It appears the orbo is a homopolar motor rotating on frictionless magnetic bearing while the battery can send out a quick pulse when it falls below a certain RPM in order to maintain it's target RPM.  The duration between the pulses will be very long, and it will run for months maintaining a certain rpm with a single battery.

GB

[hekkmekk]

This is a real shame! 
What is the sense of spending time, effort and money for such a crap?

Do they really think we are _that_ dumb? They could have put an Diesel-Engine up there and say: "Look, it runs with nothing but this smelly liquid!" It would be the same...

This is absolutely unbelievable!!