I think he is shorting because the voltage doesn't climb above 5V but 40 of those cells would give 200V but no sparks
This technology is indeed real and so are solar cells, I bed there are more sources to extract energy from.
thanks for posting Stephan

Quote from: poynt99 on November 16, 2012, 09:51:53 AM
I would like to see that voltage climb to 200V or so. Why did he keep shorting it?

I sure hope that it's not the voltmeter that is charging that chip. 

Agreed, they need to show it powering some small load to be certain it is real.

Personally I don't trust mr. dansie and I'll agree with poynt99 for a change     I don't think he's got much there unless he can show it powering something.   And that would need close scrutiny IMO. 

Quote from: poynt99 on November 16, 2012, 09:51:53 AM
I would like to see that voltage climb to 200V or so. Why did he keep shorting it?

I sure hope that it's not the voltmeter that is charging that chip. 

Agreed, they need to show it powering some small load to be certain it is real.

I've just done a couple of little experiments with a piezo speaker element, a 1n34 germanium diode, and a mica capacitor that had some suggestive and intriguing results. I wonder what would happen if the appropriate materials were bonded together into a layered disk.

I wonder if the spring pressure of the alligator clips is powering it !!

I guess he shorted it to show that it recovers its charge quickly, over and over. I don't think the meter, if it is working correctly, can charge it up on a Voltage setting. At least my Simpson DMM can't charge anything that way. Of course if it's malfing, all bets are off.

Quote from: e2matrix on November 16, 2012, 12:43:15 PM
Personally I don't trust mr. dansie and I'll agree with poynt99 for a change     I don't think he's got much there unless he can show it powering something.   And that would need close scrutiny IMO.

What have you got against Dansie? I'm not arguing or challenging, just fact-finding. I thought it was a little weird that he is supposed to be sharing facilities and personnel with the makers of one or more of the products he brought, and I've see his name bandied about by third parties who apparently really _really_  want his endorsement for their claims for some reason. I always thought that, in the past, he was pretty impartial and hard to hornswoggle. I hope that hasn't changed....

Quote from: TinselKoala on November 17, 2012, 01:48:13 AM
What have you got against Dansie? I'm not arguing or challenging, just fact-finding. I thought it was a little weird that he is supposed to be sharing facilities and personnel with the makers of one or more of the products he brought, and I've see his name bandied about by third parties who apparently really _really_  want his endorsement for their claims for some reason. I always thought that, in the past, he was pretty impartial and hard to hornswoggle. I hope that hasn't changed....

It's just a sense I've gotten from reading his messages here and elsewhere as well as watching some videos.  I could be wrong but I'll go with my gut feeling and reading his body language (in the video above his eye movements can be interpreted as exaggerating the truth or outright lies - that of course is not proof or 100% reliable but can be a gauge) to not give him much trust until proven otherwise.   But I will hope he does really have something that can be useful.