Quote from: aether22 on March 27, 2008, 02:30:35 PM

Ok, so now I have a few more questions

Why did you ask Thane to see a demo?

And why was your previous reason for not going 'lack of due diligence' or something like that?

All these questions! I'm not sure anybody's really interested in this but since you asked, I'll tell you. Others can just skip it if they're not interested. This is how it happened for me:

I first became aware of this project through an article in the Citizen on 1 Mar. Then I ran across Tyler Hamilton's article in the Star. This piqued my interest because Tyler is quite well know in this field and I know him because he's run a couple of articles on energy-efficiency projects that I've worked on over the past couple of years. Googling also uncovered this forum (where we are now) and to my surprise I found that Thane was posting here. I thought that was kind of odd because Tyler's article talked of Thane as a serious scientist/engineer and linked him to MIT and things like that - yet this forum isn't the kind of place you'd expect such a person to be promoting his project. So I was puzzled and in fact I wasn't really convinced at first that it was the "real" Thane on here. But I sent him a PM and, because he apparently lives very close to me, I thought I'd be able to meet him in person and see this experiment for myself. We exchanged a few emails and I continued monitoring the forum. I was very interested and very keen to see this stuff for myself. I know you may not believe that but I can only tell it the way it is/was. On March 6 when I first exchanged emails with Thane and started to read the materials I was very interested and very open-minded about it.

Am I a skeptic now though? Yes of course. Do you know why? Just browse through the postings on this forum and put yourself in the position of a neutral observer. What would you think about the reality of this technology, based on the substance of the postings, on the elusiveness of any hard data, on the misunderstandings (involuntary or deliberate) about prior art, on the total lack of scientific method, and especially on the attitude of the proponents? It's disappointing but I'm still interested because there is a puzzle there and I'm intrigued by it even though it's increasingly likely that I'm wasting my time.

Hope that answers your question about whether or not I'm keen to see a demo in person: initially I was very keen but now I'm very cautious because I know more about it now than I did then.

PB

PS - this is the way they taught us to answer at spook school so I hope it does the trick

DEAR ALL,

I PURCHASED A NEW TRUE RMS CLAMP ON METER TODAY WITH A + or - 1.5% ACCURACY DOWN TO 40 mA. ALTHOUGH STILL NOT QUITE GOOD ENOUGH.

I INTEND TO PURCHASE AN EVEN MORE ACCURATE ON WHEN THE STORE HAS ONE IN STOCK.
http://www.tes.com.tw/prova11.htm

I ASKED JUSTME TO POST THE PHOTO-DATA BUT HERE ARE THE NUMBERS ANYWAY:

INPUT
AMPS = 0.01 A
VOLTS = 0.694 V
POWER = 0.00694 W

OUTPUT @ 1 K RESISTOR + or - 1% ACCURACY
VOLTS = 3.209
POWER = 0.0103

Thane

As requested...

Quote from: JustMe on March 27, 2008, 10:33:10 PM
As requested...

THANKS TO JustMe

I FORGOT TO MENTION THAT MAGMETALS INC HAS SUPPLIED LUC WITH TWO TOROID CORES WITH A RELATIVE PERMEABILITY OF 200,000 - THE ONES WE ARE CURRENTLY USING ARE 17,000.

OUR OUTPUT SHOULD INCREASE BY A FACTOR OF ABOUT 12.

Visit Magnetic Metals Website at:
http://www.magmet.com

Thane

Quote from: OilBarren on March 27, 2008, 10:48:26 PM

Quote from: JustMe on March 27, 2008, 10:33:10 PM
As requested...

THANKS TO JustMe

I FORGOT TO MENTION THAT MAGMETALS INC HAS SUPPLIED LUC WITH TWO TOROID CORES WITH A RELATIVE PERMEABILITY OF 200,000 - THE ONES WE ARE CURRENTLY USING ARE 17,000.

OUR OUTPUT SHOULD INCREASE BY A FACTOR OF ABOUT 12.

Visit Magnetic Metals Website at:
http://www.magmet.com

Thane

Holy Moly!

Sounds like the electric dune buggy may be faster than the Tesla Roadster right out of the gate! 

Aaron