Live Demo Cam

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Live demostration on cam from steorn.

"The Orbo will also be viewable live on the internet from 6pm this evening at www.steorn.com/orbo/demo, with four webcams focused on the machine 24 hours a day."

"Webcast starts at 18:00 EST (22:00 GMT) / 23:00 London Time (BST)"

http://www.astream.com/live/steorn/camera4.html

Info.

http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single8713

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Bad news they delayed it till tormorrow.

This has just appeared on the www.steorn.com site:

"Due to technical difficulties we will now be live from the 5th July."

[Thaelin]

   I kind of like to see it in this fashion. I think we all remember what come down when Bill Gates got up on stage at the launch of Windows XP. It crashed and he was given the old BBQue right there on stage. What could he do, walk out?
   I can sure expect that they cant afford that kind of hit. I've got a day extra. No skin off me. If it bombs or flys, so be it. That is the risk you take.

sugra

[ltseung888]

Brainstorm on what Steorn should do at this stage.  Their device was supposed to run continuously for 10 days in Kinetica Museum in London from 5th July to 10th July.  There were technical problems - thought to be camera lightings.

The device turned out to be the Minato type permanent magnet set up as an 'one single resonance' system.  It was not even the two system coupling as in their toy disclosed at Christmas 2006.

A panel of experts gathered for the Brainstorm.

Expert A: "The only sensible thing to do is to give time for the top technical guns to fix the demo in the remaining days.  We should focus on ideas that may help to provide the fixing."

Expert B: "Tseung has discussed the one system resonance.  He prefers the coupling of two systems.  Steorn is using the one system Minato type set up.  Sun et al's experience showed that not all magnets purchased from the same manufacturer exhibit identical properties.  This may be the source of trouble rather than the lighting."

Expert C: "It is well known that the force required to initiate motion can be different from that required to maintain motion.  May be Steorn should use an external magnet to start the motion.  If aftering starting, the system continues to rotate for 10 days, I would definitely recommend more funding and more study."

Expert A: "Steorn must have built more than one device.  Ship another working device from Ireland.  There is room in the Museum for two devices."

Expert B: "If Steorn is worried about damage in shipment or magnets affected by the trucks, ships or trains, they can show the working device in Dublin.  If they have three - from the information so far, such devices are easy to build (but difficult to tune).  Put two in London and one back in Ireland."

Expert C: "From what I can gather from Sun et al, much messing around (or more scientifically, adjusting and tuning) is required to achieve the desired effect.  The best the Sun machine can achieve is 30 minutes continuous rotation."

Expert A: "Could Steorn produce by luck the Minato type device that could rotate for days in Ireland?  They had a team, sufficient funding and a couple of years messing around."

Expert B: "It is just speculations at this point.  I suggest we wait and watch the developments.  If necessary, have another brainstorm session."

Lawrence Tseung
Steorn's problem Leads Out Brainstorming by Experts.

[Dingus Mungus]

Expert A: "Steorn must have built more than one device.  Ship another working device from Ireland.  There is room in the Museum for two devices."

This is what keeps running through my mind at this stage...
It's just a few hours flight away, and I assume they must have a backup.

~Dingus Mungus