Please tell me what you guys think (terrawatt)

[proteinman]

http://www.terawatt.com/cms/index.php

They have been at it for a few years, do you guys think they will get OU?

[TCadd]

Nope.

But honestly I doubt we'll ever see a true over-unity - every one I've seen so far has simply not accounted for some incoming energy, and its often something obvious. I'll settle for getting upwards of 70% efficiency on the "average" product.

[TinselKoala]

They get glitzier every time I look at their site. They must have some money coming in from somewhere.

If you could imagine kind of a Milkovic chaotic pendulum made of rotating magnets on two shafts, coupled with a Steorn-like torquemeter setup to gather torque vs. rotation data, and combine that with a healthy lack of understanding of the behaviour of harmonically balanced (or unbalanced) rotating systems, and a clever misuse of data from independent laboratories, which only confirm your numbers, not the interpretation of them, and then toss in a willful ignorance of proper control experimentation, and you'll pretty much have what Terawatt Research has.
It looks nice, though, doesn't it?

Seriously, without being able to evaluate the apparatus directly, all I can say is the numbers from the data (and I looked at the big raw data files, too, several weeks ago), by themselves, do not indicate unusual or overunity performance. So far, the situation looks to me to be analogous to storing energy in a flywheel in small increments over long times, and withdrawing it more swiftly at higher power levels. No free lunch, just a complicated flywheel that, at certain frequencies, transfers momentum back and forth between the two shafts through the magnetic coupling.

[llewgnal]

   I'm not all that smart, about terminoligy, but in laymen's terms it look like only a momentary wobble or spike in power...

[jadaro2600]

All their fancy information and I still can't understand how this device on the second axis is working.