New Things for the Blog

I've been thinking a little about the format of this blog and I have decided to set some kind of rough format. I'm hoping that this will force me to post regularly. Starting today I will have two new features.

On Mondays I will post what is basically an electronics 101 series of posts. This is mostly for me to review and remember stuff that I learned in college and promptly forgot, but also serve as a way for beginners to learn about simple circuits.

On Fridays I will have a post on skepticism/science, because reason rocks. I have already done two posts like this (here and here). Don't expect these to be super long essays, although some of them might be. It all depends on the amount of time I have. Some of the posts might be about things in the news, others might be about something cool I read that week and want to share. I will probably get stuff wrong too, but that's how we learn.

I enjoy feedback too, so feel free to post comments.

I'm hoping to start on a new project soon too, or at least finish some older ones.

Steorn

Steorn has been all over the internets the last few years. Most things said about it are negative. For good reason too. Some background first.

Sreorn claims to have made an "overunity" device, called the Orbo, that outputs more energy that is inputted into the system. They have been working on this thing for years now, and so far all demos have very successfully shown nothing at all.

"We are interested in the development community"

That is a quote from a series of six Youtube videos recently posted. Go watch them. the video demo starts OK, but during the Q&A session it seems as if he is just talking BS. He keeps comparing his device to manufacturing HDDs, that it requires precision technologies and a large plant to produce the devices. He claims that people can not reproduce it because it requires precision technologies to make. I am suspicious. I would almost categorize this as a non-reproducible result. Instead of actually explaining how the Orbo works he says that it is too complicated to explain. Right.

In the next week they will have live demos of the Orbo to prove that it works. I think that the only thing the device will show is that it is really good at slowly draining a battery, but I guess time will tell. It would be really cool if the Orbo does work, but the physics don't work out. There is no such thing as free energy.

The quote posted above to me says one thing: I want your money. It would be incredibly evil if this was just a con, but that is exactly what I'm thinking it is right now.

Magic forces read zero. Until a better explanation on how this thing works comes out, it is just magic (or wishful thinking).