Irregular Shed

The Irregular Shed blog, v13 (or thereabouts). Work is in progress; be prepared for visual and functional shake-ups!

February 22, 2010 9:15 am
The Steorn Orbo motor replication by JL Naudin

Once you get over the design of the site - one big page with more Comic Sans than has been legal for 12 years in the EU - this is fascinating and puzzling. Jean-Louis Naudin has been examining all the tech data put out by perpetual motion dreamers Steorn have released and built his own Steorn Orbo motor, and - puzzlingly - seems to have favourable results for them.

Obviously the laws of thermodynamics say this can’t be the case and I’d love to see someone with a much deeper understanding than me - with a bunch of oscilloscopes - take a really good look and point out where the calculations are going wrong, but Monsieur Naudin seems to be approaching that criteria.

Troubling and puzzling. I like to know what’s going on!