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11/17/05 - Release of AESI Business Plan 2006: For those interested in learning more about AESI's 24kW EDF Generator prototyping and product development project, we are very pleased to release our AESI Business Plan 2006 [PDF, 493k] which is now available on request (by return e-mail only) at: engineering@stardrivedevice.com. It provides detailed information about our plans to build both air-cooled units of from 24 to 300 kW in output capacity and liquid-cooled plants of 10 MW ratings and larger, and also includes some very interesting and relevant data regarding the national (and global) energy outlook. We believe that many of you who've expressed an interest in the StarDrive Generator's electric power output variant will find our new Business Plan 2006 to be more stimulating and readable than most . . . This document also explains how to obtain a numbered copy of our updated AESI Series "B" PPO Memorandum (prospectus).
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10/29/05 - A 4th-Quarter Administrative Report: As some of you know, from reviewing our new 2nd PoC Experiment webpage, we recently cracked one sidewall of our vacuum chamber during initial hard-pumpdown trials, which is the second serious setback we've had this year – 2005 has just been a tough one, all around . . . However, now having the benefit of better research, so that the hands aren't ahead of the brain(!), we can see why no one generally uses glass to build square vacuum chambers, unless the four sidewall panels are cast or "monolithic"! [Oh well, the price was right . . .]
Even very thick laminated safety glass, and laminated plastics like Lexan etc., have insufficient face-loading strength for our application. So, we are now installing four replacement sidewalls cut from 2"-thick monolithic clear acrylic – and that will be the end of that problem. There are electrostatic reasons why it would be much better to use glass if we could; nevertheless, the rebuilt chamber will be finished soon, allowing us to proceed with the exciting PoC voltage system tests.
[The original glass-walled chamber, which was ultimately destroyed in a violent implosion at about 1 Torr, can be seen in the 9/05/05 Update below. Fortunately, the rest of the equipment and the personnel were unharmed . . .]
On another optimistic note, our formal AESI Business Plan 2006 is in final preparation, and will be released in November. It comprehensively describes our plans to build both air-cooled units of from 24 to 300 kW in output capacity and liquid-cooled plants of 10 MW ratings and larger, and includes some very interesting and relevant data regarding the national (and global) energy outlook. We believe that many of you who have expressed an interest in the 'StarDrive' Generator's electric power output variant will find our Business Plan to be a bit more stimulating and readable than most . . .
This brings me to another important issue which should be addressed: a number of people have written asking if I could publish a "totally layman's description" of the EDF Generator, because the electronic terminology and concepts discussed within the StarDriveDevice.com site are so esoteric. Unfortunately, while it's to everyone's benefit for this technology to be understood by the greatest number of people, it is one of those rare things for which no ultimate 'capsule' layman's explanation is really possible! It is not cut from whole cloth, but is rather an intricate quiltwork of very specialized and disparate disciplines. And this is exactly why I spent so much time and effort writing and publishing StarDrive Engineering – I just knew that practically no one would "get it" without the availability of both the patent and the book as reference resources!
And on that note, I must say that we are now down to the last few hundred First Edition copies of StarDrive Engineering left, and it remains uncertain whether we will reprint. In this typically tight time of the fiscal year(!), I'd like to remind all the thousands of people who have just looked at our Enterstore (book order) page that the book is 'real' and the engineering work it represents is too; but the type of R & D that we're doing is very costly – and proceeds from the books sold really do significantly contribute to our ability to push this important work forward! I might therefore suggest that, before they're gone, a copy of StarDrive Engineering would make a unique and valuable gift or library acquisition for one who isn't technically or mathematically faint-of-heart . . .
Yours truly,
Mark Tomion
Pres.
Archer Energy Systems, Inc.
10/13/05 - Our 2nd PoC Experiment and "COP": While we are working hard (as usual) to correct the behavior of some unruly hardware, amid typical 4th-quarter fiscal concerns, I am prompted to disclose a bit more detailed information about the vacuum chamber testing of our 2nd PoC Experiment than I might ordinarily. In fact, given the complexity of the EDF Generator's design and operating principles and the shallow cynicism with which the device is generally perceived, I feel it is essential that I reveal enough about the work we're doing here at AESI so that more folks can begin to truly apprehend and appreciate it – and perhaps find it in themselves to extend the kind of support we really need if we are to properly develop this critically-needed technology.
Therefore, I have now posted a new 2nd PoC Experiment webpage, including a photo and brief but detailed discussion of the complete system we'll be testing, and an explanation of just what it is we hope to achieve next with this strange and expensive setup. And NO – we're once again not out to "prove over-unity operation" of a complete EDF Generator prototype with only this portion of the whole device! We do intend to show that the 30"-model primary voltage system's net input power increases more slowly than the power drawn by a properly-applied load rises, due to the known negative resistance characteristic(s) of the discharge we will use to "drive" that load! In other words, for now we simply want to show that, in this system, each parallel-energized armature discharge itself carries part of the load . . .
10/13/05 - In Recognition of our General Sponsor: Archer Energy Systems, Inc. would like to cordially welcome to our company ranks Mr. George Roederer, of Shepherdsville, KY, who has now been formally recognized and designated by the Board of Directors as our sole "General Sponsor" for crucial services he rendered in the initial pursuit of broad international PCT Patent rights for the EDF Generator. As such, Mr. Roederer has been granted certain AESI stock acquisition and purchase rights under an exclusive 'General Sponsor Option Agreement', including the option to purchase up to 5% of our Series "A" voting stock. He has our sincerest gratitude.
9/20/05 - Magnetic Induction Dynamo Project Update: In response to many requests we've recently received for further information about our Magnetic Induction Dynamo project, AESI and ALGO Machine are pleased to post a series of photos of the 18"-dia. prototype under construction which can now be seen in a new section of our restructured Over-Unity page. [The OU page has been broken into four (4) separate bulleted pages for faster loading and easier navigation.] One thing and another, our progress has perhaps been a bit slow - but as can be seen we really are coming along!
9/13/05 - Russian Patent for the EDF Generator: We are pleased to announce that, as of Aug. 11, 2005, an Official Decision of Grant has been issued and received from the Patent Office of the Russian Federation in respect of our PCT Application for the Electrodynamic Field Generator, and all applicable fees for the patent period from July 11, 2003 to July 11, 2006 have been paid. At this time, we expect a similar patent to be granted soon in the People's Republic of China, and the examination of a corresponding patent application in India is now also under way. Our campaign to secure essentially worldwide intellectual property rights for the EDF Generator is therefore still on track and proceeding according to plan!
9/05/05 - Proof-of-Concept Experimentation Update!: Construction of a custom vacuum/argon test chamber for continuing our 2nd PoC experimentation is now complete, we are pleased to say, and all the necessary operating and control equipment is in hand! As you can see, the sidewalls of this 30"-square enclosure are made of safety glass, allowing virtually 360-degree visibility, with a ribbed stainless steel cover for the necessary plumbing and wire feedthroughs. [As noted above in the 10/29 Report, the sidewalls of this original chamber were destroyed in a violent implosion at about 1 Torr. No personnel or other equipment were harmed.]
The whole primary power system assembly shown in our June 1st update (on this page below) will be placed into this chamber and tested at various levels of induction voltage and gas pressure.
The Alcatel vacuum pump shown below should allow us to take the chamber down to between 10–4 and 10–6 Torr (mm-Hg) with no problem, and we anticipate that very little argon gas will be required to light the discharge since the induction assembly has far higher electrode surface area and shorter conduction path length than a typical neon or argon discharge device . . .
The argon pressure will be slowly raised until the discharge lights at a desired striking voltage drop of 150 vdc or more, and a carefully chosen variable value of ballast resistance must be used to control line current because a glow-discharge device will exhibit negative differential resistance characteristics as well as voltage regulating action! Generally, the higher the gas pressure is, the lower the voltage drop will be across the glow discharge and the higher the line current.
This fine equipment was assembled for AESI by Pneu-Hydro Energy, Inc. of Maine (with many thanks!), and serves of course as an analogue of the next ~1/3 portion of our 24kW EDF Generator prototype – the evacuated housing. With it, we will soon be able to determine both the peak level of armature polarization obtainable with proper control of the stator discharges' "leakage" current and the power system's passive load (charge transfer) capability, by simulating the self-sustaining discharge of primary array Field current (shunted by the armature to the housing's emitter ring) using at least one adjustable-gap radial pickup.
By testing several "firing solutions" with variable ballast resistances, we will also determine to what extent the system is able to achieve a substantial (~30-75%) increase in the anode ring voltage (between the no-load and full-load operational modes), such that the non-linear Field current drawn through the thermionic primary arrays – the final 1/3 of our prototype Generator – would freely double (in support of a 24kW external inverter load!).
The work of collating the data from our previous (and frustrating) open-air experimentation with this setup and drafting a suitable Report continues, and we will try to make this information available soon. In the meantime, we at AESI hope you have a safe and happy Labor Day!
7/27/05 - 2nd PoC Experiment Progress Bulletin!: We have essentially concluded the open-air testing of our 2nd proof-of-concept experimental setup, which constitutes a complete production model of the primary power system for our 24kW EDF Generator prototype, and like the first such experiment it has proved to be a qualified but solid success! In this final Bulletin prior to the posting of a comprehensive web-page Report, I would like to discuss what these latest tests have revealed, why we will be conducting some further vacuum chamber tests with this same set-up, and what we hope to achieve in doing so.
The 1st PoC Experiment established absolutely fundamental proof that the armature's anode rings will always charge positively given the specific geometry of its design (and the proper induction ring polarity assignment!), and this 2nd PoC Experiment has established crucial next-stage proof that even as operated in air we can achieve very-high double-digit (+60 to 90 vdc) anode voltages which are unquestionably sufficient to drive the primary electrode arrays [or thermionic electron source assemblies] in the completed prototype Generator.
It was also hoped that in this experiment, above and beyond attaining the said primary goal, the armature ("rotor") could be polarized electronically using diodes as shown in the photo below, to provide a relatively neutral (~0-volt) pole on the armature's peripheral capacitor plates. This might allow current to be drawn across the 'rotor' segments in support of a load – at a very high COP – even though when we're using the given solid-state HV source module(s) no rotating field coils or magnetic rings would be required!
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It was found in testing, however, that without a true ground reference (which is not to be used in actual practice according to the EDF Generator's design and operating theory) such an arrangement can't be made to support an over-unity load applied directly across the prototype armature in any way that would not basically amount to a 'parlor trick' having little to do with how the device must function in a production model . . .
It's important to understand here that in the EDF Generator we're producing voltage and current separately, using the armature assembly seen in this experiment and the primary electrode arrays, respectively, and that the actual function of this assembly in the complete device is simply to create enough voltage to transport collected Field envelope charge from the anode rings to the capacitor plate discharge points, and nothing more – it is not and never was intended to support an applied load per se.
For proper Field-supporting polarization of the armature, whereby the capacitor plates acquire a true negative voltage (without ground reference) while the 2 anode rings retain their strong positive voltage, a finite leakage current between the stator plate induction rings and their armature counterparts must be developed – as was clearly prescribed in both the EDF Generator's patent and its published technical manual.
We will therefore next be doing some vacuum chamber testing of this same experimental setup with trace levels of argon gas introduced, to verify the final induced anode ring voltage levels and corresponding stator leakage current values which need only be in the double-digit milliamp range for effective polarization of the armature. [General proof that this simple technique will work beautifully for us can be seen in any fluorescent tube, wherein (typically) 600 volts of input is sufficient to carry a very small current across its full length . . .]
We thoroughly expect in this next exciting series of tests to achieve a full source polarization of the prototype armature assembly, and therefore to provide definitive proof-of-concept for the EDF Generator's electric power output variant with documentation of the results to be incorporated in the forthcoming Report.
7/03/05 - 2nd PoC Experiment Progress Bulletin!: We have now completed the second phase of testing of our 2nd proof-of-concept experimental setup, using the new +/-2,500-volt source module (solid-state DC-DC voltage converter, 1.50 W), and have applied as much as +/-1,400 volts across the stator plate induction rings. However, we have also found that for optimum performance (COP) the induction voltage in air only needs to fall between 1,170 and 1,280 vdc, with the dielectric thickness and induction gap both set at between 16 and 18 mil.
We are now able to induce anode ring voltages much higher than those achieved in the 1st PoC Experiment (+10.4 vdc), but have learned that the ceramic stator plates are subject to non-dynamic triboelectric charging from the adjacent armature ("rotor") plate – the effect of which is to greatly inhibit the induced anode voltage! While we can reliably produce at least 75% of the minimum anode ring voltage needed to draw full-load current across the rotor of the prototype 24-kW Generator* (i.e., between +12.8 and +22.4 vdc), we must provide even higher anode voltages for the "Primary Arrays" [heated electron sources] if possible! But in none of these tests have we yet used more than 1/2 watt of input power . . .
In fact, we can now demonstrate stable anode ring voltages of +50 vdc and more, which is unquestionably acceptable for the Primary Arrays' driving voltage, but the particular method used was discovered sheerly by accident and would not be suitable in production. Therefore, in this last (3rd) series of tests, we will be using static-conductive semi-insulator materials to see which of several techniques for static-biasing the two stator induction ring plates would be acceptable in a production capacity, and what anode voltage that technique will allow us to achieve with absolute consistency.
It will require several more days to complete the modifications needed to see if it's possible to provide a neutral or negative polarity on the armature's capacitor plates using diodes, and to complete the remaining stator biasing tests, after which an authorized Report and photo of the final form of the setup will be posted to this website. We would like to thank all of you who have written and phoned recently with encouragement: Happy Fourth of July! *[For good background on our 24kW Generator design, click here.]
6/06/05 - 2nd PoC Experiment Progress Bulletin!: We have now completed the initial phase of testing of our 2nd proof-of-concept experimental setup, using the original experiment's +/-500-volt source module (solid state dc-dc converter, 1.5W), and have been able to apply its full unballasted output across the stator plate induction rings without shorting problems.
While the induced anode ring voltage is much lower than in the 1st PoC Experiment, due to the action of the capacitor plates added to the armature ("rotor"), we can see that the performance of this prototype 24kW EDF Generator primary power system increases sharply as the induction rings' voltage is raised. For example:
– when the induction ring voltage was raised 13.6% from +/-323 [max. 40 Ω ballast R] to +/-367vdc [as partially ballasted @ 18 Ω] in the second of a series of 3 tests, the equilibrium armature voltage only increased by 12.2% yet the required converter input power went up by 25.7%!; However,
– when the induction ring voltage was raised just 9.5% more, from +/-367 [18 Ω ballast R] to +/-402vdc [at the min. 2.9 Ω fuse R] in the third test of that series, the input power only went up by 20.4% while the equilibrium armature voltage increased by over 60%!!
So, we have ordered a new +/-2.5-kV source module (1.5W), with which we should of course be able to extend the input voltage testing range by a factor of five (5) and the induced rotor voltage by a far greater ratio. And, with the flexibility we have in easily adjusting the polyester capacitor dielectric thickness, we can achieve better induction field intensity control (to avoid sparking) while running higher and higher percentages of breakdown field intensity between the stator and armature induction ring pairs.
It must be noted here that, in this initial test series, we are already producing 85% of the induced armature voltage that we will need to show an output COP of 1.0, using under 1 watt of input power from the 'smallest' module available - and this voltage is over 40% of that which will be required to operate the completed 24kW Generator prototype at its full rated output . . . More to follow!
6/01/05 - Important 2nd-Quarter Update: I know that many of you have been anxiously awaiting news of our 2nd Proof-of-Concept Experiment and are concerned about the terrible 4-month delay we suffered in obtaining the 3 special ceramic plates for it – from some bass-fishin', defense contractin' good ole boys in Oak Ridge (who shall remain nameless) . . .
Well, as you can see below, we finally have the 2nd PoC Experiment fully assembled and have been testing it and analysing the initial results for about 2 weeks now. It has performed mostly as expected, although a couple small mechanical and electrical modifications must be made over the next 2 to 3 weeks if we are then to proceed to a final test of this primary power system's ability to demonstrate output COPs of 4 to 7 (and perhaps better) . . .
A full Report is in preparation, and I will be posting a Board-authorized level of disclosure to this website as soon as possible in the form of a new webpage like that for the 1st PoC Experiment.
Also, for the great number of you who visit our Over-Unity Disk Dynamo Analysis webpage and who have expressed enthusiasm for our Magnetic Induction Dynamo Project, I've included below a photo of one of the two finished end-frame structures for the 18" prototype. We've already begun building the two corresponding stator magnet heads, for which we have all materials and components, and have finally located a vendor of the required 3-μohm-cm Ag-graphite material for the unique brush system – so, construction is coming along well! Many thanks to Frank Ivan at Algo Machine Shop for the great work he continues to do on our behalf!
I nevertheless find it troubling to note that of the literally hundreds of people who visit our OU page per week, not one has taken us up on our offer to provide interested students and engineers with a copy of my original and definitive Eddy Current & Stator Loss Analysis white paper or an edited ("B") version of AESI's Project Manual, upon request, with prior submission of a basic 1-pg. NDA . . . Do people actually read anymore?
Lastly, but not least, I have decided to post-release a couple more pages of my book, with my "thanks" to all of the many starship troopers out there who periodically visit stardrivedevice.com in search of 'starship design', 'interstellar propulsion', 'faster-than-light drive' and so forth. But at times it seems as if the only people I actually hear from wanting to know more about the beautiful technical details of my 'StarDrive' system are, well, nuts! . . . In any case, I will let the Manned Vessel Design DataSheet speak for itself and for the book. [pdf, 283kB, 2 pgs.; weight, displacement, Field voltage, and peak rotor current for vessels of 40, 60, 80 and 100 feet in diameter.]
Sincerely,
Mark Tomion
Pres.
Archer Energy Systems, Inc.
3/07/05 - A Memorandum Regarding E-Mail: It would appear that the geometric growth of "e-garbage" lately has been accompanied by an inversely-proportional drop in meaningful new correspondence - which is of course detrimental to our ability to effectively promote and develop our business - and that most people have gotten so sick and tired of it they just don't want to bother 'doing' e-mails anymore!
Nevertheless, as professional people we all have an obligation to overcome or adapt to this unwanted extra burden or see our working productivity thwarted just that much more!! I would much rather ask all of you whose interest in our work is sincere to let us know that by phone, if you don't want to write, than have an opportunity to meet new friends and associates pass by unattended. It's simply criminal that such a wonderful medium for business communications and conduct has gotten so hopelessly polluted . . .
My own policy with regard to e-mails is that I'll spend no time at all on inconsequential matters, and any time that it takes on the most important issues related to communicating in 'real time' with valuable new and existing contacts and to conducting our business properly. It is unlikely - but still possible - that some of your important new correspondence might be inadvertently lost or deleted, so please call our office (Mon.- Fri., 9am - 5pm EST) if you don't receive a timely response to an initial e-mail inquiry or are not sure whether it was properly delivered. Thanks!
Best regards,
Mark Tomion
Pres.
AESI
2/21/05 - EDF Generator's Australian Patent Granted: We've just received confirmation that Australian Patent #2001273462 [WO02/09259, WIPO]; pdf Abstract] for the Electrodynamic Field Generator was issued to AESI president Mark R. Tomion on Dec. 16, 2004 (expiring 7/11/21). Companies that are interested in building or selling any products or devices in Australia that are or would be covered by this comprehensive Patent must now seek licensing from Archer Energy Systems, Inc. as the IP rights assignee. We appreciate the significant indications of interest in this technology we've been receiving from 'down under', and would welcome the opportunity to work with the Australians in applying it to the challenges of reducing their key dependence on fossil fuels for generating electricity (~90%) and lessening the near-critical shortage of fresh water there. Enquiries should be directed to: engineering@stardrivedevice.com.
2/10/05 - Special Dynamo Project Memorandum: We'd like to announce the formal inception of our exciting Magnetic Disk Dynamo Project, in association with Algo Machine Shop Ltd. of ON, Canada. The fundamental purpose of AESI's Disk Dynamo Project is quite simply to see if a 'new' Faraday generator of our own unique and sophisticated design can really be built and publicly demonstrated to operate over-unity – when so many others have tried and failed. While this design is of course based to a degree on landmark prior art, we're fairly sure that no one has ever built a device of the particular configuration defined in our Project Manual's specifications, nor is it likely they had a better theoretical and mathematical model from which to proceed.
At the present time, when even the energy supply required to maintain modern civilization is itself uncertain, we've begun building an experimental Dynamo which might not only constitute a feasibly marketable electric power supply system for single-unit-housing customers but should also be essentially production-ready if it proves successful! Theoretically, the model under development could exhibit a net input COP of 1.49 or more, whereby it would be sufficiently over-unity that it could operate "closed-loop" as driven by a high-efficiency electric motor and custom inverter!
Although the power output of a disk dynamo goes up proportional to the 4th power of increases in the rotor's mean induction radius, we wanted to design our device with an overall "slim-line" housing diameter that would not be significantly greater than that of a typical residential water heater and, in this way, we made a fortuitous choice of 18 inches as the device's nominal rotor disk diameter. And because the vertical shaft will be electrically "live" in the chosen design, we desired the 18"-dia. prototype unit to be modular in nature so that multiple 'thin' units could be mechanically coupled end-to-end vertically (and driven by a single electric motor or other source of input torque) until the combined net output is commensurate with the power needs of a typical residential housing unit.
While it is possible – but extremely unlikely – that our prototype dynamo will not be that much more efficient than a high-performance Bosch truck alternator (~70%), we will consider this Project to be a gratifying success upon any of the only remaining possible outcomes:
1) we just might be able to meet Dr. Hal Puthoff's "1-watt challenge" (as yet unachieved anywhere else, so far as we know) and demonstrate true self-sustaining operation of an electric-motor-driven device that can also power at least (one) 1 watt of additional load;
2) failing that, we may well still be able to solidly verify over-unity operation of an electromotive device – if only for the academic accomplishment of it – if for instance we develop well over 1,000 watts of net output across the buss bars using less than 1,000 watts of shaft input torque; or
3) we may find that the overall efficiency, despite all those brushes, is less than but quite close to 100%, and that the Dynamo could perhaps be manufactured and sold as a terrific mini wind turbine or micro-hydro power generator.
I actually do expect to see the latter outcome realized, which means we probably have a viable product! The absolute minimum percentage of classical Lenz-loss back-torque that we can expect our prototype to express is just 20% – in addition to the significant brush drag (countertorque) . . . The 18" Dynamo's peak power output capability is 4.3kW at 1900 rpm, by the way, so to achieve 20kW in output (for instance) 5 of these units would have to be coupled end-to-end mechanically (as is possible by design) if they're to be driven by a common shaft.
While it is 'possible' according to the rigorous mathematical model we've developed that the prototype 4.3-kW Dynamo could be efficient enough for it to operate closed-loop electrically, it is much more realistic to consider it as a truly exceptional wind turbine power plant! Therefore, AESI is also developing a 12-foot-dia. vertical-shaft aeroturbine kit* and simple 60' hinged jack-spar mast of our own unique design, with a customized linear torque ratio planetary fluid transmission provided by Pneu-Hydro Energy, Inc. of Limestone, Maine. *[Note: A USPTO design patent has been applied for – more to follow!]
This elegant system would be able to drive a single shaft-coupled Dynamo stage delivering up to 3,000 watts of electrical power, and could actually offset the average U.S. single-unit residential power bill at 50% capacity (continuous duty).
In the Dynamo 1 Project Manual, we develop theoretical proof sheets wherein the performance potential of the 18"-dia. Dynamo is assessed for both electric motor drive and wind turbine drive scenarios, and these studies are both sobering and exciting. We have been ridiculed to a degree about devoting valuable resources to a program which "tries to use an age-old model to deal with new-age problems" – that we are only 'tilting at windmills'. But even if we're unable to verify OU operation in first-round testing, the Dynamo 1 prototype is a beautiful piece of unconventional equipment which will teach us a great deal, which expresses some very adroit engineering, and which just may prove to be a very significant and newsworthy scientific achievement.
To the extent permissible, we will try to provide a few photos periodically as work progresses, perhaps as incorporated in a new project webpage. Students, engineers, and prospective investors may obtain a copy of either the Eddy Current & Stator Loss Analysis white paper or an edited ("B") version of the Project Manual upon request, with prior submission of a basic 1-pg. NDA.
2/09/05 - AESI 2004 Year-End Report: Despite our lack of recent postings, the last few months spanning the change of the year have been very busy and productive. However, notwithstanding the available funding we have (for a change), we have only just been able to secure the delivery of all of our prototype EDF Generator's primary power system components.
Before installation in the 24-kW Generator, this unique non-magnetic electrostatic voltage source system will be assembled, tested, and documented as our second and final proof-of-concept experimental set-up (in a new webpage similar to the first, but with more and better photos!).
While last year's annual report optimistically asserted that we should by now have completed the 24kW air-cooled prototype, it has instead taken all that time just to get this far. The important thing, though, is that we made it, and will be able to make demonstrable progress much more quickly from here on out. Moreover, 2004 was actually a good year for us in that the 'StarDrive' EDF Generator's international patent rights are intact and secure on all fronts, and professional interest and enquiries continue to increase worldwide – albeit slowly.
Finally, as the unbelievable delay in shipment of our outrageously expensive ceramic parts carried over into the first two months of 2005(!), we were able to develop a complete pre-production technical manual for a very sophisticated variant of the Faraday disk dynamo that's described on our Over-Unity webpage. This beautiful neo-classical machine, which is under construction, has a peak output power rating of 4.3 kW at 1900 rpm, and will be discussed further in a soon-to-follow separate posting. [Certain technical information about this project, including a definitive white paper on stator-variant loss analysis, is being made available to those who sign a basic NDA with us.]
I truly expect 2005 to see us finally complete the contruction and testing of both these exciting and advanced prototype energy system products. In the meantime, it's at least comforting that no one else has demonstrated any practical self-sustaining OU hardware yet either - let alone any with solid cost-effective product potential. To put it simply, this is our goal for 2005; may you all have a prosperous and Happy New Year as well!
Kind regards,
Mark R. Tomion
Pres.
Archer Energy Systems, Inc.
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