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4/02/08 - Year-End Report for 2007: Given my current time management constraints, and AESI's need for me to concentrate on successfully finishing our EDF Generator final p-o-c experimentation this month, I have elected to post this much briefer version of my end-of-the-year report for 2007 than I had originally intended. And, given the tiny amount of feedback we receive from this website lately compared to the huge traffic it gets, I can't see where that will matter a great deal...
I will therefore discuss the status of our company and its operations as they evolved during the past year, somewhat in relative proportion to the apparent public interest in our company's active product development projects (as reflected in our weekly webstats)... First, I would like to once again call attention to our new 'AESI Business Outlook 2008' page, which gives an excellent overview of our plans and prospects for the coming year and should be incorporated herein by reference.
Next, I would like to point out our new Archer Enterprises home office address and published phone number, shown above, which should also now be used for all corporate correspondence. The purchase and development of this great property has unavoidably consumed a fair amount of my time and energy this year, but I can say with some satisfaction that it has already appreciated by over 35% in assessed value...
Indeed, most of our present administrative concerns are related to intellectual property, and are covered in my preceding News memo (below) with regard to our ongoing battle with the European patent office over my PCT application there for the EDF Generator. Given the obvious prejudicial bias of the examiners, we are working now to determine whether or not to file an appeal of their decision to refuse us a patent for the "StarDrive device" in Europe – which so far has happened nowhere else in the world! For further information about this very important strategic issue, please see the cited IP memo of 1/22/08.
Of course, Europe does have its own space agency, and with no patent protection there 'they' would have free rein to develop this technology – both the UHV propulsive variant and the much simpler power output variants we are developing now – without benefit of any kind to American interests, given this country's demonstrated indifference and lack of enlightened initiative... No matter what, we will try to effect the best resolution we can with the least capital outlay, one which protects our company's huge existing IP investment and future marketing interests in the strongest way possible.
We may ultimately be forced to abandon the EU application due to lack of domestic support and funding, though, and in light of that we are prepared to offer substantial voting-stock incentives as well as an exclusive European manufacturing license for the EDF Generator to any qualified English, French, or German electronics manufacturing company who would be ready, willing and able to become our designated 'General Sponsor' in the next 45 days and help us underwrite our EU patent campaign to a successful conclusion! For more information, please see this special Corporate page update.
As to why such a foreign company would wish to make a large investment in AESI and the EDF Generator technology at this time, I'd like to point out for one and all that the comprehensive proof-of-concept report I recently completed (as of 3/17/08), except for the actual disclosure and discussion of our final testing results, should leave very little doubt that (once again) "practice will follow theory" and the experiment will finish as a resounding success – since virtually all of the guess-work or necessity for any trial-and-error testing has therein clearly been eliminated, and only something completely unforeseen could cause us any further trouble or delay! [see: poc2 update.031708]
In this all-important regard, I can only say that our p-o-c webpage provides an unprecedented and literally inadvisable level of 'full and fair disclosure'; and if those few persons or companies who rightly should now comprehend and back the EDF Generator technology for the tremendous power production potential inherent therein still do not, then they probably never will – which in my own opinion (as its inventor) calls into question their respective rights or qualifications to benefit from it. In light of the impending energy crisis this planet faces, the future cannot belong to those so blind.
Next, I am very pleased and proud to announce that I have finally received a Notice of Allowance from the USPTO for my Syntrefoil Aeroturbine design patent application [# 29/257,591; filed on 04/06/2006] and, given that we've already paid the issuance fee, a corresponding patent should be granted by the end of May! This is very good news indeed, since Weber Racing Equipment, Inc. is already building a 12-ft.-dia. prototype turbine assembly for AESI (as our official project sponsor) that will be installed, tested, and demonstrated in a complete residential wind power system right here on the grounds of our office property, later this year.
This is all especially gratifying for me in that I actually conceived and designed the Syntrefoil Aeroturbine as an AP Physics project in my senior year of high school (a long, long time ago...)! We've had strong indications of interest in our 12' and 16' wind systems from all over the world, and as some of you know we already have an equivalent patent in Australia and expect to obtain one soon in India as well (surely a huge potential market)...
At present, this is the only link to our Residential WindPower webpage other than the one at the top of the News page, but the various Syntrefoil wind systems we've got designed will be our first proven over-unity power generation products to be marketed! And as this part of our operations inevitably expands in the coming year, so will the WindPower webpage, and I'll find a suitable way to add an introduction and link to it in AESI's stardrivedevice.com homepage [./power_plant.html]
Finally, many people have written lately asking about the status of our Magnetic Induction Dynamo Project, which actually is a largely academic endeavor but one which we might indeed be able to quickly develop into a product for home or light-commercial use in the near term – with adequate funding... My expectation is that our Induction Dynamo will in the end also yield solidly O-U results, which we'll know for sure once we're able to order the ridiculously expensive brushes and precision alloy test shunt for it.
If so, I envision (and we will try to build) a consumer 'appliance' that one parks in the corner of the basement (like the water heater), comprised of a stack of the modular 18"-diameter prototype disk Dynamos as driven from an underslung electric motor, which operates at a net output surplus of from 1 to 1.5kW, continuous duty! And output at the latter figure would supply all of an average U.S. household's electrical power needs... [please see our Over-Unity Disk Dynamo webpage, if
you haven't already.]
The reason we don't have even preliminary Dynamo testing results to share with you all is simply that we are still as terribly underfunded as we've always been for any "ancillary" project work like this – and are therefore building this beautiful neo-classical device as best we can, all on our "own dime", with no real sponsorship backing of any kind.
Nevertheless, I have just posted another photo to the O-U page which shows that the complete 48-pc. set of rotor-disk brush-holders is now ready; however, the brushes we need to fill these nifty components could well cost $2,500 or more in today's metals market (since they're 93% silver), so it may still be awhile before we learn how the Dynamo performs...
This concludes my year-end Report for '07; I hope that our visitors and shareholders alike find this information both useful and exciting, and as always your constructive comments and questions are certainly welcome.
Sincerely,
Mark R. Tomion
President
Archer Energy Systems, Inc.
Archer Enterprises
office@stardrivedevice.com
1/07/08 - A preliminary year-end memo for 2007: I would first like to convey my best wishes for the New Year to all our valued AESI shareholders and website visitors alike! This memo comes slightly in advance of a more comprehensive end-of-year report for 2007 – what a strange and difficult year it was... I know that some of you are concerned about the lack of recent updates, and for that I apologize.
In a nutshell, last year we had to essentially "trade time for money", due to a major funding pledge which we received in February and was responsible for us tackling the purchase of our own corporate office, but which was utterly defaulted upon in March... Without the monies we were promised (by a notable Texas businessman), AESI was left almost without any engineering budget for the year, and so my time in the latter half of 2007 was largely spent in a thankfully successful disaster recovery mode, and all is well again – at least for the time being! I emerged from the year's 'funding wars' pretty "scathed" but with all of our intellectual property intact...
Last year was rather pivotal for us in a number of ways, and AESI's outlook for the coming year is actually better than ever! I will post my big 2007 end-of-year report ASAP - I just have to figure out how the heck to best describe the kind of year I had! I even had a little bit of trouble with my health (I am 50 now, after all), and had to take some time off, but I'm back in the saddle and getting ready to fire our EDF Generator experimental assembly again – in the final series of tests I'll ever have to do with it, hopefully...
In any case, I really can't delay disclosing my final p-o-c results much longer, as I admit has been the case to an extent... Not because those all-important results will be negative or disappointing but because I'm reasonably certain they will be solidly affirmative – while, unfortunately, we do not as yet have the benefit of the kind of protective umbrella a good Project Sponsor or Co-Developer of suitable stature could provide for us. And that's a little scary, as some of you will understand, since hostile parties can logically then be expected to materialize in force!
Nevertheless, I intend and expect to demonstrate the p-o-c equipment for interested parties, as an output device which satisfies our own criteria for pre-prototypic input COP, before the end of February. By that time, we should also be able to publicly release our final and conclusive p-o-c experimental results, and explain our reasoning satisfactorily to one and all as to the interpretation thereof. [I should clarify for new visitors that this applies so far only to the EDF Generator's simple electric power output variant!]
My 2007 end-of-year report will be the biggest ever, so keep an eye on our News page in the next few days and all will be further explained.
Yours truly,
Mark R. Tomion
Pres.
Archer Energy Systems, Inc.
Archer Enterprises
585-526-5936*
* This is a temporary landline for use only until our new corporate number is published.
9/30/07 – Our New Wind Power Project Sponsor!: Archer Energy Systems, Inc. would like to announce that we have now entered into an exciting new 'Business Development Agreement' with Weber Racing Equipment Inc., a well-known builder of high-performance racing engines in N. Ridgeville, OH, who will not only serve as our exclusive Syntrefoil Aeroturbine Project Sponsor but will also be fabricating a 12'-diameter prototype wind turbine assembly for us this fall!
As it turns out, we will be building this smaller Syntrefoil turbine first for our pilot wind plant, rather than the big 16-ft. model, so that data can be obtained and accurately scaled (due to the simple mechanical transmission employed) to verify the output capability of that full-scale turbine prior to coupling it as planned to a hydraulic drive train of as-yet-undetermined efficiency. We will thereby also be able to make the most accurate calculation of the Syntrefoil design's own inherent efficiency (as a percentage of the Betz limit) – which should be much higher than that of any typical horizontal-axis wind turbine!
AESI will make the necessary arrangements (if permissible) to implement a "net metering" grid-tie connection for the pilot project system, once it's completed and installed at our new office property, thus facilitating the development of valuable integrated system performance data for use in sales and marketing. Siting the project system at AESI's business office should also prove advantageous given the heavy vehicle traffic past our new location, and the resultant considerable product exposure.
Archer Energy Systems, Inc. is therefore looking forward to a long and rewarding business relationship with Weber Racing Equipment Inc., and to market introduction of the Syntrefoil Aeroturbine residential wind power system in the coming year!
9/18/07 - An important memo regarding our General Sponsor: This important memorandum is to announce the retirement of our current General Sponsor, Mr. V. G. Roederer, a senior businessman from Shepherdsville, KY. Archer Energy Systems, Inc. was pleased to recognize Mr. Roederer back in 2005 as our principal shareholder and sole "general sponsor" for his vision and support in the initial pursuit of broad international patent rights for the EDF Generator technology. As such, Mr. Roederer was granted certain special AESI stock acquisition rights, including the option to purchase up to 5% of our limited Series "A" voting stock, and he will always have, as he did then, our sincerest gratitude!
On his retirement, however, Mr. Roederer's general sponsorship position becomes open and available, and AESI must therefore begin the process of finding a suitable successor. By company resolution, our 'General Sponsor' may be either a private individual or a chartered business entity, publicly acknowledged or not, but must also be an "accredited investor" (of substantial means, as that term is understood in securities protocol). This is because the primary responsibilities of AESI's General Sponsor are to assure the adequate underwriting of our serious and ongoing intellectual property expenses, and to subsidize the company's fixed administrative expenses (such as our office lease). In this way, we can maximize that portion of our available 'outside' funding which is directly applied to the actual business of engineering, presumably to the added benefit of the company and all our shareholders!
Please note that holding AESI's exclusive general sponsorship position is normally the only way that a private individual may acquire the Series "A" (voting) stock of Archer Energy Systems, Inc. without being a director or executive officer of the company*, and that our new General Sponsor will have the opportunity to purchase a considerably expanded percentage of that stock. We are now taking applications for this extraordinary position of opportunity, and more information is available upon request by writing to Mark R. Tomion, president of AESI, c/o: aesi@stardrivedevice.com.
* or an official Project Sponsor who maintains a special installment stock purchase plan.
9/08/07 - Our Business Outlook for 2008: While our former Business Plan is being updated for 2008, I am pleased to publish our AESI* Business Outlook 2008 webpage, to hopefully put the company's real plans and prospects into better perspective for all our faithful supporters and web visitors! This document will be added as an Appendix to both of our Offering Memorandums and to a 'new' AESI "Primary Business Plan". The latter will differ from the former BP 2006 mainly in that our humble financials will be suitably updated and I will emphasize one of the most important and exciting findings to come out of this year's difficult proof-of-concept work for the EDF Generator: that prototyping the 'StarDrive' device's stationary-armature variant should be only about half as expensive and involved as was expected (and outlined in that earlier BP) for a rotating armature device!
Some people have hinted that *Archer Energy Systems, Inc. might be better off keeping "all our eggs in one basket" (i.e., focusing solely on developing the EDF Generator technology), and that any ancillary projects are unnecessary and perhaps undesirable, while others (I hope) will see the logic of having multiple but very select projects going in tandem! Thus, whereas our primary project focus is and must (of course) be the EDF Generator, we do have a few other very good "irons in the fire", and in fact have two exciting new inventions in the works that haven't been disclosed on our website before...
Indeed, some of our "other projects" – like the patented Syntrefoil Aeroturbine – represent technologies that might be far easier and less expensive than our prototype EDF Generator to develop and introduce commercially, as products which are nevertheless also just as excellently engineered. Therefore, the Outlook 2008 synopsis will briefly describe each of the several Projects that AESI has actively under way, all of which could benefit greatly from better funding yet already involve a feasible energy system product in planning or development.
In any case, I'd also like to announce that the remodeling of our 'new' 500 sq.-ft. corporate office suite (under lease from Archer Enterprises) is very nearly complete, and my EDF Generator proof-of-concept experimentation – which was sorely interrupted during the interim – will resume shortly, in a dedicated lab room adjacent to the main office! This great commercial headquarters facility, in a semi-rural area with a beautiful view, will open in October (and include overnight accommodations for two visitors).
With our fourth corporate anniversary coming up soon (in March), Archer Energy Systems, Inc. is no longer really a "start-up company." Thus, our foremost goal in 2008 must be to introduce at least one new saleable product from our existing fine repertoire of unconventional technologies, and successfully make the difficult transition from a primarily R&D and IP holding company mode of operation to that of an original equipment manufacturer generating revenues from the public sale of its products. And I am certain we will be able to do just that.
With best regards,
Mark R. Tomion
Pres.
Archer Energy Systems, Inc.
7/07/07 - Status of Foreign IP for the EDF Generator: I'm pleased to report that, as of July 3, the timely payment by AESI of all foreign intellectual property maintenance annuities which are due this year for the Electrodynamic Field Generator technology was confirmed by our attorneys. This applies to both patents issued (I) and patents pending examination (PE) in the jurisdictions of: Australia (I); Canada (PE); China (I); Europe (PE); India (I); Russia (I); and South Africa (I).
Some of you may feel – as indeed I do myself – that the forward pace of the actual EDF Generator prototype work we do at Archer Energy Systems, Inc. has been quite slow . . . Yet, at times up to half of the all-too-limited funding we've been able to raise so far has had to immediately be reserved or disbursed to cover IP expenses which are unavoidable if AESI is to retain our ownership and investment equity in the many respective patent filings!
But – I like to think that we have some very good reasons to make such a commitment and apparent sacrifice, as is reflected in part in our updated 2nd PoC Experiment webpage. Armature (output) electrode firing trials with our evacuated experimental assembly will resume as soon as static testing of the control board modifications is complete, before the end of July [2007]. By that time, we could also hope to receive some portion of the rather large amount of funding we never received this year due to broken pledges, which would certainly be helpful on both the engineering and IP fronts and much appreciated . . .
Cordially,
Mark R. Tomion
Pres.
AESI
5/27/07 - China Patent for the EDF Generator!: In response to recent inquiries, we're pleased to finally report that China Patent No. ZL01816140.5 for the Electrodynamic Field Generator was granted and issued to inventor Mark R. Tomion, president of Archer Energy Systems, Inc. (AESI), on June 7, 2006. [This patent inures to AESI's benefit by assignment.] China, of course, represents the single largest now-protected market for the EDF Generator technology, with about 20% of the world's population. The securing of this key foreign patent represents a very important milestone in the company's international patent campaign, and constitutes the fulfillment of AESI's most expensive single intellectual property investment in that technology. We would thus welcome sponsorship support from those Chinese sources who see the value in providing us with assistance in our present prototyping efforts, and are definitely looking forward to exploring the possibility of granting manufacturing and/or distribution licenses for the "StarDrive Generator" in China!
4/09/07 - AESI 1st Quarter Report for 2007: Although it has been a long and difficult winter here at our new shop facility in Maine, due to numerous and almost unbelievable encounters with Murphy's Law, I have some exciting good news to report on a number of 'fronts'! As indicated in my preceding memo, thanks to Pneu-Hydro Energy Inc. we now have a prototyping facility of sufficient size to accommodate all of our current engineering projects,
and the portion of this new shop that's devoted to the EDF Generator proof-of-concept experimentation can be seen in the photo below (along with yours-truly).
In this photo, I have just successfully completed "static" testing the experimental assembly, wherein the induction voltage was pushed to nearly +/-1,400 volts without the occurrence of any electrostatic discharges between the stator plates and the armature.
I'm also pleased to say that we are finally getting very good numbers in the latest stator firing trials, and the test assembly's induction voltages have been raised to a level where the stator plates tend to "flash over" in spots and develop some pretty strange and impressive long-path breakdown discharges, as seen in the next photo – and yet the system's input power is now half what it was in some of the earlier trials, and "right on the button"
according to the specs! In fact, all of the experimental assembly's voltages and currents are presently either at or within just a few percent of the prototype EDF Generator's specification values (as developed in the theoretical model) . . .
When the stator ring voltage is raised much above 'spec' value (+/- 312.5 volts), long-path discharges were found to occur as a result of the metal rings and capacitor plates extending just a couple thousandths of an inch above the surface(s) of the ceramic plates. In the prototype Generator, we will ensure that all the rings and plates are "flush" with the ceramic . . . It is also interesting to observe that these roughly hemicircular discharges are exactly the shape the Field discharge(s) will have on the outside of the housing in the low-voltage prototype!
Armature-circuit firing trials will resume just as soon as the three main plates (shown above) are reinsulated to prevent these flashovers. The radial electrode assemblies have all been reworked to an equal-area/plane-parallel configuration, and it is essentially certain that we will soon be able to fire output-circuit discharges which are properly induced and sustained – we can reverse the armature polarity if we must; we can fire the output circuit simultaneously with the stator or afterward; and we can also apply negative trigger voltage and/or positive bias voltage if and as necessary! And if we do so, as I've indicated in an earlier memo, about the only thing left for us to do in providing fundamental proof-of-concept for this technology is to fine-tune the testing parameters so that accurate and valid COP values may be determined.
In addition to our new prototyping shop, we have purchased a small building within a block of the Archer Enterprises office which is nicely suited to serve as AESI's own office/headquarters facility (i.e., commercial zoning, affordably priced, assured potential for appreciation, etc.), although it will require some fairly extensive remodeling. I must therefore caution everyone that, for the next few weeks, the final stage of our EDF Generator proof-of-concept work will in all likelihood continue to move ahead somewhat slowly . . . [As soon as possible, I will upload a photo of this 'new' primary office, which will become accessible to the public later this year!]
Nevertheless, during the first quarter of this year we have also been able to build and bench-test the novel hydrostatic transmission for the Syntrefoil Aeroturbine system, and it performs exactly as desired! Frank Ivan (our VP Engineering) has produced a complete set of AutoCad drawings and blueprints for a prototype 16-ft.-dia. turbine assembly,
and we've developed what should be final specifications for all of its constituent parts! Thus, we are indeed on-track to put up the pilot project this summer, and we're very excited about the huge market potential this unique product has, both here and abroad! And, given its timeliness, projected cost/benefit ratio, and comparative simplicity, the Syntrefoil Aeroturbine will probably yield near-term investment return for AESI rather sooner than our primary EDF Generator project . . .
The two tandem hydraulic units in front of the electric motor are just an infinity-control input stage to simulate the turbine's very-low variable speed, and the final unit
on the left is the output-stage pump that will be up on the tower under the turbine, coupled to a planetary gearbox which will replace the
bench-test input stage (when coupled to the turbine shaft). The final-drive hydraulic motor isn't visible in the photo, since it's
directly behind the output pump. The drive motor and generators will be on the ground, for easy servicing and adjustment.
Hopefully, this Report will assure all interested parties that Archer Energy Systems, Inc. is still very much an actively growing and developing business concern, despite the fact that in many cases the R&D funding we have been promised by private investors has failed to materialize . . . In light of the added financial burden imposed by our property acquisition, AESI's Board of Directors has therefore decided to indefinitely extend the availability of our stock subscription plans, and I would like to encourage both new and former prospective investors to contact me for more information in that regard.
In the meantime, we are looking forward to 2007 being 'the' breakthrough year for our company, and to showing those in the 'New Energy' field that we are indeed "rising to the challenge" and reaching the extraordinary goals we have set.
Cordially,
Mark R. Tomion
Pres.
AESI
4/03/07 - An Upcoming 1st Quarter Report: As some of you know, I've been at the huge Loring Development Center in Limestone, Maine for the entire first quarter of 2007, setting up a brand new 1,150-sq.-ft. prototyping facility for AESI's own exclusive use, at Pneu-Hydro Energy Inc.'s headquarters. Many have written recently expressing some concern for the long lapse in updates to our website's News page, for which I apologize!
Actually, so much has been going on while I've been here "on location" that I just haven't been able to update our website the way I would like . . . We have a lot of good things happening, though, and I will be posting an exciting and comprehensive memo about it in the next few days! I thank you all for your patience.
Yours truly,
Mark R. Tomion
Pres.
AESI
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12/17/06 - AESI 2006 End-of-the-Year Report: After several months of difficult testing, I am very pleased to report that we are now consistently able to fire sustained radial output discharges in our 2nd PoC Experiment assembly! As many of you know from the Experiment's webpage, the stator (input) circuit behaved beautifully right from the start, but getting the assembly's armature circuit to operate properly has been problematic; and so this achievement constitutes our overcoming of the last remaining major hurdle in demonstrating what should be definitive 1st-stage proof-of-concept for the EDF Generator technology – in advance of building a complete ("2nd-stage") prototype...
The testing performed and the reasonably successful results recently obtained now run far ahead of the disclosure made in the 2nd PoC report webpage, which I will update (including of course a photo) as soon as possible! That report is now nearing completion, though, and essentially the only thing left for AESI to do in providing such preliminary proof-of-concept is fine-tune the control board settings and testing parameters so that accurate and valid COP figures may be determined. Nevertheless, as it turns out, for best results we will need not only to refurbish both the vacuum chamber and the assembly itself but to conduct a great number of further test firings as well!
Therefore, we are glad to accept Pneu-Hydro Energy's offer to provide additional sponsorship funding and assistance in continuing this exciting work, as well as a certain amount of electronics technical support (with the now quite complex control board), at their big facility in Maine during January and February! They have also pledged to provide matching funds toward construction of our Syntrefoil Aeroturbine pilot project this spring, and a joint venture agreement is now being developed toward that end.
Also, we'll soon have some further news regarding our Magnetic Induction Dynamo Project, as we now have a new 5 Hp high-efficiency variable-speed permanent magnet motor drive for the device and can begin making a detailed analysis of its no-load eddy-current torque characteristics, prior to installation of the complex brush system, buss bars, and load current test shunt. The many pickup-brush holders are now being fabricated, and once they're gauge-block checked for fit and uniformity we will order the expensive brushes and springs as soon as new funding allows...
Moreover, to wrap up what has surely been a trying but very eventful year, we are thinking of submitting a purchase offer on a local building that would be quite suitable for serving as AESI's own office/headquarters facility (i.e., commercial zoning, affordably priced, assured potential for appreciation, etc.), fully independent of Archer Enterprises! I would therefore like to encourage certain prospective investors with whom I've recently corresponded to contact us regarding the availability of a stock purchase plan incentive, through January 21st, 2007, which may assist us in subscribing sufficient 'extra' capital under our offering to guarantee our capability of purchasing this property while it's available...
And finally, I would like to extend my sincere gratitude and appreciation to the esteemed current shareholders of Archer Energy Systems, Inc., who have not only made all of this possible but have enabled AESI to keep pace with our substantial intellectual property expenses such that not a single patent application has yet been denied or abandoned! I am looking forward to 2007 being the year in which we see the fruits of our many project efforts begin to be fully realized, and would like to wish all of our stockholders and website visitors alike a safe and Happy Holiday Season!
Yours truly,
Mark R. Tomion
Pres.
AESI
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