Didn't saw that thing, but it is a kind of MEG device. And prone to wrong measurements due to high frequency harmonics of pulses.
Simpliest device I saw was cheap china 12V1A LED power adapter. Measured input power was less than measured output. However, the secret was in extremely bad input filters and all my powermeters and multimeters just don't see sharp HF ringing on the edges of transformer pulses. That HF ringing carry significant part of power. Only after using oscilloscope on the input I found that "free" energy.
Interesting, that that kind of trick could be really used to cheat electric company, since electricity counters miss that HF part of input power too.
Mechanical counters are inertial, disc will not react to extremely narrow pulses, f.e. Electronic counters have ADC's that measure instantaneous voltage and current periodically and aproximate power by that points. If you will steal power between the sampling, that power will be unaccounted.
So, somehow that works, but, unfortunately not in the way we really need.
I think self-sustainability is a perfect marker for any free energy device. Say, by that parameter, joule thief circuit works perfectly. You don't need additional power source to collect free RF energy and transorm it to some useable form. As for MEG (and many other devices, from Bedini motors to some weird "torsion field generators") - I never heard anything about it running on its own.
Searl generator looks like something promising, but I don't know about any successfull replication, and AFAIK Searl himself don't want to disclose his secrets. There was attempts to replicate Searl generator even in Russian universities, I know about at least two attempts. But researchers published papers describing antigravity effects (mass of device become lower or higher, depending on rotation direction) and some power generation, but completely abandon that research and disassembled their devices, as revealed when other scientists tried to contact them about their research. Published papers was never replicated. IDK, scientists are not angels, may be that was just a hoax to get a publication, and that's all. It was not a rare thing in Russia at the time, and is not a rare thing in the whole world now. Tons written about "replication crisis" in science, mostly social and medical, but physics have it too, just at smaller scale. Really, I can't imagine a scientist who observed some completely unknown effect and very promising and practically useful effect in his experimetns and just droped the research.
You know the Joule Thief circuit doesn't actually use RF energy, right?
Joule Thief is not a device, it is a principle of converting any amount of electricity to something meaningful (usually to charge a battery). It could be charge pump or boost converter, even transformer, whatever. F.e. you could use Joule Thief to get 5V from 0.5V of potato battery. Or suck alkaline battery completely dry. Or convert RF from air to something useful. Since we talk about free energy, not about batteries., the latter case is what I told about.
Even self-charging electrolytic capacitor use RF for self-charge. Easily checked with shielding in metal box and emitting more RF energy from generator or even smartphone.
Surely check Searl generator. I'm amased you being into that free energy stuff never heard about it. Even if it is a hoax, the tale and overall concept is very entertaining. There are videos, of Searl himself demonstrating generator on YouTube, many articles and even few scientific papers. Found something about possible Russian replication - http://www.rexresearch.com/roschin/roschin.htm with published paper translation and other stuff. In English
I tested a steel box as Faraday cage with antenna on the cable from RF generator inside. Capacitor clearly show exact dependency of self-charging from incoming RF power. No power - no charge. More power - faster charging to fixed voltage (I took 0.1V as threshold)
My steel box was ~30cm cube. I didn't test different sizes and don't know if it matter.
Joule Thief connected to antenna with diode and capacitor (simpliest detector circuit possible) as power source also show obvious connection between RF power and Joule Thief output. I used classic single transistor generator with two coils on toroid ferrite core as Joule Thief. Had to check charge pump Joule Thief variant too, but was too lazy. :)
Didn't saw that thing, but it is a kind of MEG device. And prone to wrong measurements due to high frequency harmonics of pulses.
Simpliest device I saw was cheap china 12V1A LED power adapter. Measured input power was less than measured output. However, the secret was in extremely bad input filters and all my powermeters and multimeters just don't see sharp HF ringing on the edges of transformer pulses. That HF ringing carry significant part of power. Only after using oscilloscope on the input I found that "free" energy.
Interesting, that that kind of trick could be really used to cheat electric company, since electricity counters miss that HF part of input power too.
Mechanical counters are inertial, disc will not react to extremely narrow pulses, f.e. Electronic counters have ADC's that measure instantaneous voltage and current periodically and aproximate power by that points. If you will steal power between the sampling, that power will be unaccounted.
So, somehow that works, but, unfortunately not in the way we really need.
I think self-sustainability is a perfect marker for any free energy device. Say, by that parameter, joule thief circuit works perfectly. You don't need additional power source to collect free RF energy and transorm it to some useable form. As for MEG (and many other devices, from Bedini motors to some weird "torsion field generators") - I never heard anything about it running on its own.
Searl generator looks like something promising, but I don't know about any successfull replication, and AFAIK Searl himself don't want to disclose his secrets. There was attempts to replicate Searl generator even in Russian universities, I know about at least two attempts. But researchers published papers describing antigravity effects (mass of device become lower or higher, depending on rotation direction) and some power generation, but completely abandon that research and disassembled their devices, as revealed when other scientists tried to contact them about their research. Published papers was never replicated. IDK, scientists are not angels, may be that was just a hoax to get a publication, and that's all. It was not a rare thing in Russia at the time, and is not a rare thing in the whole world now. Tons written about "replication crisis" in science, mostly social and medical, but physics have it too, just at smaller scale. Really, I can't imagine a scientist who observed some completely unknown effect and very promising and practically useful effect in his experimetns and just droped the research.
Joule Thief is not a device, it is a principle of converting any amount of electricity to something meaningful (usually to charge a battery). It could be charge pump or boost converter, even transformer, whatever. F.e. you could use Joule Thief to get 5V from 0.5V of potato battery. Or suck alkaline battery completely dry. Or convert RF from air to something useful. Since we talk about free energy, not about batteries., the latter case is what I told about.
Even self-charging electrolytic capacitor use RF for self-charge. Easily checked with shielding in metal box and emitting more RF energy from generator or even smartphone.
Surely check Searl generator. I'm amased you being into that free energy stuff never heard about it. Even if it is a hoax, the tale and overall concept is very entertaining. There are videos, of Searl himself demonstrating generator on YouTube, many articles and even few scientific papers. Found something about possible Russian replication - http://www.rexresearch.com/roschin/roschin.htm with published paper translation and other stuff. In English
I tested a steel box as Faraday cage with antenna on the cable from RF generator inside. Capacitor clearly show exact dependency of self-charging from incoming RF power. No power - no charge. More power - faster charging to fixed voltage (I took 0.1V as threshold)
My steel box was ~30cm cube. I didn't test different sizes and don't know if it matter.
Joule Thief connected to antenna with diode and capacitor (simpliest detector circuit possible) as power source also show obvious connection between RF power and Joule Thief output. I used classic single transistor generator with two coils on toroid ferrite core as Joule Thief. Had to check charge pump Joule Thief variant too, but was too lazy. :)