Yep, their thing is certainly more expensive than my tongue depressor, poster board, penny and wire nail design. If I need to make modifications to it, I just slice off an old part and glue on a new one. Heck, even if I were to sell my car, I don't know that I could afford even a single I-beam these days.
In that I am exploring a specific hypothetical principle of my own, though, their thing is like a big Rorschach test for me. With all those bits and pieces, it's like, "Wait! Maybe my ideas are hidden in that gigantic thing somewhere. ...hmmmm... Maybe I should give them the benefit of the doubt. ...for my own sake. Wait again! No! That would mean that they have beaten me to it." ...lol
Anyway, I do see a lot of negatives with this thing, especially in that they apparently claim to have smaller working prototypes, too.
If they actually did have working prototypes, then why haven't they gone public with those? They could have already been a worldwide sensation and the physics community would be scratching their heads trying to explain how it works. The patent examiners would have already been looking at it, too, most likely.
They could also be making deals with major corporations and manufacturers already as they attempt to profit from their idea, while also bringing real scientists and engineers into the mix to better understand the principle and develop more economical and efficient designs that could be quickly mass produced.
They would have also probably tried to use fewer and broader claims in their patent applications so as to try to cover more potential working mechanisms.
I've not looked over the patents enough yet to know exactly what they are trying to do, but when speaking of the prototype and tests, the inventor seems to mention force and torque measurements at various positions but not energy and power measurements. This hints that he may have only done static tests rather than dynamic ones and so the 30 kw figure he speaks of for the big machine may be nothing more than a pipe dream of his.
(That reminded me of the static force tests those Steorn folks were doing with their alleged energy device.)
I will probably look at the RAR patents more closely later, though, just out of my own curiosity.
Oh, over at overunity.com there may already be a guy on the case when it comes to an attempted replication. Here's the link for that. He's using his Meccano set apparently.
http://www.overunity.com/13480/big-try- ... msg376425/
Dwayne
