Harold Aspden - Stroke

[Grumpy]

http://www.overunity.com/index.php?topic=9772.msg257870#msg257870

I regret to inform everyone that Harold Aspden had a stroke.

[CompuTutor]

Hope every one doesn't mind if I store a small website backup here for everyone to reference if needed.

"HaroldAspden..com Wed 12-08-10 .zip"
84.6 KB (86,731 bytes)

Grumpy's link leads to a memorial thread over at the OU website.

But as usual, it turned onto a snowstorm of crap from the idiots over there.

The gentleman maintaining the website is reviewing additional work over the next few months (HaroldAspen.com),
and will notify my when he has the additional material posted so I can make a second (final) archive for all to have.

I have permission from Harold's surviving wife to offer this archive so his work will survive for those that are interested.

Thanks

Stuff disappears everyday on the net, so I'm just trying to help a little...

[exnihiloest]

http://haroldaspden.com/index.htm

It is stated:
"Harold Aspden is a brilliant theoretical physicist, electrical engineer and inventor".
Unfortunately his theory is not supported by a single one duplicable working experiment, with expected results differing from what conventional science predicts.

If you have experimented like me his resonant double-capacitor or tri-axial capacitor, you must have come to the conclusion that it doesn't work. He is a fabulist. For example see in its patent  GB2390941A the statement: "Electricity production may be sustained by drawing energy from the vacuum medium surrounding the electrodes". It "may be"! But in fact it is not. And without this feature, the rest of his patent is completely useless.

Like Bearden: not physics but overdone verbiage in fuzzy layman terms, no accuracy, no quantified facts, nothing to observe.

I must add that I'm very sorry for his stroke, but sickness and compassion don't make the scientific truth.

[CompuTutor]

I'm just trying to keep it available for those that wish to persue it.

To many things have disappeared on the internet over the years,
I think we should all try to help out in this fashion were possible.

I hope this doesn't sound to blunt,
but just because you tried and failed,
where others in the future might figure it out,
doesn't give you the right to deem it false either !

[MileHigh]

I'm just trying to keep it available for those that wish to persue it.

To many things have disappeared on the internet over the years,
I think we should all try to help out in this fashion were possible.

I hope this doesn't sound to blunt,
but just because you tried and failed,
where others in the future might figure it out,
doesn't give you the right to deem it false either !

CompuTutor, I am just going to offer some counterpoint to what you state above.

In the strictest sense what you said is true.  However, Exnihiloest really knows his stuff.  I am excellent at qualifying people with respect to electronics and science/energy competence and I can tell you that he is very competent.  There is a huge gap between the typical experimenter on the forums and Exnihiloest.  It's simply a fact.

Personally I don't subscribe to the concept that goes something like "anything could be valid and everyone's contribution deserves equal consideration."  I am all for people expressing their ideas, I would never be against that.  I am also all for other people expressing their opinions about those ideas honestly and frankly.

I am not myself commenting about Harold Aspen because I know nothing about him.  But based on what Exnihiloest states about him, then I doubt that he has anything of merit.  At a preliminary glance it looks like he is just another in a long line of people that claim that they can get energy from a specific arrangement of magnets and coils and some sort of excitation waveform.

What's interesting is that potentially we have a few people between here and OU that are going to try to test for excess energy from a coil if you short it out while you are putting a sine wave through it.  These are claims made by Ismael Aviso, Doug Konzen, and Bolt.  If anyone can actually do a serious test where they provide a schematic, measure the input power, measure the output power, and if they get over unity then pinpoint where it happens, well that would be really cool.

It's actually very frustrating at times because these tests almost invariably never get properly done or completed by the people doing the testing.  We will see what happens this go round.

MileHigh

[CompuTutor]

I appreciate that MileHigh,
I guess that last part was a knee-jerk reaction by me to one single person thinking
they have the right to disavow a technology, concept, or theory for everyone else
just because they tried it somehow themselves and failed to obtain positive results...

There is so much of that at crap lately over at OU that I am just sick of it...

And just as you, I am not commenting on It's viability either,
just trying to keep it available for others to try if they want.

I'll recant my posture on this due to your observations on his/her credibility previously.

Sorry Exnihiloest