I am not sure about the ChatGPT thing, another LLM after reading the article told me this: "This WAVJA solar energy device sounds like something straight out of a science fiction novel written by a pony who's had one too many zap apple ciders!"
Dave, you really need to be careful sharing photos of your PIS System all over TH-cam. Someone could steal your idea and rebrand it as Solar Heating Infrared Technology!
They've coiled up a 12 light hours worth of optical fibre inside the balls and placed the end of the fibre in such a way that it shines on the PES. This allows light to continue to fall on the PES device even when the ball itself is moved into a dark place. All you have to do is ensure the ball is exposed to sunlight for a day and then it will generate power overnight too. I'm disappointed all the engineers here couldn't see this simple solution.
Uh. What? We went from "theoretically possible but insanely impractical" to...this? I don't think these people understand how the scam is supposed to work. You need to be able to convince a clueless boomer judge that you weren't completely lying, that what you said was theoretically possible. Plausible deniability.
@@Breakfast_of_Champions Then they should have gone with pyramid shapes. Everyone knows pyramids concentrate the vacuum point zero energy ripples with reverse aether resonance at 420Hz.
But your honour, it is really we that are the victims here. We were duped by the engineer who came to us for assistance in bringing his breakthrough to market. His credentials were impeccable - there was no reason to doubt what he said. No, we never thought to ask what was in the box.
From the patent (apperently, haven't read it): "[0051] Each 6 cm sphere can generate 300 kW of electricity in one second..." Wait, that thing is more powerful than a kg of decaying plutonium? (which is about 500w, forgetting the per second part as it does not make sense) Even at 99% efficiency they are going to have to dissapate six times _MORE_ energy than a kg decaying plutonium 238! As a bonus the power density is 81 GW/m3. Impressive
When I saw the article I immediately thought of you! You have out done my expectation by 20x! And the acronym you came up with just speaks the truth in an easy to understand term.
When you realise you still have a massive stock of old Christmas baubles in summer and you try to get rid of them at any cost but quickly gets out of hand 😆
Tempted to make one now, scale model obviously. Might even put a fancy "powered by AI" sticker on the sides of the container. Maybe put solar panels on the container that "can" charge the battery. I wonder how many taxpayer cash I can grab with that "technology"😂😂
Thanks for the laughs. This one has it piled deeper that the other video of yours that I watched, the one on satellite mirrors for increasing power generation at sunrise/sunset. Subscribed.
I'm still confused at what's actually happening, but I think the designer believed that light coming into the sphere would reflect and be more efficient. Sure it's only allowing in a pinhole of light and reducing the amount of light making it to the panel butt it's going to reflect infinitely! Simple as that! Infinite energy confirmed.
@@JohnDuthie it takes more physical space and looks cool. if it takes more physical space how wouldn't it catch more energy from the vibes? answer that scientist man. the mind is a sphere, the sun is a sphere. have you ever burnt ants legs with a glass marble that's also a sphere and that works! check and coffeemate!
@@JohnDuthie What's actually happening is that the scammer behind this - he's apparently already been arrested because of a previous "venture" like that - hopes someone with more funds than brains will make sure to hop in early with loads of VC investment.
I am falling off my chair laughing! Super entertaining Dave. I love those debunking videos. I can't believe people with the least technical knowledge can believe this. Keep up the good work Dave! Cheers
Great part 1! May I be so bold as to suggest you include a Self Heating Internal Tachometer (SHIT) device before you launch your kick starter campaign.. It is important to have a good ball monitoring solution.
Regarding their commitment to innovating the green technology space; considering that the greenest possible technology is any technology that does not exist, I'd say these fellas are really on to something with these spheres
These website should not be let off the hook for promoting these scams. They know what they're doing. Free click-bait for them and then they can just point the finger at the scam product maker, but they are complicit in this scam.
Getting more power per area is easy, just put the panel closer to the sun... They failed to explain that they need to put the balls close to the sun's surface.
Whats in the box? I'm glad you ask! Inside the sphere is the sun which generates luminacity and seamlessly turns it into electricity by the new buzz word. Bouncing the light is lossless of course and its 20x more powerful that panel in your calculator. The base contains lead for shielding and acid to stabilize the 2V output. After 24h the sun has to sleep because the powerbank says so.
In France, we use a Glomurge with quantum amplification that can supply provide 5 V or 5 W (it's the same thing) even without light. The cubic spheres are impregnated with over-activated Gibolin . Gibolin is made from "Camember au lait crû". I can't reveal how it works, as patents are pending!
They need to combine their solar balls with solar roadways. The things will make for nice reflective lane separation lines! And don't forget to snap a Batterizer on every battery cell for a bit extra power to last through the night. With such revolutionary technology collaboration is the key!
In the patent they claim that the faces of the balls are all hexagons - I wonder how they get a 3D shape just from hexagons, it's also not what they show in their drawings. How can something like this even get past the very first step in a patent application process? "[0011] ...the facets comprise a sufficent amount of tungsten trioxide to cause ion emission in response to stimulation of the tungsten trioxide with a stimulation current of electricity. ... the current has a value of 4 amp-hours (Ah)..." "[0051] Each 6 cm sphere can generate 300 kW of electricity in one second..." Has ChatGPT written this application?
Ok look, their hexagons currently only have 4 sides, but with a $1B cash grant they might be able to get it to 5 sides next year, but 10 years of research is needed for the elusive 6-sided hexagon. Imagine the power a 7-sided hexagon will output!
"[0051] Each 6 cm sphere can generate 300 kW of electricity in one second..." Wait, that thing is more powerful than a kg of decaying plutonium? (which is about 500w, forgetting the per second part as it does not make sense) Even at 99% efficiency they are going to have to dissapate six times _MORE_ energy than decaying plutonium 238! Edit: as a bonus the power density is 81 GW/m3. Impressive
I wonder what Matt Parker from Stand-Up Maths would have to say about that... His long-running campaign against soccer balls in British street signs made entirely of hexagons is hilarious!
I really needed this first thing in the morning. great job!!! patent pending? and where will I be able to get a couple ?? P.S. or PES she did manage to say all that with a straight face..
Sounds like they're trying to create self amplified photo cells that work like lasers but without pump power, like the light will bounce off the mirrors and each time raise the energy levels in the doted material it is reflected from 😅
The problem is not the numbers, but the units. If they see numbers with scientific units behind it, or anything but USD/their favourite currency, then they'll get confused and succumb to madness believing it's a gold mine of galactic proportions.
They have so much money they don't care about being deceived. They know 99,99...9% of these things are a scam. But it's like playing lottery to them - just something they do for fun, just so they can brag to their friends in case something turns out to be legitimate and they can pretend they knew all along about how great that tech was and how important investing in it was to help change the world for the better blah blah blah.
As a law student, I'm concerned by the use of Esq. in their names. One of them does appear to be a lawyer, but the other doesn't seem to be. Using Esq. is used to identify lawyers in the US. The Cheng guy doesn't appear to have ever practiced law His LinkedIn says he lives in New Jersey and I don't see anyone listed as a member of the Bar in that state by his name. If he's using that to gain credibility, especially as suggesting he's a lawyer, it could be unauthorized practice of law or fraud and misrepresentation. It's at least unethical. Normally, even lawyers only use it when they are serving in their capacity as attorneys, like on their employment website or court pleadings, but a CEO with a law degree, even if licensed to practice law, typically would not. That's super suspicious to me. Also, if they are lawyers, when this comes out as a scam, they can expect Bar complaints and will probably lose their licenses.
They can run for 24 hours because, obviously, you plug your light source into the output and power it from the balls themselves! This way they always have light and always produce energy!
Sabine Hossenfelder cast a lot of doubt on this a few days ago. She very specifically emphasized that she didn’t call it a scam for legal reasons. Read into that what you will. I was waiting for this video to give the details.
To be fair to HaD they did not give this any kind of endorsement and the entire comment section basically hit BS for doubt and were taking the P.I.S.S. Best get your patent pending and your trademark registered before you launch, Dave, otherwise everyone will be taking the P.I.S.S.
Dear god it’s so much worse. The “balls” are literally plastic housings for a webcam or laser usb powered decoration from Temu or something. You can clearly see the glued seam. This isn’t even a grift, it’s an unconventional warfare operation from some covert arm of the CCP. Either that or the two that founded the company have the 2,000,000x uber-power ball upgrade to have a pair big enough to legitimately try this. It’s so brazen it begets belief.
The guy behind this has apparently already been arrested for a previous scam with a similarly physics-defying product. It's just another serial grifter. Watch him move on to solar frickin' railways or whatever when the current grift inevitably runs dry.
I really like Hackaday using "claims to" in their headline. I too can claim i can fly, but nobody saw that 😁 Isn't USPTO has prohibition on perpetual motion machine patents? They practically made a superunity machine.
I'm not sure if their patent was granted in the US. Even if it was, I think it's giving people in general too much credit to expect a USPTO agent to make the mental leap between perpetual motion machines and balls that somehow produce more electricity than the solar radiation available. I mean, it has no moving parts, so how are they supposed to understand it's not a perpetual motion machine in the form of a Christimas three ball from Temu?
Do they come in blue? 😂
Totally missed the opportunity to print my balls in blue!
Should that not be brown for bullsh1t.
I see what you did there :P
I have only found them in red with cherry flavor. 🤣😂🤣
@@patrickcraenen5163 So you can eat them too?
SEE! solar fricken roadways aren't looking so bad now are they! lol
Well, I gotta admit...
@@EEVblogYes. Sadly it seems the world has invented a new improved idiot....
The patent is probably written by ChatGPT
You meant a Chat GPT Hallucinated and Ghost Written Patent, right? XD
And approved by ChatGPT too!
I am not sure about the ChatGPT thing, another LLM after reading the article told me this: "This WAVJA solar energy device sounds like something straight out of a science fiction novel written by a pony who's had one too many zap apple ciders!"
Or Terrence Howard
Someone has mistaken a box of ferrero roche for a solar solution
Haha!
At least the ferrero will give you energy. Even if it's just empty calories lol
It's like someone saw these and was like "Why are these so expensive it's just chocolate, it's not like they generate power... wait, I have an idea!".
Which is a reminder not to do drugs.
We made in italy, and the chocolate we use to fill the gaps for delivery are also tassty 😂
Dave, you really need to be careful sharing photos of your PIS System all over TH-cam. Someone could steal your idea and rebrand it as Solar Heating Infrared Technology!
P I S S ;)
Almost as efficient as my own system...
Total Irradiated Thermal System (T I T S).
Oh we need new merch, P.I.S.S. shirt, might forgo the coffee cup of this though.
Back off, all of you! I’ve already submitted my patent for the Advanced Radiative Solar Energizer!
SHIT 😂🤣😂👍
I'd be more concerned about his P.I.S.S. demonstration videos ending up on some more nafarious websites...
Watched Sabine Hossenfelder rip this to shreds both of you keep up the good work.
Just that Sabine tries to get conform with hazelnut politics and Dave has no connection to a cult, who believes in mystic power of the SMR🤣
@@goiterlanternbaseyou alright, mate?
You know it is gonna be good when Dave labelled the multimeter with "Power Meter"
They've coiled up a 12 light hours worth of optical fibre inside the balls and placed the end of the fibre in such a way that it shines on the PES. This allows light to continue to fall on the PES device even when the ball itself is moved into a dark place. All you have to do is ensure the ball is exposed to sunlight for a day and then it will generate power overnight too. I'm disappointed all the engineers here couldn't see this simple solution.
The fact many people could read this and not realize it's sarcasm saddens me a bit. I mean, it's sarcasm, riiiiight?
@@kngofbng Yeah, good point. People may take it as a serious method.
Roughly 13 billion km of optic fibre. The sun is only 150 million km away. We just need some way to wirelessly transfer the Sun's energy that far...
@@v8snail that is roughly about 350 000 tons. That is one heavy box!
@@v8snail easier solution: fibers that reach around to the other side of the planet
Uh. What? We went from "theoretically possible but insanely impractical" to...this? I don't think these people understand how the scam is supposed to work. You need to be able to convince a clueless boomer judge that you weren't completely lying, that what you said was theoretically possible. Plausible deniability.
I suspect over-unity is gonna be hard to defend in court...
The scam seems to aimed at very irrational esoteric types who like shiny things?... and magpies!
@@Breakfast_of_Champions Then they should have gone with pyramid shapes. Everyone knows pyramids concentrate the vacuum point zero energy ripples with reverse aether resonance at 420Hz.
@@Breakfast_of_Champions 🤣😂🤣
But your honour, it is really we that are the victims here. We were duped by the engineer who came to us for assistance in bringing his breakthrough to market. His credentials were impeccable - there was no reason to doubt what he said. No, we never thought to ask what was in the box.
Amazing treasure trove of Dave saying "balls". Sampling heaven. Thanks, mate!
From the patent (apperently, haven't read it):
"[0051] Each 6 cm sphere can generate 300 kW of electricity in one second..."
Wait, that thing is more powerful than a kg of decaying plutonium? (which is about 500w, forgetting the per second part as it does not make sense) Even at 99% efficiency they are going to have to dissapate six times _MORE_ energy than a kg decaying plutonium 238! As a bonus the power density is 81 GW/m3. Impressive
When I saw the article I immediately thought of you! You have out done my expectation by 20x! And the acronym you came up with just speaks the truth in an easy to understand term.
This is what happens when your mom does your 3rd grade science project and gets a little too carried away.
LMAO... I broke in half when they showed flying cars.
They need to get their Financially Universal Certification Kit from the Office of Fiduciary Fitness.
The very small hole is able to convert Watts into µWatts, so that alone is worth a factor of a million !
When you realise you still have a massive stock of old Christmas baubles in summer and you try to get rid of them at any cost but quickly gets out of hand 😆
A bit like when the spinny rings car air freshener got remarketed as a groundbreaking invention to de-ice inches of snow cover
Laughed out loud at the container delivery drone
Tempted to make one now, scale model obviously.
Might even put a fancy "powered by AI" sticker on the sides of the container.
Maybe put solar panels on the container that "can" charge the battery.
I wonder how many taxpayer cash I can grab with that "technology"😂😂
Sometimes i wish i could be this evil - i could be so rich
Same.. and were probably WAY smarter than all these hacks.
Thanks for the laughs. This one has it piled deeper that the other video of yours that I watched, the one on satellite mirrors for increasing power generation at sunrise/sunset.
Subscribed.
Dave's Taken the P.I.S.S again.
Trying to pass his P.I.S.S. onto someone else.
Thank you Dave for that class in science illiteracy 🙂. Talking about a power of 2.2 Volt is like nails on a chalkboard.
Somewhere out there there's a venture capitalist trying to find out how he can become an early investor in PISS
nice!!! next up, solar spoons! Will heat your tea, just leave it in the sun
.... it could happen !!!!
Suddenly the Batteriser and Solar Roadways look quite good.
I really like the beginning. No references to Turboencabulator tho.. Missed opportunity.
also TWO point two Volts of Power! You are doing great!
I bet you could power 2 turboencabulators with 1 Wavja. Just put in series between the cardinal grammeters. Goodbye, side fumbling!
Step one build a sphere thing
Step two put solar panel in it
Step three make up a bunch of stuff
Step four get called out
I'm still confused at what's actually happening, but I think the designer believed that light coming into the sphere would reflect and be more efficient. Sure it's only allowing in a pinhole of light and reducing the amount of light making it to the panel butt it's going to reflect infinitely! Simple as that! Infinite energy confirmed.
20:06 called it lol
Southpark edition: "Put a solar panel in it and make it a sphere"
@@JohnDuthie it takes more physical space and looks cool. if it takes more physical space how wouldn't it catch more energy from the vibes? answer that scientist man. the mind is a sphere, the sun is a sphere. have you ever burnt ants legs with a glass marble that's also a sphere and that works! check and coffeemate!
@@JohnDuthie What's actually happening is that the scammer behind this - he's apparently already been arrested because of a previous "venture" like that - hopes someone with more funds than brains will make sure to hop in early with loads of VC investment.
4:29 THANKS DAVE....... You're a fricken legend mate.
Putting the coffee mug that i gave you into the video. LOL
Made my day mate.....
Very good, Very entertaining. The reveal at the end was priceless. Thanks for this, it made me laugh.
0.6V with light, 4.5 with power brick attached….
Seems to me they’re measuring the USB out of that power brick.
Those focusing lens systems are great for keeping kitchen cabinets from slamming closed
As a former teacher, it's the fact that anyone is ignorant enough to fall for this that is most depressing. Just
I am falling off my chair laughing! Super entertaining Dave. I love those debunking videos. I can't believe people with the least technical knowledge can believe this. Keep up the good work Dave!
Cheers
I was only half-listening at the start and Dave almost got me! Then I saw the acronym. That Dave, always takin' the P.I.S.S.!
Great part 1! May I be so bold as to suggest you include a Self Heating Internal Tachometer (SHIT) device before you launch your kick starter campaign.. It is important to have a good ball monitoring solution.
Regarding their commitment to innovating the green technology space; considering that the greenest possible technology is any technology that does not exist, I'd say these fellas are really on to something with these spheres
Awesome video Dave!!!! Love it immensely.
You make my day !
Greetings from Hungary.
Excellent acronym at ~5.00.
The hardest part of creating an over-unity device is finding somewhere to hide the batteries.
I thought it was April fools day for a minute then reality set in!
For some people every day is April fools day. It's a bit depressing.
I connected one of these to my television and now I can get 100's of sports channels from all around the world.
It doesnt store photonic joules on the blockchain?
Double your seed funding if you have blockchain!
I wonder why they didn't say they developed it using AI. I mean, what's a grift without the proper buzzwords?
One word: "Theranos".
And they'll keep on appearing.
When they started with the AI generated futuristic pictures, I nearly spit my drink out.
I think we need to build roads with these underneath coupled with diamond battery storage for surplus generation.
2:41 "power meter" - almost missed. It made my day.
Dave, if your P.IS.S balls work better under a coffee mug, seeing as they have Brass in them, how well do they perform cold areas?
lol “I’ve got brass balls” got me
"Power Meter" - brilliant pickup! 😀
These website should not be let off the hook for promoting these scams. They know what they're doing. Free click-bait for them and then they can just point the finger at the scam product maker, but they are complicit in this scam.
Nice work!!
Can't wait to see where you take the PISS next, so much voltage output!
That's what I want from my solar, some voltage......
Wow... AC/DC song Big Balls. They were way ahead of their time describing solar panels. 🤣 Thanks for the most interesting information Dave.
Stated simply, people like this should spend time in prison for fraud.
But they bought that $5 Aneng multi meter and she has a few degrees you know what?
I giggled at your user name lol
Getting more power per area is easy, just put the panel closer to the sun... They failed to explain that they need to put the balls close to the sun's surface.
Sarcasm done well is Brilliant!
Never been this excited since the release of the TurboEncabulator!
I’ll be completely covering my solar panels with P.I.S.S after seeing your discovery. 😂
5:08 This is not worthy of Kickstarter, it is clearly an Indigogo-quality invention.
Whats in the box? I'm glad you ask! Inside the sphere is the sun which generates luminacity and seamlessly turns it into electricity by the new buzz word. Bouncing the light is lossless of course and its 20x more powerful that panel in your calculator. The base contains lead for shielding and acid to stabilize the 2V output. After 24h the sun has to sleep because the powerbank says so.
In France, we use a Glomurge with quantum amplification that can supply
provide 5 V or 5 W (it's the same thing) even without light. The cubic spheres are
impregnated with over-activated Gibolin .
Gibolin is made from "Camember au lait crû". I can't reveal how it works, as patents are pending!
Sounded like a load of balls from the start
Bollocks you mean. I find their lack of numeracy disturbing. When it comes down to WAVJA, vs Photon Irradiance Solar System, I'm taking the PISS.
Takes some big balls to make such a claim.
Let's get some VCs involved, I think you got the greatest ideas humanity came up with.. Pretty sure they got the money
Can't wait for you to release the Solar Heated Incandescent Transducer!
This looks like the perfect solution for slippery solar roadways, no more glass solar panels... the road will be nicely covered with balls 🙂
I'm so impressed how they managed to demonstrate that a tablet can indeed be charged by a power bank 😂
Debunk RooBadge pls
They need to combine their solar balls with solar roadways. The things will make for nice reflective lane separation lines! And don't forget to snap a Batterizer on every battery cell for a bit extra power to last through the night. With such revolutionary technology collaboration is the key!
Only lacks an esaver.
In the patent they claim that the faces of the balls are all hexagons - I wonder how they get a 3D shape just from hexagons, it's also not what they show in their drawings. How can something like this even get past the very first step in a patent application process?
"[0011] ...the facets comprise a sufficent amount of tungsten trioxide to cause ion emission in response to stimulation of the tungsten trioxide with a stimulation current of electricity. ... the current has a value of 4 amp-hours (Ah)..."
"[0051] Each 6 cm sphere can generate 300 kW of electricity in one second..."
Has ChatGPT written this application?
Ok look, their hexagons currently only have 4 sides, but with a $1B cash grant they might be able to get it to 5 sides next year, but 10 years of research is needed for the elusive 6-sided hexagon. Imagine the power a 7-sided hexagon will output!
"[0051] Each 6 cm sphere can generate 300 kW of electricity in one second..."
Wait, that thing is more powerful than a kg of decaying plutonium? (which is about 500w, forgetting the per second part as it does not make sense) Even at 99% efficiency they are going to have to dissapate six times _MORE_ energy than decaying plutonium 238!
Edit: as a bonus the power density is 81 GW/m3. Impressive
I think ChatGPT would be most insulted by that suggestion. Technical data this bad requires human idiocy.
I wonder what Matt Parker from Stand-Up Maths would have to say about that... His long-running campaign against soccer balls in British street signs made entirely of hexagons is hilarious!
Damn 1080 MWh is impressive out of something so small. We should power our grid with these, O&G is going to crash so hard. LMAO
Looking forward to generation 5, should only need a few dozen to power interstellar spacecraft.
Looks like they come delivered pretty clean... Does that mean that I have to keep them shaved to get the same power output?
Why do i get the feeling Terrence Howard is behind this. Clearly he has unlocked the flower of life and that is the power source
I have a "moldy"meter, and I confirm the old Micronta doesn't work!
The French-Canadian loves your accent.
To the idea that the internet will make the world a better place, I offer this counterexample.
I really needed this first thing in the morning. great job!!! patent pending? and where will I be able to get a couple ?? P.S. or PES she did manage to say all that with a straight face..
0,5mA x 2.2v x 50 trillion is a lot of power, where do i sign up?
Where do I sign up? I've got £3 to invest ...
Acronym killed me: I can't stop laughing.
This is funny. Thanks Dave.
Sounds like they're trying to create self amplified photo cells that work like lasers but without pump power, like the light will bounce off the mirrors and each time raise the energy levels in the doted material it is reflected from 😅
The phrase that you can say during solar energy debunk and sex: “look at these balls”
That is some serious lab equipment. They must shop on Temu.
Note the Hackaday article is written by AI Williams...
I am always amazed at how easily investors can be deceived. With a little bit of school math, you could expose the fraud.
The problem is not the numbers, but the units. If they see numbers with scientific units behind it, or anything but USD/their favourite currency, then they'll get confused and succumb to madness believing it's a gold mine of galactic proportions.
They have so much money they don't care about being deceived. They know 99,99...9% of these things are a scam. But it's like playing lottery to them - just something they do for fun, just so they can brag to their friends in case something turns out to be legitimate and they can pretend they knew all along about how great that tech was and how important investing in it was to help change the world for the better blah blah blah.
@@Valenorious 👍
I am really interested in your new solar technology Dave. Do you take blank checks?
As a law student, I'm concerned by the use of Esq. in their names. One of them does appear to be a lawyer, but the other doesn't seem to be. Using Esq. is used to identify lawyers in the US. The Cheng guy doesn't appear to have ever practiced law His LinkedIn says he lives in New Jersey and I don't see anyone listed as a member of the Bar in that state by his name. If he's using that to gain credibility, especially as suggesting he's a lawyer, it could be unauthorized practice of law or fraud and misrepresentation. It's at least unethical. Normally, even lawyers only use it when they are serving in their capacity as attorneys, like on their employment website or court pleadings, but a CEO with a law degree, even if licensed to practice law, typically would not. That's super suspicious to me.
Also, if they are lawyers, when this comes out as a scam, they can expect Bar complaints and will probably lose their licenses.
They can run for 24 hours because, obviously, you plug your light source into the output and power it from the balls themselves! This way they always have light and always produce energy!
ahh that dry aussie humor.... 2..2 power output on my power meter...
They put a fake lens on top where the christmas tree hook goes.
It's like they're auditioning for a role in "Back to the Future Part IV: Solar Boogaloo"!
Sabine Hossenfelder cast a lot of doubt on this a few days ago. She very specifically emphasized that she didn’t call it a scam for legal reasons. Read into that what you will. I was waiting for this video to give the details.
Damn! You have some nice balls there, Dave!
A NEW HAND TOUCHES THE BEACON
From the thumbnail I thought you bought the thing and will be measuring it. But actually you've got somethings better (that actually works).
To be fair to HaD they did not give this any kind of endorsement and the entire comment section basically hit BS for doubt and were taking the P.I.S.S. Best get your patent pending and your trademark registered before you launch, Dave, otherwise everyone will be taking the P.I.S.S.
Remember when Hackaday posted someone's home brew table tennis robot which turned out to be a CGI animation made in 3D studio?
Dear god it’s so much worse. The “balls” are literally plastic housings for a webcam or laser usb powered decoration from Temu or something. You can clearly see the glued seam. This isn’t even a grift, it’s an unconventional warfare operation from some covert arm of the CCP. Either that or the two that founded the company have the 2,000,000x uber-power ball upgrade to have a pair big enough to legitimately try this. It’s so brazen it begets belief.
The guy behind this has apparently already been arrested for a previous scam with a similarly physics-defying product. It's just another serial grifter. Watch him move on to solar frickin' railways or whatever when the current grift inevitably runs dry.
They aren't even using a solar cell. The little dark thing on the top of their ball is an LED working backwards to convert ambient light to a voltage.
I really like Hackaday using "claims to" in their headline. I too can claim i can fly, but nobody saw that 😁
Isn't USPTO has prohibition on perpetual motion machine patents? They practically made a superunity machine.
I'm not sure if their patent was granted in the US. Even if it was, I think it's giving people in general too much credit to expect a USPTO agent to make the mental leap between perpetual motion machines and balls that somehow produce more electricity than the solar radiation available. I mean, it has no moving parts, so how are they supposed to understand it's not a perpetual motion machine in the form of a Christimas three ball from Temu?