 Hector Perez with his Rotoverter set-up. |
Thanks to being linked from Rense.com, the hoax story garnered more than ten times as much traffic as the next runner up in an April Fools contest that was held at BeforeItsNews.com, giving us the victory for the $100 prize.
One reader wasn't very impressed, saying: "Not funny. This totally sucks. Waste my bloody time. Rense is turning out to be an April fool too. Thanks but eff off!"
The next day, someone noted that there is actually a technology proposal along the lines of what that spoof article presented, saying:
Posted by Anonymous on Friday, April 2, 2010
http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Rotoverter:Vortex Technology with RV cogeneration Seems idea is not so original after all (Public Domain )
The PESWiki page features an open source concept of harnessing the power of vortices in funnel like arrangements.
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"For co-generation the RV is also MOTOR generator initiator for this device; and it generates anti gravity (lift) in an effect described as centrifugal vector redirection, where rotary force transfers to a linear one by transition relative movement null. This has been verified from experimenting with sono-fusion turbines creating sonic rotary cavities for water resonance."
Also on April 2, I was notified of the fact that Perez' Rotoverter technology was accepted in to NASA Tech Briefs "Create the Future" contest with an entry titled: "Rotoconversion Energy Saving Method". Be sure to click through to see that proposal to increase the chances of it winning (traffic is a major factor considered).
That proposal apparently only conveys the motor portion of the vortex proposal mentioned above.
It is described, in part, as:
"Method to operate a 3PH motor in simil to rotophase mode operation but at specific high impedance to create a low loss energy transformation from the electrical energy source to mechanical one, term = (Rotoconversion) electrical energy to mechanical energy conversion with extreme low power loss and hi energy savings."Rotoconversion motor was made from rewiring standard 7.5 HP 3PH motor (US motor 3450 RPM 3PH dual winding 230/460 VAC) to RV hi impedance mode. Motor is wired to hi impedance (460VAC) and run in 120VAC from any 60CPS common house outlet or AC battery powered inverter (solar powered application).
Perez claims that his rewired Rotaconversion motor can cut energy waste by up to 90% compared to a conventional motor.
I'm not quite sure how significant that is because a good motor on the market today is 95% efficient, leaving just the last 5% to improve. Less efficient motors might be 75% efficient, and perhaps would be the ones that could benefit the most from this technology. But I admit that I don't have my head wrapped around what Perez is doing. I am aware that at least in some of his Rotoverter systems he is claiming overunity -- more energy out than what is required to run the system (implying extracting energy from the environment in the tradition of Nikola Tesla's radiant energy).
In a form response to Perez' entry, the contest administrators said:
Dear Hector Perez, Congratulations! Your entry "Rotoconversion Energy Saving Method" has been qualified by the review team as meeting the requirements for the Create the Future Design Contest. View your submission here:http://contest.techbriefs.com/component/content/article/148
Voting on entries will start soon, so share this link with colleagues. Higher number of page views means your entry will have a better chance of receiving votes and winning a prize as a Top Ten Most Popular entry. Good luck in the contest! Winners will be announced in September. - Contest Administrators
Perez posted a story at BeforeItsNews about his entry, which is essentially the same content as what he submitted to NASA Tech Briefs.
On a more weird note (as if my Energy from the Vacuum Cleaner story wasn't weird enough), about six years ago, when I had a bit of a run in with Perez, he sent me an email with a curse, saying something to the effect, "I send your spiders." The night prior, before I had read that email, I had a dream in which a 3-foot diameter spider was crawling up the wall of our bedroom. That freaked me out, and I've not communicated directly with him since.
Hopefully, he's backed away from that voodoo stuff.
I guess that goes to illustrate Sterling's Maxim: "An inventor's eccentricity is directly proportional to how far outside the box he is."
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