I can’t find anyone who has independently replicated Jason Verbelli’s electrogravitics demos. I’d put that at the top of every story in this field, so here it is before anything else.
Jason Verbelli is an independent researcher in San Diego. He’s the CEO of SEG Magnetics and the founder of a project he calls Galilean Variance, and his work builds on John Searl’s Searl Effect Generator, the SEG. I’m telling you about the company up front so you know where he sits. That’s worth keeping in mind with his claims, and with Buhler’s company below.
He says he doesn’t work on LENR or fusion, which is where a lot of the energy talk in this corner of the world ends up. I’d file his work under electrogravitics, though that’s my label.
Here’s what he’s shown, and I’m calling these claims because that’s what they are. His mockups are homopolar motor demos running at about 5 volts and 2 amps, so 10 watts going in. He hasn’t provided output numbers or an energy balance, which means there’s nothing yet that says a unit gave back more than it took. I haven’t found an independent replication of his units. He says a full prototype would take about $3 million and two to three years. By his own timeline, the device that would settle the question hasn’t been built.
He also has a sharp opinion about Dr. Charles Buhler, who helped found the Electrostatics and Surface Physics Laboratory at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and co-founded Exodus Propulsion Technologies, a private company. Exodus claims thrust without propellant in a vacuum chamber. On American Alchemy, Buhler described roughly 5 to 10 millinewtons, and the published test showed about 1. In a message to me, Verbelli called Buhler’s work “pathetic” and said it’s ion wind even in a vacuum chamber. He didn’t give data for that. Buhler says his team spent years testing in a vacuum chamber to rule out ion wind. Nobody has shown it’s ion wind, and nobody outside Buhler’s team has confirmed it isn’t. Buhler is welcome to respond, and I’ll run what he sends.
So you’ve got one person calling the other’s results ion wind, the other saying he spent years ruling that out, and neither with outside confirmation. I think that’s the honest state of the field right now. If Verbelli’s demos and Buhler’s chamber both need an independent test, who’s going to pay for the first one?
Source: The Debrief