"over-unity" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "over- + unity (“the number \"1\"”), referring to the fact that an over-unity device should produce more kinetic energy than whatever potential it receives as input. Coined to avoid patent rules that prevent impossible technologies such as perpetual motion machines being patented.",
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          "ref": "1994, David Hatcher Childress, The Free-energy Device Handbook: A Compilation of Patents & Reports, Adventures Unlimited Press, page 90",
          "text": "Look for the \"over-unity\" ratio when calculating energy output versus input as a proof of free energy.",
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          "ref": "2007, Florentin Smarandache, V. Christianto, Hadron models and related New Energy issues, Infinite Study, page 96",
          "text": "The system behaves as an over-unity device producing energy from atomic hydrogen by a repeated dissociation and recombination of hydrogen atoms. MAHG tube contains a vacuum tube filled with hydrogen at 0.1 atm and cooled by water.",
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          "ref": "2008, Mark P. Silverman, A Universe of Atoms, An Atom in the Universe, Springer Science & Business Media, page 25",
          "text": "\"The Potapov device,\" the experimenters reported ruefully, \"did not show any evidence of over-unity performance in our tests. We can find no explanation for the failure of this Potapov device to perform as reported (300% over-unity).\"",
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