That's not what Gene says in the report.
And if this is the "first attempt" you are talking about, the anomalous reading lasted seconds. A capacitor could already have been charged, maybe one Gene didn't even see. Anyway he doesn't say this reading is an initial reading, that no capacitors have charged, not even that no flywheels could have been "charged".
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The first was an unanticipated happening wherein we read the meters and
the ratio of output power to input power was greater than unity. This
phenomenon only lasted a few seconds. Then the efficiency slowly
dropped to about 70%.
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Bob, I have some bad news for you about humans. Ask them the same question two times and you will get different answers because memories fail. Age can make a person extremely inconsistent. Look first at what Gene wrote. If he says something different on the phone, let him know and ask him to check his notes.
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