“There is not a surplus until the unit produces enough energy to sustain itself then have extra left over.”
Your remarks are not very well thought out. The device produces thermal energy which is legitimate. the suggestion that you should be able to connect the output to the input and require no electrical input would depend on the “temperature” of the output not the amount of power in the output. One could legitimately produce a megawatt of power with a very low output temperature, say a 50 degree increase. Such a low temperature output may very well not be high enough to run the device, yet doesn’t take away from the success of the test.
Let me give you an example... I have solar heaters on my garage roof to heat my swimming pool. They produce about 40KW of heat for the pool in the sunshine. The pump that is required is about 1 HP. It is run from an electrical circuit. I can’t run the pump from the heated water even though the heated water is 40 times the energy that the pump takes.
But still, if the unit was running at 50% capacity @ 470kW and had a 500 kW generator for the test, then running at full capacity would be 1000kW thermal energy out from a system that has 500kW electrical energy in.
After the thermal -> electrical conversion losses when using this for generation, where are we at in overall system gains?