Perpetual Motion

Perpetual Motion

In high school, I took an Electronics class and became fascinated with motors and generators. I came up with a design to make a DC generator using permanent magnets to avoid the use of brushes and my instructor look at it and laughed. “You can’t make perpetual motion machine”, he said. Well… I’ll be watching this story. It looks very interesting, but could be a hoax.

There is a test rig with wheels and cogs and four magnets meticulously aligned so as to create the maximum tension between their fields and one other magnet fixed to a point opposite. A motor rotates the wheel bearing the magnets and a computer takes 28,000 measurements a second. The magnets, naturally, act upon one another. And when it is all over, the computer tells us that almost three times the amount of energy has come out of the system as went in. In fact, this piece of equipment is 285% efficient.

That's a lot of "free energy" and, supposedly, a slap in the face for one of physics' most basic laws, the principle of conservation of energy: in an isolated system (the planet, say), energy can be neither created nor destroyed; it can only be converted from one form into another.

Credit goes to Geeks with Guns for pointing out this story.

The Cryptic Subterranean on the left side bar is from Ireland (location of this company), maybe Jay can shed some light on these fellows. Also they have a web site at http://www.steorn.net