Re: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine. New idea!

2012-09-11 Thread Harry Veeder
On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 12:48 AM, Jouni Valkonen jounivalko...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, there was some discussion about this alleged perpetual motion machine. It was elegant, perhaps too elegant, and therefore it is probably a fake. Evolution of perpetual motion

Re: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine

2012-09-06 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 11:46 PM 9/5/2012, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: In reply to Jouni Valkonen's message of Wed, 5 Sep 2012 20:27:51 +0300: Hi, [snip] I'm not sure whether or not it represents stored energy, but if you multiply the MGO of a magnet by it's volume, you get a number of Joules (it's not much BTW).

Re: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine

2012-09-06 Thread Jouni Valkonen
Stored energy in magnetic field for neodymium magnet is around 40-50 MGOe. As one MGOe is 7960 J / m³, this means that energy stored in 1 cm³ neodymium magnet is 360 millijoules. That is, it is negligible for all practical purposes and certainly this field energy is not the source why permanent

Re: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine

2012-09-06 Thread Harry Veeder
forget it Jouni. Intellectually, the wolf of CoE will always win. (Why do I waste my time?) Harry On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Jouni Valkonen jounivalko...@gmail.com wrote: Stored energy in magnetic field for neodymium magnet is around 40-50 MGOe. As one MGOe is 7960 J / m³, this means

Re: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine

2012-09-06 Thread mixent
In reply to Jouni Valkonen's message of Thu, 6 Sep 2012 19:05:33 +0300: Hi, Stored energy in magnetic field for neodymium magnet is around 40-50 MGOe. As one MGOe is 7960 J / m³, this means that energy stored in 1 cm³ neodymium magnet is 360 millijoules. That is, it is negligible for all

Re: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine

2012-09-06 Thread James Bowery
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 5:25 PM, mix...@bigpond.com wrote: In reply to Jouni Valkonen's message of Thu, 6 Sep 2012 19:05:33 +0300: Hi, Stored energy in magnetic field for neodymium magnet is around 40-50 MGOe. As one MGOe is 7960 J / m³, this means that energy stored in 1 cm³ neodymium

Re: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine

2012-09-05 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
Conservation of energy is a strong theory, so widely confirmed that questioning it must occur at the fringes, i.e., energy is not necessarily conserved locally under quantum conditions, but these variations average out so that it remains conserved at the macroscopic level. Absent evidence

Re: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine

2012-09-05 Thread Harry Veeder
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: If the motor goes through a cycle, energy can oscillate between potential and kinetic, but there is no energy gain at any point. If there appears to be, long experience indicates that there is some hidden

Re: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine

2012-09-05 Thread James Bowery
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.comwrote: For example, there is potential energy stored in a permanent magnet, in the magnetisation. This is one of the quantities that must be entered into the arithmetic I originally requested of the system cited in the

Re: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine

2012-09-05 Thread Jouni Valkonen
On Sep 5, 2012, at 7:14 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com wrote: For example, there is potential energy stored in a permanent magnet, in the magnetisation. ... The magnets, however, will lose their magnetization and the motor will run down. This is untrue. There is no such

Re: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine

2012-09-05 Thread Harry Veeder
I think the question of energy stored in a permanent magnet is a redherring. Replace the permanent magnet by a spring. The spring will lose its springiness over time as it is repeatedly compressed. Do we say this is because spring energy is being used up? Harry On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 12:41 PM,

Re: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine

2012-09-05 Thread David Roberson
@eskimo.com Sent: Wed, Sep 5, 2012 1:42 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine I think the question of energy stored in a permanent magnet is a redherring. Replace the permanent magnet by a spring. The spring will lose its springiness over time as it is repeatedly compressed. Do we say

Re: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine

2012-09-05 Thread James Bowery
: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine I think the question of energy stored in a permanent magnet is a redherring. Replace the permanent magnet by a spring. The spring will lose its springiness over time as it is repeatedly compressed. Do we say this is because spring energy is being used up? Harry

Re: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine

2012-09-05 Thread Jouni Valkonen
On Sep 5, 2012, at 9:18 PM, James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: OK since no arithmetic seems plausible, what about actually obtaining the device in question and running the obvious test: Let it run for a very very long time? Easy test would be to construct three identical perpetual

RE: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine

2012-09-05 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint
-Original Message- From: Jouni Valkonen [mailto:jounivalko...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2012 11:46 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine On Sep 5, 2012, at 9:18 PM, James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com wrote: OK since no arithmetic seems plausible, what

Re: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine

2012-09-05 Thread David Roberson
of stored potential energy that is converted into rotational energy, a form of kinetic energy. Dave -Original Message- From: James Bowery jabow...@gmail.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Wed, Sep 5, 2012 2:19 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine OK since no arithmetic

Re: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine

2012-09-05 Thread David Roberson
will always eventually stop the device if it is a scam. Dave -Original Message- From: Jouni Valkonen jounivalko...@gmail.com To: vortex-l vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Wed, Sep 5, 2012 4:09 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine On Sep 5, 2012, at 9:18 PM, James Bowery jabow

Re: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine

2012-09-05 Thread Eric Walker
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 1:24 PM, David Roberson dlrober...@aol.com wrote: Enough time and a little friction will always eventually stop the device if it is a scam. Removing the battery doesn't hurt, either. Eric

Re: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine

2012-09-05 Thread Eric Walker
I wrote: Removing the battery doesn't hurt, either. Or, on second thought, the rubber band. Eric

Re: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine

2012-09-05 Thread mixent
In reply to Jouni Valkonen's message of Wed, 5 Sep 2012 20:27:51 +0300: Hi, [snip] I'm not sure whether or not it represents stored energy, but if you multiply the MGO of a magnet by it's volume, you get a number of Joules (it's not much BTW). On Sep 5, 2012, at 7:14 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax

Re: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine

2012-09-04 Thread Teslaalset
This stuff is quite misleading. One has to put energy in first to get the moving magnet into its starting position. So there is no energy gain. On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 6:09 AM, Giovanni Santostasi gsantost...@gmail.comwrote: How is this an epicycle? A biological system is complicated and even

Re: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine

2012-09-04 Thread Harry Veeder
Assuming no hidden power sources, the assumption is the work done repeatedly lifting the magnets (and the rod at the side) will eventually exceed the energy required to place the magnets in their starting position. Harry On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 3:31 AM, Teslaalset robbiehobbiesh...@gmail.com

Re: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine

2012-09-04 Thread James Bowery
Has anyone tried to do any arithmetic here? I mean to even an order of magnitude? On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Harry Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote: Assuming no hidden power sources, the assumption is the work done repeatedly lifting the magnets (and the rod at the side) will

Re: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine

2012-09-04 Thread Harry Veeder
On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 11:01 PM, Jouni Valkonen jounivalko...@gmail.com wrote: Harry, I think that conventional or classical physics is just wrong, because it just assumes gravity without explaining it. In real physics we cannot just assume such things, as giovanni mentioned. If you hold two

Re: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine

2012-09-04 Thread Jouni Valkonen
There is interesting thing to note, that the rotation of the wheel is oscillating. This probably means that the oscillation is chaotic and is governed by nonlinear dynamics. This also means that system is not freely rotating, but there are significant friction forces that resist the rotation of

Re: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine

2012-09-04 Thread Harry Veeder
According to standard physics, it is impossible to design a magnetic motor that won't get stuck after a few turns. Therefore, questions about how much was energy was needed to assemble the device distract from the real significance of the demonstration. Either this is a hoax OR the device is

Re: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine

2012-09-04 Thread James Bowery
The video at this site clearly shows accelleration. http://diymagneticmotor.com/ That pretty much rules out the low friction argument. On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Harry Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote: According to standard physics, it is impossible to design a magnetic motor that

Re: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine

2012-09-04 Thread Jouni Valkonen
Harry, standard QM does not comment on plausibility of magnetic motors. And for classical mechanics refrigerator magnets and spiral galaxies are exactly as impossible constructions as this magnetic motor. It is just that in classical mechanics work is ill-defined, because classical mechanics

RE: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine

2012-09-04 Thread Mark Goldes
[jabow...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 2:49 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine The video at this site clearly shows accelleration. http://diymagneticmotor.com/ That pretty much rules out the low friction argument. On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 4:00 PM

Re: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine

2012-09-04 Thread James Bowery
...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 2:49 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine The video at this site clearly shows accelleration. http://diymagneticmotor.com/ That pretty much rules out the low friction argument. On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 4:00 PM

RE: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine

2012-09-04 Thread Mark Goldes
...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 2:57 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine It looks very similar to the device currently under discussion in that it has a ramp of magnets with a discontinuity at the full cycle. Are they the same scam? Where can one

Re: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine

2012-09-04 Thread James Bowery
707 861-9070 707 497-3551 fax From: James Bowery [jabow...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 2:57 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine It looks very similar to the device currently under discussion

Re: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine

2012-09-04 Thread Harry Veeder
On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 10:28 PM, Giovanni Santostasi gsantost...@gmail.com wrote: Technically a massive or a charged object moving in a circular path should emit radiation, gravitational or electromagnetic. The gravitational radiation emitted by a planet is extremely small so the energy loss

RE: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine

2012-09-04 Thread Mark Goldes
497-3551 fax From: James Bowery [jabow...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 4:00 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine These are not indictments of the device in the video I cited. Is device in that video, whether

RE: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine

2012-09-04 Thread MarkI-ZeroPoint
-9070 707 497-3551 fax From: James Bowery [jabow...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 4:00 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine These are not indictments of the device in the video I cited. Is device in that video

Re: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine

2012-09-04 Thread Jouni Valkonen
Iverson -Original Message- From: Mark Goldes [mailto:mgol...@chavaenergy.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 4:10 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: RE: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine This is almost certainly the same group of scammers. They keep changing the device

Re: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine

2012-09-04 Thread Harry Veeder
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 4:21 PM, MarkI-ZeroPoint zeropo...@charter.net wrote: I’d like to note a few observations about the later half of this vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqG-TL0WnjE - There are at least 6 places of energy-robbing friction: o 2 Drum bearings, (don’t

Re: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine

2012-09-04 Thread Terry Blanton
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 8:43 PM, Jouni Valkonen jounivalko...@gmail.com wrote: Terry quite clearly stated that permanent magnets do wear down quite fast, Terry said magnets in opposition degrade. Magnets in attraction will not degrade over time. A magnet struck repeatedly by a hammer will

Re: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine

2012-09-04 Thread Jouni Valkonen
Terry, do you know how much it has influence to the speed of misalignment of dipole structure, if neodymium magnets are cooled into -192°C using liquid nitrogen? In theory dipole structure should be far more resilient, if magnets are cooled. Neodymium magnets do retain 87% of their magnetic

Re: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine

2012-09-04 Thread James Bowery
To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: RE: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine This is almost certainly the same group of scammers. They keep changing the device and the device is easily faked in a video. Mark Mark Goldes Co-founder, Chava Energy CEO, Aesop Institute 301A North Main Street Sebastopol, CA

Re: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine

2012-09-04 Thread Harry Veeder
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 7:01 PM, Harry Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote: I wrote: But that depends on a narrow definition of work which is the acceleration of a mass in the direction of a force. That is wrong. I should have said But that depends on a narrow definition of work which is the

Re: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine

2012-09-04 Thread Terry Blanton
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 9:11 PM, Jouni Valkonen jounivalko...@gmail.com wrote: Terry, do you know how much it has influence to the speed of misalignment of dipole structure, if neodymium magnets are cooled into -192°C using liquid nitrogen? Yes, I certainly do. I was a part of a group who

Re: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine

2012-09-04 Thread James Bowery
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Jouni Valkonen jounivalko...@gmail.comwrote: Mark, I think that the site what James was citing is an obvious scam site. I did not cite the site. I cited the video at the site. Moreover PESN claims that video was not produced by the scam artists that run the

Re: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine

2012-09-03 Thread Daniel Rocha
2012/9/3 Jouni Valkonen jounivalko...@gmail.com hello, here is interesting and easy concept for perpetual motion machine using magnets. Problem: why this is not accepted as perpetual motion machine? I do not see anything wrong with this concept, but it clearly produces more rotational

Re: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine

2012-09-03 Thread Terry Blanton
On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.com wrote: Make him run that for some years and he might be slightly more convincing. Superfluid He can rotate for weeks without problem. Unfortunately, I have way too much experience with these sorts of things. This is

Re: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine

2012-09-03 Thread Harry Veeder
On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Terry Blanton hohlr...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Daniel Rocha danieldi...@gmail.com wrote: Make him run that for some years and he might be slightly more convincing. Superfluid He can rotate for weeks without problem. Unfortunately, I

Re: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine

2012-09-03 Thread Terry Blanton
On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 8:54 PM, Harry Veeder hveeder...@gmail.com wrote: the question is could the device generate enough electricity to keep the magnets magnetised? Two years of research has shown me that the magnetic cycle is conservative. IMO, no. T

Re: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine

2012-09-03 Thread Harry Veeder
On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Jouni Valkonen jounivalko...@gmail.com wrote: However I do not think that it is anymore complex idea than refrigerator magnet that is doing endless work against gravity or electron that can orbit nucleus without losing it's energy. In your example no work is

Re: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine

2012-09-03 Thread David Roberson
This is an interesting device. It appears that the energy stored by the magnet at the top in its beginning location is converted into angular energy of motion of the drum .There is some left over to keep the magnet moving up and down as well. There must be a substantial magnetic force

Re: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine

2012-09-03 Thread Giovanni Santostasi
Technically a massive or a charged object moving in a circular path should emit radiation, gravitational or electromagnetic. The gravitational radiation emitted by a planet is extremely small so the energy loss is not going to affect the orbit dynamic even over enormous period of times. In

Re: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine

2012-09-03 Thread Terry Blanton
On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 10:28 PM, Giovanni Santostasi gsantost...@gmail.com wrote: A classical electron should emit a lot of radiation orbiting a so high velocity around the nucleus of an atom and should collapse into the nucleus in a very short time. This doesn't happen and it puzzled the

Re: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine

2012-09-03 Thread Jouni Valkonen
Harry, I think that conventional or classical physics is just wrong, because it just assumes gravity without explaining it. In real physics we cannot just assume such things, as giovanni mentioned. If you hold two 10 kg hand weights stationary with straight hands in horizontal orientation, then

Re: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine

2012-09-03 Thread Terry Blanton
On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 11:01 PM, Jouni Valkonen jounivalko...@gmail.com wrote: However neodyme magnets are very resilient and I would say that produced energy exceeds by far the energy required to make the magnet in the first place. I would say by factor of 1000 or more. Actually, the

Re: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine

2012-09-03 Thread Giovanni Santostasi
No quantum mechanics doesn't explain why the electron doesn't emit, it just states that that is the case for certain fixed orbits. Some explanations invoke the wave nature of the electrons and state that the orbitals are stationary states similar to standing waves in a pipe. It is an heuristic

Re: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine

2012-09-03 Thread Jouni Valkonen
On Sep 4, 2012, at 6:30 AM, Giovanni Santostasi gsantost...@gmail.com wrote: What happens is that your muscles are like springs and they are getting stretched by the weight. When they are stretched beyond a point the muscle pulls back and then relaxes, this over and over again and this

Re: [Vo]:Perpetual motion machine

2012-09-03 Thread Giovanni Santostasi
How is this an epicycle? A biological system is complicated and even if it has to obey the law of physics, it is not usually a good starting example to introduce basic physics concepts. In some cases (teaching physics to biomed students) could be a good idea to mention examples like this in