"Permanent magnet drive apparatus and operational method" is a granted patent to Miller and Colson, assigned to Torque Multipliers, LLC. Priority date 2012-03-15.
Recently, several videos have appeared on YouTube, including an ongoing replication attempt. Typically, any lever. or lug wrench is a "torque multiplier" and there is no insinuation of net gain in power, at least not from the name alone. Here, there appears to be net gain if you believe the claim. The net gain could be at the expense of permanent magnetization, which is being constantly depleted. or. it could be imaginary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2JTwbIpf6o&html5=1 . the inventor is "hands-on" shall we say, far from an arm-chair theorist, and let's be clear: this video does not prove anything. It may not even suggest anything, so we have to trust Sonny Miller, at least until he hires Billy Bob to do the hard sell <g>. I love it when an inventor presents a potentially billion dollar device in a sweaty T-shirt. Nice contrast To Randy Mills spotless lab coat and nothing after $100 million down the tubes. Anyway, Sonny's magmo may raise once again the question of whether there is usable energy stored in strong magnets. and also, the interrelationship between torque and power. After 120 years of automobiles, there should be no mystery in that category (converting torque to power and vice versa) but there often seems to be a mystery in practice, especially when there is magnetic resonance in the Schumann range, which is ~470 RPM. After all, we live in a gigantic waveguide. which is one way of looking at this kind of resonance.
