It would appear that the Achilles heel of magnetic motors in general is that they are using up energy stored in the magnets in the form of negative entropy - in other words in the parallel orientation of the basic units of magnetism, whatever these may be.
For people who have a naturally pessimistic outlook on life this is an attractive argument. It allows magnetic motors to be dismissed together with perpetual motion machines and cold fusion, etc. Since the majority of attempts to make a magnetic engine seem to have run into the sand such pessimists can assert that history is on their side. It is claimed that the Sprain Magnetic Motor, " ... is very similar to the Takahashi motor, but in Paul Sprain´s motor he is just using all magnets in attraction mode, so they never discharge." I believe that I can see a reasonable argument to support this claim based on the existence of negative energy (see "Negative Energy" thread). Consider the mode of operation of The Newcomen Steam Engine. http://www.technology.niagarac.on.ca/staff/mcsele/newcomen.htm A laymen might describe it as a vacuum engine and think that the vacuum pulls the piston down into the cylinder. Anyone with an elementary knowledge of physics, however, would realise that the piston is pushed down by atmospheric pressure. Though the Newcomen and the Watt engine both use steam, their modes of operation are antithetical. Now the active agent in the Newcomen Engine is the pressure of the atmosphere and this pressure is constantly being replenished. It is inexhaustible. By contrast, the active agent in the Watt engine is the pressure of steam and this pressure is not inexhaustible. With reference to the "Negative Energy" thread one can see that the Newcomen "steam" engine is a negative energy engine analogous to a Stirling Engine driven by an ice cube whereas the Watt steam engine is a positive energy engine analogous to a Stirling Engine driven by a cup of hot coffee. The attraction between magnets in the Sprain Magnetic Motor (SMM) can be viewed as Bernoulli style low pressure region in the Beta-atmosphere. Clearly then, the SMM is analogous to the Newcomen Engine and the Beta-atmosphere analogous to the Alpha-atmosphere and equally inexhaustible. Since the microscopic units of each SMM magnet are being subjected to tension it seems more likely that the negative entropy of those magnets (internal order) will increase rather than decrease. It seems therefor that the claim that this is indeed the case can be justified on logical grounds. Whether this "too good to be true" motor is in fact raising high order atmospheric motion (Beta-.Gamma-) up to the electro mechanical level or not, remains to be seen. However, it can (and will) be shown by argument at a higher scale of aethereal atmosphere that such a system is no more a perpetual motion machine than, say, a photo- voltaic cell. Cheers, Frank Grimer
