On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Nick Palmer wrote: > Here's a site with an interview and pictures. > http://pesn.com/2006/08/21/9500298_Steorn_free_energy_gauntlet/
It might be real or a scam... but if it's an honest mistake, what kind of mistake would it be? One big possibility is that they've discovered a way to make magnets slowly demagnetize themselves while they also inject KE into a rotor. In the interview above, they mention that they haven't proved whether the energy is coming from the electrical energy that was originally used to magnetize the magnets. Neodymium magnets are famous for such effects: specifically, if two alike poles of NIB magnets are forced together, there is a kind of "frictional" energy loss as the magnets suddenly weaken. As I understand it, if we throw two NIB magnets together hard enough, they bounce inelastically but without ever touching, and they become very slightly warm. Maybe there's some configuration of magnets which evolves some KE during demagnetization, rather than just sucking in mechanical energy and heating the magnets. I'd think this would be very easy to detect. Just use some other type of magnet. If the FE effect is strong only for NIB magnets, then that's very suspicious. Or stick a magnetometer probe on a magnet face and see if the field is slowly getting weaker as the device runs. Or even better, take a clue from CF experiments and let the rotor run for enough hours that it should have exhausted the magnets' magnetization many times over. (((((((((((((((((( ( ( ( ( (O) ) ) ) ) ))))))))))))))))))) William J. Beaty SCIENCE HOBBYIST website billb at amasci com http://amasci.com EE/programmer/sci-exhibits amateur science, hobby projects, sci fair Seattle, WA 425-222-5066 unusual phenomena, tesla coils, weird sci
