In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:50:01 -0500 (GMT-05:00): Hi, [snip] >Terry Blanton wrote: > >>FWIW, Al is reporting over 7 hours of continuous run of his magnetic >>motor over in the Steorn forum. Replications are close to >>realization. > >Seven hours? As Chris Tinsley used to say, that narrows it down to two >possibilities: real, or fraud. No middle ground there. Some of the skeptics >commenting on the video claimed they saw fishing line unreeling and pulling >the device. That wouldn't work for 7 hours. Nor would small batteries or >demagnetization. I suppose there are a few other ways to fake it, but anyway, >if it really did run for 7 hours with no wires attached, that sounds like >irrefutable proof to me. > >I hope it is replicated and thousands of copies are made world-wide within a >few months. The only thing that I would regret -- slightly -- is that it would >probably make cold fusion moot, and it might even cause cold fusion to be >forgotten. (On the other hand, an astounding breakthrough might open people's >minds to other possibilities such as cold fusion, which might still be useful >for transmutation.) But anyway, a magnetic motor would serve all of the >purposes I described in my book, and that is the only thing that matters.
I think even magnet motors need a power source. That could be ZPE, but if it isn't then it may be the Van Allen Belts (particularly the lower one), in which case the total power available is limited to roughly what we are now using. Considering that such motors would likely rapidly find wide usage, it would probably soon become necessary to start legally restricting what they could be used for. The most obvious applications that come to mind are transport and small motors in appliances, however personally I would restrict their use when it came to converting the energy into heat for hot water or central heating. Consequently, I think there is still likely to be a useful role for CF or related, at least for heating purposes. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk The shrub is a plant.
