In reply to Stephen A. Lawrence's message of Wed, 06 May 2009 15:41:23 -0400: Hi, [snip] >> But that would involve a conspiracy of sorts! > >Right. Anybody who puts an experiment on a glass table to show there's >nothing hidden underneath and then puts up a U-tube video of it doing >something theoretically impossible is already acting an awful lot like a >stage magician. > >"Nothing up my sleeves!" That's not the sort of disclaimer you see in >most normal science papers. > [snip] Give the guy a break. The glass table idea was originally mine. It's something I posted on a list a couple of years back, precisely to avoid the charge that there could be a hidden power source under the table. Now someone actually does it, and still cops flack.
IMO he is being straight up, and there really is something extraordinary going on here, though whether or not it is actually OU, will have to wait until a proper scientific analysis is done. You can add energy from the Val Allen belts to the list of possible energy sources. Since the speed of rotation is quite slow, the matching EM wavelength would extend way out into space, making a resonant transfer possible because the distance to the belts would lie well within a single wavelength. However, I don't thinks that is the source in this case. I would be more inclined to go with the loss of magnetism of the horseshoe magnets, &/or second law violation. If the magnetic domain wall relaxation time is on the same order of size as the time between changes in magnetic field strength due to passage of the moving magnets, then a sort of magnetic refrigeration effect might occur, so that effectively the strength of the horseshoe magnet varied dynamically in such a way as to result in an average difference between the strength of attraction and repulsion, with the energy being supplied by ambient heat. If this is so, then deliberately warming the magnet with an external heat source should cause the motor to speed up, and this is relatively easy to do with e.g. a sunlamp, or even just letting direct sunlight fall on the magnet. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Project.html
