[email protected] wrote: > 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.
Sorry about that! No matter what you do the nit pickers still pick nits. > > 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 he's really knocking out a pair of magnets in two hours, the idea that the energy is coming from the magnets sure sounds plausible. And as I said earlier, I think it would be *extremely* interesting if he's found a way to turn the energy stored in a magnet into mechanical energy -- and it would be interesting whether or not there are any "practical" applications! > > 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 > >
