From: Stephen A. Lawrence <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tue, January 12, 2010 1:15:34 PM
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>On 01/12/2010 12:34 PM, Esa Ruoho wrote:
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/79138...@n00/4268789755/
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>First slide:
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>"However certain components (such as the magnets used)
>store energy, to prove over unity we must prove that the
>energy of these components does not degrade during the
>interaction."
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>As far as I know this is totally a red herring -- a straw man. I don't
>think a motor which "consumes" the energy stored in permanent magnets,
>which eventually are demagnetized, has ever been demonstrated, and I'm
>not at all sure it's possible.
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>Sure, you can ruin magnets in a motor, but that's not at all the same as
>*making* *use* of the magnetic field of the magnets as it degrades --
>i.e., loss of magnetization is always just an artifact, never something
>vital to the motor's operation. If the magnetic field of the permanent
>magnets is being "used up", then replacing them with *better* magnets
>which didn't degrade would destroy the motor's operation.
I haven't been following the steorn demo. Did he actually replace the magnets
as part of his demo?
Presumably the honest thing to do would be to measure the strength of the
magnet's field to show it hasn't decreased.
harry
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