Calloway V Gate - Magnet Motor Prototype
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Stumble ThisI stumbled across this on youtube, and normally i'm very skeptical of the possibility of these types of projects working, but this one was so simple and elegant that I was totally convinced it would work with some more testing.
My idea would be to make the spinning wheel have a latch that forces the driving magnet away from the gate when it rolls around, but this guy has his own ideas on how to do it.
My idea would be to make the spinning wheel have a latch that forces the driving magnet away from the gate when it rolls around, but this guy has his own ideas on how to do it.
I do have to agree with gluonium here though, lose the "free energy?" tag. He is, by hand forcing the magnet into what effectively amounts to a wedge thereby driving the wheel. The flux field of the held magnet has fixed proportions that can only be exploited to a fixed degree. Without physically moving the magnet or electrically altering the field he will not be able to overcome the "gate" dilema. It's cetainly not free energy.
A few years ago I researched some of the most effiecient energy storage systems on the market, they use a high speed composite fly wheel and an electric motor/generator. They were contained in a vacuum, to eliminate air turbulence, and they use active magnetic bearing to levitate nearly reducing friction. Nearly, because even when minimized there are still sources of loss inherent in magnets, like magnetic hysteresis and eddy currents. I was pretty impressed, Active Power for example claims 98% energy efficiency. 100% or more is simply not possible.
Regardless of how the driving magnet is controlled, energy needs to be used to make that magnet move and turn the wheel. The energy used to move the driving magnet is all that is going into the system, and even less energy will be stored in the wheel system due to loss of energy through friction and air resistance and whatnot.
Check out the guy's website, with a list of his attempted perpetual motion machines: http://www.callowayengines.com/. It reads like a heartbreak ready to happen.
http://pesn.com/2006/02/10/9600233_Calloway_Magnet_Motor_Open_Source/
You could tell why these machines have such allure. Anyone can *see* that the engine almost works, so it's intuitive to think that maybe you could fix it a bit to get over that last bit. Whereas conservation of energy is abstract. The best proof of conservation of energy is essentially the fact that we haven't seen it violated, which may seem too weak to such people.