Magnet Myths and Misconceptions

[MileHigh]

It feels like you can design and build a nuclear aircraft carrier in less time than the Searl gang takes to do anything.  All they have is a prop for shows and video clips after eight years of "mainstream" presence on YouTube and the Internet.  It's amazing how long some of these people can string things along.  Between Steorn, the Searl gang, the Rohner gang, and Wayne's Brains gang you probably have something like 100 man-years of "R&D" and nothing at all to show for it except for a few props that could be constructed with a few man-months of labour.

[CANGAS]

"The nation that controls magnetism will control the world."

--Al Cap...of Dick Tracy fame.


"Measuring it wood be the hard part."

Cap-Z-ro

Regards...

Huh?

Al Cap? Al Cap was a character, in the early years of the strip, 70 or 80 years ago, inspired by Al Capone, the famous gangster. You may have been thinking of Al Capp, who drew the comic strip Li'l Abner (Southern for LiTTle Abner). Dick Tracy comic strip was drawn by Chester Gould.

.....controls magnetism.....

was uttered by the character Diet Smith, the wealthy industrialist. Or was just a disembodied voice-over.

Pffft! You may be an impeccable magnetics expert, but you sure don't know your comic strips! 


CANGAS 134

[allcanadian]

@MH

So again, theory plus bench experience - that's the best way
to go forward.  The motivation for stating this on my part is two-fold. 
Firstly, it's so experimenters can simply better themselves and and get more out
of their experiments.  Secondly, it's to make it a more hostile environment for
the criminals out there that want to take advantage of people.

We walk a fine line and I find it hard to separate the wheat from the chaff many times because of the lack of meaningful facts. As well this forum can be peculiar and I have been accused of being a philosopher at times as if that were somehow a bad thing, lol. My theory is simple, I ask the hard questions and test my theories at the bench when possible so I might understand things in a more meaningful way on a deeper level. This is not strictly philosophy it is critical thinking or deductive reasoning and experiment to better understand the true nature of our observations which is defined as science.

It is odd that the more I understand the what, why and when at the most fundamental level the more I see the laws we know being applied however not in the way we would expect. Not unlike the DWFTTW scenario which is perfectly normal once understood however in no way intuitive which led to a great deal of confusion. There were many people trying to protect other people from this supposed hoax which defied science and common sense, which was later proven to be true. I believe we are going to see more of this in the future as our understanding evolves and small groups of brilliant people will move forward by leaps and bounds leaving everyone else behind scratching their heads. Multi-spectrum solar cells are a good example with efficiencies possibly approaching 70% efficiency in the near future.--http://www2.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/MSD-full-spectrum-solar-cell.html.

As a so-called philosopher I knew this multi-spectrum tech was coming over a decade ago because it is the logical progression of the technology. Just as I know the future of it which is integration of nano-technology capturing massive swaths of the EM spectrum well outside the visible light spectrum. Think about that?... how much energy is actually there?... I would guess we will see a 1 m^2 panel generating near 2 Kw within 30-40 years. All the pieces of technology are already present and really all they have to do is put them together. Now if we step outside the box for a second we might also say any device which could capture the energy in large sections of the EM spectrum would also act very similar to the multi-spectrum solar cells. It is not a matter of if but a matter of how and I think we will see some very interesting technology surface in the near future.

AC

[MarkE]

@MH
We walk a fine line and I find it hard to separate the wheat from the chaff many times because of the lack of meaningful facts. As well this forum can be peculiar and I have been accused of being a philosopher at times as if that were somehow a bad thing, lol. My theory is simple, I ask the hard questions and test my theories at the bench when possible so I might understand things in a more meaningful way on a deeper level. This is not strictly philosophy it is critical thinking or deductive reasoning and experiment to better understand the true nature of our observations which is defined as science.

It is odd that the more I understand the what, why and when at the most fundamental level the more I see the laws we know being applied however not in the way we would expect. Not unlike the DWFTTW scenario which is perfectly normal once understood however in no way intuitive which led to a great deal of confusion. There were many people trying to protect other people from this supposed hoax which defied science and common sense, which was later proven to be true.

What science did the DWFTTW defy? 

I believe we are going to see more of this in the future as our understanding evolves and small groups of brilliant people will move forward by leaps and bounds leaving everyone else behind scratching their heads. Multi-spectrum solar cells are a good example with efficiencies possibly approaching 70% efficiency in the near future.--http://www2.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/MSD-full-spectrum-solar-cell.html.

III-V multijunction cells have been used for many years in applications where efficiency is more important than economy, such as satellites.

As a so-called philosopher I knew this multi-spectrum tech was coming over a decade ago because it is the logical progression of the technology. Just as I know the future of it which is integration of nano-technology capturing massive swaths of the EM spectrum well outside the visible light spectrum. Think about that?... how much energy is actually there?... I would guess we will see a 1 m^2 panel generating near 2 Kw within 30-40 years.

Well then you are expencting overunity because incident radiation is well below 2kW/m² even in the best locations.

All the pieces of technology are already present and really all they have to do is put them together. Now if we step outside the box for a second we might also say any device which could capture the energy in large sections of the EM spectrum would also act very similar to the multi-spectrum solar cells. It is not a matter of if but a matter of how and I think we will see some very interesting technology surface in the near future.

Thre is constantly new and amazing technology emerging.  So far its a big no go on energy from a new, clean, and ubiquitous source.

AC

[ramset]

AC
Some are inclined towards this view already,
Antenna  that can harvest more than their fair share....

Graham Maynard's work
http://bovan.net/gmweb2/The%20FS%20Loop.htm