Working Magnetic Motor on you tube??

[CLaNZeR]

I stopped by his shop last night, and he showed me the clear plastic he will be cutting the rotor and base from, so one can see through it to see that there are no cheater devices attached anywhere.  He got the $2,000 sheet of clear 1/2-inch plastic for just $250.

$2000  How big was that sheet for that much money?

[Omnibus]

@CLaNZeR,

Here in NYC a 13 x 13 in. 3/4" piece is almost $50.

[RunningBare]

I think the static electricity thing is stretching things a bit, not saying it's impossible, but I do not believe for a moment it has anything to do with keeping this device spinning, I think AL has found a way to turn static magnetic force into a dynamic force, I've a feeling(not very scientific I know) that eddy currents and Lenz law is at work here.

[Omnibus]

@RunningBare,

Static electricity is out of the question. How Eddy currents and Lentz law will contribute to have the disk accelerating and keeping the 3 hour spin at the higher velocity is a fairy tale as well. Prove me wrong. We already know what the reason for this behavior is, I've already provided a well-known analysis for that, and it was illustrated by the diagrams shown several pages back (page 29): http://www.geocities.com/deasyart/steorn/OC_sim_one_stator_a.JPG

[mikestocks2006]

----- Original Message -----
From: Sterling D. Allan
To: Overconfident
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 8:58 AM
Subject: Re: I didn't ignore you

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After this initial open sourcing phase of showing people exactly how to build one of these things, I would encourage those who are able to work on improvements which they can then patent and take to market.  Doug will likely be one who will do that.  I anticipate that Doug will also help us in the initial phase of characterizing what is going on: testing such things as magnet size, distance, position, etc.
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> Sterling

Hi sterlinga,

Just curious, shouldn't this whole thing be open sourced and fully transparent all the way? None of the replications would be taking place if OC and Al were to keep their ideas and prototypes to themselves.
OC and AL led the way with fairly good transparency and open source spirit.

What would be the scope of patenting any further developments/improvements?

Thanks

ps: maybe a thread is needed to discuss opensourse vs patent? so not to take this too much of topic.