Hey everybody.

[shruggedatlas]

All the people who tried are stupid?

You are being awfully arrogant and presumptive.  If you are so smart, you show us your idea.

[dogfishguzzler]

You are being awfully arrogant and presumptive.  If you are so smart, you show us your idea.

I'm afraid that was only a joke.

[dogfishguzzler]

I wanted to post once more on this thread before I allow it to slip into oblivion.

I believe the real avenue for free energy is energy derived from tuning into universal energy fields by resonance. There are real opportunities there, at present poorly researched.

I've heard of this but haven't really read anything about it. I guess the first thing I think of when I read that is, how accessible is that to the home hobbyist? At the very least it seems you would need a helluva understanding of physics and mathematics. Some or most of which are largely misunderstood, even by scientists (as you stated). That makes a lowly tool and die maker like myself highly unlikely to tap into earth's resonant frequencies.

I did some reading today hoping to better understand the history of failure in magnet motors and their design. My goal was simple, learn a little about how science talks about and measures magnetic qualities/quantities, and try to learn a few new terms I keep seeing pop up. One of these terms is "magnetic gate". I'm still confused as to what this is exactly. I read all most the entire Calloway site and my take from that is any magnet arrangement that causes movement would be called a gate. On the other hand I saw some videos of people talking about magnets and they seem to call "the sticky spot" the gate, which is it? Is it neither?

Of course like most everybody else who dabbles in this hobby I would have never taken interest unless I felt I had a great idea.  I'm still convinced my idea will work ( I'm sure nobody ever had that thought! ) but I need my machines before I can build some prototypes. Until I do more drawing and thinking about it I don't even want to discuss it, at the risk of sounding like a moron who didn't think things through.

I wonder if someone nails this magnetic motor thing, what then? Personally if I were to find a way to make a magnet motor that would rotate even for a few days and produced useful torque, I would call it a success. I would also be very adamant about it's place in the public domain. I'm a huge fan of the GPL and open source everything. I hope somebody somewhere has a major epiphany and we can all benefit.

BTW that toy on that video is called a Hamel's disk I found several sites with detailed construction info. TheOne was correct in that it depends on hand movement to sustain spin. Cool idea though.  Infinitely Simple!! I was laughing about that all day. I'm not trying to be cruel but if these guys weren't fishing for money then I'll be damned.

I can't wait to get my machines so I can make these parts I have in mind and post my results here. thanks for your replies and patience with my questions Hans, and to all of you who took time to answer me.

[hansvonlieven]

G'day dogfish,

If you want to learn a little more about resonance perhaps you should have a look at Keely. Try my site, plug plug :-), http://www.keelytech.com for an introduction.

Hans von Lieven