Magnet Myths and Misconceptions

[synchro1]

Right, it would need 4 GAP style neutralization coils.

[verpies]

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Time to look at the "Flux Switching Alternator":

There is also a solid state version of this principle in this patent.

[verpies]

In fact,thinking about my last statement, I believe i can prove that a permanent magnet can/is doing useful work.

Yes, you could prove that, but not over an integer number of cycles.

[tinman]

Right, it would need 4 GAP style neutralization coils.

It is funny synchro when you stand back,and take a look at everything that go's on around us. So many times here we have seen the scream of! DO YOU KNOW HOW TO TAKE CORRECT P?in AND P/out MESSUREMENTS!
If we simply say energy in and energy out are unity,then all the arguments go away. Any device you build run's at both a minimum and maximum of 100%-unity-->when all energy out is messured,it will equal exactly the energy in.

[verpies]

What about a piezo disk stuck between two neos?  Will not the constant squeeze release some measurable output?

Yes, at the expense of the energy needed to drive the piezo.
You can also achieve a similar result using the Villiari effect in a ferrite rod.  See this video.

Also, remember that those piezo disks extend flexurally like in Fig.3a and Fig.3b  (somehow most people are wrongly convinced that they extend as in Fig.2).