A question about magnets

[fleebell]

Your talking apples and oranges here , it's a totally different scenario. All that basically happens when you make a magnet is your mechanically lining up the atom spins so they all match. (well, at least most of them anyway)

That is where the field comes from, all those atoms pointing their tiny individual fields on one direction so they add together and make a big field that you can interact with.
It is not some added charge etc...I repeat,  You have not added any energy to it.   Just because it done with a powerful magnetic pulse on commercial ones doesn't matter.  It's still basically a mechanical process... Stoke a magnet on a needle - needle is now a magnet , you have mechanically aligned the atoms - same thing.   Heat a magnet in a small flame... atom spins disorganize and the magnetic field is gone. or wrap a magnet in something  (to prevent flying bits) and then smack it good with a hammer once or twice.... same thing no more magnet...atom spins disorganize and the magnetic field is gone.

Actually when you think about it a magnet is the perfect over unity device.
Make one magnet mechanically or electrically and that magnet can make many more without ever losing it's own field.