James Roney's breakthrough: Runway Plates

[konduct]

If you really look at the action when he has the wheel near the plates...the plates are actually repelling the magnets due to the backside of the stator magnet being the same polarity as the rotor magnets. It's not attracting in, the acceleration he is seeing is because he is pushing the initial magnet into a repelling field...dude's just a little too excited and needs to think about what he's doing...he even says he can feel attraction...it's not though...try it and you'll see.

[Omega_0]

Its so obvious that as soon as the wheel is completed with magnets all over it, it will refuse to move (even with a hand - the only source of free energy known to man).

I hope I'm not the only one here who has played with magnets on a wheel

What are the chances of him showing a video of that happening ?

[spoondini]

What I never understand is why folks run these experiments with huge wheels as opposed to small 1/100 models (like a CD on it's rotor, as I've seen one slightly more intelligent tinkerer use to find out it doesn't work).   If you simply scale down the model you can quickly cover the wheel with small, cheaper magnets and find out whether it works or not.

My bet is that if it doesn't work (which I expect) you will simply see Mr. Roney disappear, never making an official announcement or demonstrating the final conclusion.  I also see this on many threads where someone is so adamantly certain of their theory and defend it to the death, and each mild success is published with great fanfare, and then it just disappears.

I have great respect for the folks who work on their ideas, and then announce when they've given up and moved onto something else.  They are the valuable minority who we can truly learn from.  Everytime we learn that something conclusively won't work, it's one experiment we don't need to perform.

[Cloxxki]

Very good suggestion on that CD!
That's something even I could almost do. May have to glue a CD to a rollerblade bearing, buy some magnets and take things from there.

[Omega_0]

I find the CD glued on a PC fan a very good setup. PC fan rotates freely and has no inertia of its own. And you can bolt it down on anything if the magnets are too strong ...