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  1. Minato Video links - No registration by fprog · · Score: 0 · on Japanese Inventor's Motor Uses 80% Less Power


    These videos were taken by one of our staff on Friday, March 5, 2004, with a Canon A80 camera.

    While not of professional quality, they give a good idea of how the motors are constructed and how they work.

    (We recommand that you use Quicktime to see the movies. You can download it here for free.)

    MinatoFanb:
    A video of a 1 watt fan in operation.
    (AVI: 18.5MB)

    MinatoCPUFanb:
    A video of a tiny CPU cooling fan in operation.
    (AVI: 21.8MB)

    MinatoPCFanb:
    A video of a standard sized PC cooling fan in operation.
    (AVI: 19.9MB)

    MinatoCarAirconb:
    A video of a prototype Toyota Corolla airconditioning fan, with a secondary generator attached.
    (AVI: 32.1MB)


    Enjoy!

  2. Minato Video links - No registration by fprog · · Score: 0 · on Japanese Inventor's Motor Uses 80% Less Power


    These videos were taken by one of our staff on Friday, March 5, 2004, with a Canon A80 camera.

    While not of professional quality, they give a good idea of how the motors are constructed and how they work.

    (We recommand that you use Quicktime to see the movies. You can download it here for free.)

    MinatoFanb:
    A video of a 1 watt fan in operation.
    (AVI: 18.5MB)

    MinatoCPUFanb:
    A video of a tiny CPU cooling fan in operation.
    (AVI: 21.8MB)

    MinatoPCFanb:
    A video of a standard sized PC cooling fan in operation.
    (AVI: 19.9MB)

    MinatoCarAirconb:
    A video of a prototype Toyota Corolla airconditioning fan, with a secondary generator attached.
    (AVI: 32.1MB)


    Enjoy!

  3. Minato Video links - No registration by fprog · · Score: 0 · on Japanese Inventor's Motor Uses 80% Less Power


    These videos were taken by one of our staff on Friday, March 5, 2004, with a Canon A80 camera.

    While not of professional quality, they give a good idea of how the motors are constructed and how they work.

    (We recommand that you use Quicktime to see the movies. You can download it here for free.)

    MinatoFanb:
    A video of a 1 watt fan in operation.
    (AVI: 18.5MB)

    MinatoCPUFanb:
    A video of a tiny CPU cooling fan in operation.
    (AVI: 21.8MB)

    MinatoPCFanb:
    A video of a standard sized PC cooling fan in operation.
    (AVI: 19.9MB)

    MinatoCarAirconb:
    A video of a prototype Toyota Corolla airconditioning fan, with a secondary generator attached.
    (AVI: 32.1MB)


    Enjoy!

  4. Minato Video links - No registration by fprog · · Score: 0 · on Japanese Inventor's Motor Uses 80% Less Power


    These videos were taken by one of our staff on Friday, March 5, 2004, with a Canon A80 camera.

    While not of professional quality, they give a good idea of how the motors are constructed and how they work.

    (We recommand that you use Quicktime to see the movies. You can download it here for free.)

    MinatoFanb:
    A video of a 1 watt fan in operation.
    (AVI: 18.5MB)

    MinatoCPUFanb:
    A video of a tiny CPU cooling fan in operation.
    (AVI: 21.8MB)

    MinatoPCFanb:
    A video of a standard sized PC cooling fan in operation.
    (AVI: 19.9MB)

    MinatoCarAirconb:
    A video of a prototype Toyota Corolla airconditioning fan, with a secondary generator attached.
    (AVI: 32.1MB)


    Enjoy!

  5. Measurement error or fraud? by Spamalamadingdong · · Score: 5, Interesting · on Japanese Inventor's Motor Uses 80% Less Power
    I could probably make a device that could take 16 watts in and generate 300 volt-amperes (AC) out - but the volt-amperes would be almost 90 degrees out of phase, and the power factor would be less than 5%. The real power out of the device would be substantially less than 16 watts. There is no way in physics to have more than 1 watt out per watt in, "magical magnets" or no. If the device was extracting energy from the magnets, they would be depleted and the device would run down after a while. That's 2nd semester physics, basic E&M.

    Either the proponents of this device are complete incompetents, or they are complete frauds. I'm inclined to believe the latter, as incompetents tend not to have the sales skills evident in the article

  6. I admire your positive thinking. by Fantastic+Lad · · Score: 1 · on How India is Saving Capitalism
    When American researchers announce they have a viable hydrogen-based solution for powering communities, American corporations will suddenly have a product millions of people will want. An industry will be created, along with thousands of jobs. Will some of them be outsourced? Eventually, yes. But other industries will pop up to replace it. It's happened before. It will happen again.

    Indeed, I recently ran across this item. It seems alternative energy and streamlined solutions are definitely being allowed out of the toolshed, (finally).

    I did find it interesting, however, that in this particular case, the device was created in Japan. I wonder how much lobbying it will take to enforce American hydrogen fuel cells into the dominant position.

    I guess the other thing I ought to keep in mind is that the power of 'belief' is staggeringly strong. If people believe that they ought to live in big houses with two cars, etc., then that goes a long way to perpetuating the reality. I have to keep reminding myself that the health of the economy, in the largest sense, is driven by the perception of how healthy it is. This kind of thinking is right up my ally and I feel somewhat obligated to do my part to dispel the overpowering myth of economic decline, the propagation of which I believe is a deliberate action on the part of Upper Management. Foolishly, I get so into the pattern of looking for the ugly that I miss those times when people like me broadcasting such a message is part of the problem, and possibly even part of the design.

    There have been a lot of very loud and pervasive, "The Economy is Dying!" stories circulating over the last few years, sinking deep into every demographic group.

    (Think happy thoughts. . . Think happy thoughts. . .)


    -FL

  7. Not so impressed. . . by Fantastic+Lad · · Score: 1 · on The Power of Persuasion
    The amazing thing about this book is that even though it talks about the art of persuasion, and that most people think they are above it, is that many smart people who come away will still not grasp just how deep the persuasion efforts in society go.

    There is programming all over the place. It affects people on levels which are not even associated with advertising.

    "Turn the other cheek"

    "Forgive and Forget"

    "The weak will inherit the Earth"

    Sound familiar? These are nodules of effective societal control which were deliberately included in the standard hotel room Gideon which affect even those who claim to not be religious. It's one of the ways psychopathic CEO's are able to climb the ladder so effectively. Heck, Christ dying on the cross in his oh-so-dramatic "I'm so good I let the bad guys kill me" is a primo example of social control. Another is how fiercely your average Christian will defend both the reality of this event and its validity as a message. Propaganda doesn't have to come fresh from your television to still be an effective control measure!

    Conversely, the whole 'Skeptical' Science-as-Religion trend over the past century has been another massive control measure. Stops people from looking at these kinds of stories without the accompanying automatic doubt/ridicule/I-feel-clever response. --At least until Upper Management is ready for the release of such technologies and 'realities'. And that's primo mind-control, baby!

    Seen a chemtrail recently? Most people are reluctant to look up. Talked about Psychopaths in business and politics to your workmates recently? No? That ugly feeling which makes you want to change the subject is another little nugget of social engineering telling you to look away from one of the most prevailent problems in society; one which can only be solved through open discussion.

    Books like the one reviewed are fine to a point, but they need to take the next step to be truly useful. Until then, they are almost part of the problem in that one can come away thinking they know how to defend themselves. Newsflash: Which brand of Cola you buy isn't the issue. There are thoughts of much greater importance to certain groups that you be thinking which have nothing to do with your preference in running shoe.


    -FL

  8. Re:Microsoft Has Little Presence Where? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1 · on Software In The Land That Time Forgot

    http://www.microsoft.com/japan/

    Sure, according to Microsoft, but http://www.japan.com/microsoft is what counts.