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Japanese Inventor's Motor Uses 80% Less Power
novakane007 writes "A Japanese inventor named Kohei Minato has created a new kind of motor. It uses magnetism to perpetuate the motor motion. As a result the motors uses 80% less energy than a conventional motor, while still maintaing the same horsepower. "Minato assures us that he hasn't transcended the laws of physics. The force supplying the unexplained extra power out is generated by the magnetic strength of the permanent magnets embedded in the rotor. 'I'm simply harnessing one of the four fundamental forces of nature,' he says."
On top of the energy savings the motor runs cool to the touch and is significantly quieter than a tradtitionally powered fan. Sound to good to be true? Well he's already started selling the fan to a chain of convience stores in Japan. Hopefully soon the design will make it in to your home PC, allowing them to run much quieter."
What did you think made your existing fan motors spin, Space Pixies?
WHY MUST YOU destroy our dreams, Mr. Scientist?!
As I was saying to the Easter Bunny just the other day, we don't want your explanations, we want our comforting anthropomorphized mysticism, damnit!
Opinions on the Twiddler2 hand-held keyboard?
Unfortunately for Mary Jo Kopechne, he didn't have one of these.
He probably would have just had to throw her overboard to get the same result.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
This is the exact same argument every peddler of perpetual motion machines uses to claim that his invention is not a perpetual motion machine
And this is exactly the argument every kneejerk skeptic makes before actually looking at the machine in question. Try judging based on reality once in a while and not just on your own preconceptions.