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Yet Another Perpetual Motion Device
The Star reports on this inventor breaking all the laws of physics as far as free energy goes. It even provoked interest from "esteemed Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Markus Zahn". I would like to know how this seemingly backyard enthusiast's experimental set up has not been tried a million times over the years. It seems so simple and too good to be true. The article has links to a multi-part video demo of the device accelerating an electric motor under load for free!
Very interesting. Hope it works out for the inventor and BillyG doesn't try to steal his idea.
"Suppose you were an idiot...and suppose you were a member of Congress...but I repeat myself." Mark Twain
No formal education or training: 'Heins has an even greater uphill battle. He isn't an engineer. He doesn't have a graduate degrees in physics. He never even finished his electronics program at Heritage College in Gatineau, Quebec. "I have mild dyslexia and don't do well in math, so I didn't do very well in school," he says.'
Enlists help of notable expert in field: 'Zahn is a leading expert on electromagnetic and electronic systems. In a rare move for any reputable academic, he has agreed to give Heins' creation an open-minded look rather than greet it with outright dismissal.'
"Average Joe" angle: 'He'd be happy if somebody did, even if the news was bad. His wife has kicked him out. He doesn't earn an income. He can't pay child support. The certainty would be welcome. "I've tried to quit many times, and thought if I could just be a normal guy I would have a normal life ... But I had this idea and I believe it works."'
All we're missing is a direct accusation against the government or big corporations, who are always crushing the "little guy" who brings us these innovations.
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
The same mechanical output power for one-tenth of the electrical input power? Interesting, since conventional electric motors can achieve about 90% efficiency. I guess one-tenth would make that motor 900% efficient. Ofcourse that means free energy! Hook this motor onto the drive shaft of a regular generator, which can easily provide the power to keep the motor running, and still has a lot to spare for doing other useful work! It's such a touching story about a man's passion and how he sacrificed everything because he believes in what he has invented. Either this man really is a poor bastard because he has devoted his life to something that he doesn't understand, but also doesn't do what he thinks it does, or it's just a scam a little more elaborate than usual. I wonder why he doesn't show the whole setup, without wires running out of view, and why he doesn't run it with any coils near the wheel with the magnets. I wonder what the equilibrium speed would be in that case. One thing that could be happening, is that the seemingly cheap multimeters he uses are not measuring the true current to the motor (they are rarely accurate for inductive loads), and/or that he is using a cheap motor with a very weak rotor, which becomes a little more powerful because he effectively increases the field strength in the rotor. Ofcourse that doesn't mean it becomes more efficient. The change in output power seems very low, as the system is only accelerating very slowly. It might also have something to do with the fact that the motor doesn't have a real load, apart from a little air resistance and drag in the bearings. I'd like to see this with the motor at a full, mechanical load (a hydropump, for instance), at a speed well below the maximum speed of that motor. Also, it would be interesting the measure the torque in the driveshaft, to actually see what is happening there. If it is true what he says, the torque should be increasing when he short-circuits the coils, while the speed of the system also increases. He should be measuring the current with a proper measurement device, which can be an expensive piece of equipment, or simply a resistor with a known electrical en thermal resistance, in which case you measure the temperature difference between two points on the thermal path. This is, still, the most reliable way to measure true current.
sorry but ERRRRRRRR you're wrong. For God sake people, you're not physicists but you have brains. There is and always has been one theoretical perpetual motion device possible and it has nothing to do with radioactive decay or magents. Nobody has built it for some reason though. Don't you watch Futurama? If you can somehow mess with inertia in just the right way that causes the generator to want to stand still while the rest of the planet moves around it, it will look like it's having the opposite effect amd the generator is the one moving.
I know you're all like "bullshit!" by now but this exists in nature. Ever heard of a tornado? It would be kinda like how a tornado gets so much energy. There are opposing forces caused by air pressure that should just about cancel each other out and do nothing. But the energy of Earth turning and air's resistance to turning with Earth because of its gaseous state combined with the fact that the inertia isn't in a straight line causes more rotational energy in the opposite direction than would be exerted if Earth wasn't there. The air draws power from the Earth's rotation by resisting wanting to turn with Earth, just like I mentioned how a generator could work.
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