Build a cheap perpetual energy generator (FAUX-TO)

Build a cheap perpetual energy generator (FAUX-TO)

F for FAKE. This video has been labeled a "Faux-To". Commonly contested as bogus science, we believe this video to be a hoax. What's your opinion? Comment below.

Regardless of what this is called, this free energy looks amazing when demonstrated. This video tutorial will show you how to make it.

You can take a small electric motor from a children's toy and attach the wires to a battery to rotate the motor. What you'll need to fire up a light bulb without a battery is the motor, a light bulb, a plastic lid, super glue, Scotch tape, three matches, magnets, and wire cutters.

Never pay for electric again! Just imagine how much money you could save if you build a big version of the perpetual energy generator in this how-to video.

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+6
neilsuma (5) 8/7/08 6:53 AM
i like your stuff dude!!
+1
ryan (7) 6/17/09 12:28 AM
good
+4
deathminister (6) 8/9/08 11:13 PM
Pretty cool.
+3
Howie_D (2) 8/12/08 5:41 PM
Thanks for posting my vid on your channel! Cool to see it embedded. :)
+6
wibrle (5) 8/13/08 11:29 AM
Very cool A+
+6
greeenpro (7) 8/14/08 8:45 AM
no way!!! A+ easily
+4
AntiAntagonist (3) 8/16/08 11:17 AM
The magnet will eventually demagnetize. Fun demonstration of magnetism and electricity, but it isn't "perpetual energy." You can't run much this way either, which is why he's using an LED.
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Anthonyk312 (-6) 5/24/09 7:40 PM
it's technicaly not free energy unless a fuel was not used. believe it or not magnets are a fuel. you need energy to magnetize them in the first place. magnets are more like storage capsules for electromagnetic energy. how did you think electromagnets worked.
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mrshlmoltke (-1) 9/22/09 9:32 PM
But still the magets input source is still less than the output. If i were to get a iron bar and magnetize it, the original magnet would be no weaker. How does this not break the laws of thermodynamics. Please help me understand.
+3
sintrinsic (2) 8/1/09 4:55 AM
"magnets are more like storage capsules for electromagnetic energy" Not even close.
http://www.magnetsales.com/Design/DesignG_frames/frame_dgbod2.htm#modernmag
Read up. Once an NdFeB "rare earth" is produced, there is very little degradation of the magnetic force. It would take a very strong magnetic force, a good deal of heat, or a LOONNNGG time to demagnetize these magnets, and until then, they continually exert the same magnetic force. Very much unlike a battery. Electromagnets temporarily align the domains of a "soft" ferromagnetic substance using a charged solenoid.
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cgibbons (1) 11/9/09 10:21 PM
actually he is correct. this will only last a few hundred hours. as opposed to the months you can get out of a AA battery. As the like poles exert force on one another they slowly start to align with one another. The strength of the magnetic field drops off at an inverse logarithmic rate. meaning for 75% of the magnets life you will see no change visible to human senses. after this point the field strength drops off at an ever increasing rate. Very much like a capacitor but for magnetism instead of electricity.
+2
cgibbons (1) 11/9/09 10:37 PM
actually there was a rather good article in nuts and volts, about how a man in California made a circuit that could store the 10 mV 60 nA current that naturally occurs between trees and the ground. He used it to make a low power sensor take and store a reading every 5 min. This guy is running an led that's at least 1.4 V an 20 mA. enough to power a Miller solarengine. With one of those you can perform a wide variety of simple short duration tasks.
+7
Chewkie (6) 8/16/08 12:08 PM
This is one of the neatest things I've seen
+5
sweetieA (4) 8/16/08 1:17 PM
Pretty cool. I like your videos!
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gname (-8) 8/16/08 6:23 PM
I call Shennagins on this one!

Not a chance. Perhaps there is a pulsing magnet under the table.
-1
hemzki (-1) 3/8/09 1:01 PM
i fink the magnets are repelling each other..... comensense realy
+1
Phasespace (2) 9/27/09 4:06 AM
That'd be because common people are stupid...
+4
shoemoker (3) 8/17/08 1:32 PM
Cool idea. I've wondered if this would work
+5
WorldCruisePirate (4) 8/23/08 8:53 AM
Have you done this on a larger scale?

I'd like to see it work on a 110 volt scale.
-7
mmwilhelm (-7) 9/16/08 4:35 AM
If people paid more attention in 3rd grade science class, we wouldn't have so many people falling for tricks like this.
+12
WonderDude Mike (60) 10/1/08 8:50 AM
Maybe if parents didn't dump their kids onto nannies, their children would pay attention in 3rd grade!
+1
LucasRognholt (6) 12/29/08 7:53 AM
if its a trick then show us a vid where it doent work and how come trust me it works look up nickoli tesla if you dont believe this then he will blow your mind.
+5
merlin848 (4) 9/21/08 7:36 PM
pretty cool. could you build this on a large scale?
+4
Joemeli (3) 2/11/09 1:04 PM
upscale and turn it intro a marketable product.
+5
paskal007r (4) 10/10/08 6:10 AM
did any of those who say it just won't work did realize one of these generators to show it fails?
If answer is no, please, stick to science paradigm and avoid the void repetition of common places (third law of thermo-dynamics cannot be prooven, only his false-hood could and this generator, if working actually IS a falseness proof enough).
If answer is no, please give us proof just like the author of this video did.
Thanks
+4
AngryBabyMonkey (-1) 10/12/08 3:55 PM
the answer. That is what this video shows us.
+4
chookiechook (3) 10/15/08 1:45 PM
I like it! NEAT!
+3
Fleetwood08 (3) 10/16/08 11:41 AM
very cool
+4
Nextraker (3) 10/16/08 1:49 PM
Thats what I call free energy
+1
paceti 10/21/08 5:16 AM
I think it is great but I feel that we should avoid using the word "perpetual" when naming something that is not actually perpetual. Maybe "magnetic energy device" would be better.
It is great though, keep up the free thinking, it pushes all of us to do the same.,
+3
sterlingda (2) 10/25/08 9:23 PM
Could you give more info on the magnets used? size, strength, source, polarity orientation. Thanks. sterlingda at pureenergysystems.com
+3
mints (1) 11/5/08 4:53 AM
this is awesome
+2
haffenden1 (1) 11/16/08 11:39 AM
Wow, energy crisis solved......with cream cheese and magnets. : )
-4
billyant (-4) 11/28/08 10:16 AM
newbie says: why not patent it?

...cause its powered by a motor and not "perpetual"
+3
Sir Lunch a Lot (2) 11/29/08 8:17 AM
How long will it runs untill the demagnetize begins?
+3
dixieoutlaw4x4 (3) 12/15/08 1:17 PM
magnet fields last for arround 400 years
+4
madbull (4) 12/1/08 12:55 PM
if this gadget worked as shown, we had found the perpetual motion solution, and made in greater scale, we had magnetic propelled cars
+3
madbull (4) 12/3/08 7:16 AM
may I contact the person who made the video of the perpetual generator, to check the whole thing, because the cuality of the video deserve a chat.
+4
gz7mks (3) 12/8/08 8:36 AM
i saw this video and though i was skeptical i built my own version...well, i didn't work...it would make a great "wheel of fortune"....i tried using several "kick" magnet (off wheel)for more of a "sweeping effect" but no luck....i'm still going to tinker with it because i hate it when something i build doesn't work...there is no way the one in the video could work from my experience with that design.....oh, well.....happy,happy.
+2
dixieoutlaw4x4 (3) 12/15/08 1:16 PM
i thought of this idea a while back being used with a wind generator w/o using wind and using magnets, and havent got to test it yet. would you get a greater result by fixing the 12 magnets at a 45 degree angle?
-1
cyberpageman 12/16/08 11:35 AM
This is a complete scam. Holding a permanent magnet next to a bunch of other permanent magnets on a wheel isn't going to turn anything. The guy wired the DC motor with a hidden battery to turn the wheel and light the LED.
+2
Siempre Solo (-15) 12/25/08 11:52 AM
lots of comments both pro and con. all i can say is that there is definately an interest in the potential of what you've demonstrated.Nice place to start. I hope others will build on it.
+2
niq (1) 12/28/08 6:52 PM
How powerful is the motor used?
+1
LucasRognholt (6) 12/29/08 7:48 AM
Awsome it does work I tried it years ago for a sicence fair in school and won first prize cyberpageman must work for the oil company lol great info thanks for the awsome vid you should do a genarator using electrolsis and water for power it works too.
-2
parichya (-2) 1/14/09 11:45 PM
awesome....

but i've already done it...!!!!
+1
alester333 1/15/09 11:54 AM
Hey wouldnt u get more energy if you put thin coils of copper wire as close as possible to the wheel (like a generator)? Also you dont really need the motor just an axle for the wheel to turn.

Hey everybody is this array just a perpetual motor?

Really IS IT?
+1
alester333 1/15/09 11:59 AM
ADDITION TO THE PREVIOUS COMMENT:

Seems to me like a magnetic motor

http://peswiki.com/energy/Directory:Magnet_Motors
+2
enloopious (1) 1/28/09 3:00 PM
This is not perpetual motion. Perpetual motion involves a generator that creates more power than it makes and uses the excess to power itself. This motor uses permanent magnets for power, NOT its own energy.
+1
beta-h (-3) 1/30/09 10:15 AM
very cool A+ for sure
+1
toronto83 1/31/09 1:40 AM
awesome stuff , a house + magnetic motor = net metering , why hasn't anyone started to market this in North America ???
+1
Drakeknight6 9/26/09 4:44 PM
Because its fake
+1
venom20078 (-1) 2/1/09 7:54 AM
THIS COULD POSSIBLY WORK
+1
Drakeknight6 9/26/09 4:45 PM
No it couldnt think of it like this its just an engine conected to an engine how could that possibly work?
-1
mearthling 2/6/09 12:56 PM
INGENIUS
+2
Jokum (1) 2/15/09 5:48 PM
paceti - you are correct. It's actually called a 'magnetic motor' - simply.

AntiAntagonist - you are correct; NOT perpetual - the magnets will eventually degauss. However, you should rethink your comments regarding power supply (as the model can be up-scaled).

dixieoutlaw4x4 - 400 years is not accurate (as the magnets are in motion - also, don't forget the friction/vibration).
-1
macrumpton (-9) 2/17/09 8:11 PM
You forgot to show the rotating magnet under the table.
-1
honey-eyed (-1) 2/27/09 11:08 AM
heeeeeeeey It didnt open for me!!!!!!!1

what should I do?
+1
Dedalas 2/27/09 5:32 PM
If it ran on electro-magnets it powered itself and still produced excess energy, even if it was a nano-volt, I would be impressed.
+3
Phasespace (2) 2/28/09 3:47 PM
There's no way this thing would work... a closed loop line integral of the force in a magnetic field is zero thus making this "perpetual" energy motor nonsense. So either this is a hoax or something else (still not perpetual) is driving the motor.
+1
Drakeknight6 9/26/09 4:47 PM
im guessing a pulsing magnet under the table or wires ran up the matchs probably the pulsing magnet under the table though
+2
cowboy39h (1) 3/3/09 1:16 AM
Looks like to me there is a hole in the table under the matchstick under the motor..anyone notice the sawdust?
+1
ryannh9 3/7/09 4:05 PM
You're doing work by moving the magnet that's in your hand. I'm sure you know that if you leave that magnet stationary, the generator will stop. Shame on you for being misleading.
+1
spunglerod 3/11/09 8:51 AM
Fantastic! Imagine the look on the faces of all those scientists with their big expensive laboratories and research grants when they see this.
I bet they will regret all the money they have spent on useless nuclear fusion research. If only they had a plastic lid and some magnets lying around when they started the Manhattan project! Imagine what a different world it would be now.
+2
kramerr (1) 3/17/09 11:25 PM
This is a hoax. Some clever edditing has allowed a battery to be hidden somewhere. A constant magnetic field is not a source of energy. The law of conservation of energy prevents a wheel from accelerating and a light from glowing without an input of energy. This video plays on the general lack of understanding of magnetic fields to defraud people.
-1
here2learn 3/23/09 7:32 PM
way to solve the energy crisi man ! :D
-1
timmy99 3/26/09 1:12 PM
he is a magnet seller duh lol
-1
brunbark (-1) 4/12/09 2:42 AM
The set-up works as long as the handheld magnet is moved now and then to allow for the magnets to have proper repulsion and or attraction. Question is: Is the energy required to move the magnet by hand less than the produced rotational energy? If so, then you have the answer to the world's energy problem.
+2
tfrost1980 (3) 4/15/09 12:06 PM
Even though perpetual motion is a fantasy this is still pretty cool.
-1
keeperbay (-1) 4/15/09 5:58 PM
I LOVE this video. Thank you.
-1
hitkan (-1) 4/18/09 6:31 PM
This is amazing. Imagine what has stayed hidden from humans free energy that is available for free.. thanks for the video.
-1
zenosonik (-1) 4/23/09 3:51 AM
Magnets (namely neodymium, aka rare earth) are estimated to last approximately 300 years or better.. This is proven,albeit suppressed technology... Nice Job MAN!
+3
FireFlame (2) 5/1/09 11:26 AM
I built the darn thing and followed the exact instructions. It doesn't work at all. The video is a garbage.
-2
Pie Crazy (-2) 7/18/09 1:39 PM
ma ke sure your magnets on the lid arn't pulling on each other
-2
seattled (1) 5/6/09 10:28 PM
i guess Da Vinci would be very proud of you....
-2
Anthonyk312 (-6) 5/24/09 7:38 PM
it's technicaly not free energy unless a fuel was not used. believe it or not magnets are a fuel. you need energy to magnetize them in the first place. magnets are more like storage capsules for electromagnetic energy. how did you think electromagnets worked.
-1
jimbrite (-1) 6/2/09 11:07 AM
Anthonyk312 so how much energy doe's it take to make a magnet.
-2
Anthonyk312 (-6) 6/24/09 8:02 PM
it matters how strong the magnet is
+1
forgetz_alot (-2) 5/27/09 12:47 PM
nice
+2
Diecast_Messiah (1) 6/10/09 7:31 AM
Yeah as soon as a friend told me to watch this for a chat... i knew it doesn't work... there is noooooo way... and i see a lot of people that think it is... have to even gone to school? I have try of different ideas to get 2 motors like the ones in this video to move a toy car... thinking i could give it a push and one motor would power the other and just keep going.... nope doesn't read up on thermo-dynamics and you'll see why my idea didn't work and why this video is full of it
+1
slayernguyen (3) 6/19/09 8:30 PM
AWESOME!!! Thats a really cool trick you did, i think it really works! Maybe i can power my console or something with a really BIGGER version of that LOL
+2
KingRico94 (3) 7/1/09 3:59 PM
I tried that, but it's really not as easy as this video makes it out to be. You must angle the magnets just so, or the magnet's opposite pole will attract the drive magnet( the car track magnet). I tried this for a science project this previous year, and very nearly didn't complete a project at all; it's catastrophic failure forced me to switch topics entirely. I was extremely dissapointed with the way my version worked- or rather, failed to work. Perhaps I did it wrong; if so, I invite all who read this to correct me. Until then, it looks to me as though this video has been labeled a 'faux-to' for good reason.
-1
master83674684 (-1) 7/4/09 1:04 PM
i wouldn't recommend those normal magnets,what i would try using are lodestones.
-1
Nerdking13 (-3) 7/5/09 7:23 AM
I've tested this and it works.
-1
warismyshepard (-1) 7/13/09 12:44 PM
good trick, now if you can scale it up to put out 10 megawatts a day forever we can replace 1 coal power plant.
+1
leyland_potluri (-3) 7/15/09 4:17 AM
this is BULL #$%@. his explination is horse #$%@.

put his face under some cool #$%@... this dude is magent seller in EBAY and Amazon.
-1
apexial (-1) 8/3/09 1:38 PM
For those who doubt read page 25 first
http://www.free-energy.110mb.com/Chapter1.pdf
+3
btm0x (2) 8/13/09 8:48 AM
*SIGH* I was not a doubter (indeed, I am a biology teacher) and as my physics is not too hot and since I thought it would be a great demonstration in class, I went out and bought a wide selection of magnets and motors of various sizes to test this out.

FAIL ! All that happens is as people have said previously, the magnets rock a little back and fourth then they stop. Even if you spin the mechanism to give it power, it stops very quickly. I repeated this using different strength magnets and various motors and nothing happened.

I would love it to have worked and am pleased I tested it myself, rather than just nay saying... another video would be great, or start selling the set up (with a guarantee) as I want to join the celebration, but otherwise... I'm out !
+1
murphjos 8/14/09 9:04 PM
This would not work if the magnet was fixed in place rather than hand held, subtle, constant corrections of the proximity of magnets to one an other is required to keep this moving. You are converting muscular excretion to electricity. This is no big trick, I suspect a generator on a stationary bike would produce a better ratio of expended calories to watts generated. Wendy’s handed out a toy with kids meals a few months ago that was essentially the same device; It was a toy monkey (Captain Huggy Face to be exact) with a round bottom that allowed it to spin like a top and a toy remote control. Each contained a small fixed magnet. If you place Captain Huggy Face on a table and hold the remote near by, he spins in place. If you put the remote on table, nothing happens or they stick together. It is the subtle corrections made by your eye-brain-hand that keep the two parts of toy consistently the same distance apart which in turn keeps the monkey spinning.
+1
geyraimma_pola (1) 8/19/09 3:34 AM
wow
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flashbaztard 8/28/09 9:56 AM
this is not right
leave all the motor and light out and just try to get the magnets to rotate first [as i have tried]
yes you get a 'kick from the first magnet [say + to + but then when its passed the + side, the - side atracts to the + which stops it] all makes sense when you try it!
i tried with a bike wheel and big magnets
there is a site on the web under free energy that deals with all stuff like this and none of them work!
-1
reddevved (-1) 8/28/09 10:32 AM
make a giant backpack tazer version and then i'll go try it
+2
dim witt (1) 8/30/09 8:48 PM
I did this over 20 years ago and it did not work, (flashbaztard) stated why it does not work, If you could shield the magnet to stop the attraction on one side and then use the repel side it would work, but alas, nothing will shield the magnet. It passes through everything. I also tried to focus the magnetic force sort of llike a lense is used to focus light, but it does not work either.
+2
PhoenixCode (1) 9/18/09 3:58 PM
you can get a decent shielding for one side of the magnet from old computer hard drives, they have stuper strong magnets which actually allready have a shielding on 1 side (generally theres 2 magnets witht he shielding in every hard drive).

many computer places will jsut throw out the old/broken down/ un repairable hard drives, so u can get it for free and give ti a try
+1
WonderDude Mike (60) 8/31/09 4:34 PM
This is great until the poles shift !
+1
mysticwolf 9/1/09 7:43 PM
He simply has the motor connected to a power supply under the table. Not even a credible scam.
+1
rtyuon 9/9/09 8:38 PM
Fake!! This is the classic under the table trick I’ve done it doesn’t work and this kid is collecting money from watching his video
+1
RChadwick 9/10/09 8:36 AM
Scam. The motor was powered somehow from below. I was attracted to watch this video specifically because of the claim it was ALMOST PR. It's obvious it's nowhere close to 'Almost'. Scam. Fraud. BS. Hey, you MIGHT have had a better chance of snagging more believers if you didn't throw so much voltage into it. Then again, it could be done with magnets under the table. Either way, you should have made it spin 30RPM or something.
+1
RChadwick 9/10/09 8:37 AM
Oops, PR should have been PM, Perpetual Motion.
+1
Zipity (1) 9/12/09 2:44 PM
That's so cool!
lol cream cheese lid and some magnets, who would have thought.
+1
costa200 9/13/09 3:31 AM
I can't believe some guys in here actually believed this... Ain't it painfully obvious the wheel is being powered by the motor and not the other way around?
+1
dids223 9/22/09 4:06 PM
It is possible for this too work!! so please stop saying its fake, when it will work. I've had one magnet spin with 3 outer magnets, so I know its possible! good work on your video!!
-1
greg2fs (-1) 9/24/09 3:53 AM
It's absolutely NOT possible, else nobody would build nuclear central when we could have free energy at home, perpetual movement doesn't exist and will never exist, we cannot create energy, just transform something in something else, magnets are not energy storage. If it has no electic power source used in this video the nearest magnet would go to the nearest point from the handled magnet and just stay here.

Sorry but it's 100% fake. Here we have a stupid coments generator !
-1
How_to_be_awesome (-1) 10/14/09 9:49 AM
Do your research. MANY people have already built one. China is replacing their nuclear power plants with massive versions of this generator and 10Kw versions will be in people's homes soon. It's not perpetual motion, but it is free energy.
+1
dustin583 9/25/09 3:39 PM
Even if it's not rigged, the magnet will eventually become de-magnitized. This claim is that the magnet is the fuel, magnets require high heat to produce, thus making them an expensive fuel.
+1
Grapestain 10/2/09 7:22 AM
This is a FAKE. The magnets coming closer gives the same force as the ones going away. No real force is generated. It was made by a fake wiring or a big electromagnet under the table.
+2
comklene (1) 10/7/09 12:22 PM
u r compleatley correct.
there is no such thing as perpetual motion.
u can't create anything from nothing.
It is FAKE!!!
+2
How_to_be_awesome (-1) 10/14/09 10:11 AM
The Universe is pretty damn perpetual. Where did that come from? Besides, the magnet is not actual creating anything, it's taking energy from it's environment and you can magnetize iron in a fraction of a second and it will stay that way for hundreds of years.
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How_to_be_awesome (-1) 10/14/09 10:04 AM
China is replacing nuclear power plants with giant versions of these, and small ones will be in peoples homes soon. A guy in Australia will be selling them soon and you can get the plans and build one yourself for about 100 bucks. Many people have built machines like this that create clean free energy, but whenever they try to make it public, they get threatened, and some just disappear or wind up dead. We need to stand up for this technology.
+1
amanbansil 10/24/09 12:21 PM
Some other poster just mentioned this...you people need to look at this: http://www.free-energy.110mb.com/Chapter1.pdf (page 25)
+1
dgriff 10/26/09 5:53 AM
If anyone knows the answer, please post here: http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/13/will-two-magnets-moving-continually-past-each-other-eventually-wear-out
+1
rikel 11/7/09 5:27 PM
Thats pretty cool, come to think of it i wonder if you can upscale it using lets say a fan motor.
+1
justaposter 11/9/09 9:36 PM
You people are amusing. From "China is mass producing them but big corporate bullies are keeping them down" (with no source mind you) to "I built one years ago" (and yet didn't sell it despite the obvious fortune) this belief in perpetual motion is comical yet encouraging. This is a trick as the magnet would function more as a brake than anything else. The only way to possibly do this would be to move the handheld magnet to and from the wheel. Even then the proportional increase to make this a viable energy source is astronomical to an unrealistic degree. Don't stop dreaming though because, who knows, maybe one day you'll defy the Laws of Physics and the world will be a wonderful place.
-1
tedster (-2) 11/15/09 5:06 AM
No such thing as a perpetual energy machine. All machines lose energy over time through heat and friction. Take any basic physics class.
-1
HartKat (1) 11/22/09 7:26 PM
Pretty awesome.:D
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