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Is perpetual energy possible?

The debate rages on. And they just keep trying.

This particular device may not be perpetual, but it is far more efficient than, say a homopolar motor.

The magnet in this device, the creation of our friend HowieD, propels the rotation, powering the LED.

Since magnetic energy is constant, an argument that it is perpetual seems ostensibly reasonable....that is until one considers that friction will inevitably kill the magnet.

Ok, ok... our minds are blown, too.

Build a cheap perpetual energy generator (FAUX-TO)
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+5
neilsuma 1 year ago
i like your stuff dude!!
+1
ryan 4 months ago
good
+4
deathminister 1 year ago
Pretty cool.
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Howie_D 1 year ago
Thanks for posting my vid on your channel! Cool to see it embedded. :)
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wibrle 1 year ago
Very cool A+
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greeenpro 1 year ago
no way!!! A+ easily
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AntiAntagonist 1 year ago
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 5 months ago
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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sintrinsic 3 months ago
"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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Chewkie 1 year ago
This is one of the neatest things I've seen
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sweetieA 1 year ago
Pretty cool. I like your videos!
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gname 1 year ago
I call Shennagins on this one!

Not a chance. Perhaps there is a pulsing magnet under the table.
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hemzki 8 months ago
i fink the magnets are repelling each other..... comensense realy
+4
shoemoker 1 year ago
Cool idea. I've wondered if this would work
+5
WorldCruisePirate 1 year ago
Have you done this on a larger scale?

I'd like to see it work on a 110 volt scale.
-7
mmwilhelm 1 year ago
If people paid more attention in 3rd grade science class, we wouldn't have so many people falling for tricks like this.
+10
WonderDude Mike 1 year ago
Maybe if parents didn't dump their kids onto nannies, their children would pay attention in 3rd grade!
+2
LucasRognholt 10 months ago
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 1 year ago
pretty cool. could you build this on a large scale?
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Joemeli 8 months ago
upscale and turn it intro a marketable product.
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paskal007r 1 year ago
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
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AngryBabyMonkey 1 year ago
the answer. That is what this video shows us.
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chookiechook 1 year ago
I like it! NEAT!
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Fleetwood08 1 year ago
very cool
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Nextraker 1 year ago
Thats what I call free energy
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paceti 1 year ago
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.,
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sterlingda 1 year ago
Could you give more info on the magnets used? size, strength, source, polarity orientation. Thanks. sterlingda at pureenergysystems.com
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mints 1 year ago
this is awesome
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haffenden1 11 months ago
Wow, energy crisis solved......with cream cheese and magnets. : )
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billyant 11 months ago
newbie says: why not patent it?
...cause its powered by a motor and not "perpetual"
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Sir Lunch a Lot 11 months ago
How long will it runs untill the demagnetize begins?
+3
dixieoutlaw4x4 10 months ago
magnet fields last for arround 400 years
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madbull 11 months ago
if this gadget worked as shown, we had found the perpetual motion solution, and made in greater scale, we had magnetic propelled cars
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madbull 11 months ago
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.
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gz7mks 11 months ago
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.
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dixieoutlaw4x4 10 months ago
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?
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cyberpageman 10 months ago
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.
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Siempre Solo 10 months ago
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.
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niq 10 months ago
How powerful is the motor used?
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LucasRognholt 10 months ago
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.
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parichya 9 months ago
awesome....
but i've already done it...!!!!
+1
alester333 9 months ago
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?
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alester333 9 months ago
ADDITION TO THE PREVIOUS COMMENT:

Seems to me like a magnetic motor
http://peswiki.com/energy/Directory:Magnet_Motors
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enloopious 9 months ago
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.
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beta-h 9 months ago
very cool A+ for sure
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toronto83 9 months ago
awesome stuff , a house + magnetic motor = net metering , why hasn't anyone started to market this in North America ???
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venom20078 9 months ago
THIS COULD POSSIBLY WORK
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mearthling 9 months ago
INGENIUS
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Jokum 8 months ago
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).
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macrumpton 8 months ago
You forgot to show the rotating magnet under the table.
+1
honey-eyed 8 months ago
heeeeeeeey It didnt open for me!!!!!!!1
what should I do?
+1
Dedalas 8 months ago
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.
+2
Phasespace 8 months ago
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
cowboy39h 8 months ago
Looks like to me there is a hole in the table under the matchstick under the motor..anyone notice the sawdust?
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ryannh9 8 months ago
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.
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spunglerod 8 months ago
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.
</sarcasm>
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kramerr 7 months ago
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.
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here2learn 7 months ago
way to solve the energy crisi man ! :D
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timmy99 7 months ago
he is a magnet seller duh lol
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brunbark 6 months ago
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.
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tfrost1980 6 months ago
Even though perpetual motion is a fantasy this is still pretty cool.
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keeperbay 6 months ago
I LOVE this video. Thank you.
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hitkan 6 months ago
This is amazing. Imagine what has stayed hidden from humans free energy that is available for free.. thanks for the video.
+1
zenosonik 6 months ago
Magnets (namely neodymium, aka rare earth) are estimated to last approximately 300 years or better.. This is proven,albeit suppressed technology... Nice Job MAN!
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FireFlame 6 months ago
I built the darn thing and followed the exact instructions. It doesn't work at all. The video is a garbage.
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Pie Crazy 3 months ago
ma ke sure your magnets on the lid arn't pulling on each other
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seattled 6 months ago
i guess Da Vinci would be very proud of you....
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Anthonyk312 5 months ago
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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jimbrite 5 months ago
Anthonyk312 so how much energy doe's it take to make a magnet.
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Anthonyk312 4 months ago
it matters how strong the magnet is
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forgetz_alot 5 months ago
nice
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Diecast_Messiah 5 months ago
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
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slayernguyen 4 months ago
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
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KingRico94 4 months ago
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.
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master83674684 4 months ago
i wouldn't recommend those normal magnets,what i would try using are lodestones.
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Nerdking13 4 months ago
I've tested this and it works.
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warismyshepard 3 months ago
good trick, now if you can scale it up to put out 10 megawatts a day forever we can replace 1 coal power plant.
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leyland_potluri 3 months ago
this is BULL #$%@. his explination is horse #$%@.
put his face under some cool #$%@... this dude is magent seller in EBAY and Amazon.
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apexial 3 months ago
For those who doubt read page 25 first
http://www.free-energy.110mb.com/Chapter1.pdf
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btm0x 2 months ago
*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 !
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murphjos 2 months ago
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.
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geyraimma_pola 2 months ago
wow
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flashbaztard 2 months ago
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!
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reddevved 2 months ago
make a giant backpack tazer version and then i'll go try it
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dim witt 2 months ago
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.
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WonderDude Mike 2 months ago
This is great until the poles shift !
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mysticwolf 2 months ago
He simply has the motor connected to a power supply under the table. Not even a credible scam.
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rtyuon last month
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
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RChadwick last month
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.
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RChadwick last month
Oops, PR should have been PM, Perpetual Motion.
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Zipity last month
That's so cool!
lol cream cheese lid and some magnets, who would have thought.
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costa200 last month
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?
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Natehelm last month
What is being called perpetual, it seems, needs better definition. This setup reminds me of playing with the sprayer in the sink, as long as the water is sprayed in one direction then the cyclone exelerates and continues. However, once I turn the water off the cyclone stops. With this setup, what is causing the "flow"? I know that a magnet will push or pull another magnet depending on which sides I put together. This force is obviously capable of move objects. In my view gravity seems to be very similar to magnetism. The force of the sun allows the earth, along with it's force, to move in an all but unchangeing course. Although solar systems are not perpetual, it sure could look that way, and while ours is moving I think we will be sure to make good use of it. No doubt he could get the wheel of magnets movein in one direction. Once it has started in one direction and the same force is used on the next rotating magnet is it impossible for the second magne to respond the same way as the first . If one rotating magnet can send a wheel moving in one direction because of the force created by magnetism, PLEASE someone tell me why the magnet in this guys hand will act so differantly on another magnet in nearly the exact same position?
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