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Originally posted by Mary Rose
They’re not the same.
You noticed he put "for free" in quotes right?
Due to its “heat pump” type operation, the MEG becomes a NESS system, freely receiving excess energy from its second (environmental) energy reservoir that is furnished “for free” by the Aharonov-Bohm effect.
Right. If his contraption worked I might reconsider.
And there’s a lot of info about electromagnetism and Maxwell’s original equations, etc,. that Bearden provides and you don’t recognize as valid.
I don't know the exact date they changed their procedure, but if I had to guess I'd think it might have been sometime in the 1980s after they slipped in 1979 by issuing a patent for a perpetual motion machine to Howard R Johnson:
Are you saying that patent law has changed since 2002 when Bearden's patent was granted?
A perpetual motion machine is one which generates sufficient energy to continue operating, and does not require input of energy from an outside source. Thus it would go on operating perpetually. It means creating “Something out of nothing!”...
...only one patent has been granted for perpetual motion machine in 1979 to its inventor Howard R. Johnson who had claimed that his machine was self-powered which produced its own energy from ordinary magnets to keep its main wheel rotating.
The news of this patent caused a sensation throughout America....
after some time the bubble burst as it was bound to. American Patent Office acknowledged its blunder of having conferred the patent on the examination of blueprint only and regretted publicly. It also made a rule that the inventor must demonstrate a practical model of perpetual motion machine when applying for its patent. Howard Johnson had never made a model of that crucial wheel of permanent magnets. He tried later but failed condemned by fate to suffer ignominy for grandiose utterances.
I'm saying that Bearden has no working model of a perpetual motion machine/free energy device. I don't know if he submitted a model with his patent request or not, but since his patent doesn't appear to me to describe a perpetual motion machine, a model wouldn't have been required by the patent office. They only require working models for perpetual motion machines/free energy devices.
And are you saying that Bearden's patent documentation shows that there was no working model?
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
I think it was ingenious the way Bearden put "For Free" in quotes That let the patent examiner know it wasn't really for free, and it looks good to investors who don't know any better.
It is a first objective of the present invention to provide a magnetic generator which a need for an external power source during operation of the generator is eliminated.
It is a second objective of the present invention to provide a magnetic generator in which a magnetic flux path is changed without a need to overpower a magnetic field to change its direction.
It is a third objective of the present invention to provide a magnetic generator in which the generation of electricity is accomplished without moving parts.
It is shown that the principles of general relativity as developed by Sachs [1] can be used to explain the principles of the motionless electromagnetic generator (MEG), which takes electromagnetic energy from Riemannian curved space-time and in consequence outputs about twenty times more energy than inputted [2]. Therefore, it is shown in the most general manner that electromagnetic energy can be extracted from vacuum and used to power working devices such as the MEG, devices which are reproducible and repeatable. [2].
Key words: electromagnetic energy from curved spacetime; motionless electromagnetic generator.
Originally posted by Mary Rose
"Extracted from vacuum" is not the same as "harvesting ambient energy," correct?
Originally posted by Mary Rose
reply to post by buddhasystem
Since you find Mendel Sachs to be an interesting read, I'm curious to know what your comments might be about the following, from Bearden's document
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
. . . they slipped in 1979 by issuing a patent for a perpetual motion machine to Howard R Johnson:
www.herebeanswers.com...
And I can confirm the Howard Johnson patent.
Proposals for such inoperable machines have become so common that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has made an official policy of refusing to grant patents for perpetual motion machines without a working model. The USPTO Manual of Patent Examining Practice states:
" With the exception of cases involving perpetual motion, a model is not ordinarily required by the Office to demonstrate the operability of a device. If operability of a device is questioned, the applicant must establish it to the satisfaction of the examiner, but he or she may choose his or her own way of so doing.[13]"
And, further, that:
"A rejection [of a patent application] on the ground of lack of utility includes the more specific grounds of inoperativeness, involving perpetual motion. A rejection under 35 U.S.C. 101 for lack of utility should not be based on grounds that the invention is frivolous, fraudulent or against public policy.[14]"
The filing of a patent application is a clerical task, and the USPTO won't refuse filings for perpetual motion machines; the application will be filed and then most probably rejected by the patent examiner, after he has done a formal examination.[15] Even if a patent is granted, it doesn't mean that the invention actually works; it just means that the examiner thinks that it works, or that he couldn't figure out why it wouldn't work.
Originally posted by Mary Rose
reply to post by 547000
You're referring to the "sacred" of sacred geometry?
Originally posted by Mary Rose
"After some time" is vague. When did this acknowledgment take place? How does the patent office regret something publicly? I went to the patent office website but I don't know how to search for this.
. . . after some time the bubble burst as it was bound to. American Patent Office acknowledged its blunder of having conferred the patent on the examination of blueprint only and regretted publicly. . . . Howard Johnson had never made a model of that crucial wheel of permanent magnets. He tried later but failed condemned by fate to suffer ignominy for grandiose utterances.
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
But I can't confirm some of the other statements
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
Howard Johnson had never made a model of that crucial wheel of permanent magnets. He tried later but failed condemned by fate to suffer ignominy for grandiose utterances.
Twice to my personal knowledge he did successfully build a self-rotating permanent magnet machine, only to have it promptly stolen in professional break-ins to his laboratory. . . .
. . . According to Science & Mechanics, Johnson was and is directly connected with (and responsible for) more than 30 patents in significant chemistry and physics apparatuses and processes.
So it is the severe crippling of our standard electrical engineering . . . the classical EM model must be corrected and seriously updated to add back the asymmetrical Maxwellian systems presently arbitrarily discarded by Lorentz.
Johnson’s epochal work was a very long example of his struggle to build just such long-neglected asymmetrical magnetic systems, which – permissibly – would then freely self-rotate and power the loads, continually and freely “energized” by virtual state energy freely received from the seething vacuum.
Howard had found several effects (notably the exchange force effect discussed in Nobelist Feynman’s three volumes of sophomore physics) which could be evoked and, if evoked with sufficient controlled precision of timing and direction, each could break the symmetry of his magnetic propulsion gates and his rotating machines precisely so as to allow self-powering.
Sadly, the major problem that Howard had all those years was the lack of the very substantial funds necessary to afford high precision machining and cutting of his nonlinear magnets used to make asymmetric assemblies and to evoke the necessary asymmetric forces and pulses. So he personally cut his magnetic materials with a diamond saw himself, which meant that it was nearly impossible for him to attain the “couple thousandths of an inch” precision necessary for the exact timing and directional control of the desired “symmetry-breaking” effects to be evoked.
Nonetheless, he did succeed on at least two occasions. One of those successful self-rotating Johnson machines (in the 1970s) had his magnetic assemblies mounted on a crude “Lazy Susan” turntable. He brought the operating machine down to Huntsville for me to see and examine closely. And I personally played with that machine, with the stator magnet assembly rigidly C-clamped to the table, and the little turntable rotor and rotor magnet just went around and around, slowly but continuously for about two hours – continuously doing real, free work by physically displacing air and overcoming the friction resistance of the crude bearings.
On Howard’s return to Blacksburg, very shortly a break-in occurred at his lab, and the only thing taken from the several hundred thousand dollars worth of assemblies, magnets, etc. was his successful rotary prototype device.
Originally posted by Mary Rose
“In Memoriam”
We also point out that in physics there are more than 200 named effects in magnetics. And only about half of them are understood. The other half range from “poorly understood a little bit” to “totally not understood at all”. For many of these effects, I strongly suggest the latest edition of Cullity’s original 1972 book. The new edition is B. D. Cullity and C. D. Graham, Introduction to Magnetic Materials, Wiley-IEEE Press, 2nd Edition, 2007. Howard Johnson used the original 1972 Cullity book for decades, and introduced me to it decades ago. The Cullity book gives these effects in very clear and simple manner, so the new user can readily understand and use them.
One of the shops I worked in had equipment so old we used to joke that it must have come over on the Mayflower! And unless the bearings were shot (in which case we replaced the bearings) it had no problem holding plus or minus 1 thousandth of an inch. The customer allowed us a tolerance of plus or minus 2 thousandths and meeting that wasn't hard if you paid the least bit of attention to what you were doing.
Originally posted by buddhasystem
Mary, let's read into what you posted. The gentleman allegedly needed a "couple of thousands of an inch precision" in his machine. Let's look at the numbers.