reply to post by anumohi
We've already beat the preceding pages to death. Suffice it to say that the battery charging device does not have me convinced in terms of over-unity
effects. One of these days, when I have some money burning a hole in my pocket and have completed my home electronics workbench, I will look into the
device more properly, and will probably eat my shirt if it turns out to pass the practical test of "can I start with one battery and charge a hundred
batteries without any external power?"
Until then - I honestly don't put much merit in it.
Moving on, to the magnet issue.
Somehow, long ago, we got entropy and force confused. Magnetism is considered a force - but every permanent magnet is governed more by entropic
principles than by those of an applied force. A magnetic field seeks to lower the energy state of the system around it - to order it. The magnet and
ferrous metals will move toward the magnet. We could really dedicate a whole degree program to the mechanics of magnets and the principles of quantum
mechanics that govern them.
Anyway - the point is, once you have a piece of metal attached to a magnet, you must then put energy into the system to separate the magnet and the
metal - just as you have to put energy into an object you wish to separate from the Earth. A magnet simply doesn't have "energy" contained within it
in any standard sense. Yes, you can "de-magnetize" permanent magnets and draw energy out of them in that fashion, but that's hardly a consideration
in normal circumstances. Any energy a magnet appears to have must come from some other part of the environment. As such, it cannot be over-unity or
perpetual in any sense of either word.
edit on 23-8-2011 by Aim64C because: corrected an adjective
