Working perpetual motor - real or fake?

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZb05BaRmqU[/ame]

You decide

fake. but still cool to think about.

Center bearing support is the main hub/drive rotor out of your typical computer hard drive, brass weight rotor lined with magnets. Works off same principle as electric motors except instead of using commutator to reverse pole polarity of an armature it uses inertia to carry the rotor through fixed magnetic fields.

Theoretically, yes perpetual. In my mind when I think perpetual it needs to be powered by gravity or the earths rotation. Maybe a little pixie dust as well.

It will happen even if its not true. Andrea Rossi has proven the theory of cold fusion. If you want to be excited about some improbable theorem its Cold Fusion.

:rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl

My thoughts are that there is an air nozzle somewhere off-camera spinning it up.

Not perpetual. You can’t get something out of nothing and that will never change.

Even if the motor is turning and accelerating only by the other magnet acting on it there is still the outside force of the guys hand adjusting the placement of the outside magnet.

Well even if one did exist it would still need to be setup using force.

The point of such a motor in theory is that it’s self feeding and produces more energy than it requires.

At the point where he places it and it keeps accelerating is where the motion would in theory go on forever producing power…

A metal motor without some serious fins will not move from an out of sight compressor. Magnets below the table are a better theory.

The theory behind this is more simple than you guys are making it out to be. Like I said its similar to an electric motor but uses fixed opposite magnetic fields vs a commutator and uses momentum to carry through the fields vs switching poles.

Metal rotor, which must be non magnetic hence the brass, is lined with magnets with a specific pole facing outwards. “control rod” as I’ll call it has magnets of both poles. Leading magnet attracts the rotor, trailing repells. Leading magnet pulls rotor magnet towards it, momentum of heavy rotor carries the rotor through the field of repelling magnet where it pushes it away and start process over. It’s a balance of magnet power, rotor mass, and angle of control rod. Not a true perpetual motor as it doesn’t make power, but it would continue to run as long as fields and parts held out.