If you are a physicist you will have no difficulty understanding the following reasoning. If you are not a physicist then run this past your Physics Professor.

Take a standard bar magnet. Surrounding this is a magnetic field where we know that a magnetic field stores energy. At any point in the field the energy volume-density is related to the square of the field intensity, thus if we use B (Tesla) for the field intensity the energy volume-density is given by 0.5*B^2/munought (Joules per cubic meter). Integrating that density over all space yields the total energy (Joules) stored in the field.

Now wind a solenoidal coil around the magnet and energize it so as to increase the field. At any point in space the field has increased from a value B to a value B+deltaB. The new energy density is 0.5*(B+deltaB)^2/munought. We can expand the squared term, then volume integrate each term to get the new total energy as the sum of three terms;

(a) integral(0.5*B^2/munought) which is the original energy
(b) integral(0.5*deltaB^2/munought) which is the energy supplied by the electrical source energizing the coil
(c) integral(B*deltaB/munought) which is excess energy obtained from where? Note that this energy can be many times more than the energy (b) that we supplied.

The answer as to from where this excess energy comes is answered if we replace the permanent magnet by an electromagnet. It is found that, when we energize our coil, the change of flux through the electromagnet creates a voltage demand on its current source thus extracting energy from there, and this exactly accounts for the apparent excess. Thus by analogy , in the permanent magnet experiment the excess energy comes from the equivalent circulating current sources responsible for the permanent magnet field, electron spins.

We can take this reasoning further and imagine the permanent magnet to consist of an array of electrically charged spheres, each sphere is spinning at constant speed driven by its own motor and all the spin axes are parallel. Under static conditions there is no power drawn from the motors (we are ignoring friction which is not part of this argument). However when we energize our coil its circulating current creates a circular vector magnetic potential (A) field within the magnet volume. At switch-on the rising current produces a circular A field whose magnitude is increasing, and this in turn via E=-dA/dt creates a circular electric (E) field. This circular E field places forces on the electric surface-charge on each sphere so as to introduce a drag torque, it tries to slow the spins. In order to keep the spin rates constant the motors driving the spheres have to supply power during this switch-on phase. When we perform the calculations analyzing this imagined set-up, we find that the energy supplied by the motors exactly accounts for the excess energy stored in the field.

It is no coincidence that our imagined array of spinning spheres and the permanent magnet's array of spinning electrons obtain the same behavior. When we energize our coil the changing field in the magnet tries to "slow down" the electron spins. That it cannot do so is down to quantum rules and behavior, each electron spin is "driven" by quantum forces, in effect driven by a quantum motor. Magnetic Power Inc. have coined the term Quantum Dynamo™ to describe this behavior. Our excess energy comes from those quantum dynamos.

As I said at the beginning, getting energy from the vacuum is easy, for a small expenditure of energy into a coil we have the ability to conjure up a large quantity of magnetic energy from the quantum vacuum. The challenge facing scientists is to find a way to prevent Nature from clawing back that energy over a full cycle of operation.

Cyril Smith
Magnetic Power Inc.
magneticpower@gmail.com