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Videos on the internet have stimulated a flurry of interest in magnetic motors that may be made to self-run, without any obvious outside source of input energy. A couple of them apparently worked well enough to be on the way to production. While skeptics abound (and without independent laboratory confirmation, have excellent reason to be skeptical) these devices may open a door to wider appreciation of an extremely important potential for rapidly reducing our dependency on fossil fuels.
Magnetic machines that self-run are not, as is widely believed, perpetual motion machines. They are certainly converting some previously unutilized form of energy.
One possible candidate is Zero Point Energy, ZPE. However, most scientists familiar with the Zero Point Field, believe that conversion of ZPE is unlikely to prove practical. As magnetic conversion technologies move toward the marketplace, a discussion as to the source of the energy is inevitable. It may go on for a very long time. If practical, safe, cost-effective, power can be produced by such inventions, definitive answers to that question can await the conclusion of that dialogue.
A book that challenges conventional belief: Zero Point Energy - The Fuel of the Future, by Thomas Valone, provides extensive scientific input and can readily be understood by the lay reader.
Physical Review and other refereed journals have published numerous articles suggesting ZPE might be utilized for power and propulsion. In the March 1st, 2004 issue, the magazine Aviation Week and Space Technology, summarized programs underway in the UK and the USA, in search of the latter. The first U.S. Patent issued claiming ZPE might be converted and used as a source of energy was inspired by the late Robert Forward, then a physicist at Hughes Aircraft. He had discussed, in a pioneering paper appearing in Physical Review B in 1984, how ZPE might become a source of electricity.
Dr. Frank Mead of the United States Air Force Office of Advanced Concepts and Jack Nachamkin, an Electrical Engineer working with him (who had the idea) were awarded U.S. Patent #5,590,031, in December of 1996. Suggested by Dr. Forward, the invention has not proven possible to construct.
Several U.S. Patents have been issued to Dr. Fabrizio Pinto, a physicist, formerly with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (administered by the California Institute of Technology). Dr. Pinto is now CEO of his own firm and is developing breakthrough technology based on ZPE conversion of the Casimir Force. There are medical, computer and energy applications referenced in his Patents.
A U.S. Patent entitled: QUANTUM VACUUM ENERGY EXTRACTION was issued to Bernard Haisch and Garret Moddel, May 27, 2008. The Abstract begins: A system is disclosed for converting energy from the electromagnetic quantum vacuum available at any point in the universe to usable energy in the form of heat, electricity, mechanical energy or other forms of power. It ends with this sentence: The disclosed devices are scalable in size and energy output for applications ranging from replacements for small batteries to power plant sized generators of electricity.
Noberto R Keppe, in his book: The New Physics – states that the particles contained within the nucleus of an atom move at a speed of about 43,500 miles per second. He states that de Broglie, Bohm and Vigler all thought that at absolute zero (0 Kelvin = -459.67 degrees F) each cubic centimeter anywhere in the universe contains 1027 Joules of energy. He points out that this is the equivalent of the energy contained in 10 million tons of coal!
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Two remarkable inventions, the "Magnetstromapparat" and the "Stromerzeuger," were developed in Germany by Hans Coler. A number of scientists witnessed several demonstrations. They all reported the devices apparently worked and that they could detect no fraud. In 1925 Hans Coler offered a 10 watt version of the first device to Professor Kloss of Berlin. The following year, Dr. Kloss reported to the German government that: "The result of the investigation showed an astonishing working of the apparatus, which without further research cannot be explained or compared with the hitherto known characteristics." Another professor, Dr. R. Franke, Technical College of Berlin, also witnessed and corroborated these tests.
During 1932, Coler and von Unrah produced a larger model with an output of 70 watts. After getting financial support from various investors, Coler built a larger version in 1937. It reportedly generated an output of six kilowatts. During War World II, other scientists and engineers looked into the reality of this electro-magnetic phenomenon. Professor W.O. Schumann (who later discovered the peaks in the ELF portion of the Earth’s electromagnetic field spectrum, known as the Schumann resonance) examined the apparatus in 1926. He concluded, "After the present examination, carried through as carefully as the limited possibilities of experimentation permitted, I must surmise that we have to face the exploitation of a new source energy whose further developments can be of an immense importance.“
Coler’s lab was destroyed by a bomb toward the end of WWII. He survived and cooperated with British Intelligence, which reproduced his early apparatus and published a Report. Although initially classified, parts of the Report were declassified in 1978. They are now on the web. During the construction and operation of the British project, the generator was completely open. Nothing could be hidden in it. The device and meter could be picked up and moved around the room, tilted, or turned, without effect. Coler stated that the strength of the magnets did not decrease during use and suggested that he was tapping a new source of energy. After their exhaustive interrogations and demonstrations, the British judged that Coler was an honest experimenter and not a fraud. His machines appear to have worked. A reproduction of the early Coler generator yielding very low power was constructed by an MPI engineer.
Claims concerning mechanical magnetic systems that tap some new form of energy have surfaced periodically since the work of Wesley Gary, a Pennsylvania inventor, received the first of two U.S. Patents in 1877. Harvard and MIT Professors visited and were evidently impressed. Harper’s Weekly described his work in an article published in 1879. That article can readily be found on the web.
The four wheeled automobile was invented in 1885. It will prove ironic if, as now seems likely, it should prove to be the case that human ignorance and scientific arrogance has been responsible for burning fuel to power vehicles.
Imagine how many lives might have been saved, how much cleaner the air would be and the reduction in the threat of climate change, had sufficient support to create magnetic, fuel-free, alternatives been provided, perhaps more than a century ago.
Exploring that subject in depth might suffice to start a perpetual commotion.
~ Mark Goldes
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