Free Energy?

[narilyte]

Been seeing more and more stuff on "Magnetic Motors". That is, motors/engines/whatever you want to call them that has a central output shaft (not unlike a motor or engine, surprise surprise) that is continuously spun based on magnets continuously attracting/repelling each other with no outside energy input. It is, essentially, free energy. They

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[antivv0rd]

I'm not going to say no, but it's pretty close to impossible. You'd have to overcome friction from the bearings, air, and the electromagnetic forces from the generator. Besides, it would never be truly free energy... Even if the concept worked, you'd still have to provide the impulse to get the contraption spinning. Even this, however, would violate the law of conservation of energy, as you are getting more energy out of a system than you put in.

While the freely-editable nature of Wikipedia does not contribute any to credibility, the following article is fairly spot-on and at least points you in the right direction for further research. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_motion

[narilyte]

Friction isn't an issue really, especially if it's just bearings and air. Magnets can repel from one another with quite strong physical force. Easily enough to get a shaft spinning. I have just a couple of magnetic rocks that are strong enough to literally push each other apart through a 2" thick book.

If such a contraption as a magnetic motor/engine were to exist, the magnets are easily strong enough to spin a shaft, and you can in fact find plenty of videos of such phenomena on the net. The trick is creating a setup of many magnets in such a way that they are constantly in a state in which they are repelling from each other. That is the thing that I don't know if it's possible or not. I'm not all that hopeful, but I am intrigued by the idea. If it is possible, a shaft would always be turning by mechanical energy created from the magnets forcefully repelling each other, at least until the magnets lose their magnetism.