Re: Minato device is much like the Hamel Spinner?
Marcelo Puhl ( (no email) )
Thu, 28 May 1998 13:57:56 -3
>
> G'day Jerry and all.
>
> I'm sorry I cant shed any light on your main question but I would like to make
> a comment on this business of hand holding a manet to induce spin rather than
> as you suggest to mount it on a bracket.
>
> I recall in the infopac I bought on the Johnson Magnet Motor a similar setup
> was described. There Johnson demonstrated to a visiting journalist a number
> of magnets on the circumference of a turntable which would rotate if another
> magnet was held in the centre.
>
> I believed at the time that it worked but after thinking about it realised
> that if it were that simple, all Johnson would have had to do was to mount it
> permanently on a bracket and he would have had a perpetual motion machine.
> Obviously he didn't do this, otherwise we would have all heard of it years
> ago.
>
And what if we mount the magnet on a rotating bracket ?
What will be the energy necessary to rotate this magnet and what will be the
energy we could recover from the rotating turntable ?
> I came to the conclusion that in holding the heavy magnet in the fields of the
> other magnets the slight movement of the handheld one was adding the extra
> work sufficient to make it appear a pmm. It's starting to look like Minato's
> device is in the same category. I would love to be wrong about this!
The same question about the Hammel Spinner : what is the energy necessary to
sustain the spinner motion and what will we the recoverable energy ?
---Marcelo Puhlmark@plug-in.com.br