This could well be an April fools joke, but I think it might not be. It
offers a different insight on how Searls self-rotating magnetic bearings
worked. I have cleaned it up a bit.
It is strangely connected to an earlier post about cooling magnets to
produce a higher magnetic flux density. Perhaps that is what triggered
the comment from the person who read it in the archives or on the list.
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The rotation of Searl Bearings are due to a pyro-magnetic effect
demonstrated by heating the regressive side of the magnetized cylinder
with any heat source i.e., propane torch or induced eddies currents from
a strong magnetic field.
The bearing will roll towards the cooler, thus more highly magnetized
direction. I have demonstrated this effect in countless Searl bearing
experiments. Searl bearings simply roll toward the coolest side and in
effect derive power from atmospheric convection.
The problem being that the bearings are too expensive to manufacture.
Using convective currents to power the Searl Effect Generator is very
poor.
Far superior operation of the device can be had when constructed with a
Faraday Dynamo plenum chamber that is forced into oscillation by
convective currents passing by jet holes on the periphery.
This effect causes alternate implosions in the plenum chamber which
produces more and more heat as the plenum oscillates against an
electromagnet. This oscillation induces an even stronger up draft until
a very large self-sustaining convective current forms around the device.
Potential power output of these implosive oscillators is astronomical
and far cheaper then the Searl disc to construct.
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This sounds very close to the description by David Hamel of his original
drum experiment, where he had many magnets, suspended on their own
fields but allowed to spin because they were supported also on needle
type bearings.
When the magnets were spun, the unit was sealed, hours later, an
enormous amount of energy built up, causing the unit to implode once it
reached a critical velocity. This is what led Hamel to develop his disk
version. Then later the idea of governing the rotation so that the
device could be used as a self-running power source. So I think this
fellow is presenting some great and highly novel information here.
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