Been going over some old papers here and doing a little brainstorming. Have
you heard of a now deceased physicist named Leon Dragone? This guy drafted
a paper on a magnetic energy process just before he died. Very interesting
and it may shed some light on the work of researchers such as Newman, Gary,
Adams, Johnson, etc.
One of the big problems (for me, at least) in working with claims of
overunity operation of a particular device is in accounting for the source
of the energy supplying the work. A case in point here is Wesley Gary's
little self-acting machines, where does the energy come from to drive them?
Is there some exotic 'zero point', as yet untapped, energy source? It is
possible of course, but it does not solve our immediate problem. If we look
for our answer to this 'energy crisis' within the known framework of
physics, what do we see? Heat becomes the only present reasonable candidate
for the source of work in a self-acting system. A device that can transform
ambient heat energy into useful work can achieve overunity operation.
Leon Dragone outlines the very simple nature of his electrical 'heat pump'
effect. His system consists of nothing more than a coil, a magnet, a power
supply, and a switch. He places a permanent magnet within a copper coil and
energizes the coil so that the external field of the magnet is
removed/compressed from the space around the magnet, without changing the
polarity domains within the magnet itself. He then employs an arc switch
(simple contacts) to quickly disconnect the power supply from the coil, and
leaves the coil open circuit. Suddenly the field of the permanent magnet is
free to expand back out to its 'normal' geometry around the magnet. But the
process of expanding this field requires work. The coil is open circuit, so
the energy can not be drawn from current in the coil. The field must
reinstate itself. Energy is drawn from the vibrating molecular domains
within the magnet, causing a measured drop in temperature of the magnet.
Essentially, ambient heat is transformed into work to reinstate the field.
Any inductive load applied while the field is expanding/relaxing is driven
by extraction of ambient heat energy from the surrounding enviroment.
Dragone claims to have measured experimental system energy gains on the
order of 20:1, using this approach.
It may well be that this simple principle is at work within Gary's devices.
In the instance of the oscillating beam system (fig. 3, Harpers article),
the armature remains on the neutral line, and therefore unpolarized, until
the pivoting magnet is raised close to it. The attractive force between the
pivot magnet and the armature then pulls the armature over the neutral
line. The field of the armature expands as it assumes its polarized state.
This requires work. On expanding, the armature field interacts with the
pivot magnet field, applying a force to the pivot magnet, which also
requires work. Could it be that this work is supplied by ambient heat
conversion as outlined by Dragone? Is it possible that Gary's self-acting
machines experienced a temperature drop on the armature, or magnet, or
both, as a result of this conversion process? The power requirements for
Gary's no-load self-acting demonstrations would have been very small,
suggesting that minute temperature drops in the system would only be
required to drive the system.
This approach would appear to open up interesting applications, and of
course may go a long way in explaining claimed overunity operation in
various magnetic systems. Comments?
Regards, Bill.