Magnetic Motor Experiment

/Field Note

by Blake Harris

Over the last few weeks, Alan Sterling over at the PESWiki has been reporting on a new magnet motor experiment/demonstration. The inventor, who calls himself Mylow, originally loaded up a number of videos to YouTube detailing the construction of his motor which apparently was an effort to duplicate a magnetic motor originally built by Howard Johnson back in the 1970s. In 1979, Johnson managed to secure a US patent for a “Permanent Magnet Motor.”

Here’s a video of the working Mylow motor:

According to an article by Fred Burks on examiner.com, “a strange, intimidating man showed up in Mylow’s home the evening of April 2nd. He confiscated the motor. Yet strangely, this man returned later with the motor slightly damaged and warnings not to pursue this “toy.” (This report apparently originated from Mylow, who passed this information to Sterling (here’s his account)  and Sterling then relayed it to Burks.)

Mylow subsequently took all his videos off YouTube, but someone who had downloaded them sll put them up again. (http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=LRCan1&view=videos)

The whole subject of magnet motors is gaining more attention, it seems, in the free energy movement.

Here’s a picture of Howard Johnson with his magnet motor:

Howard Johnson examining one of his magnetic motors under construction. A candid shot taken during the filming of the Documentary Series ENERGY FROM THE VACUUM.

And here’s one explanation of how Johnson’s motor might actually work: : http://jnaudin.free.fr/html/johnmot.htm

In watching some of the video of Mylow constructing his motor, which reportedly ran without external energy for a number of hours, I caught a comment he made about having to re-magnetize one of the main magnets.
My initial thought in hearing this is that there could be an explanation for what is happening here which doesn’t necessarily relate to zero point energy. To magnetize a magnet, considerable electrical energy is usually used. So a rather simple, layman’s notion is that a magnet acts as a kind of energy storage device. Electrical energy through a generated magnetic field is in essence “charging up” a magnet with this energy. It, in turn, slowly discharges in the form of permanent magnetic attraction or repulsion.
The magnetic motor is in essence harnessing this energy, but the magnetism in the magnets is running down or draining away and so becomes weaker over time. Just a thought on my part.

Here’s Johnson’s patent, by the way:

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