Something incredibly important...

[wolfwings]

...how does an electric motor that uses a nearly-flat fifth of the power of a current-day electric motor with no loss of torque or horsepower sound, under the control of someone with a sense of old-fashioned, stereotyped Japanese family honour, instead of raw profit? Pretty damn good.

I think this is something you'd like, arian_maral.

I think it's something almost anyone would have a hard time understanding, unless you realize that the motors work so well because they're using the usually "thrown away" magnetic radiation of a motor as a way of helping power-assist the motor. Akin to how an LED produces light without wasting massive amounts of energy on heat, these motors do the same, focussing the power purely towards motive force.

So purely, in fact, they appear to be "over unity" until you look closer and understand how they harness the magnetic forces of permenant magnets instead of wasting them like oil in a total-loss oil engine, as most electric motors do with their magnetic fields.

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Holy crap!

[aerowolf.livejournal.com]

He figured out a way to do the magnetic thought-experiment that I did when I was in junior high and high school!

(I was trying to design a perpetual motion device, but I didn't take it to the next level and figure out just how it /could/ work if some external energy was applied -- in this case, by alternating the current to the electromagnetic stators.)

but it makes sense. :)

Yeah, the trick is... it's not perpetual motion.

[wolfwings.livejournal.com]

Well, not quite. The magnets still require a minor input, but the device doesn't break any known laws of physics because it has a 'built in' power source. The permenant magnets embedded in the chassis at specific angles to make sure the magnetic fields are shaped just right, as I understand it. =^.^=

But yeah, it's very, very nifty. And very much a brain-fuck for beginning physics majors. :-)