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A GENERATOR WITH HUGE ENERGY-SAVING POTENTIAL Heins recounts that the first time it happened, the magnets starting flying off and hitting the walls and he had to duck for State University, the University of Toronto and Queens University. Heins has also been raising money for his invention, approaching individuals such as former US Vice President Al Gore, Virgin Group founder Richard Branson, Tesla Motors chairman Elon Musk and Google's ReCharge IT project. Due to his commitment to the technology, Heins suffered a failed marriage, lost custody of his two children and has been unemployed. He believes his idea is a scientific breakthrough that deserves to be investigated. MIT's Zahn agrees. "To my mind this is unexpected and new, and it's worth exploring all the possible advantages once you're convinced it's a real effect," says Zahn. "There are an infinite number of induction machines in people's homes and everywhere around the world. If you could make them more efficient, cumulatively it could make a big difference." (Source: PhysOrg.com, from articles by Tyler Hamilton, Toronto Star, 4 February 2008, http://www.thestar.con/article/300042, http://www.thestar.conV/article/300041) cover. his invention, approaching individuals such The magnetic friction wasn't repelling as former US Vice President Al Gore, the magnets and wire coil. Instead, he | Virgin Group founder Richard Branson, explains, the steel rotor and driveshaft were Tesla Motors chairman Elon Musk and conducting the magnetic resistance away Google's ReCharge IT project. from the coil and back into the electric Due to his commitment to the technology, motor. In effect, the back-EMF was Heins suffered a failed marriage, lost boosting the magnetic fields used by the custody of his two children and has been motor to generate electrical energy and unemployed. He believes his idea is a cause acceleration. The faster the motor _ scientific breakthrough that deserves to be accelerated, the stronger the electromagnetic investigated. MIT's Zahn agrees. field created on the wire coil, which in turn "To my mind this is unexpected and new, made the motor go even faster. and it's worth exploring all the possible Heins seems to have created a positive advantages once you're convinced it's a real feedback loop. To confirm the theory, he _ effect," says Zahn. replaced part of the driveshaft with plastic "There are an infinite number of induction pipe that wouldn't conduct the magnetic machines in people's homes and everywhere field. There was no acceleration. around the world. If you could make them "What I can say with full confidence is _ more efficient, cumulatively it could make a that our system violates the law of _ big difference." conservation of energy," he says. (Source: PhysOrg.com, from articles by He calls his system "Perepiteia", which Tyler Hamilton, Toronto Star, 4 February in Greek [perepeteia] means "an action that 2008, http://www.thestar.com/article/300042, has the opposite effect of what is intended". http://www. thestar.com/article/300041) But he will leave it to others to decide re ca y? if the technique can be described as "perpetual fr. motion". a In 2005, Heins formed a company, — | Potential Difference Inc., to develop and — market his —= =) invention. He's (ii also been working . on its development Lz. \ | with researchers =U | Pn a, from the ie [ | | m i | | University of / | Po | { Ottawa and has aan [ | | demonstrated the F _! | ! machine to several Pome p: : : : ee ie institutions, including the “One posicard, a few bills and University of , i ER _ r . Virginia, Michigan your subscription issue of Anti-Gravity Monthly ane Heins knows the track record of inventors who claim to make breakthroughs in power-generation methods, especially when they claim to defy the second law of thermodynamics. Every so often, a (usually untrained) scientist comes along with a machine that supposedly creates more energy than is put in. Every time, the ideas have been rebuked by real scientists. That's why 46-year-old Heins is being very cautious. A college drop-out from Ottawa who's been working on his project since 1985, Heins didn't start his research in earnest till the week after 9/11, when Canada joined the invasion of Afghanistan for oil. Last week [28 January 2008], Heins demonstrated his machine to MIT professor Markus Zahn, an expert in electromagnetic and electronic systems. It proved interesting enough to stump the professor. But Zahn thinks the idea is worth investigating further. "It's an unusual phenomena [ sic] I wouldn't have predicted in advance," Zahn told the Toronto Star. "But I saw it. It's real." Heins explains that, in his machine, magnetic friction somehow gets turned into a magnetic boost. Working with an electric motor, he attached the drive shaft to a steel rotor with small round magnets lining its outer edges. In this set-up of a simple generator, the rotor would spin so that the magnets passed by a wire coil just in front of them, generating electrical energy. Then Heins did an experiment. He overloaded the generator to get a current, which typically causes the wire coil to build up a large electromagnetic field. Usually, this kind of electromagnetic field creates an effect called "back EMF" due to the so-called Lenz's law. The effect should repel the spinning magnets on the rotor, and slow them down until the motor stops completely, in accordance with the law of conservation of energy. But instead of stopping, the rotor began to accelerate. “Ore postcard, a few bills ard your subscription issue of Anti-Gravity Monthly.” APRIL — MAY 2008 NEXUS + 49 from PhysOrg.com, February 2008 fr a ! www.nexusmagazine.com