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instances, people are measuring high-frequency pulsed DC __ provides enough energy for the wheel to rotate, producing output or rapidly pulsating current wave-forms, and when __ energy in its rotation and also creating more energy out they measure these using AC meters that have been han in. Equally important for modern technology, it calibrated to sine wave 0.707 RMS (root mean square) they __ creates little or no heat and no sound, only the rotation of can create very inaccurate results. Therefore, testing he wheel. Sceptics point out that the Minato device's technology using simply AC meters (like an old VTVM, a _ energy is not derived from permanent magnets but from vacuum tube volt meter) does not give anyone an accurate magnets charged by electricity (electromagnets). However, measurement of what is truly happening. In fact, with a it is nonetheless a fascinating technology, even if only used simple resistor, capacitor and inductor arrangement, such or fans in cooling systems as he has produced to date. a device can often show a false over-unity measurement There are numerous other electromagnetic projects because this measurement method ignores the current-to- underway. An e-book entitled A Practical Guide to Free Energy voltage wave-form phase angle. An accurate measurement — Devices has some of the best clear designs of certain ideas requires the voltage versus time to be digitally stored — and devices (download from www.free-energy-info.co.uk/). (using many data points per cycle) and the current versus Researchers have reported replicating some of these time to be similarly stored, and then the power should be __ designs with positive results. calculated digitally point by point. Then Inventor John Bales has created an the input power and output power can unusual stator and rotor arrangement. be averaged from that data over any His US Patent 6,552,460, entitled cycle of interest. This would provide the "Brushless Electro-mechanical true output-to-input power ratio. (See . Machine" (issued on April 22, 2003), has www.padrak.com/ine/DANGERS Although Minato both stator and rotor elements. The POWER. html.) ' stator has at least one set of four doesn t seek to oroid-shaped electromagnetic Electromagnetic Energy Devices make claims of members arranged along an arc, a There are, nonetheless, many " " predetermined distance apart. Each o successful technologies moving ahead, free energy ’ he members has a slot, and the rotor and the authors have personally he does appear to element includes a disc adapted to observed the invention produced by pass through the slots. The disc Kohei Minato in Toyko, Japan. He has be able to convert contains a plurality of permanen two US patents, one of which is for energy from an magnet members spaced side by a "Magnetic Rotation Apparatus" side about a periphery, arranged so (US Patent 4,751,486, Class unknown source as to have alternating north-south 335/272, issued on June 14, 1998). and thus measure polarities. These permanen Minato's device is wheel-like and magnet members are sized and more energy out than energy in. has a rotating shaft with numerous spaced such that, within the stator permanent magnets spaced around arc length, the ratio of stator it, some angled and some not. members to permanent magne Minato angles them along the members is about four to six. The direction of rotation such that the electromagnetic members are same magnetic pole type faces energised in a four-phase, push- outward, so that each of the pull fashion to create high torque. permanent magnets is obliquely Why are all these scientists arranged with respect to the radial intrigued with electromagnetic direction line of the rotor. energy devices? First, the real source of electromagnetic Although Minato doesn't seek to make claims of "free _ fields is not completely understood; yet there seems to be energy", he does appear to be able to convert energy from some “force” that can move objects simply by interacting an unknown source and thus measure more energy out with the magnetic field, and at the same time generate an than energy in. According to reports, Minato's — electric field. Of course, an electric current generates a electromagnetic motor has been measured to have an__— magnetic field, as electricity and magnetism are seen as output-input ratio of 4.3:1, where 500 watts of power is __ being related to the same force or wave field and are generated with only 34 watts of input. In other tests, always in some way connected. In permanent magnets, reports have shown 300 watts of output with 16 watts of | both the magnetic field exists as well as an electric current. input. (For further commentary, see http://keelynet.com/ However, the question is this: "Is the field within the gravity/curtis.htm.) magnet or without, in the surrounding ‘energy flux' or We observed that since Minato is using electromagnets, | quantum field around the magnet?" it only takes a small amount of electricity to charge them, Magnetic fields are always moving or rotating and are and once they are functioning the "magnetic arrangement" generally considered harmless and non-polluting; provides enough energy for the wheel to rotate, producing energy in its rotation and also creating more energy out han in. Equally important for modern technology, it creates little or no heat and no sound, only the rotation of he wheel. Sceptics point out that the Minato device's energy is not derived from permanent magnets but from magnets charged by electricity (electromagnets). However, it is nonetheless a fascinating technology, even if only used or fans in cooling systems as he has produced to date. There are numerous other electromagnetic projects underway. An e-book entitled A Practical Guide to Free Energy Devices has some of the best clear designs of certain ideas and devices (download from www.free-energy-info.co.uk/). Researchers have reported replicating some of these designs with positive results. Tencenntae Inhe Malan Lan nennted nn Although Minato doesn't seek to more energy out than energy in. NEXUS ¢ 41 make claims of "free energy", he does appear to be able to convert energy from an unknown source and thus measure OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 2009 www.nexusmagazine.com