Thane Heins is nervous and hopeful. It's Jan. 24, a Thursday afternoon, and in four days the Ottawa-area native will travel to Boston where he'll demonstrate an invention that appears -- though he doesn't dare say it -- to operate as a perpetual motion machine.The audience, esteemed Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Markus Zahn, could either deflate Heins' heretical claims or add momentum to a 20-year obsession that has broken up his marriage and lost him custody of his two young daughters.
Such an unbelievable invention would challenge the laws of physics, a no-no in the rigid world of serious science. Imagine a battery system in an all-electric car that can be recharged almost exclusively by braking and accelerating, or what Heins calls "regenerative acceleration."
Contacted by phone a few hours after the test, Zahn is genuinely stumped -- and surprised. He said the magnet shouldn't cause acceleration. "It's an unusual phenomena I wouldn't have predicted in advance. But I saw it. It's real. Now I'm just trying to figure it out."
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Improvement of efficiency, not perpetual motion here:
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Upon further examination, I think he may simply be improving the motor's efficiency by causing a precessional effect on the electrons in the coil of the rotor. Backward magnetic flux is traversing through the motor's shaft acting normally against the rotor's magnetic moment creating a torque which is always normal to the shaft but in the plane of the rotor coil. This torque, in turn, acts on the angular momentum of the rotor in such a way as to cause the electrons to precess around the loop creating a magnetic moment that is in phase with the magnetic field from the stator (and thus amplifying the effect of the magnetic field's crossflux from the stator when he re-connects the coils at about 50-60 hertz frequency). Of course, the inefficiencies from the electrical precessions in the loop is why the thing sounds so vibrationally noisy, and I think he could eliminate that vibration inefficiency even further by cooling the rotor coil down with liquid nitrogen (although the nitrogen wouldn't technically improve efficiency as that needs to be cooled and compressed, but efficiency in regards to getting more power out from the amount of power put in).
Meaning getting 280 watts out instead of 235 watts out when 360 watts is being put in. The increase in power output merely only looks like perpetual motion because it is exciting for the viewer to watch.