Experiment

What is a motor? Some would say it is something that creates energy, but in physics terms, that's impossible. The Law of Conservation of Energy states that the total amount of energy in an isolated system remains constant, or that energy cannot be created or destroyed. A motor is really something that transfers energy from one form of energy to another. Take an automobile motor for example. Energy is stored in gasoline and through combustion, chemical energy, it pushes the pistons up and down which transfers it into mechanical energy, which turn a crankshaft which turns it into rotational energy which is what's delivered to your wheels. This being said, magnetic motors may not be the answer to everything, the answer to perpetual motion devices, but they are however a possibility for future motors not only in themselves, but also to help improve the efficiency of other motors. Take this crude one for example, it uses 3 total magnets on a basic pulley wheel, with the repulsion forces of the magnets driving the motor, the only outside energy being energy from my hand to move the larger magnet up and down and the correct timing, minor vertical motion. If this process is mechanized and timed correctly, even this crude motor could be made very efficient, with motors using the same concept and more and more magnets being even moreso. media type="file" key="Movie 46.mov" As we know, due to the Law of Conservation of Energy, Perpetual Motion is impossible, because a motor can not continually spin without energy being continually added. Some people believe that magnets can be an anomaly of this, a source of "free energy," because it only takes so much energy to magnetize magnets, and in their lifetime the magnets can supply vasts amounts of energy more than what it took to magnetize them. This is not the case however though, because magnets are just a way to relay the mechanical energy used to pushed them together or pull them apart, just without contact. For example, if the like poles of 2 magnets are held together, when released, they will shoot apart. Some believe this is "free energy," but in fact it's not, because they are missing what happened before that. For these magnets to be together to allow this to happen, they had to be pushed together, the energy used to push them together equal to that released when they push each other apart. Think of it as loading a rubber band, for it's elasticity to be used, it has to first be stretched out. Pushing the north pole of one magnet towards the north pole of another is like pulling back the rubber band, and when they are released the same amount of energy that was used to pull it back, is released. There unfortunately are no forms of free energy, but I believe magnets can infact be used to increase the efficiency of other types of motors, or even to create a magnetic motor that is extremely efficient.