Even Engineers Are Completely Baffled By This New Magnet Technology

damn.com ^ | 03-31-2016 | Staff

[Red Badger]

When you think of magnets you probably imagine being a kid in class playing with them for the first time, figuring out that forces we can’t see have the ability to manipulate physical objects.

We can make things affected by the magnetic waves, but not until recently have we been able to “program” them.

A highly innovative company from Alabama have introduced to the world “Polymagnets,” and they’re incredible. They’re guaranteed to be one of the coolest things you see today!

[Red Badger]

There's a 10 minute video that is absolutely amazing!...................PRINTABLE MAGNETS in any shape and both north and south poles on the same face!.........................

[Red Badger]

TECHNOLOGY PING!...............................

[Fester Chugabrew]

This is partly why I believe the transportation and energy industries are about to undergo a major shift for the better.

[Red Badger]

The possibilities are endless!.............................

[ShadowAce]

[mountainlion]

In the 70s a guy named Johnson invented a magnetic motor that put out about 1300 watts without any input. Free magnetic power seems just ahead.

[circlecity]

Wow, just add some dilithium crystals and BANG - you arrive at Naboo in no time.

[jurroppi1]

There simply is no free lunch, the input was probably EMF from the magnets in the motor, but there had to be some input of some sort, which may have been built into the motor, so it was not externally required).

[SpaceBar]

This post reminds me of those advert sidebars on Daily Mail showing a banana hooked up to alligator clips that says “10 things the power company doesn’t want you to know”.

[stump56]

ping for later reading

[Bringbackthedraft]

If there is a military application, you can bet their computer systems have been hacked by our enemies.

[WakeUpAndVote]

[loungitude]

Magnets and the behaviors are more typically the domain of physicists.
What do they think?

[Maceman]

It’s true that there’s no such thing as a free lunch. But there is such thing as a cheap(er) lunch.

[Dr. Sivana]

In the 70s a guy named Johnson invented a magnetic motor that put out about 1300 watts without any input. Free magnetic power seems just ahead.

He's like that other guy with the 100mpg carburetor. Not only did both these guys get their patents bought out by ExxonMobil, to be put under lock and key, but it's getting harder to find cars that even HAVE carburetors.

[Moonman62]

This is for real and kind of cool. But the concept is fairly simple and wouldn’t baffle anyone once it’s explained to them.

[fireman15]

Free magnetic power seems just ahead.

Sorry, but I wouldn't hold my breath. People come up with some incredible almost unbelievable new technologies, but the laws of physics are not as easy to ignore as the laws Obama refuses to enforce. If a guy named Johnson had invented a “magnetic motor that put out about 1300 watts”, the motor would still need to get the energy to produce that electric power from somewhere. As far as I know there is still no such thing as a perpetual motion machine.

[Travis McGee]

Locks, doorknobs, latches, many types of access technologies will be revolutionized.

[ctdonath2]

OK, time to review the Three Laws of Thermodynamics:

1. You can’t win.
2. You can’t break even.
3. You can’t get out of the game.

Translation:

1. You can’t get more energy out of a system than it contains (don’t forget E=mc^2).
2. You will always lose some energy to entropy.
3. The universe is a closed system.

So no, there is no “free magnetic power ahead”. Perpetual motion machines don’t, and can’t, exist.

[Slyfox]

Cool.