Ok, I see the analogy you are making. It’s just that the battery isn’t required to keep the engine running. But, an exciter field is required to keep a motor running if it doesn’t have permanent magnets and power for a laser is required to keep a fusion reaction going.
However, until this guy gets a patent, it just sounds like all of the past claims to “free energy”. Once the patent is granted, the design is out there and as long as we don’t try to make money from it, all of us can try to duplicate the claims. It’s worth it to me to build something like this for myself if it works—and not to illegally sell.
Patents are knowingly infringed on all the time. He puts the patent out and the ChiComs will be selling knockoffs all over the world very fast. And they will laugh at any little guy who threatens to sue. The ChiComs will sell millions of units and take in billions before any court will be able to stop them.
If you are a GE who puts out a new CF power generator you have a better chance of stopping the Chinese and others....But still, with a game changing (if it works as billed) devoice like this everyone will be ripping it off. Patent laws or no patent laws.