Can you use magnetic force to create free electricity ?

Question

Example: Can you take a standard alternator, add an aluminum circle disc to the top with 3 magnets and 1 counterweight, add 3 opposite magnets to the exterior circumference outside the disc and use the free form of magnetic push to continously spin the alternator/GENERATOR to create constant voltage? Opinions? Can this be created on a much larger scale to supply power to a house or neighborhood? Or would we need to engineer a much different form of magnetic push model ?

Answer 1

Check out this website...
http://www.josephnewman.com/

I saw Mr. Newman on Johnnie Carson once, and Mr. Carson was very impressed with Newman's energy machine, which operates on similar principles to your idea. His machine has been patented in South Africa and several European countries, but the U.S. Patent Office refuses to consider it, claiming without ever seeing it that it can't work.

Unfortunately, Mr. Newman's site is filled with a great deal of his personal religious philosphy, which tends to get in the way, but the info on his machine is there.

Answer 2

I thought similar thing in the past and I had to realise that the machine will stop after a while. It won't supply continuous power as it won't work continuously based on the magnets only. However the well placed magnets maybe able to reduce the external energy requirement for the movement of the generator but I'm not 100% sure of this.

Answer 3

You can't create a perpetual motion machine. What you describe is just an alternator and you'll get less energy out than what you put in to turn it.

Answer 4

The conservation of energy law says you can't get something for nothing. I didn't really understand your machine but I can say this sight unseen... It would not work!
Everything in physics points to this answer.

Answer 5

what you described is a "perpetuum mobile" which can not exist.
a device to produce energy from nothing is not possible. nor obtaining gold from sand.