[vaseline2008]

Will this concept work in outer space? What about the Earth and other planets rotating on it's axis and orbiting around the sun? Just a question, forgive my ignorance.

[cipi604]

It's called inertia, and that movement it's not perpetual. You have a friction between earth gravitational field and the sun gravitational field and so on, but it;s too small in comparison with the inertia of the planets/stars etc to break them in real-time.
The lenght of the day on this planet is getting longer and longer cause of the friction of the oceans,moon tides, earth magnetic field produced by the iron core, etc , but is balanced in great proportion by the distance between the moon and the earth wich is increasing constantly... bla bla... Hit the books.

[jlw61]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Hawkcreek', 'I') will believe in perpetual motion machines when you can show me the opposite. A machine that you can put energy into, with absolutely no result - no increase in temp, no motion, no electromagnetic output ---- nothing.
Now that would be difficult to do.
And a teen-age son doesn't count.

[heroineworshipper]

All of us designed perpetual magnet motors before our first physics class. What a disappointment it was after all those years thinking U could beat the system.

[Heineken]

Kingcoal: Clear, solid explanation. Thanks.

Quackery never dies. You just can't kill it.

[small_steps]

Hey buddy,

that "jumping" that you were talking about - that is called cogging.

[lper100km]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dinopello', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jlw61', 'T')hat's just a simple type 1 perpetual motion machine.

Wait until I've completed work on my type 2 perpetual motion machine that takes 1 pound of water as an input and produces 10 ah at 12 volts and one pound of ice as an output.

[TreeFarmer]

The quackery never ends because people are always lusting for one thing: Something for Nothing. Therefore, if you say you can deliver Something for Nothing there are people who will always listen.

TF

[hope_full]

I've been reading about Electro-magnetic pulse. If our enemies wanted to wreak havoc in North America, an EMP would be the way to go. I've read a lot of info online about EMPs and modern gasoline-powered (as opposed to diesel) cars and trucks. Some insist that most car engines would oakey-doakey and some insist that most car engines would never work again. Opinions on this?

And what about airplanes? Seems to me the metal shielding and cowling around those Rolls Royce jet engines would protect them, wouldn't it?

So I'm soliciting opinions here from people that I hope are a lot more informed than I am: If an EMP were set off, would our modern (fuel-injected) cars still work? Because if our cars are disabled, that pretty well destroys any plan to bug out.

So, I guess I have two questions: Do you think an EMP bomb is a possible/likely scenario? And if it happened, would car engines be destroyed? And any ideas how to defend against this potentiality?

HF

[bencole]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'S')ome insist that most car engines would oakey-doakey and some insist that most car engines would never work again. Opinions on this?

[vaseline2008]

Only Air Force One is safe from an EMP...at least in the movies it is...

[Subjectivist]

Fascinating new less rare earth requiring permanent magnets developed. Much more at link below quote.



$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'K')arl A. Gschneidner and fellow scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory have created a new magnetic alloy that is an alternative to traditional rare-earth permanent magnets.