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Thursday, September 29, 2011

I just saved $20 by doing a quick search on the Internet

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— Permanent Electricity using MAGNETS??? YES! For only $20!!! —- <almostfree@foryouonly.com>
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Produkt Rekommenderad av — Permanent Electricity using MAGNETS??? YES! For only $20!!! —-
Date
28 Sep 2011 05:44:24 +0200

K?ra sean.zooby@conman.org,


Hello, My name is Ronald Bronson and I'm going to show you how to eliminate your power bill. My Free Energy Blueprint kit is going to show you how to build a magnetic free energy generator,

http://myls.me/r/?cn=magnet

which is a device which increases energy efficiency, and propels itself perpetually using a series of magnets. When properly implemented, this device can power your whole household for free.

http://myls.me/r/?cn=magnet

It's only $20!!!

Hurry!!

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Well, I hate to inform Ronald Bronson but all electricity is made via magnetism—it's just how you rotate a coil of wires through a magnetic field that varies, some generators use running water (hydro-electric), some use steam to drive the turbines that turn the wires (nuclear, oil, coal) and some use gasoline to drive a crankshaft (home generators, backup generators, your car).

But still, I'm curious, so I go to the page. There, I learn that it'll take as little as $200 in supplies, or maybe even as low as $50, or it could be for as little as $100, I too, could be generating electricity to power my home and free myself from the shackles of The Monopolistic Power Company! This device can generate 180W of electricity at 420 RPM, and it can produce more at faster rates.

Oh, so tempting!

The plans are for a “Permanent Magnetic Generator” (it says so right on that page), and a quick search revealed the plans for such a generator. Reading through the plans I get the feeling that had I spent $20 I would have received a copy of what I'm reading right now. Yup, page 5 shows a graph of Watts/RPM and yes, it looks like you can get 180W at 420 RPM. And yes, the list of tools fits on a single page, and the list of materials take a bit over a page. And all the materials required are probably available at a local hardware or home improvement store.

Isn't it amazing what one can find on the Internet for free these days?

But the question now becomes, can it power your house? I seriously doubt it:

The PMG works at low rotational speed. The chart shows the power output of the PMG, charging a 12 volt battery. At 420 rpm it generates 180 watts, which is 15 amps at 12 volts (15A × 12V = 180W).

At higher speed, the PMG can generate more power. But high currents cause the coils to heat up, and so the efficiency gets worse as the output current gets higher.

And even if it could, you still need a way to get the thing spinning. The plans show you can attach the motor to a windmill (plans not included).

So much for getting off the grid.

Even more amusing, at the bottom of the page is this bit of verbiage:

This page is protected by copyscape. Do not copy.

Again, I hate to inform Ronald Bronson, but the very act of viewing the page made a copy. That's how the web works—the web browser requests a page, and the web server sends a copy of the page. Saying “do not copy this page” really translates as “do not view this page.”

But that aside, there really is such a thing as “copyscape.” It's a website that apparently exists to ferret out websites that plagiarize other websites. Okay, that makes a bit more sense. So let's see if the site selling the permanent magnetic generator plans is a copy … wow! Over ten copies of that site exist.

So much for that verbiage keeping other copies off the Inernet.

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