On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 08:37:56PM -0400, Richard Aiken wrote:
> The inventor in question claims to have figured out a way to overlap the
> attraction/repulsion fields of pairs of permanent magnets (very powerful
> and expensive ones!) in such a way that the complete arrangement continues
> to spin without energy input. Interestingly, he doesn't appear to claim a
> net energy *output,* merely the possibility of such.

Having read it, I see the usual case of "it doesn't quite work yet in
practical devices, but my revolutionary theory says that it's just a
few minor tweaks away from working".

Meanwhile, theories that have actually been tested say that it won't
work no matter how much tweaking is done.

- Tim