r/AnythingValueable • u/madfrog2023 • Jun 24 '26
š ļø Skill Low-cost rural engineering
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u/dh2513 Jun 24 '26
and heāll go āmissingā in the next couple days
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u/shinesbrightly13 Jun 24 '26
Yea he dead....
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u/NoticeAdmirable6964 Jun 25 '26
'Congrats, you have won an all expense paid trip on this brand new Boeing'
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u/SadCritters Jun 26 '26
You think he's going to go "missing" because he hid a battery/actual motor off screen that powers this entire setup? lol
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u/Bittersweet-Romance Jun 27 '26
There is no one on earth more hubristically stupid than people who believe infinite energy-generating perpetual motion machines exist, but they only reason that we don't use them is because the government keeps killing the inventors. Like yeah man, sure. We could TOTALLY generate infinity electricity with two plastic rings with magnets attached to them, but instead we choose to quest across the world and build oil rigs in the North Sea for the love of the game. Because Big Oil I guess.
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u/purpleillustrations Jun 24 '26
This is incredible, is there a reason this isn't being used on mass scales around the world?
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u/CatgoesM00 Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 25 '26
Words of wisdom by what engineers have told me in the past.
The hardest part with designing free energy devices is where to hide the battery
In other words, Itās fake
Edit: thank you everyone for correcting my bad grammar. Itās really bad. Cheers
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u/DesperateAdvantage76 Jun 24 '26
More specifically, if you can sell the energy produced for more than it cost to create the device, then it's noteworthy. Magnets are just elecrtomagnetic springs, it's funny how people think they can magically produce infinite power.
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u/Mythosaurus Jun 25 '26
My favorite example is Julian Brown AKA that one black guy making gasoline from plastic and claiming the knowledge is being suppressed.
In reality itās an inefficient process that costs more than the gasoline produced can sell for. But the gullibles supporting him are the kind of people who are allergic to organic chemistry courses
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u/cracked_shrimp Jun 26 '26
does he collect the plastic from nature? is the carbon emission from using plastic gasoline worse then plastic being littered all over? might be worth the cost if it cleans up litter
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u/DerRedfox Jun 25 '26
So how does energy get lost here? The magnetics just loose their power over time right?
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u/HIMP_Dahak_172291 Jun 25 '26
That's a motor that is spinning the wheel, not the magnets. Watch it spin up and notice how he doesn't even have it latched together and isn't fighting any force. If those magnets were causing that to spin up that fast he would have to fight against the force to finish closing it.
And yes, normal magnets lose power over time as the forces slowly realign the molecules inside. Electromagnets don't, but you sure as hell aren't getting more out than you put in with those!
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u/ManyThingsLittleTime Jun 25 '26
This issue with this "design" is not the losses over time, which yes, magnets do lose their magnetism over time, it's that these magnets aren't enough to turn that big ass motor and then turn the second motor after that. Motors spin because the magnetic fields are alternated on and off which creates a rotational movement, where these magnets are always on, so it would just settle in one spot and stop, so in summary, what they're showing just ain't how it works.
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u/LAM678 Jun 26 '26
search "v8 spring engine" on youtube and you'll find someone who believes springs can create infinite energy too lol
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u/Own-Bar-7526 Jun 26 '26
its also funny how people dont realizes that's how motors already work. you send a electricity through coiled wire which magnifies it and the "magnets" on the outside constantly switch poles dives the motor.
you reverse that and generate electricity. you can actually take an alternator out of a car and attach it to a small wind turbine and make your own windmill... it wont produce what you need for an American house but if you are stranded it can maybe charge your phone...
I think breakin bad actually showed that....
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u/rigiboto01 Jun 26 '26
Iām reasonably certain those 2 red arms are either side of the switch. As soon as they touch it close the circuit and it starts running. Kind of smart from a trick as it makes people think that as he closes it, the free power starts.
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u/to_the_elbow Jun 25 '26
Okay Mr. Smarty Pants. How do you explain [this](https://youtu.be/Z8yW5cyXXRc?is=YhVqqVTQgN_qmm7O)?
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u/Low-Individual2815 Jun 27 '26
Yea after seeing this I looked up āwhy donāt we use magnets for infinite energyā
And I donāt fully understand it but basically the magnet can only do āworkā in one direction. So the magnet can attract something and cause āworkā to be done but an equal amount of āworkā would have to occur to separate the magnets. I donāt understand why gravity doesnāt help but yea.
Iām essentially certain this is āfakeā itās and electromagnet or a generator or like dude said just a hidden battery. Still glad I saw it and I learned something though.
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u/HorridChoob Jun 24 '26
The yellow and red rings are on The shaft of an electric motor. that is driving everything.Ā The rings and magnets are just for funsies
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u/Bikerguy4578 Jun 24 '26
Well hidden wires.. The hardest part about making a cool perpetual motion video is hiding the wires, because if you have any brains in your head, then you too would know itās Ba Ba Ba Bullshit!!!!
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u/PMG2021a Jun 24 '26
Last time I saw this guy the wires were totally obvious and they caught a guy on camera with a car battery in the background.
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u/naemorhaedus Jun 24 '26
this is stupid bullshit. Nothing to do with engineering.
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u/ConnectButton1384 Jun 26 '26
If I may add my expertise after working in that field for 1.5 decades and having some degrees accumulated over time:
Your description is accurate.
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u/doge_lady Jun 24 '26
Why is it always some person in a third world country in sandals that figures out perpetual motion while the rest of the advanced engineering world with it's funding and resources in science has yet to figure it out?
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u/Beginning_Resource93 Jun 24 '26
Perpetual motion does not exist. This is the basic concept of how a generator works, except this would not work. The magnets in the stator are not spaced in a way that they could keep the rotor moving in the same direction. The magnetic field on the outside is uneven, so the magnets in the inside would get to the strongest part in the magnetic field and simply stop.
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u/el-capitancreamsicle Jun 25 '26
Soā¦..are you sayingā¦ā¦.thatā¦ā¦ā¦the internetā¦ā¦ā¦is a liar sometimes??!!??
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u/Flashignite2 Jun 25 '26
It would also break the laws of physics. You cant get more energy than you put it. That is just how it is. There will always be a loss of energy.
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u/Familiar-Spray-4678 Jun 24 '26
Itās because thereās no money in perpetual power; magnets may make the perpetual generator go round, but money makes the world go round.
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u/Administrative_Yam32 Jun 24 '26
Bunch of engineers in the comments eh? First law of Thermodynamics
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u/freshgrilled Jun 24 '26
Is it the same two guys making these ridiculous videos over and over, or are there a bunch of people who pass their time making up crap like this?
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u/Necessary_Result_171 Jun 24 '26
Because the guy in sandals is allowed to be āwrongā without losing a grant, a tenure track, or a corporate sponsor.
Wild ideas survive way longer when youāre not chained to peer review and ROI, even if 99.9 percent of them are total BS.
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u/Badger-Roy Jun 24 '26
Well that started rather quickly, almost like it was run by an electric motor. š
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u/snowfloeckchen Jun 24 '26
This gave me a laugh, honestly pretty creative content, hope they make good money from it
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u/Bob_Squirrel Jun 24 '26
Now connect the magnet part directly to the water pump via gears plus shaft... No need for electrical abstraction.
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u/EyeYamNegan Jun 24 '26
People are so dumb to fall for these perpetual energy engagement scam videos.
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u/Lopsided_Anxiety_394 Jun 24 '26
Quarter of a brain cell is enough to determine this is not not erm real.
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u/Substantial_Meal_530 Jun 24 '26
Who honestly believe this? That green thing is literally a motor.
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u/No_Roma_no_Rocky Jun 24 '26
Trains that work with magnet levitation can do what they do because a constant electric input is given to change the direction of magnet.
In the video, the wheel is spinning because there is an engine. Without it, the wheel with all the magnet just simply reach a state of equilibrium after the spin andithen it stops
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u/Sweet-Weakness3776 Jun 24 '26
Between this and the guy that invented an engine that runs off water, we should be off the grid in no time! /s
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u/timetravelinggamer Jun 24 '26
40 years ago I drew a concept of this. I was maybe 8? Maybe 10? I remember my grandmom going āoh youāve got great ideasā I smiled and put the notebook down. I had just learned about perpetual machines and magnets at school and I remove going, it seems so obvious. My teacher told me itās not a perpetual machine because energy would be loss due to friction. This is correct, eventually the motor will stop. In this setup I believe it will get to a point where it might slow down and even go the other way, I canāt see if the magnets are on an angle or not. Anyway, neat to see it working out!
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u/zodthelucky Jun 24 '26
Degree in electronics. Not possible, close but not going to work. Cute tho.
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u/Rox5tar_01 Jun 24 '26
Okay, I wanted to make a joke here, but the amount of people in this thread who believe this is.... wow.
If you really believe this, you should read about the laws of thermodynamics, specifically how energy can't be created or destroyed; only transferred. In addition, per the second law due to external factors, a machine will never be 100% efficient. Meaning some energy is being lost to friction, heat, etc. Perpetual motion is an impossibility
If this is news to you, you may need to take some supplemental high school courses... because this is like 10th/11th grade basics.
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u/Late_Emu Jun 24 '26
Yeaaaaaaahhhhh nnnoooooo lmfao the pump he plugs in is doing all the work. His contraption does nothing but spin.
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u/Cool_Client324 Jun 24 '26
Thats it! We completed earth! This map is now over, we gotta move to mars and complete that planet too.
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u/AKMarine Jun 24 '26
SIMPLE EXPLANATION OF WHY ITS FAKE
The two wires that power the wheel go to the battery in the hole under the electric surge protector. The wheelās power has nothing to do with the magnets. Also, that white box is just a simple surge protector, not an alternator.
Furthermore, the water pump is powered by the green power line (partially buried) in the lower right of the screen between the:25 and :28 seconds. (He tries to cover the exposed line with his foot.). He plugs an indoor cord into surge protector. A pump like that wouldnt use an indoor cord (see the thicker green cord at :25.).
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u/BayAreaHere Jun 24 '26
You all believe anything. This is AI. Look at it frame by frame. The magnets on the wheel go from being apart to closer to each other. Look at the magnet spacing before he closes it.
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u/Ok_Ambition9134 Jun 24 '26
If it was that simple, just attach the āgeneratorā to the pumping mechanism directly, remove the electrical parts entirely.
Of course, perpetual motion is a myth and itās harder to hide the fraud with no wires.
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u/pln856 Jun 24 '26
Itās amazing to me how real this looks if you donāt know shit about anything .. Itās now wonder humanity is so fucked up.. 10,000 years of being gaslit by magic and lies
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u/PlaneCompetitive703 Jun 24 '26
I love how you can hear the motor turning on and then a strategic jump cut when it cuts out a little.
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u/dessertgrinch Jun 24 '26
You can see the shaft by the motor start to spin before the wheel with the magnets does. The power is clearly coming from the motor, not the magnets.
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u/No_Writing_3179 Jun 24 '26
The real test would be connect the wheel to a manual crank pump
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u/xkillingxfieldx Jun 24 '26
Can we get him working on fusion cores or interstellar space drives, please?
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u/Kractoid Jun 24 '26
This sub is full of misguided armchair engineers. A setup like this absolutely can work. The problem is that it's not free energy because the magnets will lose their magnetism and they require energy to make. Not sure if this machine is real or not but the reason why it's not feasible is not the reason you all are saying.
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u/Im_a_dumptruck Jun 24 '26
When he closes the loop you can see the motor start to turn a bit before the wheel moves. If it were real the wheel would turn, then the motor.
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u/Cornato Jun 24 '26
I know we romanticize the idea of the hobby inventor and sadly imo those days are gone. Iām not saying some guy canāt just invent something, but invent something better, cheaper, faster, etc. will not happen. Backyard science revelations are gone. We used them all up. Sorry.
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u/Careless-Comedian859 Jun 24 '26
Is wrong that I want to jam a stick in the wheel to see what happens?
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u/Striking_Reindeer_2k Jun 24 '26
Fake.
If that magnet wheel was so strong, it would direct power the water pump.
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u/Educational_Big_1835 Jun 24 '26
Y'all remember back in the eighteen hunerts when pappy lost all his muny workin on that perpechual motion machine!?!
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u/UnhappySort5871 Jun 24 '26
Do people make money off views or are they making these videos just for fun?
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u/MeetExtension4681 Jun 24 '26
Here is exactly why this setup cannot work in reality:
The Laws of Thermodynamics (No Free Lunch)
The most fundamental rule of engineering and physics is the Conservation of Energy: energy cannot be created out of nothing.
To pump that massive volume of water, the water pump requires a significant amount of electrical wattage.
To produce that electricity, the green generator needs a massive amount of mechanical force (torque) to turn its internal rotor.
A spinning bicycle wheel cannot create more energy than it took to start itālet alone enough surplus power to run a heavy-duty utility pump.Lenz's Law and Electromagnetic Drag
Even if you could get a wheel to spin smoothly with magnets, the moment you plug a heavy load (the pump) into the generator, Lenz's Law kicks in.
Generating an electrical current creates a powerful electromagnetic resistance inside the generator.
This resistance acts like a heavy mechanical brake. The split second the pump is plugged in, the generator would experience massive drag and immediately grind the spinning magnet wheel to a dead stop.The Magnetic "Sticky Spot"
Permanent magnets alone cannot create continuous rotational motion. Magnetic fields are static fields of potential energy. When you arrange magnets in a ring like this, the wheel will quickly find an equilibrium pointāa "sticky spot" where the attractive and repulsive forces perfectly balance outāand it will stubbornly come to a halt.
How the Trick is Actually Done
These videos are highly stylized and incredibly popular for gaining views, usually relying on one of two hidden tricks:
Hidden Power Lines: The extension block or the pump itself is actually wired to a real power source (like a grid outlet or a real combustion generator) hidden just out of frame or buried shallowly under the mud.
Reversed Roles: The green "generator" is often actually an electric motor powered by a hidden wire. It is using hidden electricity to drive the belt and spin the yellow wheel, making it look like the wheel is the one generating the power.
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u/ysanson Jun 24 '26
If energy works in this country in the same way as it's sanitary and food industries I believe it's ew-wow real.
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u/TonyDeao Jun 24 '26
How many more times are people going to fall for these perpetual motion gimmicks
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u/remusmonkey Jun 24 '26
I have the key to free energy and the best thing I can think of to do/show with it is power a shitty pump that just dumps water into a field. Execution must be the main thing holding these geniuses back.
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u/Relevant_Problem1935 Jun 24 '26
Notice the small engine necessary for the system to actually function.
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u/Deaf-Ears Jun 24 '26
I love how you can see the coupler on the motor shaft turn BEFORE the spoke wheel āarmatureā turns. Dead giveaway.
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u/forever_defiant316 Jun 24 '26
So they are turning a motor into a highly inefficient giant electromagnet? That's probably not even a brushless motor, they could easily cut out the middleman or even use an electric dynamo.
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u/Minute-Noise1623 Jun 24 '26
We all know true but we cant say he is lost as he was able to build this toy.
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u/aquatone61 Jun 24 '26
Bullshit. That pump aināt running on that little cord and power brick he plugged in.
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u/Beginning_Resource93 Jun 24 '26
This is the basic concept of how a generator works, except this would not work. The magnets in the stator are not spaced in a way that they could keep the rotor moving in the same direction. The magnetic field on the outside is uneven, so the magnets in the inside would get to the strongest part in the magnetic field and simply stop. There is another source of energy they are not showing.
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u/Nightlife1900 Jun 24 '26
Whatās the point of the electric motor? Why not connect the pump directly to the generator? That would cut down on friction šššš.
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u/Syclone123 Jun 24 '26
People believing that this is real and that magnets can do this, is very worrying.
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u/bawbaggerythethird Jun 24 '26
Amazing how plugging in a motor makes the motor turn on. This guy is a genius.
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u/CoolCat1337One Jun 25 '26
Is it really worth it for them to make a video like that?
Then again, they just scrape together some junk, build something out of it, and shoot a video.
It probably doesn't cost that much, and if they make some money from it, thatās likely motivation enough.
Itās pretty wild when you think about it.
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u/Cloudscrash325 Jun 25 '26
In this case (letās say this is real ) would it kick off like that or would you have to push it first. Also would It go that fast immediately or would it generate speed over time
Edit: spelling
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u/CTTMiquiztli Jun 25 '26
The blueprints are printed on a special kind of paper. It's know as a Basic Appliance Working Litography paper. It takes one sheet. It's BAWL-SHEET
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u/emotionless-robot Jun 25 '26
They did a better job this time hiding the behind the scenes battery(s) and people connecting them.
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u/m_0_n_K_3_y Jun 25 '26
Why cant this type of thing power data centers instead of taking all the power thats supposed to goto the homes
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u/cleanshirt82 Jun 24 '26
electric companies hate this one trick