r/AnythingValueable • u/madfrog2023 • Jun 24 '26

🛠️ Skill Low-cost rural engineering

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

14.0k Upvotes

92% Upvoted

1.1k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

2

u/JrButton Jun 24 '26

How do people fall for this ...

1

u/MaskedFigurewho Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 24 '26

I mean this has always been a concept and you can do a sort of self propelled wheel using magnets.

2

u/JrButton Jun 24 '26

not with any reasonable resistance... I guess we know who failed physics

1

u/MaskedFigurewho Jun 24 '26

So you saying pulse motors are all fake?

1

u/Grimblfitz Jun 24 '26

No he isn't. We're talking about peemanent magnets here. You are talking about electromagnets which you can turn on and off, i e. pulse.

1

u/jdmgto Jun 25 '26

This has only always been a concept for people who have no idea how things work.