"Fleming's Left-hand Rule".

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Recent mail discussing the magnet-only motor concept...

Since you've directed me to the area of magnet-only motors, I've seen just how many people are apparently seeking after a solution in that area. I am a skeptic but open to it. Whilst I think it may well be possible to genuinely get a device like that to actually run for a while, there is absolutely no chance of ever drawing any useful energy out from one.

As an "executive table-top toy" on the other hand, I can see there being a market for such a device. If somebody had actually invented one that was cheap and simple to make and reliable with a reasonably long (but inevitable) spin-down time, they'd clean up; but somebody would surely have cracked it by now if it were indeed possible, I tend to think. After all, we've been playing with magnets for a very long time, and "there have been some clever bastards"- (Ian Dury).

See, as far as I can tell, there is too much really woolly thinking on the whole subject of "alternative energy" and in this specific area, what really worries me is the subject of eddy currents - or rather the lack of discussion of the subject. As you must know, the whole of magneto-electrodynamics is entirely dependant upon that well-known thing; "Fleming's Left-hand Rule". For your guidance, in case you were in the dark or in any doubt, I've done an animation here to illustrate exactly what that law states (in this example for the simple Galvanometer):-

simple galvanometer; relevance to Sparkspin machine

First finger denotes field, second finger: current, thumb: motion.All to do with the circular field generated around a conductor (and its polarity of course).

If there is a current in a wire, no matter what the eddy-currents and fields may be - or what other eddy-currents and fields might kick back from them, in ever-more complex patterns upon patterns (relevant to the quantum world of which I know very little), nowhere in any of these papers do I read anything about current flow. Have none of these people ever studied the most very basic electromechanics? Are we to dispense with electricity completely?

Sure I understand that things happen that we don't yet comprehend - and I myself work purely in theoretical terms - but every argument regarding the theory of my machine is argued through from the very floor up - starting with the known laws of electromechanics e.g; "Fleming's Left-hand Rule". Until It's proven otherwise, I'll go with all of the evidence and believe that water-strings behave approximately in the way I have suggested.

However, I don't know much. Who does? I've been down some blind alleys...

Anyway, here's another more sophisticated graphic animation (inevitably slow-loading here)

And here's where the initial power comes from in the "Sparkspin Machine"...

And here's a simple schematic of the Sparkspin machine.