several months ago i released a video
about nikola tesla's invention of the
induction motor if you haven't seen that
video it would be helpful if you watch
that first but it's not going to be
required because i'm going to show you
the important segment here in just a
minute after that video went live i got
a huge influx of emails and comments
from people asking me about all these
different free energy devices they're
seeing on youtube which ones are real
and fake you know did nikola tesla
invent a device that was suppressed by
the government after reviewing a whole
bunch of these videos i've decided
rather than going through them one by
one and trying to tell you what works
and what doesn't i've decided to answer
two really key questions the first
question is why would somebody bother to
make a fake video about free energy and
number two how can i tell whether a
device is real or not and those are the
questions we want to answer today
there's a couple concepts about how
motors work that i want to make sure
we're on the same page on and i've
covered this in great detail in that
nikola tesla video that i introduced
there's a three minute segment that's
really important
so important in fact i'm going to show
it to you here again even if you've seen
that video i ask that you please watch
this next three minutes to make sure we
have exactly the same information in our
heads
before we go into the next part where i
explain how to tell the difference
between what works and what doesn't
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when you run electricity through a wire
there's a magnetic field produced around
the wire in fact that magnetic field has
a north and a south pole to demonstrate
this i'm going to use this compass that
i have laying on my workbench here north
is directly behind me and this wire
currently is connected to a circuit that
is off
if i turn the power on and apply some
voltage
you'll see that the compass needle is
starting to turn to align itself with
the magnetic field of the wire that's
because that magnet is a whole lot
closer than the earth's magnetic field
when i turn the power off it goes back
to the earth's magnetic field it gets
even better though if you take the wire
and coil it up all in the same direction
the strength of the magnetic field
increases
and if you take a piece of iron and
shove it in the middle that also
increases the magnetic field to
illustrate how this works i've taken
this transformer out of a microwave
literally just a few minutes ago what's
important to us is that it's a piece of
iron with two coils of wire inside of it
the one on this side is wrapped way more
than this side so we're going to use
this one and if we put electricity
through it we ought to be able to turn
this thing into a magnet so right now
it's not magnetic right but we put power
on it and now let's start to run some
current through it
okay that's definitely pulling on it now
and let's put a little more
yeah
okay
we have an electromagnet so now we ought
to be pretty comfortable with the idea
that if we run electricity through a
wire we're going to get a magnetic field
around the wire and that magnetic field
gets stronger if you call the wire up
this also works in reverse if we move a
magnet over a wire we get electricity
let me show you this is just a stack of
ceramic magnets and as you can see as i
move it closer to the coil
i'm starting to read a voltage on my
multimeter and that's because
electricity is actually starting to flow
through this top coil here if i move it
a little faster and a little closer i
actually get higher voltages meaning
that more electricity is flowing but
there's one more thing you want to know
before we move away from this is if the
magnet is still there's no voltage there
has to be relative motion between the
magnet
and the coil of wire
as long as i'm inputting some motion i'm
going to get a voltage there pop quiz i
hope you were paying attention because
here we go in the last clip i said that
the voltage reading indicated that
electricity was flowing through the
meter but where is the power coming from
a it's coming from the multimeter
b it's coming from the magnet obviously
c it's coming from the atmosphere
obviously d is coming from my waving
hand
obviously while you're thinking about
that first question i'm going to pose a
second question this is a question i get
about once a month on my website and it
usually goes something like this why
don't electric cars like the tesla have
an alternator for those of you who don't
know the alternator in your car with the
gas engine
recharges the battery as you drive so
the gasoline engine is turning the
alternator the alternator puts
electricity into your batteries and that
allows you to start your car the logic
goes like this if you have an electric
car you could connect an alternator to
the motor and then the output of the
alternator goes to the batteries and you
have an infinite loop of energy while
you drive around you charge up the
batteries the batteries drive the car
and thus
you never need to plug your car in we're
gonna revisit this idea in just a little
bit here on my workbench i've got two
permanent magnet dc motors as you saw in
illustration before electricity can
produce magnetism and magnetism can
produce electricity
that works at the motor level as well if
you spin the shaft on a permanent magnet
dc motor it will behave like a generator
and i can prove that to you by simply
plugging this motor into this motor and
just so you know there's no trickery
going on here i'll try to keep all these
cables
up on the workbench
i literally have the input of this motor
connected to the input of this motor and
if i spin the shaft
you can see that this motor is behaving
like a generator which is sending a
small amount of electricity through
these wires into this motor and it's
like this motor being plugged in it
causes the shaft to move this works in
the other direction as well
as you can see
this one can behave like a generator
this one can behave like a generator but
here's where things started to get
interesting
why can't i just connect this output to
this output and therefore
let's see here oh convenient enough i've
got a rubber band in there
what happens if i do this
and i spin this motor
what should happen is i get electricity
out of here
which runs into here which makes that
spin
which makes that spin which gives me
electricity and i have an infinite loop
perpetual power right here on my
workbench
want to see what happens there's one
element that's missing we need some way
to get the system started right like
it's obviously not doing anything now
but based on the logic we just displayed
this should run forever in the last
video i watched on this topic they
actually wound a cable around the pulley
of one of the motors yanked it like they
were cranking the gas lawnmower and then
that supposedly fired the system off and
it ran in the video i'll give you some
examples of how you can fake something
like that here in a little bit even with
one continuous shot it's really easy to
fake that actually brings me to the
first question i brought up which is why
would somebody bother to set all this up
and pretend to produce energy when they
don't actually produce energy in the
video they usually claim that it's some
sort of government cover-up and that
they are
trying to share this secret device with
the world so here's the deal whenever
there's an opportunity to make money
there's going to be scammers they make
these videos because people click on it
out of curiosity and that's all they
need it's like the ultimate scam i don't
have to convince you to give me money
personally or give me your bank account
information i just need you to click on
the thumbnail and watch for a little
while and i'll make money it's beautiful
when you get to the end of the video you
don't have to believe a thing that you
just saw and this is actually why i'm
not showing you any clips from those
videos because number one if i explain
to you how one guy did it the next guy
is just gonna fake it a little bit
better and number two i'm gonna put a
link in the description to tell you
where i got the clip from and then
you're gonna go watch it which means
they're gonna make money from my video
and i don't want those rascals to make
anything off of me so i'm just not going
to do it here's the problem with this
setup and also the problem with the call
alternator example if i pull on this
pulley
now i've got a pretty terrible
connection here
but you can see
they are indeed
turning
well actually let me make sure they're
not fighting each other because i don't
want anybody to say
okay yes so the way the generators are
set up now they spin in the same
direction so it should be perpetual all
right let's try that again
it doesn't work
it just doesn't work it's really easy to
prove to yourself that this doesn't work
all you need to test this is two little
tiny hobby dc motors heck you can get
them out of your kids broken toys
they're going to have permanent magnet
dc motors in them couple to two shafts
together connect the wires together
you'll have exactly this setup in fact
you will have a more efficient setup
because
connecting them with a belt is actually
not the best way to transmit power
there's power loss in the belt the
belt's going to be flopping around heat
is building up friction is building up
when the belt slips a tiny bit and all
of that is energy loss this is why when
i built my dynamometer which is designed
to carefully measure horsepower
accurately at the shaft i couple the
shafts directly together i'm mostly just
using a rubber band to poke fun at the
idea that you could get power from a
system like this whenever you design any
mechanical system that uses belts or
even gears there's going to be some
power loss in that transmission however
it's set up belts can slip a little bit
there's going to be friction and heat
and all of that is some of the power
leaking out of the system you also can't
get more power out of the system than
you put back in so even if the system
was perfectly perpetual
and 100 efficient
which is impossible
then
this would be self-running but you could
not possibly plug something else into
the system because if you bled off even
a tiny bit of energy the systems to stop
every regular motor on the market has
some sort of inefficiency in fact most
motors will tell you right on the label
what the efficiency is in fact i'll put
some labels on the screen here for you
and as you can see
there is an efficiency rating that tells
you how much power is lost by running
this motor now just to be clear if you
have an efficiency of say 80 percent
that means that if your motor is drawing
100 watts from the wall
then only 80 watts of power is coming
out at the shaft
20 percent of that power is lost through
heat
friction in the bearings things like
that electrical losses there are lots of
little places where some power is simply
lost so if we spin this shaft
and only 80 percent of that comes out
and goes back into this motor and then
this motor is also inefficient so now
only 80
of that 80 percent is coming back out
and then you've only you've got some
loss again what will happen is within
just one rotation that cycle is done you
don't have enough power to keep the
system running you certainly couldn't
plug something else in to the system
another misconception that we see in
some of these free energy videos is the
idea that magnets can be used to do work
on other magnets any video where you see
a set of permanent magnets pushing on
another set of permanent magnets
perpetually it is being faked there is
an external source supplying energy to
the system there has to be and this is
evident all you have to do is play with
magnets when you try to push them
together there is a repelling force
there but you notice that when i stop
pushing on it right now i'm supplying
the power
when i stop the magnets stop if i flip
them over and align the poles they snap
together but they always go to a steady
state the same thing will happen when
you spin two sets of magnets near each
other they will lock together and go to
a steady state it doesn't matter how
much energy you input at the beginning
any extra energy is just from what you
put in the system
once the magnets are strong enough to
overcome that input energy it stops so
it's better to think of magnets as being
more like a spring
i can use these magnets and there's
potential energy when i shove them
together and force them together that
potential energy can be released the
same way that potential energy can be
released from a spring now some
physicist who's got their doctorate of
magnetism is going to give me a hard
time about this but i think this is a
pretty good analogy to say that
potential energy is being stored when i
squeeze these two together and when you
release it you can get power from that
but the original power source came from
my hand even when one of these magnets
is an electromagnet in that case the
external power source is the power plant
it's not free energy that energy is
being produced somewhere and it's not
the atmosphere it's from a measurable
source that is exhaustible even the sun
is not an inexhaustible source of energy
it's burning out right now i've had
people email me and tell me that these
free energy devices work off of cosmic
power coming from the infinite sun but
the sun is not infinite either that's
just made up junk that somebody told you
to get you to believe in their free
energy device so let's revisit this idea
of putting a car alternator in an
electric car we just learned a few
minutes ago that no generator is perfect
there'll always be some energy loss that
means that your car alternator is going
to need to draw
100 watts of power to put out 80 watts
of power into the battery using our
example from before that doesn't account
for any power that's being used to
actually drive the car that's a whole
separate thing your electric motor
is not only putting out enough power to
drive the car it's drawing enough
additional power from the battery to
also run the alternator so we can just
ignore the electric motor for a moment
and just say that the alternator is
running off of the battery and what you
end up with is the battery is losing 100
watts and getting 80 watts back and you
can see very quickly we've wasted a
whole bunch of power and this is why car
manufacturers don't put them in cars
because you're literally just wasting
extra power there's no benefit to having
it there in one of these videos where
they claim the power is coming from the
magnets they actually take apart the
alternator this particular version has
been copied many times actually but they
take apart the alternator cut out the
wiring on the inside on the rotor and
then epoxy on neodymium magnets first of
all you've just made a terrible
generator it's much less powerful now
than it was a few minutes ago before you
cut the wires out now that you've got
permanent magnets on there they're not
distributed evenly enough the rotor
itself needs to be really well balanced
in order to spin it at a high rate of
speed machines can do this very easily
but in these videos the guy is manually
gluing on these magnets which is just
ridiculous i think this is insane and i
don't think you could actually spin an
alternator like that in my opinion when
you see this later on in the video
they've just simply put a different
alternator there and done the same
wiring on the outside but even if you
manage to get it balanced enough that
you don't shake your assembly to death
it certainly wouldn't produce
more power than it takes to spin the
thing up that part is just ridiculous
what i want to talk about now is how you
might fake something like this because
that's actually
one of the things that i want you to you
know be paying attention to in that one
video that i was talking about with a
ridiculous number of views they took a
power strip like this connected an
alternator to one end of the system and
then
plugged the motor into the other end of
the system and supposedly the alternator
was powering the power strip and then
the power strip was running the motor
the motor was connected to the
alternator and therefore you had a
perpetual system so i've got a power
strip very similar to what you just to
what's in that video and let's
tie this thing down so it doesn't move
around on me while i'm plugging and
unplugging things all right i need zip
ties one second
so the basic idea is you plug your motor
into this your alternator is connected
here so power coming in through your
alternator will power the strip and then
the strip powers the motor they're
connected together okay so here i have
an extension cable
i'm gonna
plug this in
right here
and
plug that in the wall
okay
and here we have our light bulb
but there's actually another option you
see
instead of plugging in a power tool or
something else which is what it looks
like they're doing in many of these
demonstration videos
we could plug something else in to this
scenario for example
uh okay so i'm unplugged right
but i can make an extension cord
which looks like this
got two male lens on it as you can see
here
it's all the same
cord i'm gonna plug this in and uh try
not to electrocute myself with the two
wires sticking out yes that is a hazard
you should be cautious about but when
you're trying to make the big bucks on
youtube you risk it
okay
so plug this in
oh what do you know
that also works
so
it took me less than a minute to make
that extension cable
and if you have three or four things
plugged into this and the cables are
running off into the background
everywhere like i've seen in many of
these videos there's no reason that one
of those extension cords couldn't just
be a double-ended extension cord that
allows you to power your alternator or
your electric motor in this case which
will make the whole system look like
it's running in actuality this is
powering your power tools as well as
running the motor and spinning the whole
system
there are other ways to fake this as
well
for example i can make it look like that
cable is not there
like this
now you don't see the cable and there
was no jump cut there as you just
noticed the only thing that's happened
is i've split the screen and recorded
some time with that cable unplugged
that's all it takes now i didn't spend
very much time working on this but i can
promise you any one of you can do this
with a five minute tutorial in adobe
premiere
from a youtube video whenever you see
one of those clips where they say oh you
know this was all one take and we didn't
have any trickery here
all you have to do is watch somebody
like captain disillusion to learn the
unbelievable number of ways that people
can manipulate the footage to make it
look like something is happening in real
time uncut when in reality you're
watching two cuts right now there's
another slightly more challenging but
certainly doable way to manipulate this
and that is i can gut one of these and
put a smaller motor inside of it and
then i have a belt driven or direct
drive system coupled inside of the motor
itself that will spin the fan and the
blade on the outside the little motor on
the inside can be powered by a battery
and that can make the system spin for
several minutes at a time remember they
can cut this footage together and try
over and over again as many times as
they need so let's say one time they
accidentally exposed the wire you
weren't supposed to see i mean shoot it
again all you have to do is try and try
until you nail it all in one shot and
then you've got it you release your
video you get millions of views now that
i've said all that there are some things
that i want to make very clear number
one i don't profess to know every
possible way to generate energy there
are definitely some things that we
haven't discovered yet but this
is not it this is garbage and i wish
these people would stop doing it but
again as long as there's a way to make
money from it these people are going to
continue to make these videos in fact
the idea of perpetual emotion goes back
thousands of years so we are not by any
means the last generation to deal with
this problem this will continue on as
long as man is fascinated with ways to
get low-cost or free energy now there
are forms of free energy that we can use
today like solar power there's
wind there which really is another form
of solar power if you think about it i
certainly think your time will be well
spent figuring out ways to capitalize on
things like solar and wind power but
don't waste your time with this garbage
there are a few things that they try to
do to give themselves more validity for
example they hide their face and then
cover that up by saying something like
oh you know i don't want the government
to come after me because it's a
government cover-up that is a ridiculous
claim by any means it would not take
very much for the fbi to figure out
who's producing videos on a particular
youtube channel i don't mean to imply
that i don't think that their government
cover-ups of course there are i mean
there is everything from the watergate
scandal to
on and on certainly there are government
cover-ups but this
is not one of them
i'm sorry i'm laughing so hard because
i'm thinking about media right now
there's one clip in one of his videos
where he's talking about free energy
where he gets up and just smacks the
camera
there is no free energy device
uh yeah i love that dude another thing
that they'll say very often is it's not
free energy the energy is coming from
the magnets but as i demonstrated
earlier you can put energy into the
system and store it like potential
energy which is the demonstration i
showed earlier
a lot like springs but the spring by
itself is not going to do any work and
the permanent magnet by itself is not
going to do any work that is false
thanks for watching
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