A skeptical look at the Hamel
disk
The following is a pretty
good write up on Hamel's spinning disk from another list:
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 17:51:51 -0000
From: "yombalula <yombalula@yahoo.com>"
<yombalula@yahoo.com>
Subject: 1111 spining Ring Magnet explained
1111 spining Ring Magnet explained
David Hamel, who claims to be building a space ship uses a pair of
ring shaped magnets for a demo. The Bottom ceramic ring magnet is
taken from a speaker and placed over a ball bearing. The Demo involves
partially suspending the lower magnet with the magnetic attraction of
the larger ring that is held in a the user's hand with the ball
bearing still touching the table. To everybody's amazement , the lower
ring begins to spin even though nobody is directly touching it.
This is Hamel's formost demonstration, and is used to impress people
with his "technology". I bet that this spinning of the ring magnet is
what his thinks is perpetual motion. The Secret is in the ball
bearing. It is doing a dance on the table because it is being dragged
by your hand. Any motion off center and the ball bearing will spin --
after all it is round. The best surfaces would be a formica top,
because it is non magnetic and hard.
If the Top ring is suspended by a bracket (held steady), the bottom
ring will not move. But when you hold the top ring with your hand, you
can't keep it still. When you are trying to balance it you keep on
going in a circle and pumping up the bottom ring through the ball
bearing. Some people have a knack for this and get it spinning real fast.
In short the demo is a hoax and the people that report this
"phenomena" are naive.
Yomba
PS. Hamel's following is a religious cult. It is based on faith and
not science. If you listen to Hamel or read the descriptions of his
inventions you will find that the guy has no idea about physics and is
nothing but a crackpot. I would not even let him change a spark plug.
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for
more reading of free energy scams check
out the perpetual motion chapter of Jack Phins 'the 7 Follies of Science' -
also the book 'Perpetual Motion: The History of an Obsession' and 'The
Perpetual motion Mystery ' by John Collins and 'The Manual of Free Energy
Devices and Systems' by D. A. Kelly. I have tried to let all the latest
free energy claimants know of my
prize for proof
· The Museum of Unworkable
Devices a great overview of them
· INE Free Energy
Devices Database - - another great list of FE claims
Creator of this
here page and his skeptic pages
and crack pot pages
Milt's discussion of Free
Energy and Ceti
A excellent history of perpetual motion machines from an
Australian skeptic
· FAQs
· My open prize money for a real free
energy machine
back to my
main page about Dennis Lee. -
· 
how to become a Free Energy con man
· what about 300 mpg carburetors?
· Eric's discussion of real forms of
free energy
· A more believing
history of free energy claims
· Another good overview
of Free energy claimants Crank
Dot Net | free energy
· Bob Schadewald claims to have
invented a Perpetual
motion machine - but will the big conspiracy stop him?
· EXTRAORDINARY
CLAIMS REQUIRE EXTRAORDINARY EVIDENCE!
· . FREE
ENERGY FAQ
· For a totally
different interpretation, check out this conspiracy believing history of free energy 'inventions'
I think the writer of it doesn't understand that many fraud perpetrators claim
they've been offered outrageous sums to hook investors and then disappear after
being detected to avoid incarceration - which gets interpreted by believers as
evidence of a conspiracy.
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