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What if the magnet was a gas? Stan Meyer's 1982 Electrical Particle Generator

Every generator you've used spins a magnet past a coil, on bearings, often through brushes. In April 1982 Stan Meyer filed one with no spinning magnet at all: a closed loop of non-magnetic pipe holding "a substantial quantity of magnetic elements", which the patent says "may be particles suspended i

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Every generator you've used spins a magnet past a coil, on bearings, often through brushes. In April 1982 Stan Meyer filed one with no spinning magnet at all: a closed loop of non-magnetic pipe holding "a substantial quantity of magnetic elements", which the patent says "may be particles suspended in a fluid medium such as gas, liquid, or light-weight movable solid particles and more preferably gas." A primary coil (the "magnetic accelerator") drives the particles round the loop, and a pickup coil downstream catches the voltage as their fields pass. He filed it in the United States and then in Europe (EP 0098897, published January 1984), Canada (CA 1,213,671) and Japan (JP 58-207610). A magnet you can pour isn't science fiction: ferrofluid, magnetic particles suspended in a liquid, came out of NASA in 1963. At Deer Creek in 1985 Stan put the question that matters: once the loop is permanently magnetized, "is there any more energy going in to maintain that magnetic field? No." Which leaves the one his patent never answers with a number: what does it cost to keep that field moving, and what comes out of the coil? The patent and the 1985 tape are on stanslegacy.com.

About the voices. The narrator is NeuralStan, an AI voice the archive uses for its made films. Where you hear Stan Meyer, it is Stan: every word of his is cut from an original recording, and nothing he says was synthesised.

Sources

  • Stan Meyer · Deer Creek, Ohio · 1985
  • Stan Meyer · EP 0098897, Electrical Particle Generator · filed 1982, Fig. 1 (labels added)
  • Stan Meyer · EP 0098897, Electrical Particle Generator · filed 1982, Fig. 6
  • Stan Meyer · EP 0098897, Electrical Particle Generator · filed 1982
  • Ferrofluid · Gregory F. Maxwell · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Stan Meyer, Electrical Generator Utilizing Magnetized Particles, EP 0098897 A2 (priority US 367,051, 9 April 1982; published 25 January 1984); CA 1,213,671; JP 58-207610 — stanslegacy.com
  • Stan Meyer, Deer Creek, Ohio, 1985, at 1:44:26 and 1:45:07 — stanslegacy.com
  • Ferrofluid photo: Gregory F. Maxwell, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

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