woodycat's Journal: Perpetual motion or hoax?

The Star reports on this inventor breaking all the laws of physics as far as free energy goeshttp://www.thestar.com/sciencetech/article/300042#t. Hoax or real? Even provoked interest from "esteemed Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Markus Zahn" [quote]. I would like to know how this seemingly backyard enthusiast's experimental set up has not been tried a million times over the years. It seems so simple and too good to be true. The article has links to a multipart video demo of the device accelerating an electric motor under load for free!!!

Thane HEINS' alleged perpetual motion machine.

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In video #1 of HEINS' demonstration video, he uses technical phrases such as 'back emf' and 'magnetic flux' in an awkward and inappropriate context for his machine, and for all electrical rotating machinery. He reveals that he is not educated and qualified in the engineering demonstration he is trying to prove. In addition, his measurement protocol (meters, etc) gives readings of inappropriate parameters for this demonstration. Such criticism of course will not convince the 'true believer' in perpetual mo