For some time now, scientists have been working on concepts such as free energy, generated from abundant and free sources. And that's where electromagnetism and magnetic motor announcements come in. Is that really possible?
Despite the existence of multiple videos, some of them very viral on social networks, and the fact that the first attempts to achieve something like this date back more than eight hundred years, the fact is that the greatest barrier that the magnetic motor encounters in its path is precisely thermodynamics. To understand this, we must first know how a magnetic motor works.
The basis of such an ingenuity is the magnets which, as everyone knows, when opposing poles are joined together, they attract but, on the other hand, when it comes to approaching poles of the same sign, they repel each other; what would happen if this repulsion were to be exploited by placing magnets facing each other along the diameter of a wheel?
On paper, this force of repulsion would manage to move the endless wheel or, at least, until the end of the life of the magnetism in the magnets, which can last up to 400 years. That is why we talk about free or even perpetual energy.
The theory drew such a potential that even in projects developed in Argentina, such as the Torian III, instead of using the traditional ferrite magnets, they chose to use artificial neodymium magnets, which are much more powerful. The more power, the more energy, they thought, and their videos even talked about self-sufficiency of energy generating 12 volts.
However, a physical detail is detrimental to the viability of the magnetic motor: if we want two magnets to repel each other, we have to waste energy by approximating them and, according to various experiments, this energy is the same as that generated by the repulsion itself. So there is no usable useful energy because the energy that brings the magnets closer together simply has to come from somewhere.
Energy is neither created nor destroyed, it is transformed, according to the laws of thermodynamics then, where does this energy come from to bring the magnets closer together? After all, energy in physics is the ability to do work, which is what it takes for us to do that work.
On the other hand, and in the hypothetical case that this were indeed possible, although it is true that the magnetic motor would represent a great advance, we cannot think of perpetual energy either, since sooner or later and for a mere matter of mechanical resistance failure, some of its parts would end up breaking down.
There is therefore no plot by the big oil companies to prevent the development of what would undoubtedly be a great past for environmental protection: the magnetic motor, today, more myth than reality.