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           I just saved $20 by doing a quick search on the Internet

> From: — Permanent Electricity using MAGNETS??? YES! For only $20!!! —-
>         <[email protected] [1]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Produkt Rekommenderad av — Permanent Electricity using MAGNETS???
>         YES! For only $20!!! —-
> Date: 28 Sep 2011 05:44:24 +0200
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> K?ra [email protected],
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> Hello, My name is Ronald Bronson and I'm going to show you how to eliminate
> your power bill. My Free Energy Blueprint kit is going to show you how to
> build a magnetic free energy generator,
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> http://myls.me/r/?cn=magnet
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> which is a device which increases energy efficiency, and propels itself
> perpetually using a series of magnets. When properly implemented, this
> device can power your whole household for free.
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> http://myls.me/r/?cn=magnet
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> It's only $20!!!
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> Hurry!!
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Well, I hate to inform Ronald Bronson but all electricity is made via
magnetism—it's just how you rotate a coil of wires through a magnetic field
that varies, some generators use running water (hydro-electric), some use
steam to drive the turbines that turn the wires (nuclear, oil, coal) and some
use gasoline to drive a crankshaft (home generators, backup generators, your
car).

But still, I'm curious, so I go to the page. There, I learn that it'll take
as little as $200 in supplies, or maybe even as low as $50, or it could be
for as little as $100, I too, could be generating electricity to power my
home and free myself from the shackles of The Monopolistic Power Company!
This device can generate 180W (watts) of electricity at 420 RPM (Revolutions
per minute), and it can produce more at faster rates.

Oh, so tempting!

The plans are for a “Permanent Magnetic Generator” (it says so right on that
page), and a quick search revealed the plans for such a generator [2].
Reading through the plans [3] I get the feeling that had I spent $20 I would
have received a copy of what I'm reading right now. Yup, page 5 shows a graph
of Watts/RPM and yes, it looks like you can get 180W at 420 RPM. And yes, the
list of tools fits on a single page, and the list of materials take a bit
over a page. And all the materials required are probably available at a local
hardware or home improvement store.

Isn't it amazing what one can find on the Internet for free these days?

But the question now becomes, can it power your house? I seriously doubt it:

> The PMG (Permanent Magnetic Generator) works at low rotational speed. The
> chart shows the power output of the PMG, charging a 12 volt battery. At 420
> rpm it generates 180 watts, which is 15 amps at 12 volts (15A (Amps) × 12V
> (Volts) = 180W).
>
> At higher speed, the PMG can generate more power. But high currents cause
> the coils to heat up, and so the efficiency gets worse as the output
> current gets higher.
>

And even if it could, you still need a way to get the thing spinning. The
plans show you can attach the motor to a windmill (plans not included).

So much for getting off the grid.

Even more amusing, at the bottom of the page is this bit of verbiage:

> This page is protected by copyscape. Do not copy.
>

Again, I hate to inform Ronald Bronson, but the very act of viewing the page
made a copy. That's how the web works—the web browser requests a page, and
the web server sends a copy of the page. Saying “do not copy this page”
really translates as “do not view this page.”

But that aside, there really is such a thing as “copyscape.” It's a website
[4] that apparently exists to ferret out websites that plagiarize other
websites. Okay, that makes a bit more sense. So let's see if the site selling
the permanent magnetic generator plans is a copy … wow! Over ten copies of
that site exist [5].

So much for that verbiage keeping other copies off the Inernet.

[1] mailto:[email protected]
[2] http://www.scoraigwind.com/pmgbooklet/
[3] http://www.scoraigwind.com/pmgbooklet/itpmg.pdf
[4] http://www.copyscape.com/
[5] http://www.copyscape.com/?q=http%3A%2F%2Fmyls.me%2Fmagnet%2F

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