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  • The silhouette of this video would have looked like something else.

  • I tried this using ferrite beads. It worked sort of. You need two candles (or flames) to heat the ferrite bead right in front of the magnet and the ferrite bead just past the magnet. This forces magnet attraction to the to rotate the wheel. With only one flame or candle, only the ferrite bead in front on the magnet loses attraction. The beads one either side, are mutually attracted to the magnet and locks the wheel in position preventing and resisting any wheel rotation. Hope that helps you.

  • In theory, tab would be attracted to magnet, turning wheel as magnet pulls it, then heated at the sticking point, which would allow it to move away from magnet. Magnet would attract next tab, again turning the wheel. And so on, and so on.

    LOL, who knows, maybe it would work.

  • Extremely interesting. YouTube is an awesome learning tool. How could this be used for real work? Not sure, but I'll take a stab at it.

    You could make a wheel with metal on the outer rim spaced properly. Put a powerful magnet close to the rim. Put a candle at the point where metal "sticks" to the magnet. (The metal Monel might work best, needing low heat for this)

  • Nice

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  • lol doin this 4 a science fair project :D

  • This could have great potential uses in applications that already generate a lot of waste heat. This could eliminate the need for electrically powered pumps in power plants that already generate waste heat.

  • I plan to make it solar powered.

  • Pretty neat. Much akin to the drinking bird toy, but without the puddle of water under the bird (you get a puddle of wax instead).

    Well, not truly akin to the drinking bird, because the form of the potential and kinetic energy is different, but basically a novelty motion toy is what I mean by ''akin.'' Same thing with the Greek steam engine - what can we do with this?

  • The metal Monel 400 has a curie temperature of 35 deg C / 95 deg F

    Perfect for a Solar Powered Magnet Motor

  • incredible

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