The Minato Effect

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Uploaded by on May 14, 2009

In this video I demonstrate the autokinetic magnet propulsion effect, also known as the Minato Effect. It's easy for a well-balanced wheel with magnets to be propelled quite rapidly, if the researcher is holding the stator by hand. Oddly enough, the effort required to hold the stator motionless, as the retracpulsion (tm) and repultraction (tm) rotor magnet zones move past the stator position will actually drive the rotor.

You can duplicate this effect with just about any reasonable arrangement of magnets, which probably accounts for the wide variety of (non working) magnet motor designs--they all passed through this kind of manual testing stage, and the inventors were convinced by what they saw--the stator can be held motionless yet the rotor still turns.

Unfortunately, as we all know, as soon as the stator is rigidly mounted the rotor begins to run down. But a heavy rotor can take a long time to run down.

Remember: Howard Johnson never unequivocally demonstrated a self-runner; what he showed the USPTO to get his patent was a subset of his patent claims, a linear SMOT, and did not "close the loop." And others who reportedly witnessed HJ's motor saw it turning only for 12-15 or even 20 minutes...no big deal, certainly no proof of a self-runner, and easy to achieve with a heavy disk and good bearings.

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  • CHE CAGATAAAAAAAAAAAAAA !!

  • @lucacazzulo

    It's amazing how many people are fascinated by a random poster on the wall, and not by the Minato effect itself.

    OK: here's the story of the poster. I walk around a lot. The poster was in a pile of trash from somebody's move-out and I picked it up. I can read a little Spanish and I liked the poem which is on the poster. El Che was who he was; people died and peoples were liberated, like it or not.

    It's still a nice poem.

  • How in the hell can you listen to that music! jesus

  • @bigchad007 I put the music on there specifically to annoy you, BigChad. I'm glad to hear that it worked. Myself, I always wear earplugs when I'm at home.

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  • You ruined this video with loud azz music..... wth

  • kids dont do drugs

  • The jazz is nice but it would be better to hear what you're actually saying without that cacophonous clatter in the background. jazz or speech... choose one.

  • BTW nice music gotta love jazz

  • 0:15 CHE

  • @TinselKoala hi ... I highly respect what El Che did ... that said ... I just hope you know that all attempts at magnetic motors are doomed to failure ... just my two (euro)cents :-)

  • @godin007

    You're welcome.

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