Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Magnetic Engine

A friend of mine is in the process of developing
a magnetic engine. He has build some prototypes
and is currently working on developing a better
one. Info on this is located at:

http://www.magnetic-engines.com/magnetic/index.php

I think that this brings up a lot of interesting ideas.
One idea that clearly comes to mind is that lots of
development relating our concepts of atoms connect - in a somewhat
indirect way to the idea of magnetism, though it
is a bit difficult to see that clearly.
So one interesting thought on this line is scaling
the idea of a magnetic engine - to the nano-engineering
level. I'm not sure what has been done directly
in that way.

Otherwise, I don't have a lot of details on it other than what
is on this site.