Searl Effect Generator

Perpetual motion machine


caption=The Searl Effect Generator
name=Searl Effect Generator
topics=Physics and engineering
claims= The device rotates and converts environmental ambient temperatures into useful coherent electrical currents.
origyear= 1940s
origprop=John Searl
currentprop=unknown
lawviolation=second law of thermodynamicsThe Searl Effect Generator (SEG), invented by John Searl, is claimed to be an "open system energy converting device" which is "capable of converting ambient sources of energy to electrical power".

Claims

The device is described as a generator made of four distinct material layers for both stator and rotor in sets of three stages. It is said to function with same principles of a linear motor (induction) with multi-phase rollers riding on a magnetic bearing Fact|date=December 2007. It is claimed that the device extracts energy from the local environment without having a "sink" of lower energy - it follows from this claim that the device is a perpetual motion machine of the second kind.

It is also claimed that the device achieves superconductivity and generates "anti-gravity"cite web |url=http://www.americanantigravity.com/searleffect.html |title=The Father of Modern Antigravity] cite paper|author=Sandberg, Brown, Paul, S. Gunnar|title=The Searl Effect Generator|publisher=American Antigravity|url=http://americanantigravity.com./documents/Paul-Brown/SEGDesignConstruction.pdf|format=PDF] Sigma, Rho (1996) "Ether-Technology: A Rational Approach to Gravity Control", Adventures Unlimited Press, ISBN 0932813348] Childress, D. Hatcher {1995) "The Free-Energy Device Handbook: A Compilation of Patents & Reports", Adventures Unlimited Press, ISBN 0932813240] Thomas, John A. (1993) "Antigravity: The Dream Made Reality, the Story of John R.R. Searl", DIS, ISBN 1898827990]

There is no independent verification of these claims.

History

Searl claims to have conducted his initial experimental research and development from 1946 to 1956, when he was an apprentice employee of BR Rewinds at Grays Inn Road, London. There he gained permission to use the company's facilities and technical resources to make the device. In December 1946, with all of the magnetic components manufactured to his specifications, he assembled the generator in his residence at 30 Crawley Rd, Haringey, London, UK. He claims that the initial prototypes worked but were lost during testing.

In 1991 Anders Heerfordt tried to verify various claims made by Searl regarding the history and loss of Searl's devices. Heerfordt was unable to find witnesses who had seen the SEG or IGV machines operating. Searl claims that his earlier work was destroyed in a house fire, but Heerfordt did not find any evidence of such a fire. cite web |url=http://www.textfiles.com/bbs/KEELYNET/GRAVITY/searle2.asc |title=Heerfordt Investigation pt.2]

Searl and his supporters point to various documents that back their claims, but the origin of these documents is unknown. For example, it is claimed that Gunnar Sandberg wrote a paper about the device.cite web |url=http://www.americanantigravity.com/documents/Paul-Brown/SEGDesignConstruction.pdf |title=Gunnar Sandberg Report] But Sandberg is reported as saying that none of the claimed effects were demonstrated to him by Searl, only some magnetics where shown. Heerfordt also reports that Sandberg located one of Searl's sons "who had seen disks being suspended from wires, so that they could be photographed, but who hadn't seen any demonstration of antigravity or free energy."cite web |url=http://www.textfiles.com/bbs/KEELYNET/GRAVITY/searle1.asc |title=Heerfordt Investigation pt.1]

The authenticity of the paper from Godin and Roschin cite web |url=http://www.rialian.com/rnboyd/godin-roschin.htm |title=Searl's Device, V. V. Roschin and S. M. Godin, Institute for High Temperatures, Russian Academy of Science] cannot be verified. The webpage of the Russian Academy of Sciences does not list the authors or the paper. cite web |url=http://www.ras.ru/members/personalstaff1724.aspx |title=Russian Academy of Science - Persons List since 1724] cite web |url=http://www.ras.ru/eis_findpubl.aspx |title=Russian Academy of Science - Publications search] cite web |url=http://www.ras.ru/eis_findperson.aspx |title=Russian Academy of Science - Persons search]

In 2004 it was reported that the paper from Godin/Roschin is a forgery, created to support a fraud. The journal that published this paper later apologized for having it published.The paper was never written at the Academy, nor that such a device was ever available there.cite web |url=http://torsionfraud.narod.ru/akimov_shipov_torsion_field/torsion_fields_Godin_Roschin.htm |title="S.M. Godin & V.V. Roschin falsificators & pseudoscientists" on torsionfraud.narod.ru]

Another source close to Searl states "photos of a model that he used to generate fake composite photos (with the help of a newspaper photographer)". In addition this source confirms Searl's claim of being a victim of the free energy suppression.cite web |url=http://www.rexresearch.com/searl2/searl3.htm |title=Rex-Research mention of fake Photos from Searl devices]

According to Searl's own accounts when he first activated his device, the rollers (rotors) began to spin around the plate (stator), generating a charge-pumping action of electron pairs on to the open circuit configuration. He further claimed that at threshold speed, the device maintained its rotation with no additional energy input from the peripheral electromagnets as the generator converted ambient sources energy for drive with the generated electrical currents.

Searl also claims to have had his house powered from one of his SEG devices. However, press reports indicate that instead he bypassed the electric meter. Searl was subsequently convicted for stealing electricity and damaging the property of the electricity company. The Times, 26th November 1982, titled "Electricity thief risked blackout of the South"] He then engaged in a vendetta against the electricity company. The Times, 5th January 1983, titled "Engineer jailed for vendetta"] cite web |url=http://youtube.com/watch?v=c__xh9RlWgo |title=Newspaper articles as video]

Searl claims that the electric company confiscated his home SEG, which incited him to threaten the electric company. According to Searl's own account, a colleague of Searl's - Dr. George White - was aware of the home SEG. Searl claims that White saw the device working when he showed up against instructions. cite book |author=Prof. John R.R. Searl |date=August 18,1993) |title=The Law of the Squares Book 1C |publisher=SISRC UK LTD |id=ISBN 189882794X |page=page 127]

The device

It is claimed that the device is designed according to Searl's numerology called "Law of Squares", which is based on magic squares.

The SEG (Searl Effect Generator) is a series of three magnetic rings and their particular cylindrical pieces of magnetic counterparts. They form a flat configuration where there are three solid magnetic rings functioning as stators and a space for the smaller oppositely magnetized magnetic pieces considered rotors. The pieces are at the same time drawn around to the solid magnetic rings and repulsed when rotating in a manner that they float about 1 or 2mm steadily above the surface of the ring. This works with the first inner ring as well as the other second and third ring. The second ring is placed around the smaller set of a ring and pieces. The first set contains 12 rollers. The rollers of the second ring would be drawn outward from the first ring. The second magnetic ring also rotates the roller around it and so on with the third ring. The set thus is as follows: Ring - Rollers - Ring – Rollers – Ring - Rollers. The second ring contains an additional 10 rollers and the third has 10 more than the second because the rings are bigger in diameter. Fact|date=December 2007

The SEG is composed of four distinct materials in the same order sequence layering from the inside to outside for both stator rings and rotors or rollers.
* Neodymium – A bright, silvery rare-earth metal used as a Collector of free electrons on an open system and functions as a base or reservoir of free electrons.
* Teflon or Nylon 66 – said to act as a Gate or regulator of electron pairs migration to the next layer.
* Permanent Magnetic material – acts as an Accelerator of the electrons due to the changing or undulation magnetic fields of the revolving and orbiting rollers around the stator ring.
* Copper – acts as an Emitter of high velocity electrons sourced from the Neodymium and develops the eddy currents that set up a magnetic bearing between stator and rollers.

Sources

* [http://www.searlsolution.com/ John Searl's Website] London, England
* [http://swallowcommand.com/ John Searl's latest Website] Europe
* [http://www.searleffect.com/ The Searl Effect] , from John Thomas of Rochester, NY

References

Unverifiable sources

* [http://www.helsinki.fi/~matpitka/faraday.pdf About Strange Effects Related to Rotating Magnetic Systems] [Please note that the author's credentials are controversial and that the authenticity of the paper is not verified]

External links and self-referencing sources

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8qvSNkiB9M video] of voltage controlled SEG mockup (May 2007).
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yID01RjBzDE video] of 12-roller mockup.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM_s0dXRk48 One Roller Mock Up of the SEG ]
* [http://pesn.com//2007/02/21/9500458_Searl_demo_video/ Demo Video Information ]
* [http://www.americanantigravity.com/categories/Research/Paul-Brown-Secret-Notebook/ Dr. Paul Brown's SEG Notebook] , from purported replication experiments by Dr. Paul Brown in the 1980s
* [http://www.americanantigravity.com/articles/82/1/John-Searl-Interview/Page1.html Meet the Father of Modern Antigravity! American Antigravity-Tim Ventura interviews John Searl.]
* [http://www.opensourceenergy.org/_layouts/apps/vplayer2.asp?vID=24 Searl lecture] , Video filmed in 1994 at the IFNE Conference in Denver, CO
* [http://www.americanantigravity.com/articles/675/1/ Dr. Terry Moore Interview on the 2007 SEG Prototype] , from American Antigravity