"Free energy"?

Question

I ve been dabbling into trying to understand this as my boss keeps talking about it. He keeps discussing how many people have created "free" energy devices but they can t be patented as it d ruin the economy and oil Industry.
I m aware that energy is neither created nor destroyed, as it is just converted from one form to another. He s mentioned that magnets could be how they make this energy and it gets irritated that people say it can t be done
Well, if you could make something using magnets to "create" energy, wouldn t it just be a conversion of Magnetic Energy to whatever you re converting it to? Making it possible if you could find some way to actually start the conversion?

Answer 1

your boss is not logical :/

Answer 2

There is no free energy. Even solar and wind power require a huge investment in equipment and are subject to the day night cycle for solar and winds rise/fall for wind power. the acreage required for either is vast and usually grazing lands. There are MANY regulations to contend with and environmental groups to fight with.

It isn't free.

Tell him that if it is free then he should invest in it. If he does invest in it , find another job because he is going to lose big time.

He is ignorant of reality.

Answer 3

If there really were "free energy" authoritarian governments would have long ago taken advantage. Surely the tiny, overpopulated nation of Japan would stop building nuclear power plants if energy is free! The stupidity of the free energy morons is boundless.

Answer 4

There is lots of free energy, it's called solar and geothermal. It's free and what the planet runs on, even fossil fuels are the result of stored solar energy. Solar panels are the most ready form of free energy.

The reason that it's not really free is someone somewhere is going to try to make a profit out of it.

Answer 5

Ask him to define the free energy. You will get the answer.

Answer 6

Just explain to your boss there is no such thing as 'magnetic energy' in the sense he thinks. Just like there is no 'gravity energy'. Magnetism is much like gravity, except it is a much, much more powerful force in the way a little magnet overcomes the gravity of the whole earth acting on a steel ball for instance. There are four forces in nature that we know about. The weak and strong nuclear forces, electromagnetic force and gravity. There is of course no such thing as an over unity engine or perpetual motion machine which contradict the most un-contradictable laws in physics. The laws of thermodynamics. Anyone so far who says they have run their car on water or made a magnetic motor that runs itself or a perpetual machine (all the same thing to the laws of thermodynamics) is a con man, nuts or both. Tell your boss to wiki the laws of T. next time he mentions it, and add magnetism is a force not an energy generator.

Answer 7

Wow, you guys are a little harsh towards my boss, but thankyou for the answers. Lol.

Answer 8

Exactly. You would end up converting magnetic properties into movement, until the magnet gets too weak and you need to replace it with a new one. Free energy (out of nothing) is a myth.

Answer 9

Your boss is an idiot. He clearly knows even less about physics than he does about economics.

Answer 10

He is a conspiracy theorist, with his head up his asre

Answer 11

Free energy is energy available to do work.

Answer 12

There is no such thing as "magnetic energy". Magnets aren't a power source. However, you can have magnetic potential energy: 2 magnets at a certain distance pull on each other. Their potential energy gets converted to kinetic energy as they approach each other. Now, what are you going to do? You need to input energy to separate them. The same thing happens with an object in a gravitational field: You can drop a hammer. Its gravitational potential energy gets converted to kinetic energy. To lift it back up, you need to input energy. Where did the original energy go? It was converted to heat and sound. The sound also gets converted to heat. The heat spreads out in the environment.

Answer 13

hope your boss knows more about running a business than he does about physics



just leave him alone and let hm enjoy his fantasies



(but you COULD ask - what does he mean by "free"

e.g does he mean "free" as in zero cost?)

Answer 14

Yes. If you used 'magnetic energy' somehow, the magnets would become demagentised. You would then need more energy to re-magnetise them.



Free energy scams are quite common. At best, they are for a joke. At worst they are used to defraud people who are enticed to invest in them.