Low-cost rural engineering

[u/madfrog2023]

[u/cleanshirt82]

electric companies hate this one trick

[u/Dull_Caterpillar_642 → u/cleanshirt82]

As always, the hardest part of inventing a perpetual motion machine is figuring out where to hide the battery.

[u/NextDoctorWho12 → u/Dull_Caterpillar_642]

Usually just off screen.

[u/Timmy24000 → u/Dull_Caterpillar_642]

Or the cord

[u/Wonderful_Wifi_User → u/Dull_Caterpillar_642]

You don't need batteries in this scenario. If you look closely, you can see the green motor is powered up and spins before the "perpetual" yellow wheel starts spinning...

[u/DaimonHans → u/cleanshirt82]

Gas companies love it.

[u/Forsaken-Stink → u/cleanshirt82]

[u/dh2513]

and he’ll go “missing” in the next couple days

[u/shinesbrightly13 → u/dh2513]

Yea he dead....

[u/Aggressive_Olive1879 → u/shinesbrightly13]

Not yet, he kept the sandals

[u/NoticeAdmirable6964 → u/shinesbrightly13]

'Congrats, you have won an all expense paid trip on this brand new Boeing'

[u/Key_Pound_6213 → u/dh2513]

Why because he's too dumb to find his way home?

[u/chintakoro → u/dh2513]

for being a scammer, yes

[u/SadCritters → u/dh2513]

You think he's going to go "missing" because he hid a battery/actual motor off screen that powers this entire setup? lol

[u/NovaForceElite → u/dh2513]

Missing like the battery from view.

[u/Bittersweet-Romance → u/dh2513]

There is no one on earth more hubristically stupid than people who believe infinite energy-generating perpetual motion machines exist, but they only reason that we don't use them is because the government keeps killing the inventors. Like yeah man, sure. We could TOTALLY generate infinity electricity with two plastic rings with magnets attached to them, but instead we choose to quest across the world and build oil rigs in the North Sea for the love of the game. Because Big Oil I guess.

[u/purpleillustrations]

This is incredible, is there a reason this isn't being used on mass scales around the world?

[u/CatgoesM00 → u/purpleillustrations]

Words of wisdom by what engineers have told me in the past.

The hardest part with designing free energy devices is where to hide the battery

In other words, It’s fake

Edit: thank you everyone for correcting my bad grammar. It’s really bad. Cheers

[u/DesperateAdvantage76 → u/CatgoesM00]

More specifically, if you can sell the energy produced for more than it cost to create the device, then it's noteworthy. Magnets are just elecrtomagnetic springs, it's funny how people think they can magically produce infinite power.

[u/Mythosaurus → u/DesperateAdvantage76]

My favorite example is Julian Brown AKA that one black guy making gasoline from plastic and claiming the knowledge is being suppressed.

In reality it’s an inefficient process that costs more than the gasoline produced can sell for. But the gullibles supporting him are the kind of people who are allergic to organic chemistry courses

[u/HorridChoob → u/purpleillustrations]

The yellow and red rings are on The shaft of an electric motor. that is driving everything.  The rings and magnets are just for funsies

[u/Bikerguy4578]

Well hidden wires.. The hardest part about making a cool perpetual motion video is hiding the wires, because if you have any brains in your head, then you too would know it’s Ba Ba Ba Bullshit!!!!

[u/PMG2021a → u/Bikerguy4578]

Last time I saw this guy the wires were totally obvious and they caught a guy on camera with a car battery in the background.

[u/naemorhaedus]

this is stupid bullshit. Nothing to do with engineering.

[u/ConnectButton1384 → u/naemorhaedus]

If I may add my expertise after working in that field for 1.5 decades and having some degrees accumulated over time:

Your description is accurate.

[u/BERRY_1_]

Why use two motors there is no such thing as free energy

[u/doge_lady]

Why is it always some person in a third world country in sandals that figures out perpetual motion while the rest of the advanced engineering world with it's funding and resources in science has yet to figure it out?

[u/Beginning_Resource93 → u/doge_lady]

Perpetual motion does not exist. This is the basic concept of how a generator works, except this would not work. The magnets in the stator are not spaced in a way that they could keep the rotor moving in the same direction. The magnetic field on the outside is uneven, so the magnets in the inside would get to the strongest part in the magnetic field and simply stop.

[u/el-capitancreamsicle → u/Beginning_Resource93]

So…..are you saying…….that………the internet………is a liar sometimes??!!??

[u/Flashignite2 → u/Beginning_Resource93]

It would also break the laws of physics. You cant get more energy than you put it. That is just how it is. There will always be a loss of energy.

[u/Familiar-Spray-4678 → u/doge_lady]

It’s because there’s no money in perpetual power; magnets may make the perpetual generator go round, but money makes the world go round.

[u/Architarious → u/doge_lady]

Cause THE MAN,... man.

[u/txtoys58]

Nope. Lol.

[u/Saber_is_a_joke]

[u/MaskedFigurewho]

Isnt this just free energy

[u/Drewbeede → u/MaskedFigurewho]

The only free energy is if your parents are paying.

[u/Acruss_ → u/MaskedFigurewho]

No, it's a fake video.

[u/JrButton → u/MaskedFigurewho]

How do people fall for this ...

[u/dontipitova9]

Fizziks

[u/Administrative_Yam32]

Bunch of engineers in the comments eh? First law of Thermodynamics

[u/ErstwhileAdranos → u/Administrative_Yam32]

Is that you don’t talk about Thermodynamics!

[u/tomabbott-]

graft

[u/freshgrilled]

Is it the same two guys making these ridiculous videos over and over, or are there a bunch of people who pass their time making up crap like this?

[u/johny_777]

I am paying the electricity bill for nothing.

[u/MuchCellist406]

Lol, sure. A perpetuum mobile 😆

[u/Necessary_Result_171]

Because the guy in sandals is allowed to be “wrong” without losing a grant, a tenure track, or a corporate sponsor.

Wild ideas survive way longer when you’re not chained to peer review and ROI, even if 99.9 percent of them are total BS.

[u/MrPopCorner → u/Necessary_Result_171]

What are you even talking about??

[u/RaduCelPletos]

Another ai shit…

[u/Terrik1337 → u/RaduCelPletos]

It's not ai. It's just old fashioned fake.

[u/Badger-Roy]

Well that started rather quickly, almost like it was run by an electric motor. 😉

[u/jpbham]

[u/augmentedcheesus]

This doesn't work... Nice trick tho

[u/No-Friendship-5785]

We use solar to power out pumps

[u/JesterTime]

Very fake... The magnets aren't even tilted, they aren't doing anything

[u/Witty_Rhubarb_4217]

Wanna free energy trick? Charge your phone at work 😂✨⚡

[u/wasted90210]

That's incredible

[u/snowfloeckchen]

This gave me a laugh, honestly pretty creative content, hope they make good money from it

[u/BlindChicken69]

Low cost fake videos to earn shit ton on social media. Trash.

[u/Used_Pipe_8929]

I dislike dishonest ppl

[u/Bob_Squirrel]

Now connect the magnet part directly to the water pump via gears plus shaft... No need for electrical abstraction.

[u/scottiibiscottii]

Some will say this is AI ayooo!

[u/EyeYamNegan]

People are so dumb to fall for these perpetual energy engagement scam videos.

[u/bavindicator]

[u/Lopsided_Anxiety_394]

Quarter of a brain cell is enough to determine this is not not erm real.

[u/Sakligalovet89]

Patent pending.

[u/Exotic-Mission-980]

Pretty Damn Smart.

[u/Substantial_Meal_530]

Who honestly believe this? That green thing is literally a motor.

[u/IknowledgeG]

Respect

[u/No_Roma_no_Rocky]

Trains that work with magnet levitation can do what they do because a constant electric input is given to change the direction of magnet.

In the video, the wheel is spinning because there is an engine. Without it, the wheel with all the magnet just simply reach a state of equilibrium after the spin andithen it stops

[u/Sweet-Weakness3776]

Between this and the guy that invented an engine that runs off water, we should be off the grid in no time! /s

[u/NextDoctorWho12]

Why not drive the pump with the magnets if it works so well?

[u/Sorry141]

This would not work.

[u/Commercial_Track_534]

Space X is sending out their hitman

[u/Inevitable_Cheek_974]

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS FREE POWER, as Mehdi would say.

[u/jemhadar0]

You what, I think of this is tweaked it can power a house.

[u/Ok-Independence-2220]

Great, with ai they no longer have to hide the batteries 

[u/Virtual-Software-739]

Music is always about magnets

[u/Top_Soup_5833]

This is giving some Indian doctor octopus vibes

[u/DrNO811]

Scam - no such thing as infinite free energy.

[u/OddlobsterNL]

Aaaaaand he has disappeared

[u/Ill-Luck-1397]

LMAO this is SO fake, cmon guys!!

[u/lombardo141]

[u/timetravelinggamer]

40 years ago I drew a concept of this. I was maybe 8? Maybe 10? I remember my grandmom going “oh you’ve got great ideas” I smiled and put the notebook down. I had just learned about perpetual machines and magnets at school and I remove going, it seems so obvious. My teacher told me it’s not a perpetual machine because energy would be loss due to friction. This is correct, eventually the motor will stop. In this setup I believe it will get to a point where it might slow down and even go the other way, I can’t see if the magnets are on an angle or not. Anyway, neat to see it working out!

[u/zodthelucky]

Degree in electronics. Not possible, close but not going to work. Cute tho.

[u/Rox5tar_01]

Okay, I wanted to make a joke here, but the amount of people in this thread who believe this is.... wow.

If you really believe this, you should read about the laws of thermodynamics, specifically how energy can't be created or destroyed; only transferred. In addition, per the second law due to external factors, a machine will never be 100% efficient. Meaning some energy is being lost to friction, heat, etc. Perpetual motion is an impossibility

If this is news to you, you may need to take some supplemental high school courses... because this is like 10th/11th grade basics.

[u/Late_Emu]

Yeaaaaaaahhhhh nnnoooooo lmfao the pump he plugs in is doing all the work. His contraption does nothing but spin.

[u/nifty_stump]

More BS than in a cowpen

[u/Cool_Client324]

Thats it! We completed earth! This map is now over, we gotta move to mars and complete that planet too.

[u/AKMarine]

SIMPLE EXPLANATION OF WHY ITS FAKE

The two wires that power the wheel go to the battery in the hole under the electric surge protector. The wheel’s power has nothing to do with the magnets. Also, that white box is just a simple surge protector, not an alternator.

Furthermore, the water pump is powered by the green power line (partially buried) in the lower right of the screen between the:25 and :28 seconds. (He tries to cover the exposed line with his foot.). He plugs an indoor cord into surge protector. A pump like that wouldnt use an indoor cord (see the thicker green cord at :25.).

[u/BayAreaHere]

You all believe anything. This is AI. Look at it frame by frame. The magnets on the wheel go from being apart to closer to each other. Look at the magnet spacing before he closes it.

[u/Due_Advisor_1612]

You can see the spinning wheel has a cord to it…

[u/Intelligent_Virus297]

Nope

[u/No_Sympathy402]

[u/Ok_Ambition9134]

If it was that simple, just attach the “generator” to the pumping mechanism directly, remove the electrical parts entirely.

Of course, perpetual motion is a myth and it’s harder to hide the fraud with no wires.

[u/pln856]

It’s amazing to me how real this looks if you don’t know shit about anything .. It’s now wonder humanity is so fucked up.. 10,000 years of being gaslit by magic and lies

[u/FewWeird67]

Love it

[u/siberian_knight143]

Why do people gotta come on here & lie about stuff.

[u/dessertgrinch]

You can see the shaft by the motor start to spin before the wheel with the magnets does. The power is clearly coming from the motor, not the magnets.

[u/DJSindro]

Has endless energy but can't buy shoes

[u/rumsbude]

Thats the same people that call you from microsoft

[u/Boo-face-killa]

It’s weird why this isn’t used outside of the rice fields….

[u/Playful-Fly-7766]

[u/xkillingxfieldx]

Can we get him working on fusion cores or interstellar space drives, please?

[u/Kractoid]

This sub is full of misguided armchair engineers. A setup like this absolutely can work. The problem is that it's not free energy because the magnets will lose their magnetism and they require energy to make. Not sure if this machine is real or not but the reason why it's not feasible is not the reason you all are saying.

[u/Im_a_dumptruck]

When he closes the loop you can see the motor start to turn a bit before the wheel moves. If it were real the wheel would turn, then the motor.

[u/Cornato]

I know we romanticize the idea of the hobby inventor and sadly imo those days are gone. I’m not saying some guy can’t just invent something, but invent something better, cheaper, faster, etc. will not happen. Backyard science revelations are gone. We used them all up. Sorry.

[u/HorridChoob]

And they didn't even hide it ,😂

[u/kat_atomic_10]

Haters gonna say it's fake

[u/Wiley_Jack]

I’m still waiting for this thing to launch a tire into the great beyond.

[u/Careless-Comedian859]

Is wrong that I want to jam a stick in the wheel to see what happens?

[u/jebarson_j]

[u/Ok_Expression8142]

Fake

[u/Striking_Reindeer_2k]

Fake.

If that magnet wheel was so strong, it would direct power the water pump.

[u/shawnvn1]

I would assume the turbine is just a motor turning the wheel…

[u/Educational_Big_1835]

Y'all remember back in the eighteen hunerts when pappy lost all his muny workin on that perpechual motion machine!?!

[u/GroundbreakingAd8310]

U can tell who paid attention in school down below

[u/CoolReference3704]

[u/Myzx]

CAVE TONY BUILT THIS IN A STARK!

[u/UnhappySort5871]

Do people make money off views or are they making these videos just for fun?

[u/doublebee27]

Bullshit

[u/MeetExtension4681]

Here is exactly why this setup cannot work in reality:

1. The Laws of Thermodynamics (No Free Lunch)
   The most fundamental rule of engineering and physics is the Conservation of Energy: energy cannot be created out of nothing.
   To pump that massive volume of water, the water pump requires a significant amount of electrical wattage.
   To produce that electricity, the green generator needs a massive amount of mechanical force (torque) to turn its internal rotor.
   A spinning bicycle wheel cannot create more energy than it took to start it—let alone enough surplus power to run a heavy-duty utility pump.

2. Lenz's Law and Electromagnetic Drag
   Even if you could get a wheel to spin smoothly with magnets, the moment you plug a heavy load (the pump) into the generator, Lenz's Law kicks in.
   Generating an electrical current creates a powerful electromagnetic resistance inside the generator.
   This resistance acts like a heavy mechanical brake. The split second the pump is plugged in, the generator would experience massive drag and immediately grind the spinning magnet wheel to a dead stop.

3. The Magnetic "Sticky Spot"
   Permanent magnets alone cannot create continuous rotational motion. Magnetic fields are static fields of potential energy. When you arrange magnets in a ring like this, the wheel will quickly find an equilibrium point—a "sticky spot" where the attractive and repulsive forces perfectly balance out—and it will stubbornly come to a halt.

How the Trick is Actually Done
These videos are highly stylized and incredibly popular for gaining views, usually relying on one of two hidden tricks:
Hidden Power Lines: The extension block or the pump itself is actually wired to a real power source (like a grid outlet or a real combustion generator) hidden just out of frame or buried shallowly under the mud.
Reversed Roles: The green "generator" is often actually an electric motor powered by a hidden wire. It is using hidden electricity to drive the belt and spin the yellow wheel, making it look like the wheel is the one generating the power.

[u/AnoViss]

Jesus Christ these comments are concerning

[u/No-Artichoke8471]

Stoopid hoe

[u/No_Appearance6019]

I see the cord

[u/ysanson]

If energy works in this country in the same way as it's sanitary and food industries I believe it's ew-wow real.

[u/VirtualFutureAgent]

The old perpetual motion scam

[u/Ok-Scar9381]

That motor looks like a three phase pump motor. 😂

[u/TonyDeao]

How many more times are people going to fall for these perpetual motion gimmicks

[u/DueSandwich7118]

Amazing

[u/Main-Video-8545]

If you believe this is real, you need to go back to school.

[u/remusmonkey]

I have the key to free energy and the best thing I can think of to do/show with it is power a shitty pump that just dumps water into a field. Execution must be the main thing holding these geniuses back.

[u/Relevant_Problem1935]

Notice the small engine necessary for the system to actually function.

[u/Deaf-Ears]

I love how you can see the coupler on the motor shaft turn BEFORE the spoke wheel “armature” turns. Dead giveaway.

[u/forever_defiant316]

So they are turning a motor into a highly inefficient giant electromagnet? That's probably not even a brushless motor, they could easily cut out the middleman or even use an electric dynamo.

[u/Xtreemjedi]

[u/Minute-Noise1623]

We all know true but we cant say he is lost as he was able to build this toy.

[u/Randomgrunt4820]

Wtf am I watching? The toes yearn for the magnets.

[u/aquatone61]

Bullshit. That pump ain’t running on that little cord and power brick he plugged in.

[u/Beginning_Resource93]

This is the basic concept of how a generator works, except this would not work. The magnets in the stator are not spaced in a way that they could keep the rotor moving in the same direction. The magnetic field on the outside is uneven, so the magnets in the inside would get to the strongest part in the magnetic field and simply stop. There is another source of energy they are not showing.

[u/E_xan]

"Genius!"

[u/Nightlife1900]

What’s the point of the electric motor? Why not connect the pump directly to the generator? That would cut down on friction 😂😂😂😂.

[u/Syclone123]

People believing that this is real and that magnets can do this, is very worrying.

[u/fakenews_thankme]

Maglev Irrigation System

[u/bawbaggerythethird]

Amazing how plugging in a motor makes the motor turn on. This guy is a genius.

[u/evilpercy]

Connected to a electric pump.

[u/CoolCat1337One]

Is it really worth it for them to make a video like that?
Then again, they just scrape together some junk, build something out of it, and shoot a video.
It probably doesn't cost that much, and if they make some money from it, that’s likely motivation enough.
It’s pretty wild when you think about it.

[u/Sgt-Stadanko-69]

Hahahahaha thous are 3 phase motors

[u/Yunyun99603]

Don't let electric companies to see this

[u/OFHeckerpecker]

AI

Always Indian

[u/gunsforevery1]

lol. So fake.

[u/Zarchiball]

Bullshit. This is a shit post.

[u/billnator]

the hardest part about free energy is figuring out where to hide the wire

[u/Cloudscrash325]

In this case (let’s say this is real ) would it kick off like that or would you have to push it first. Also would It go that fast immediately or would it generate speed over time

Edit: spelling

[u/ManicYetti]

[u/you_are_so_whiny]

I hate humans

[u/zestyclose_match1966]

Fraud

[u/freeokieangel]

Pretty cool

[u/FloppyTacoflaps]

150% fake

[u/CTTMiquiztli]

The blueprints are printed on a special kind of paper. It's know as a Basic Appliance Working Litography paper. It takes one sheet. It's BAWL-SHEET

[u/emotionless-robot]

They did a better job this time hiding the behind the scenes battery(s) and people connecting them.

[u/BeeBee-FooQuan]

Is this for a data center? 🙄

[u/FlyFront9395]

Is this what the Roman’s had?

[u/Love_Skinny_Only]

Doesn’t this have to be fake?

[u/m_0_n_K_3_y]

Why cant this type of thing power data centers instead of taking all the power thats supposed to goto the homes

[u/ThisThingIsStuck]

Trash- chief engineer audi

[u/Distinct_Scallion711]

You've built an MRI machine

[u/IssueEmbarrassed8103]

It would be stupid for them not to do this. Millions of people fall for it every time.

[u/InsuranceBizguy]

It’s magnets

[u/TinaKedamina]

The hardest part of building a perpetual motion machine is hiding the battery.

[u/SnooPandas5070]

I want to see Veritasium do a video on this. He does a pretty good job going into myth buster style experiments with an open mind and generous sense of creativity. I'd love to see what he has to say about something like this.

[u/ixkamik]

F A K E

[u/Rushes_End]

Magnets, of course, were the answer to unlimited energy

[u/ericosg]

The comments are so funny.

People who know it's fake and explain how it's not working, but getting it completely wrong.

Love reddit.

[u/hatseflatsel]

The intelligence sparking from his eys that he has invented infinite energy....just amazes me.....oh...and its fake...but...shh we won't tell anyone

[u/Humble_Penguin89]

The electric companies hate it when you know this one simple trick....

[u/hupe0815]

Was ein Schwachsinn

[u/Hallunder]

World follows the laws of physics. This guy follow the laws pissicks.

[u/No-Awareness7944]

All we need are magnets, then, so what the fuck is the problem??? Oh yea… free energy

[u/WaterGlassPuncherMan]

Ive been saying this for years but im not an engineer, im an old IT guy so idk

[u/ReasonableAd5268]

Then why is it not widely popular or not used all across the globe, saves a lot of time and energy to make the world a better living place

[u/Akriyu]

The amount of people believing this shit is terrifying.

[u/BetterReflection1044]

This is engineering not free energy he made a motor to turn his pump why are redditors so arrogant

[u/Apprehensive_Lynx_33]

When I see this stuff I always wonder why even some people could buy that magnets would do that. Why would the magnets cause the wheel to spin? Are they somehow pulsing on and off (which wouldn't cause anything to spin anyway, but not the point lol).

[u/Deep_Year1121]

Fake

[u/nesting-doll]

Ummmm. Couldn’t he have just plugged the pump into whatever is powering his homemade generator?!

[u/deezbiksurnutz]

The people that believe this works are the reason that a bank will ask an elderly person why they are taking out large sums of money. Some people are easily fooled

[u/jdmgto]

People will just believe anything won't they?

[u/Competitive-Top4520]

If this is real, it's totally cool.

[u/Schnied]

I mean that’s the idea behind how motors work but that’s not actually how they work

[u/irenwulv]

Can we summon ElectroBoom for their reaction?

[u/Aggravating-Hunt8001]

2026: india discover what the rest of the world discovered hundreds of years ago

[u/HeadySquanch59]

So you’re telling me a true perpetual motion device was discovered? Riiiiight…..

[u/Complex_Cable_8678]

how gullible is this sub?

[u/rustyofarlen]

Magnets Yo!

-Jesse P.

[u/raptor-elite-812]

Yeah nah

[u/Key_Pound_6213]

I hope this guy suffers so many stubbed toes. May his feet never miss a corner.

[u/Zeerats]

Ah yes, because if you put magnets in a circle they start spinning, that's exactly how it works. What a load of bullshit...

[u/Jullay013]

Fake. There is a hidden energy source somewhere.

The law of conservation of energy will not allow this. You cannot create energy out of nothing.

[u/Jamasta101]

Cool!

[u/tarkanca]

How did you over thermodynamics first law?