Is the Keppe Motor "real"?

Question

Its makers say that it's a highly efficient motor because it resonates with (what they call) "Essential Energy", which is free energy that is everywhere in space. (I think that’s just a different name for Dark Energy which somehow they are managing to disturb with the coils of the motor, and when it disturbs back, a bit of power is generated in the coil).

I’ve listened to a radio interview of the makers, and they sad that a small motor powered by a 9v battery ran for about 2 hours with enough torque that they couldn’t stop it with their own hands.

Is that what is really happening? Is it revolutionary? Or just bull… just a motor that consumes less energy since its coils are turned off half of the time?

Also, strange things happen on the proximities of a running motor (a similar motor will start running even though it has no power, but it will run slower than the first one). Caused by the same thing that wireless cell phone chargers use to work?

Answer 1

A total lack of anything in the peer review literature is a warning sign. A website that explains the operating principle of the motor as arising from disinverted Aristotlean metaphysics is something else entirely.

Answer 2

I always look up when perpetual motion type machines come up, i.e. more energy out than in. I also asked a question here on the possibility of milking energy out of the vacuum. It is always possible that by serendipity somebody may hit the pot of gold of energy, never mind how he/she interprets it. If a machine gives more energy output than input, the theory will be found soon enough.

I found a demonstration of a motor, and a web site.

On the website they say that a commercial product will be ready by 2009. It is now 2011 and this is the first time I hear of this. Hmmm is all I say. There is nothing like the market to clear the wheat from the chaff, so I would say this is chaff. This is supposed to be the users forum, and not many beating a path to the door.

Answer 3

The "tests" spoken of are meaningless. Things like apparent torque, fans that "usually require 60 or 80W" are deceptive. These are all subjective and meaningless. They are likely to convince the naive but not the expert.

Show real data, energy in and energy out measured by agreed standards. Then I will take it seriously. The burden of proof is on the developers.

Answer 4

The claim you cite from the radio does not claim anything relevant:

A small motor powered by a 9v battery ran for about 2 hours with enough torque that they couldn’t stop it with their own hands.

There is a large choice of gear motors available, you could choose a small one (as they report) that runs on 12V usually. It will use less energy when run on 9V.

Now, what kinid of battery capacity was available?

There are the common 9V block alkaline bateries, but it's not stated they used them. There are better 9V batteries, 9V block lithium batteries are of the same shape, but a lot more capacity than alkaline. Also, there are larger standard 9V batteries, like the P99.
(I can not easily compare the capacitys of batteries because the useable capacity depends on the current used. And that depends on the motor we do not know.

Now, what does the motor do?

Almost nothing.
It just keeps spinning with no load, except when someone tries to demonstrate or confirm that it could not be stopped by hand. We can assume the fraction of the two hours that was used to hold the motor by hand was short, because it hurs quickly when the motor does not stop as claimed.

During all other times, it turns its mechanical parts, that do need some energy for turning. But without load on the gear, these losses are small. We can assume it's a gear motor, becauses it is small and has high torque. The gear is normaly an integral part of the motor, so for the user its just a motor with high torque and running relatively slow.

Oh, and when one tries to hold the axis of a motor by hand, it get's much harder the smaler the diameter of the axis is - and small motors have a small axis.

As written, and taking the context in mind, one could argue that the claim is deceptive.