All language subtitles for Lee Kenny MEG Demo

Hello.

My name is Lee Kenny.

I'm the managing director of Magnetic Energy Ltd.

Which is the holding company that was formed by the inventors of the motionless electromagnetic generator, or Meg, as we call it.

To hold the intellectual property for all of the investments and all of the ventures based on MEG technology.

With me today is Steve Patrick, our director of research.

What Steve and I would like to do today.

is to go through all of the steps in the history of the development of the MEG

and show you how we arrived at the conclusions that we arrived at and how the MEG has progressed.

And then to show you the status of the MEG as it is now and where we need to go in the future.

Steve and I, along with the other three inventors, Tom Bearden, Jim Hays and Ken Moore

have worked together on this project since 1996, and we're going to take you through that history and then repeat all of the projects that we have done.

In 1996, we were visited here in Huntsville by Mr. Kawai

And well-known inventor of magnetic motors and holder of a number of U.S.

and Japanese magnetic patents.

Mr. Kawai had read all of Tom Beard's work and was interested in working with us

on developing a motor that he had just patented in the U.S. And in Japan.

Mr. Kawai did not speak any English at all.

He understood a fair amount of English, as most Japanese people do, from having watched American television in American movies.

And he could read a certain amount of English.

But he hired a translator, a lady from here in Huntsville, to help him with his presentation and to help him discuss things with us.

In addition to that, he brought with him these two pieces of metal

and these two magnets that help him describe how he was doing switching of flux inside his new motor.

So throughout his presentation, he would use these pieces of metal and these two magnets to illustrate his point.

And the first point that he illustrated was that when you take a magnet of a known size

and you connect it to a piece of metal and this is just plain magnetic iron,

the flux travels down through the end of the magnet down.

The first piece of metal, which is acting as a pull piece and exerts enough force to pick up another piece of metal.

If you then take another magnet of similar strength and bring it in close proximity to the first,

the lines of a flux switch and move up the the First Keeper bar and across,

thereby removing the amount of force that it took to pick up the second bar.

And he would repeat this demonstration several times

as he would describe and point to different sections of his motor to describe how that section worked.

And I'm going to show you this again.

The flux is now traveling down the bar and is collecting this bar.

And as I bring this other magnet close to it, the bar drops off.

Now, you'll note on rotating my hands, you note that I have not touched the Keeper bar with the second man.

In fact, it's a fair distance away.

Well, as we progress through the day, looking at this and playing with the trick,

we began to form some ideas of our own.

Later that day, we went to dinner at a Japanese restaurant.

And because of the the translator we had at one end of the table, Mr. Kawai, the translator, and Tom Bearden.

and at the other end of the table, Steve and Gemini, who were playing with these little magnets.

And as we sat there and went through this and we kept doing this and doing this and doing this,

I said to Jim, Look, if I could do this without the moving this magnet by some form of electromagnetism,

I know that I don't have to put in as much as I've got here because I keep sticking my finger in the middle.

And if we wrap the coil around the bottom of this, I could collect.

And Jim said, Yeah, you could do that.

Steve said, You know, but you've got a real mess here because

you don't have a closed magnetic circuit, and you're lose most of what you've got just because you don't have the circuit closed.

And we all agreed that's all that was true.

But for every time I move this magnet in or I electrically did a analogous thing,

what I would end up with was every time I inserted a pulse, I would get a pulse in.

And when I dropped that pulse, I would get a second one.

In other words, I would get two outputs for every one input

that sound like we were going to get something from nothing. So we said we had to go do this.

literally, the first big device that we built was this magnet, this bar with a coil wrapped around it and a solenoid out of Steve's garage.

That was in 1996. We worked on that from 1996 and into 97.

And then we came up with the second demonstration,

which Steve is going to show you to prove that in a closed magnetic loop.

We could still get the same effect.

Next, we investigated different people who had done some research in magnetic circuits,

and we came across a gentleman named Radice who had worked for Westinghouse,

and in the late fifties he had developed and made that switching system to switch magnetic boots for NASA.

He had taken this and made it into a latching relay and had several patents on it.

And basically what Radice taught was that when we have a circuit like this with a magnet in the center

a bar up here and two perpendiculars bars conventional wisdom, we're taught that you have the same force on both sides, the same amount of flux on both sides.

But Radice showed that that's not true, that this configuration is what's known as a bi stable device,

where we will have one preferred side which is strong and one side that is weak.

And it turns out that this is the weak side, very simple to pull on off, but this side is very difficult to pull off.

Once I pulled it off the side and replaced it on this side, though, this becomes the strong side.

So the device switches the amount of flux from this side to this side.

And by Faraday's law, any change in the flux will generate electrical power.

So therefore, we looked at how does how does this work?

How much does it go back and forth?

And the key to this was Radice indicated we could do this electrically.

We've done it mechanically here.

So now I'm going to hook it up and do this electrically.

What I've just done mechanically, we're putting a coil on it.

And what I'm going to do now is make sure

that the side over here is what we call the strong side, let it hang out,

and we just have a small and as you can see, this is a weak side over here.

We have a small battery and a switch,

and by merely passing a current through the coil, we have changed the flux from the strong side on one side to the strong side on the other side.

This experiment led us to believe that if we could put collection coils on two sides

and have two actuated coils, we could then switch back and forth at will.

The next step is to look at generating electrical power, utilizing this circuit.

And this is basically the same setup we had previously, except now we have two coils for switching

and we have two coils for collecting power.

And as the device operates in this, by the way, is the configuration that you will see in the patent.

As the device switches, the flux will increase in this coil and decrease in this coil

and generate like outputs of opposite polarity.

So as the circuitry switches from this coil to this coil, we generate power in both sides at the same time.

Another thing that needs to be remembered is that the actuate or coil that is not actuated

is also acting as a collector coil.

So a method has to be devised to remove the connection between this actuated coil

and the power supply during the part of the cycle in which that actuated coil is not being used as an actual gear

but is being used as a collector.

That's what Steve put together in this circuit.

And what you have to remember is that this part of the reason that this hasn't been done before is it's a materials problem.

The material has to respond very quickly because the we're looking at transients in these coils

as the flux changes rapidly to get a very high output.

However, it occurs in a very short period of time in the matter of microseconds.

So if we run at a very slow frequency, we have an average output that is very, very low

and it requires a high frequency operation.

The material we've used here, which is called magnetic iron,

cannot operate at a high frequency and that presents a problem to us.

Also, it has a characteristic where it doesn't like to change

its state and it will actually generate Eddy currents and really eat a lot of power internally to it.

What we did here was we set up a circuit board to to test our theories.

And in this what we did was we used relays to basically switch between the two coils.

The reason we did that was we were able to set the system up so that when this coil was actuated,

this coil could actually be switched to a load and we could measure how much power we could get out of it.

In addition to the power of these, the board, this particular board only runs at about ten hertz

and we get very small outputs because of the losses that are in the material and because of the slow switching speed.

However, we were able to show that indeed we do get power out of the coil that is not energized.

So that we really have three outputs and this can be significant later on in our development.

And now Steve will show you the oscilloscope readings that we actually collected

when we were running this device with this controller board.

We collect the data from our digital source scopes

with the computer and analyze and plot the data using MATLAB or Excel.

These are images of Excel plots of the system running at ten hertz.

The top trace is the power measured at the A input coil, and the bottom trace is the power measured at the A output coil.

The color shading represents when the input coil is energized.

Green for side A,

light green for side B, the side B data is a mirror image of the side A data.

The plots show a long duration between the power pulses.

They only occur when the coils are turned on and off.

We were able to detect output power in the input coils when they were not power.

The power levels for this system were small because we could not operate the system at frequencies above ten hertz due to any currents and heating of the material.

The next phase of our development, we moved to a material that was more suitable for switching

the configuration you see here.

Represents the same configuration that you saw with the bars of magnetic iron.

However, the material now is more advanced material that's called nanocrystals,

and the nanocrystals material allows you to switch faster and carry more flux than the other material did.

We have added output coils just like the other and two input coils.

These are controlled by an electronic control board

that uses a standard switching circuit and drives it through drive transistors.

The problem with this system is that we really are not able to extract the power out of the one coil,

the input coil that is not turned on because of the circuitry that we're using.

In addition, we have to get a more uniform input

of the flux from the magnet into this material because it is laminated.

It is not as uniformly distributed flux as the solid material does.

So we have to develop new schemes for injecting the magnetic flux in

without causing parts of the core to saturate to get significant power out.

Now we'll review data plots that show the kind of performance that we can expect from the system

in its operation.

Again, the data displayed is for the side, A input coil top and the side A output coil On the bottom.

Side B is a mirror image of the data show because the nanocrystals material responds rapidly.

We were able to run the system at 31 kilohertz.

The material doesn't absorb significant energy and does not heat.

We couldn't directly connect a load to the input coils that we were not activating.

However, we were able to place a device called a transorber across the coil.

This allowed us to measure part of the power available in this coil.

If we sum the output for both sets of coils include the power from the input coils that were not energized.

We have about two times the amount of power out that was used on the input coils.

Now that you've seen all of the steps that we went through to develop the device to the state that it's in now.

Let me just point out a couple of things.

The time period between this device, which was a 1998 timeframe and this device was a little over two and a half years.

At this stage of the game.

We were ready to quit.

We had found out exactly what Radice had found out.

And you'll see cited in our patent other work done out in California by people who had gotten to this stage and couldn't move any further because of the material.

Well, we searched and we looked and we spent two years looking for new material that had the characteristics that we needed.

And it wasn't until this nanite crystal and amorphous core material was invented by Allied Signal

and then produced in quantity by Honeywell, that we were able to move from this stage to this stage.

When we got there, we found out that we internally did not have the equipment or the knowhow

to take this driver's circuit and totally reproduce it in an electronic format so that it could be used at the higher speeds.

Now, that does not mean that it can't be done or that this is leading edge technology.

It just means we can't do it.

We know where we can take this circuit and go to several different companies and literally say,

take this and convert it into a full electronic version

that we can use at speeds up to 30, 50 kilohertz.

We've also talked to two manufacturers of this material about the injection problem.

We know where we can get help to solve that.

And we've talked to a third manufacturer that makes ferrite core material

which may in the long run be better for us.

So we're at the stage now where we need to optimize the injection of the magnetic flux into the core material,

optimize the size of the collector cores,

optimize the circuit pack so that the circuit pack now runs, as this one did,

but at the speeds appropriate for this.

So what you're looking at is we're at a crossroads where right now we're approximately a year

and about $8.9 million away from having,

I think, one of the greatest advances in technology since Isaac Watts watch the kilowatt.

But we can't get there by ourselves.

We need a financial partner just as we know our are short suits and where to get help

in the technology area.

We have some short suits in the international business area

and we're looking for our financial partner to fill in as well.

thank you.