[concerned about politics]

If I had a free energy machine, I wouldn't be concerned with whether anybody else believed it worked. Hell, I'd be trying to keep it quiet.

We homeschool, and we made a nonelectric fan using magnets. Magnets repel each other. Just give the fan a little push to get it started, and the repulsion keeps the blades moving. It was "Elementary, my dear" - literally. We were doing a science class. The kids came up with the idea.

[Physicist]

Let me get this straight: you built a fan, with no external power source, using permanent magnets, that moves air, and never stops?

[Physicist]

No batteries, even?

[Old Professer]

Only if the magnets are moving.

[RightWhale]

Just give the fan a little push to get it started, and the repulsion keeps the blades moving.

That would be very interesting to see.

[TXnMA]

No doubt you and/or the kids made some sort of sketch of your mechanism. In the interest of education, please share them with the rest of us.

Some questions come to mind:

• What did you use for bearings?
• What sort of -- and how many -- magnets did you use?
• What polarity and arrangements of the magnets did you use?
• Are you going to respond to this?

...holding my breath...

Not!