Magniwork Perpetual Motion Scam!

Perpetual Motion Impossible

Perpetual Motion Impossible


***Update -7/27/09 - I've confirmed with my own eyes that Magniwork is a SCAM! One of the readers was kind enough to share the Magniwork plans with me and they are laughable.  The whole "document" is 57 pages long and looks like something a kid in high school put together.  The final "generator" is basically a magnet that is 2" high sitting on a turntable that is 4" high!  They claim that its output is 24.5 Watts!  That is 1/100th of what my house uses when the AC is on.  That is nothing!  Basically the plans tell you how to make a mini-electrical generator, but they dont even tell you how you are supposed to turn the thing to produce energy!  The thing is about the size of your palm, so even if you did find  a "free" way to rotate the shaft, it wouldnt put out enough power to light up  a standard light bulb.  It's completely ridiculous.  Please don't even attpempt to build this thing, just look at the plans if you want a good laugh.  Here is some text in regards to how the Magniwork is supposed to be powered:



Whatever you do, don't waste your money on this!




***Update #2 - 7/30/09 - See the Magniwork plans online for free at this site: Magniwork stole the plans from here.  Thanks to Ajax Chen for finding the link.  While the site is not the exact version of the plans, it looks like the Magniwork authors just copy and pasted (without even bothering to change the images at all) from the site.  From now on, don't even bother to ask for a copy of the plans in the comment section, just see the above link!


***Update #3 - 8/5/09

Since I'm still getting comments from people saying that they will try to build the generator if they see the plans, I realize I just have to post some pictures of the plans.  Once you see the ridiculousness of the "machine" there is no way anyone would try and build it.  It's like if I told you I knew of a ground breaking way to cool your home for free, then gave you plans to build a standard refrigerator.  Would you still try and build a standard fridge? Pictures coming tonight!


The amazing Magniwork Generator!

The amazing Magniwork Generator!


I don't know if you can see, but the device will put out an amazing 24.5 Watts.  Maybe enough to charge your phone!  All you need is a few thousand of these and maybe you can power your house.  But wait, what's going to spin them?  Who knows.



***Update #4 - 8/7/09

It's amazing (and infuriating) how many scam sites come up when you Google "magniwork".  They have been able to weasel their way into a high google ranking.  The one site with a high ranking that is not a scam is this great article on PESWiki regarding Magniwork.  If you don't take my word for it, read their review.

***Update #5 - 8/18/09

Magniwork has been my most popular post by far.  There were 210 people who found this post through Google just yesterday, so these scam artists have made their mark on the web.  Based on a recent comment, I want to make one thing clear:  I am not calling out this scam because it violates laws of physics (which it does).  I am calling out this scam because I have  seen where they stole the information  and read through their laughable instructions that look like they were written by a 10 year old.  Even if the generator actually worked, they completely fail to show how it can power anything bigger than a light bulb, much less your home!  This was put together by someone who wanted to take advantage of people trying to save energy.  I'm sorry if you've been suckered into this.  If you really want to save energy at home, spend $15 and buy The Home Energy Diet: How to Save Money by Making Your House Energy-Smart (Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series). It is the most comprehensive analysis of conserving home energy, and it is not a scam! All I can say is follow Mapawatt Blog and hopefully you'll prevent yourself from falling into these scams in the future!

***Update #6 - 8/22/09


***Update #7 - 9/13/09

Thanks to everyone's help, it looks like our exposure of Magniwork has got them squirming.  Seems like they've changed their tune a little bit and are hawking Magniwork with a new name called Magnets4Energy.  No, I am not going to link to them, but you can do a Google search for yourself to see how these scammers operate.

***Update #8 - 10/20/09

The guys at have done a great story on the scammers behind Magniwork and a great review of the Magniwork Scam and how it works.

***Update #9 - 01/24/10

I found this great history of perpetual motion machines.  Guess what, none of them worked.  Reminded me of Magniwork.


Original Post

I recently added some Google Ads to the site (yes, I am a capitalist) and I ran across this add for a company called Magniwork showing up on my sidebar.  They were advertising "free energy" so of course it caught my eye.  On their site they say, "How would you like to create a generator which creates free electric energy?"  They then show some diagram that is completely useless (and actually includes an diesel generator?) and finally go on to say:




You can have machines that take advantage of wind, solar power, batteries, temperature gradients, etc., but these are not perpetual motion machines.  They are just taking energy from one form and converting it to another.  You can't create anything from nothing!

The website isn't even selling a machine, but just plans for a machine.  Obviously that is a smart idea for an energy scam artist.  They can always claim that you just hooked it up wrong.   And they claim that the reason you haven't heard of this wonderful device yet is because corporations are suppressing the information.  Let me promise you this:  If a perpetual motion machine existed that created electricity, it would make a corporation the richest corporation in the world.  That's a fact.  Corporations would love to sell a machine that created free electricity!

They also have several customer testimonials on the site.  As I covered in my article on the Power Factor scam device, never trust customer testimonials on a website.  Do you know how easy it is to make one up.  Here, let me show you:

John McGillicutty from Kalamazoo, Michigan says, "MapAWatt Blog is the greatest blog in the whole entire world.  If you aren't reading this blog you are crazy.  Mapawatt has saved me millions in energy bills.  Millions I tell you!"

See, I just made that up, but I bet you thought it was real because there was a name and a city attached to the quote.  Don't believe customer testimonials on websites that sound like a scam!  The website states, "Hundreds of successful magniwork generators have been built around the world, which is a proof that this technology really works!".  This means there are many fools that took the bait, not that it works (Thanks Randy for providing this last insight.)

If you are some sucker that got pulled in to trying to sell one of these devices or if you actually bought this, I'm sorry.  If you are going to try to argue that it really does work, show me this device hooked up to an energy meter like the TED or any other energy meter.  Then prove to me it isn't hooked up to  any external power/battery sources. If you can prove that it works, congratulations, you just won the Nobel Prize......

Until then, I'm calling B.S.!

Click here to learn why perpetual motion free energy machines don't work.  Make any comments regarding perpetual motion on the post in the link.  You can make Magniwork scam comments below.

***Update - 11/03/09 - One of the Mapawatt team members sent me the Mythbuster's Free Energy segment.  Guess what? They busted the Free Energy myth!


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ckmapawatt's picture
No, Teslas inventions worked great. But when did he ever invent something to create free energy? I think you need to go back and review your history.
I think bigfoots are using perpetual motion machine everyday and I'm sure there is a youtube video proving it. We are just looking in the wrong place.
So here is the paradox that i cant really gasp: You tell yourself to be someone who understands the situation and is skilled and/or educated enough to debunk the motor in detail, yet you fail to gasp that everything you wrote is about as much of a fabrication magniwork has done. No offense bro, but i have about had it with mentally impaired haters who always go along the line of "I wont post the evidence because , but you can trust me cause im telling the truth". Either do it or dont do it, but this "trust me on it" type of half way into things bullshit just makes one rage. So post it or get the fuck out.
ckmapawatt's picture
The reason I don't post the Magniwork plans is that we are obviously dealing with unscrupulous individuals, and I'm sure they'd jump at a chance at a lawsuit of some sort (even though they would never have a case). "mentally impaired haters"? Really?
Is the EBM (Energy by motion) by Prof. Leslie Szabo from Budapest,Hungary a scam or the real Mc Coy. Would like to know why it´s not for sale yet
ckmapawatt's picture
I'm guessing it's not for sale because it's a scam, and they havent figured out how to scam people yet. Peswiki is a great resource for "perpetual motion" claims:
ammm tons a question it is not possible with a few magnets can rotate a motor or if the weather would turn but would stop? if you could use a car genedador to charge a car battery using an inverter and we may have light or serious? we check some video on the net and are very simple, however much potential and I leave the kinks Aque I can desir them;feature=related;feature=related one more video as I explain the video ??
I had little problem with the consistency of the transmuting the earths pressure flow until the magnetic process was disrupted by the carbunkle on my whatoflexor throwing the systolic zimbasteries into disarry. I got a new one from Harbor Freight and it works fine now. Thanks for the informative article.
The existence of scams is unquestionable, just as the laws of physics are also unquestionable, like the one about nothing can travel faster than the speed of light - until recently that is. Then you have to wonder if there really is an upper speed limit. I don't see any reason why other established laws of physics such as perpetual motion or not getting more energy out than you put in can't be proved wrong, after all these are laws observed and established by humans almost exclusively in the limited environment of Earth. The Lutec style of electric of amplifier, ( may work, but until it gets into commercial production and use(if ever), scepticism will win. I wonder how many noses would be (perhaps will be) bent if it happens and what reaction and level of response would come from academics or the more powerful commercial world. Personally, if I had any kind of 'free' power engine or even a vastly improved efficiency engine, I certainly wouldn't try to market it – too much danger from persons or organisations set to suffer commercial loss or academic standing. I’d definitely see if I could sell the patent though.


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