# Searl-Effect Generator **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 28, 2005, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/searl-effect-generator/301621 "2005-04-28T21:11:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bartmon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/34f0e0/32.png) [@bartmon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bartmon)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2005, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/searl-effect-generator/301621/1 "2005-04-28T21:11:24Z")
:dubious: The Searl-Effect Generator there is something I am missing in the physics here. Can any one explain why this won’t work. I’m sure it won’t, or it would be on the market already. ---
**Author:** ![Gaius.Cornelius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b487fb/32.png) [@Gaius.Cornelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaius.Cornelius)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2005, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/searl-effect-generator/301621/2 "2005-04-28T21:55:03Z")
I guess you must mean something like [this](http://www.sisrc.com/c1.htm). I pretty quickly gave up on the explanation… I’ll just hold out for a working model. ---
**Author:** ![bartmon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/34f0e0/32.png) [@bartmon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bartmon)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2005, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/searl-effect-generator/301621/3 "2005-04-28T22:17:20Z")
> [@Gaius.Cornelius](#): > > I guess you must mean something like [this](http://www.sisrc.com/c1.htm). > > I pretty quickly gave up on the explanation… I’ll just hold out for a working model. Yes like that pretty wacky but I don’t see why it wouldn’t work although I don’t believe it will fly on its own ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/searl-effect-generator/301621/4 "2005-04-29T02:23:44Z")
I’m not even seeing why it would rotate of its own accord, as they claim. The explanations are gibberish: > [@](#): > > Multiple magnetic poles are imprinted on the rings and rollers to form frictionless magnetic bearings. These also arrange the static charge into opposing charge clusters which cause the rollers to rotate around the circumference of the ring “Which cause” !?! ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/searl-effect-generator/301621/5 "2005-04-29T04:23:25Z")
I see “Zero Point Energy” and I think “Bullshit.” Yet another perpetual motion machine. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/searl-effect-generator/301621/6 "2005-04-29T08:24:47Z")
Yet Another Perpetual Motion Scam: > [@](#): > > Business Plan - To receive on-line copies of the new Stage 4, Phase 6 business plan please email the address below, with some details about yourself, your interest in the project, whether your investment will be private or from a company and the amount that you are considering to invest (minimum investments £5,000, maximum required £110,000) ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/searl-effect-generator/301621/7 "2005-04-29T08:37:22Z")
In fact, reading the ‘how it works’ page, I’m convinced beyond any doubt that it is a dishonest scam (as opposed to the work of a nutty, but earnest inventor); the description appeals to just about every single one of the favourite mumbo-jumbo pseudoscience themes; Quantum energy fields, zero-point energy, magnetic bubbles, negative ions, resonant frequencies, rare earth magnets, energy ‘flow’. I can’t think of any term they missed out.