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Hojo Motor is a Scam!

The Hojo Motor is a scam.  If you purchased the Hojo Motor plans before reading this post, I'm sorry, you got scammed.  If you purchase the Hojo Motor plans after reading this post, you are dumb.  Plain and simple.  I'm sorry to use harsh words here, but sometimes it's necessary to be blunt in order to get your point across.

We've been down this path before, with the Magniwork scam.  In fact, Magniwork has been our most popular post, and has led us to post Renewable Energy Scams.  As you can see from that post, there is no shortage of scams out there trying to take advantage of the energy ignorant.

I don't care that on the web page for the Hojo plan they show some patents (see the bottom of this post for information regarding said patents) for a some kind of magnetic perpetual motion machine.  I'm not even going to get into the discussion on the laws of thermodynamics.  What I will tell you is if some kind of free energy generator was real, I would be the first person to have it.  You wouldn't hear about some free energy generator from some Google ad, you would hear about it because the President is talking about it on the world stage.  It would be the biggest breakthrough in the 21st century.  And you think you are going to buy some plans for $49.97?  (side note: ClickBank sells these plans along with many other scams, and they should be fined by the Federal Trade Commission)

Hank Mills wrote a great "Letter to Hojo Motor Plan Scammers" in which he stated:

Howard Johnson was a brilliant inventor. You got that one fact correct. However, his technologies were never fully developed, and were still very experimental when he died. Even if he was able to create motion in an experimental test rig (after hundreds or thousands of hours of work), it was not ready to power a home, an appliance, or even a very light load like a light bulb. The idea that someone could take plans for his device, and build a system capable of powering their home, is totally absurd. Unless of course, they had tens of thousands of dollars to spend, months to experiment just to make a motor self-sustain, and even more time and money to do the research and development needed to do anything practical with it.

Don't think we know what we're talking about?  Fine, buy the plans and make a fool of yourself.  For everyone else out there, focus your time on conserving energyproducing real clean energy, and living more sustainably.

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Regarding the Patent Claims, below is what I received from a friend who is a patent attorney:

First, if he got a patent on this "secret" invention that was just released, then it couldn't have been secret, since getting a patent means publicly disclosing the invention.  Patents don't certify that free energy works, the patents simple certify that his magnetic motor works as a magnetic motor

Regarding the patents: I"ve pasted the first independent claim of each of the patents so you can start learning what patents really cover.  The claims are the legal bounds of the patent and define what the inventor is actually protecting.  As you will so, there is no language in any of these claims that says free energy, pertetual motion, etc.

4,151,431 patent expired in 1999.
It Claims: A permanent magnet motor comprising, in combination, a stator track defining a track direction and having first and second sides and composed of a plurality of track permanent magnets each having first and second poles of opposite polarity, said magnets being disposed in side-by-side relationship having a spacing between adjacent magnets and like poles defining said track sides, an elongated armature permanent magnet located on one of said track sides for relative movement thereto and in spaced relationship to said track side wherein an air gap exists between said armature magnet and said track magnets, said armature magnet having first and second poles of opposite polarity located at the opposite ends of said armature magnet defining the length thereof, the length of said armature magnet being disposed in a direction in general alignment with the direction of said track, the spacing of said armature magnet poles from said track associated side and the length of said armature magnet as related to the width and spacing of said track magnets in the direction of said track being such as to impose a continuous force on said armature magnet in said general direction of said track.

(THIS IS NOT CLAIMING A FREE ENERGY DEVICE, just a specific, very narrowly claimed type of motor)

4,877,983 Patent - expired in 2009
It Claims:
In combination with a movable armature, means for guiding movement of the armature along a predetermined path and a permanent armature magnet having magnetic poles of opposite polarity spaced from each other along said path to establish a magnetic field of limited extent movable with the armature and magnetic stator means for establishing a stationary magnetic flux zone along said path, the improvement comprising flux emitting surfaces of one polarity mounted on the stator means on opposite sides of said path for limiting said flux zone through which said path extends and means mounting the permanent armature magnet on the armature with the poles thereof orientated relative to said flux emitting surfaces on the stator means for unidirectionally propelling the armature along said path through the limited zone in response to magnetic interaction between the movable magnetic field and the limited flux zone, said magnetic stator means including a plurality of magnetic gate assemblies fixedly spaced from each other along said path and respectively establishing stationary magnetic fields, each of said gate assemblies including a plurality of interconnected bar magnets substantially bordering said limited flux zone exposing pole faces of opposite polarity in parallel spaced planes intersected by said path, and magnetic means connected to said interconnected bar magnets exposing one of the flux emitting surfaces of said one polarity perpendicular to said parallel planes for magnetic interaction of the stationary magnetic fields.

(AGAIN, NOT CLAIMING PERPETUAL MOTION, just a different motor configuration)

5,402,021 will expire 2015
It Claims:
A magnetic propulsion system comprising:

a vehicle having a rigidly attached magnetic armature, said magnetic armature including a first series of magnets positioned across said vehicle and extending generally from one lateral side of the vehicle to another lateral side of the vehicle, all of the magnets in said first series of magnets being generally parallel to one another;

a first magnetic wall disposed laterally adjacent said vehicle and extending longitudinally along a desired direction of vehicle travel, said first magnetic wall comprising a second series of magnets, each of the magnets in said second series having a particular size and a North-to-South axis pointing in the same direction as the desired direction of vehicle travel, each of said permanent magnets of said particular size in said second series being separated from the next successive permanent magnet in said second series by a thinner magnet, each of said thinner magnets having a pole-to-pole length which is shorter than the lateral width of said magnets of a particular size in said second series, said thinner magnets further having a North-to-South axis pointing perpendicular to the North-to-South axis of said magnets of a particular size in said second series and pointing generally toward a vehicle side of the first magnetic wall; and

a second magnetic wall disposed generally parallel to said first magnetic wall and laterally adjacent to said vehicle but opposite from said first magnetic wall, said second magnetic wall comprising a third series of magnets, each of said magnets in said third series having said particular size and a North-to-South axis pointing in an opposite direction from the desired direction of vehicle travel, each of the permanent magnets in said third series being separated from the next successive permanent magnet of said particular size in said third series by a thinner magnet, each of said thinner magnets in the second magnetic wall having a pole-to-pole length which is shorter than the lateral width of said magnets of a particular size in said third series, said thinner magnets in the second magnetic wall further having a North-to-South axis pointing in the same general direction as the North-to-South axis of the thinner magnets in the first magnetic wall;

wherein said first and second magnetic walls create magnetic fields which exert propelling forces on said armature and thereby cause the vehicle to accelerate in the desired direction of vehicle travel.

(claim and EXTREMELY narrow vehicle with some sort of magnetic propulsion motor, nothing more)

It is annoying how many people get up in arms about patents when they just take for granted what someone who is clearly also not a patent person tells them.  Always always always read the claims of the patent before making any comments about what the patent supposedly covers.

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 HoJo scam comments below.

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The law of physics says: “Do not pea against the wind”! Well, if you do not like physics, ignore it and you will see what happens. The law of physics says: “Perpetual motions machine cannot be constructed”! Well, if you still insist to build one, go ahead and spend the rest of your life in building it. Ignorance cannot change the truth. Happy learning or happy building. Choice is yours. md.
Tongue firmly in cheek, I promise that every penny I make in the bourgeoning perpetual motion industry will be re-invested in any juniour mining firm comprised entirely of "flood geologists" and/or "creation scientists".
I have the plans And they are awesome. But the kicker is that I didnt pay for s**t!!!
downloaded and looked at the designs for free http://www.mediafire.com/?7phj5z3u5b5aus5 what a scam i am not going to explain why it seems too may people are too stupid to understand so i wont bother! i read all four pages of crap and i am just amazed this was not put to bed on the first page. loved the use of the second 9V battery "WTF" i guess it's meant to be a 12V SLA the belt and cam and switch i guess is because it cant even charge a battery full time let-alone run a house!!!.
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Please explain why they're awesome?
without spliting atoms there is no free energy available. the hojo engine must be pretending to operate by using a magnetic field to place part of itself into a gravitational field and then vice versa. the person who talked about friction - hit the nail on the head- nice going!!. on earth friction would bring any movement to a halt quite promptly- in space such an engine could operated or at least move for awhile but nearly no excess useful energy would be produced , and the magnets would eventually lose their charge and gravity would conglomerate all nearby matter. nail the scammers to the cross !!!
Face it, Dude - entropy sucks!
Well "eeprom" downloaded something. But What I have is not 4 pages. IT'S 206 PAGES. They give you detailed plans for 2 motors, The Howard Johnson motor, and a simplified version for low cost building and for demonstrating that it works. They are very detailed, thats why I think they are awesome. The simple version powers a standard house bulb. I also want to be clear about what I say to all of you, I am one of those Jack's of all trades and Master of none. So with that being said. I do completely understand that you do not get something for nothing. But in my own stupid terms, cause Im not as well educated as most of you commenting on here. A gas powered generator still produces its own electricity with only the obvious, gas, oil, etc. A permanent magnet generator, to me. Has the same maintenance costs but in a different form. And correct me if Im wrong but because of the fact that the magnets will be constantly repelling themselves. They would lose thier forces faster than those compared to the ones on your refrigerator. Those are the costs that I am seeing. Another question is, in their manual they have a rotor with 6 magnets. 3 at 120 degrees on one side, and the same on the other but at 7.5 degrees of center of the previous side. Knowing that the housing around that, that contains more magnets (it's called the stator is'nt it?). It contains 17 more to be setup in a manor so that the poles are n, s, n, s. Now that you may have an understanding of how it looks, heres the question. Please explain to me why they say that "the secret is to keep these stator housing magnets relatively evenly spaced, NOT EXACT SPACING"?
This motor cannot work. Energy cannot be produced, just transfered. Wind generators,Solar panels, Geo thermal, are your best bets for "Free" energy. Friction and heat are the main reasons that this motor cannot work.Induction motors are very similar. They get very hot when you put a load on them and LOSE 10 to 20% of their energy due to friction and heat. Energy cannot be created or destroyed just transfered. Each time you transfer energy, you "lose" some. This device would have to GAIN energy. That is why we need to use outside forces like the wind,sun,tides,water(dam and water wheel and turbines) to power our generators.SCAM SCAM SCAM
wyf r you guys talking about the hojo motor has been powering my home for 6 months now me an dmy brotther built it

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