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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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I am not certain that any product like this would work and it may be a scam, however much of what we experience in this life with regard to common knowledge is the result of those who have the influence and the control. Without bitterness, consider those in power will act in their own interest and if a company can survive by eliminating competition it will. Hold fast in the belief that majority rule is not majority right. It is a fallacy to believe otherwise and history has proven an individual to be right even up to that persons death by the nay say crowd. The same crowds indoctrinated by those in power. One day a great device could come along and provide a great source of energy without cost and it may slip on by unnoticed. Or, it could be the tipping point for the betterment of society and usher in a better life for every one. Skepticism will not get us there in the end it will be the individual.
If energy can only be transferred, what is the source of all energy in the universe? If it was from and since the Big Bang, what triggered the Bang in the first place? Another source of energy? If so, what is before that source? And before that? It must come from somewhere to be transferred, right? If energy just pops into existence right at the beginning of everything, then energy could actually be created, right? I still think the Hojo Motor is a scam, otherwise the original scammers just could make a model, go to a bank, get funding and produce the motor on a larger scale, then sell it to the public to get even more profit, right? And if the energy companies get greedy as they claim, they could just ask the energy companies to pay up big bucks for them to keep silent, right?
How much money did it save? what do use the energy to power?
OK, here is the bottom line I am an Engineer with 30 years as a technician in research and development. I know for a fact that you can't get something for nothing. Energy can be transfered and the best you could hope for is to reduce the loss of energy during the transfer. With a motor you loose energy through friction and wind resistance. by operating the Ho Jo motor in a vacuum you can remove the wind resistance and you can reduce the friction by using a magnetic field for the bearings. the best thing you can get is something that will spin for a very long time. now to produce energy from this you have to take energy from the Ho Jo motor and this will stop it.
One more thing I worked on the Lawrence Livermore Fusion project and something called Magnetohydrodynamics, which was suppose to produce energy from coal more efferently, we pumped 14,000 KW in and got 7,000 KW out, Huston we have a problem. All we did was transfer the energy and not very efficiently. Now some one tried to explain how an electric motor works, I can do that, if you want, but the bottom line is this will not work, you may get it to spin for a long time but it will stop if you load it with a generator.
Magnetohydrodynamics and coal... How was that supposed to work?
yeah. watever.. atleast hojo didn't quit himself right? it will work oneday.. anyway,magnet does not come itself.. we talking about uranium,but uranium is a metal compound basically.. yet einstein has found a way to release energy from it.. but Howard just trying to invent one using magnetic.. i am not so educated like you all.. but mankind have made many great achievment in past century.. think again.. The Wrights bros first take off from a plane using wood and plain cloth material..now? we have so much of 400tons of metal taking you back from east to west.. when there is a will,there's a way.. perpetual generators are concept..if earth stays in its orbit rotates for billion of years,where does the energy comes from? i've wonder...
A permanent magnet motor will work. The exact positions of magnets repel and attract the armature. A cam would have to slightly move one set of magnets (like electromagnets simulate in a regular motor). However, a motor has to spin a generator (via fan belt) to create electricity and this motor just would not have enough power. To build one with any real power, you would need massive magnets costing a fortune, and they would crush your hands if they came into contact with each other during the assembly. It's totally impractical. A small motor would, however, be a nice desktop novelty for your office.
Hey I have the answer!!! why doesn't someone who bought the plans upload them for free so that anyone who wants to try to build one can do :) how about that?
i'm a 58 year old male whom learned early on in high school physical science that energy can not be created nor destroyed, whats happened to our education system, that makes it possible for these preditors to become wealthy from such rediculose scams

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