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Update News as at 3rd September 2002

We have had mail asking why we have not had a public display yet, and a lot of mail
wanting to know when the next update would be posted.

We answered the first question in our last update of July 4, it seems a few people
simply can't take "when we are ready" as an answer.

Regarding the second question, the reason for the delay in posting this update is we
didn't really have much to add to the previous one until now.

So, here is the latest news:

In the July 4 update we mentioned that we were having trouble with our solid state
switching device and the problem was a matter of us developing too much, rather
than too little, power which was causing the high speed transistors we were using to
fail, although explode is probably a better word to describe the effect.

The attempts to rectify the problem continue, you can be assured we are still hard at
work and trying many and various configurations to resolve the problem with some
good results and some bad. The problem is significant, and although there is no
doubt in our minds that it is only a matter of time before we have it running to our
complete satisfaction, we have no idea how long it will take.

In the meantime we have connected a standard three phase electric motor to the
generator section, and coupled up a variable speed control that enables us to run the
generator section at the anticipated speed the motor will drive it at. This has allowed
us to confirm the output of the generator at specific speeds and particular coil
windings, so that we are now ready, when the switching apparatus is performing up
to speed, to go straight into the testing trials immediately, instead of having to wait
for the output to be qualified.

There is no doubt, given the figures we have obtained by running the generator
section, that the finished proof of concept prototype will produce an output in excess
of 1000 watts (1 KVA), more than the electrical input consumed by the motor. This is
of course due to the fact that there is very little electrical current used in the process
of turning the rotors, because most of the work of turning is performed by the internal
permanent magnets.

This rotation causes induction of electric current in the stator coils, just like in any
electric motor since Faraday to be produced. The produced electric current is greater
than that consumed in assisting the permanent magnets rotation of the rotors.
Therefore it produces more electricity than has been consumed.

The magnets have been responsible for the majority of the rotors movement, the
electric input has been consumed in helping the magnets in their role as prime
movers of the rotor. Therefore although it seems we have got something for nothing,
in fact we have merely harnessed and redirected the latent forces found in
permanent magnets and made that energy work for us.

We have copped a lot of flak in the press and other places from people who insist it
is impossible. We want to make it perfectly clear for anyone reading this, we have
n o t invented a perpetual motion machine. We think that perpetual motion is
impossible, despite what some people who have twisted the words we have used
say.

Our machine can only run as long as the life of the batteries supporting the input
pulse last. Sure you can change the batteries at regular intervals and then the
machine will run for maybe fifty years before you will need to change the bearings,
that means stopping it. That's not perpetual. If you could get bearings to last for a
thousand years and change the batteries every ten years or so the machine would
run for one thousand years before the demagnitization of the permanent magnets
began to kick in, and over the following three hundred years it would gradually lose
the ability to turn. That's a long time, but it is certainly not perpetuity.

International Interest:

Has been very strong, the mail we get from the US and other North American
countries is matched in quantity by that from Europe.
We have deed of patent from Turkey and New Zealand. That must get right up the
nose of a certain gentleman from NZ who claims we pinched his invention.
Especially since the NZ authorities consider ours sufficiently novel and inventive,
and therefore significantly and suitably different enough from his previously much
published efforts, that they deemed ours worthy of patent grant. We don't see a NZ
patent with his name on, what does that tell you?

To say our motor/generator is like his is to say a two stroke motor is like a four stroke
motor. Both have a similar function and end result, but rely on different internal
processes to work. That's not to say his works, although we have certainly never
seen anything to indicate it can or will. Possibly the NZ patent office is of the same
opinion.

Production Plans:

Will have to stay on hold until we are satisfied with the robustness of the switching
section of the Lutec 1000 generator.

After the proof of concept model is completed to the point we are prepared to display
it to the world press, the next step is to engage design engineers to come up with a
pre production model. That model will then have a defined output, a materials and
components list, compliance with local authorities, size, weight, weather, rodent and
insect resistance, lifting points, crating and transport and installation instructions,
and apply for government rebates where applicable for our customers.

That design will then allow us to do a cost analysis comparing local manufacture to
import and assembly of component parts, from which analysis will emerge the
purchase, delivery, installation and completed system purchase price per unit.

None of the above can be put into motion until we have the switch operating suitably.
It does work, but not at the speed and with the reliability we require.

As more information comes available we will attempt to post it on this site. Please
continue to be patient. To the hundreds who have written asking where is the update
please forgive us for not replying personally but hope you have found some
satisfaction in this update.

That's all for now, stay well.

Lutec.

(above) The Lutec engine as at 6th July 2002

(below) Detail of the engine, earlier photo

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