Apparently, the favored explanation given by investors in IEC is that the inventor came up with a “monopole” permanent magnet (most likely a pseudo-monopole).
The following older patent assigned to the US Army, is the Leupold patent, which describes a permanent composite magnet in which materials are laminated in such a way that one pole is disproportionately far stronger than the other. If the disproportion is large enough, you have a pseudo-monopole https://patents.google.com/patent/US4692732 There is definitely an analogy here to the Halbach array. As we know, that is an arrangement of permanent magnets which augments the field on one side of the array while cancelling the field to near zero on the other side. If you were trying to “re-patent” the Halbach or the Leupold array, then you might try to label it as a monopole and see if the patent office will bite. In the mean time you want to remain silent. It is definitely possible the pseudo-monopole magnets are incorporated into the flywheel itself. It is also possible that these permanent magnets are hybridized with pulse coils so as to provide very short electrical pulses at low duty or per revolution, in order to prevent immediate demagnetization. The strange story is starting to get legs… I’m no longer a skeptic but as always – demagnetization will be the critical issue. Jones From: Dave Roberson Nice sized flywheel. Could store a lot of energy so it is going to be hard to prove that the magnets are the real source. I am skeptical. Dave From: Terry Blanton 40 kw of mechanical energy uh-huh. They sure know what they are talking about.
