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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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What happen to the Hummingbird [( based on Tesla ) I seen it work in Dover, Delaware and was observed by me and professors from surrounding educational institution? What are the two Australian gentleman up to with their version?
Louis, wanna get a laugh? Google snopes and Hojo Motor and you will find a snopes link that translates off of the snopes site to a positive review of the so called free energy machine. But, if you go to snopes main site first and then type it in, it is not listed. These guys have gone to great lengths to protect this scam from being truly exposed it's incredible. I am a product developer and if this sucker was real, there would be a very popular billionaire created from it. As I was poking around I did see a video of some machine that was supposed to be one of these types of machines that put out 19 volts. Uh, well, if that was the real thing then you would need to buy a facility twice the size of your house to scale it up to do a load of laundry! I am with you Chris. I will throw in another million if one of these scammers can show me a working model that operates a house that can be assembled inside of three days. Excuse the bluntness but, what a load of BS. I think I am gonna buy one of those boxes just to see what's in it and send it to you. It would be worth the fifty bucks to get a laugh at the expense of these sell the scam box but have never even taken apart a lawn mower let alone have one of the so called free energy machines running their home! And by the way, my best friend works for the Commerce Dept. He quite well known for going after these types of scammers. He will have a ball with these guys, lol.
This is not a true statement: “you can neither create (n)or destroy energy, you can only transform it from one form to another.” That idea was disproven more than a century ago. The state of science education has gotten really bad. Ever heard of E = mc^2 ?
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Bob, that is a true statement. Where are you getting your fact that "that idea was disproven". By whom? What does E=mc^2 have to do with the law of conservation of energy?
If entropy can not be reversed then the universe couldn't exist. This universe is full of self organizing structures (including life) that defy entropy. I am not saying that this particular motor or plans works or doesn't work. But flat out stating that no such device can ever work because of some 'fundamental' law is bigoted. YMHO.
well I discovered that if you attempt to navigate away from the holo motor page, they will give you a discount of $20, so at the end of the day you can have the plans for the fabulous HOJO motor for only $29.99 (again for nothing)...
Chris people do not understand the law of physics here. This is a scam. Reminds me of the old blueprints you could order from Poplar Science they all were a hoax!!!!!!!
Dear all, I head up Engineering and R&D for a large locomotive company. I currently am working on several projects involving regeneration and hybrid technology. Having spent many years in developing related technologies and dealing with institutions and universtities that are at the forefront in their fields, whilst there are some fantastically innovative solutions to these challenges, given a 'closed system', there will never be a pure over-unity generator as this would simply contravine the laws of physics. I also have patents of my own, one of which is in some ways related - a magnetic bearing, i dont claim that it is frictionless, simply because it is not physically acheivable, I only state in the embodiment that it dramatically reduces static and dynamic friction. Chris made a very good point about checking exactly what people are 'Claiming', especially when they are using patents in their sales pitch with dishonest intent.
CHRIS YOUR AIR HOLE? I SAID IT OPERATION IS LIKE THE THE MAGLEV TRAIN. THE DIFFERENCE IS THE MAGLEV USES ELETRO MAGNETS TO CONTROL STARTUP AND SPEED. LEARN HOW THE READ. YOU MUST WORK FOR GOVERNMENT OR BIG OIL. I WOULDN'T WANT THE OIL COMPANY'S TO LOSE THERE $23,000,000 DOLLAR THEY MAKE ON USE EACH YEAR. WOW WHAT AIR HOLE.
Ok. It's a scam. So, why doesn't it work? You tell me, as the reader, that I would be 'dumb' or just plain 'ignorant', which may in fact be true, if I were to buy it. But wouldn't I be equally 'dumb' and 'ignorant' if I were to take your word for it. So, why doesn't it work? Does it or doesn't it produce electricity? Don't stop short by mentioning the 'laws of thermodynamics'without going into some detail (which law of thermodynamics, by the way?). I'm not angry at you or anyone. I'm just looking for some clarity. THANKS, GP

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