After declaring bankruptcy in Germany, Mike Brady rented a house at Lake Zurich in Switzerland and leased a fleet of Maserati and several Range Rovers. He was arrested on March 29 and extradited to Germany where 61 customers wanted their money back ($1 million Euros+) for non-delivered 100 and 300-kw electromagnetic motors. Patent pirated?
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MUNICH, GERMANY -- After reporting on April 14th that Perendev, famous for its all-magnet motor claim and viral video, had closed its doors, I noticed a couple of comments saying that the inventor and CEO, Michael J. Brady, had been arrested.
Finally today, I was pointed to two German newspaper articles that confirmed that he was indeed arrested in Zurich on March 29 and extradited to Germany in answer to a request made by the Public Prosecutor of Munich. He now sits in a jail in Stadelheim. I've posted a translation of these articles over at PESWiki.
Embezzling 61 German Customers
They report that after Brady's company filed for bankruptcy in Gruenwald, Germany, that he moved to Switzerland, renting a house at posh Lake Zurich, and leasing a "fleet of Maserati and several Range Rovers."
This is hardly the expected lifestyle of someone who should have been working diligently to funnel all available funds into bringing the long-promised devices into production.
That was after taking money from 61 German customers, many of whom paid half down on the purchase price of 20,000 to 40,000 Euros for a generator. The total amount embezzled is estimated to be 1 million Euros -- and that is just from German customers. He was pre-selling these worldwide.
The German papers report that the promised motor was never delivered. Neither have I ever been able to verify any customers that actually received product.
Brady has claimed since 2006 to have available for sale both a 100 kilowatt and a 300 kw electromagnetic motor (EMM) -- a free energy generator that requires no fuel. He told me this was a variation of his alleged all-magnet motor which millions have seen in online videos, the original of which I posted on the web in conjunction with a demonstration that he was scheduled to do in Germany in 2004, but which did not materialize.
In addition to the magnetic and electromagnetic motors, Brady also claimed to have a 60 kW nitrogen motor for non-polluting power for motor boats. He was also working on a hydroxy system, which had some of the same elements as above: claim of unprecedented output from his special electrolysis, but without substantiation. For a few years, he was selling a magnetic ring the customer was to wear to boost health.
No Endorsement from Me
For those who are new to this saga, I should make it clear that for several years I have been letting my skepticism be known about Brady. I have expressed my belief that the magnet motor was probably real, but that Brady's business practices are not something I would be comfortable endorsing. I have hung onto the domain name, http://Perendev.com, forwarding it to our PESWiki page, in hopes that anyone searching the subject would find our cautionary statements. Brady has threatened to sue me several times over the years because of my negative statements that turned potential customers and licensees away.
Replications
Over the years, there have been several nominal replications reported that have close similarities to the Perendev magnet motor, though we've not been able to verify any of these. I presently know of someone who claims to have replicated Brady's magnet motor design, and claims to have been powering a house for nearly seven months with it, in a load-following manner, running essentially flawlessly. I have not yet verified that claim, but have many reasons to not dismiss it. We'll be reporting more on that in the coming months.
Dreaming Big
When I met with Brady in Johannesburg for a week in December 2002, he dreamed of the day he'd be able to live large, on an island, with a yacht, and nice cars. He was already living pretty comfortably, just a block or so away from where Nielson Mandela lived at the time. One of the things that drove me away from him back then was his greed. He wanted $500 million dollars for a license to manufacture and market the technology in the U.S.; yet he could not even produce a patent, though he claimed to have one, and promised dozens of times to get us the information about it. I found out a couple of years later that his international PTO application was not awarded.
Pirated Patent
It turns out that he probably pirated the technology from a South American inventor who patented a nearly identical concept long before, in 1990 (of which I have a copy). That inventor remembers getting frequent calls from a guy in Johannesburg asking in-depth questions about how the magnet motor worked. That inventor went on to other things, tiring of the continued skepticism about it, and discouraged by the degaussing of the expensive ceramic magnets that he used in his design. (The contact in S. America requested not to be identified or contacted.)
S. American magnet motor patent awarded in 1990; now expired
What's Next for Brady?
Now it's Brady's turn to go on to other things, such as probably scheming ways to get smokes in his jail cell. When I knew him, he was a chain smoker. He will have to come up with some clever way to keep up that habit in a place where such things are taboo. He might have to resort to smoking dried banana peels, which inmates prepare behind the urinals, out of view of their keepers. The dreams of yacht living on an island will have to be confined to his sleep.
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Comments
Does this mean that people have finally got the message that Perendev was a scam?
Perhaps the stars will align and time will run out on other free energy scammers like Mark Goldes.
Sterling, you don't get off so easily. Your entire site is dedicated to supporting these scammers. The fact that you may still be stupid enough to believe this free energy nonsense despite yet ANOTHER one shown to be a scam may be partial mitigation, but at some point it ceases to be one. When no one ever produces one and more and more are shown to be scams, even the science illiterate like you must be held accountable for continuing to support their larceny/lunacy.
@evolveaready
My mind is open to the possibility that a magnet motor could work by harnessing some principle of magnetism not yet understood -- e.g. a local vortex created by the perturbation, like pulling the stopper on a bathtub.
I've heard enough stories of working motors, including someone who is going to fly me in at his expense to see one that has been powering a house for 7 months continuously, based on the Perendev design (actually a 1990 S. American patent), to hold out hope that there could be something to this.
Sterling with all due respect: What do you think "a local vortex created by the perturbation" is? Or more to the point, what demonstrates to you the ideas that:
Permanent magnets store large amounts of energy. and
Energy stored in permanent magnets can be tapped to do work over time.
and/or
Energy is not conserved.
NOW BRING ON STOERN,I want to see him exposed!!!!
@No Ridicule Zone
Just use your imagination. The universe is full of secrets yet to be discovered. A cave man would consider a solar panel magic. It's not violating any laws of physics, but it is certainly doing more than the cave man would have ever thought could be possible.
Don't be so stupid as to think that man already knows everything and has nothing left to learn or discover.
Caveman didn't ripoff millions of dollars from other cavemen,it was to come,there is no comparison
@Detroit Inventor
Brady is not the only one claiming to have built a working all-magnet motor. If he were the only one, and he ended up in jail, then yes, you would want to throw the baby out with the bath water. But the failure or fraud of one does not make all out to be frauds.
Sterling imagination is a wonderful tool that can be used to excite inquiry and learning. You suggest that we abuse imagination by substituting it for knowledge.
I asked you in light of some very basic and well understood facts that tell us magnet motors are not possible, why you think a magnet motor is possible. All I've got from you is that you want them to be real. It is a position that is very difficult to respect.
Ok maybe Brady was not ohnest but what You would say about this ?
You know what to put before :) .youtube.com/watch?v=hMK6JPFv_x8&feature=fvsr
and the moon was too far away ...
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