Adams Bedini and other exotic motors

Robert Adams Under construction

adams_advanced — This is an advanced design by Adams.

A Wiki search for Robert Adams takes us to Wiki Talk:
‘Perpetual motion’ and from there a click at the top of the page will get the Perpetual motion page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Perpetual_motion
Wiki editors seem incapable of understanding what the phrase ‘perpetual motion’ means, so I will explain simply. Perpetual motion is something for nothing and the Adams motor certainly does not run on nothing, I’ve built one and I know. The Wiki premise relies on the assumption that science – in this case physics – knows all there is to know about energy and also knows every possible kind of energy in the universe which is absurd. There would be no point in physics if physics knew everything and I don’t see physicists giving up their jobs – and so Wiki is wrong. We are told that science is empirical, that it does research, experiments to reach conclusions and I’m unaware that any scientist has tested an Adams motor built to the specification left by its inventor. I therefore conclude that the Wiki editors are pseudo scientific and as usual pushing the skeptical agenda.

john-bedini-sg — Schoolgirl (SG) Science-Fair Motor

The trigger and feedback coils and the transistor circuit above can be eliminated by using magnetically operated metallic contacts.
The author found that this was a more simple system and works much better. The contacts from an old type bell were used and activated by the passing magnets. Obviously, some kind of timing is needed to synchronise the contacts with the magnets repulsion. Reed switches were tried, but had a short life.

wmsn.net: The motor, (was) invented in the period 1967-1969 by Mr Robert Adams of New Zealand, (and) for a variety of reasons the technology did not win immediate acceptance, not least of which was that the New Zealand government and the Lucas corporation, for various reasons, allegedly directly suppressed it, followed by a botched CIA assassination attempt. That this direct suppression could happen during a period of global economic crisis triggered by the 1970s oil shock, is simply astonishing, and with hindsight, outright scandalous. As for the academics, they ignored it, and simply told Mr Adams ‘free energy is impossible and against all the laws of physics’. Academics put theory before experiment – it is their way. Frustrated in 1992 Mr Adams published his technology in Nexus Magazine, putting for the very first time, a working free energy device into the public domain. Because of this charitable act, the motor was rendered unpatentable, and those who have attempted to take out patents on this technology using their own names, should understand their patents would not stand up to legal challenge. However, sadly, despite the fact that free energy has been patent free in the public domain since 1992, the continued lack of interest in free energy solutions from the general public, government, big business, scientific community, and environmental organizations alike, means this outstanding motor, astonishingly as of 2002 a full 10 years later, has still not been commercialized!
http://wmsn.net/Adams%20Motor%20Theory.htm
I would like to repeat that free energy is not perpetual motion. If you make a hole in a dam and insert a pipe you get free energy – a windmill is also free energy.
Even if we leave aside any thoughts of free energy, these motors are highly efficient power-saving devices.