Generator

The Searl Effect Generator (SEG), invented by the self titled "Professor" John Searl, is claimed to be an "open system energy converting device" which is "capable of converting ambient sources of energy to electrical power with a corresponding drop in air and device temperature”. There is no independent verification of these claims, and any videos released by Searl himself, all show the "generator" connected to a power source.

The existence or claim of an "open system energy converting device" does not necessarily violate the first law nor the second law of thermodynamics which does not apply strictly to open systems; categorically, it is an unproven concept by most standards because the inventor claims his last working SEG was confiscated in 1982 and there is no complete working SEG existing today for examination.

The device is described as a generator made of four distinct material layers for both stator and rotor in sets of three stages. It is said to function with same principles of a linear motor (induction) with multi-phase rollers riding on a magnetic bearing.

According to Searl's own accounts when he first activated his device, the rollers (rotors) began to spin around the plate (stator), generating a charge-pumping action of electron pairs on to the open circuit configuration. He further claimed that at threshold speed, the device maintained its rotation with no additional energy input from the peripheral electromagnets as the generator converted ambient sources energy for drive with the generated electrical currents.

It is also claimed that when the device achieves superconductivity it generates a type of anti-gravity effect.