Hi Ivconic,
When i was 10 or 12 i was trying to make a similar machine and i always been fascinated by magnets, but could never find a way to direct the magnetic field into one direction, so it never worked.All the energy used to turn magnets so they are in the correct direction at the correct timing was more than the one produced, of course.
The energy must come from somewhere.Where does it comes from here ?
The video on post 3 is really interesting though...
I like this page: kind of "skeptics" page, at least info is neutral here, and explanation are given about why those machine don´t work. :
http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/museum/unwork.htm