Capabilities 

Rapid acceleration with zero input of energy;

once you've constructed the trackway with fixed magnets securely fastened,
( with all poles oriented in the same direction  ~ perpendicular to travel )
no "push" is required to get the travel magnet going,

 ~ indeed the travel magnet will get sucked up into the mouth of the track.

If the track is pointing upwards, the travel magnet gains altitude, with no known limit. As long as you have track, no upper limit to how high this can be has yet been found.

  •    As long as there is track, the traveling magnet continues to move. And very quickly.
  •    it can go straight up
  •    CIRCULAR -- it can go around in a circle (we have had better luck turning the track to "pitch" rather than "yaw" -- but it is likely that there are better designs)
  •     DOWN  -- it's designable so that the travel magnet can fall out the end of the track when it's pointing straight down     
 [ The modules (Up, Down, Circular...) mate well -- possible to have it go straight for a while, then up, then around, then down... ]
   •   The travel magnet can roll.  (We show in the video the travel magnet being the same (1/4 x 1/4 x 1 inch) size and shape that the seven magnet tall stacks or wings are made of. But the travel magnet can just as easily be spherical. The limiting variables for what shape and size compared to the track have still to be experimentally verified.)

Want to make something that goes and goes? Build an UP section mated to a circular section, connected to a down section, have the (spherical) travel magnet fall out the bottom, roll down over to the entry~mouth of the UP section, get sucked up into it, and repeat...






LIMITS


NOT a perpetual motion machine: -- the specs from the manufacturing of the rare earth neodymium magnets (used in the video) state that just sitting on the shelf these magnets lose power at the rate of 1% every ten years.

Once put in use where their fields are strongly being pushed/repelled by the neighboring stacks of magnets, expect that their useful life will be diminished many times.  (But notice that even if their useful life expectancy power were cut down by TWO orders of magnitude, it would mean they would lose one per cent of their energy every month or so -- becoming that hypothetical car that you run without refueling, a month after you start it's going with 99% percent of its power...

The most important unknown capability is the load that this design is capable of powering?.
Are you ending up with a $600 nine volt battery?
Does it only LOOK impressive because it is carrying zero load??

Sure it goes really quickly, and really far, and straight up...
but consider this example:
Say you build one 1000 feet long, goes straight up the side of a skyscraper.
At the top the travel magnets make a short arc, fall out of the top and begin their 1000 feet descent straight down, where their potential energy is captured, turned into electricity.
Say they each of these travel magnets weighs a few ounces, and that they are coming through at the rate of a few per second...
Still, can you capture enough energy from this rapid succession stream of several ounce weights, falling 1000 feet (for years perhaps) to make up for the cost of building this long magnet track in the first place?

Or is this primarily only for those applications where reliable, continual, "fuel-free" power is at a high premium? -- where refueling is dangerous/hazardous, difficult, expensive, and/or impossible?  Remote locations? Underwater? Space travel, or the annual "Space Elevator" contest?

This is an important variable that we don't yet know the answer to.
Key to how widespread and useful this invention may be,
knowing this will wait until people with more knowledge of physics, more skill at engineering, with more highly calibrated measuring and testing equipment, have run enough experiments to determine
what designs,
at what cost,
can do how much useful work,
for how long
where, under what conditions.