Spent 12 hours looking into the soft iron situation. There are very few mines still operating that mine iron and even fewer plants to process it. It just isnt used any more like it was a 100+ yrs ago. It rusts away quickly and has little strength on it's own so more exotic materials have replaced it.There are more copper mines then ore mines and those are very toxic compared to ores so it not a pollution problem which has curtailed ore mines. The little bit used today is expensive because of demand being so low it costs more to get it out of the ground on small scale then say coal or copper which is in demand but competitive with more operations or mines in service. Kind of sucks if your thinking that to save the world you need soft iron.
  Even if you find soft iron to be the magic bullet you will find it takes a pretty big order to get it cheap enough to effect the price. The pieces of rod used to calibrate compasses doesnt look like the type of material from a 100 yrs ago. It should rust quickly and leaving it on a store room shelf as inventory it would very much rust and not be nice a silvery looking.
  Soft iron is how ever very good at making a magnet from current.With that said it has not stopped electromagnet production or use because soft iron fell out of favor with industry. they just use more wire or core materials which are available to compensate the number of lines of force required.
  The patent is an abstract drawing to explain a process of operation. The method is the means not the material. Abstract like a f'ed up painting some mentally abused person turns into a story.Its not literal. No offense to any mentally abused art critics in the room.

No offense to any mentally abused art critics in the room...
:-)
The stuff I got from Ed Fagan Inc. was expensive compared to steel...but the jury is out on how well it performs. I guess pure Fe comes in pellets.
Will find a source for it eventually.

Doug 1:
I am a lot older than I am willing to admit, however, way back in grade school, i learned that
steel was made for molten Iron ore that had oxygen blasted through it from the bottom. Here
is part of the definition from "Wikipedia."

"Steelmaking is the process for producing steel from iron and ferrous scrap. In steelmaking, impurities such as nitrogen, silicon, phosphorus, and excess carbon are removed from the raw iron, and alloying elements such as manganese, nickel, chromium and vanadium are added to produce different grades of steel. Limiting dissolved gases such as nitrogen and oxygen, and entrained impurities (termed "inclusions") in the steel is also important to ensure the quality of the products cast from the liquid steel.[1] There are two major processes for making steel, namely basic oxygen steelmaking which has liquid pig-iron from the blast furnace and scrap steel as the main feed materials, and electric arc furnace (EAF) steelmaking which uses scrap steel or direct reduced iron (DRI) as the main feed materials. Oxygen steelmaking is fuelled predominantly by the exothermic nature of the reactions inside the vessel where as in EAF steelmaking, electrical energy is used to melt the solid scrap and/or DRI materials. In recent times, EAF steelmaking technology has evolved closer to oxygen steelmaking as more chemical energy is introduced into the process."

Thanks to all for your efforts

Swamp

I have been thinking that it is easier to get two signals 90 out of phase with an alternator than relying on electronics, which are difficult to design and implement (at least for me). I have 3 ideas which seems to be very easy to test with just an old car alternator from scrapping:


   *** 1) Rewind a common three phase alternator (3 signals120º out of phase) in order to get a two phase output (2 signals 90º out of phase). Later each signals can be rectified with a diode to get two positive and opposite signals. Here I post links to two winding booklets (they are in spanish, but are easy to understand) with two phase winding diagrams for different number of poles and slots:

http://www.mediafire.com/?mleytebyse86ehk  (see from page 127 in the pdf file)

http://www.mediafire.com/?2rvgz46rkx5a8i2   (see from page 60 in the pdf file)


   *** 2) Use a common three phase alternator and then use a Scott Connection (T Connection) to convert the 3 phase output to a two phase output. A Scott T Transformer Connection is just two transformers with intermediate taps connection (see image attached below). Also very simple to implement. Some links:

http://electrical-engineering-portal.com/scott-t-transformer-connection-overview

http://blog.aulamoisan.com/2013/05/conexion-scott-de-red-trifasica-red.html


   *** 3) Use a common three phase alternator to feed the Figuera generator. Maybe taking two signals at 120º won´t get a 100% optimized output but perhaps it may work too. Who knows... It is worth to try it. As you guess this is also very simple to test. 

I hope this could help everyone.

Hanon,
I've been thinking about 3 phases from the Clemente Fig. generator...
there are 7 transformers ---------14 primaries and 7 secondaries

Can/could one of the 7 secondaries recharge the battery...and the other 6 be paired to a 3 phase motor with each pair tuned with enough resistance and capacitance to the correct phase....Hope I worded that correctly...

All the best
RandyFL

easiest Quadrature i have found to date in one of my Electronic books. outputs are 90* out of Phase.
Sorry the preview was not that big!

How much do you know about electricity?