Saw this on overunity.com and I have a feeling this fellow might be on the right track.

YouTube - Magnet Motor Prototype

The problem I have seen with all permanent magnet motors so far is that everyone keeps thinking in two dimensions which is a big shortcoming.

This fellow has expanded into the third dimension and you can already see improvement over those two dimensional spiral motors.

I would take this a few steps further (or turn it up couple of notches ). Instead of a cylinder use an inverted cone (apex down) so that we have a vortex/spiral, and pieces on the cone are constantly spiraling or "falling" down into the vortex. I remember reading about David Hamel and his revelations where he said that his device is all about being out of alignment and constantly "falling" so that clicked in right away after seeing this.

Amigo,

This is very interesting. It certainly represents a new and different method for a permanent magnet motor. If you are interested in this idea, I highly recommend that you first try to DUPLICATE the design shown in the video clip. IF you can get it to run, THEN you should think about modifying it or improving it.

There are still a few unknowns. We don't know what magnets he used or the polarity he used to face the screws. Did he use all the same poles facing the screws, or did he alternate the poles? Or did he face the edge of the magnets to the screws, with the poles facing each other?

The idea seems simple enough to work with.

Good find!

Peter

Stefan Marinov had an "infinitely long Siberian Coleiu (spelling???) magnet".

Infinitely long seems to be the same concept of "constantly falling"

Aaron, this must be it, will take a read at the paper: Coliu

Peter, I usually try to visualize something and at the same time recollect things I have seen, heard or read from the past that might apply to the task at hand.
This process is seemingly transparent for me most of the times, and so I see it as a gift - being able to connect abstracts that at first sight do not have anything in common.

Though I'm not Tesla who could visualize a machine in his mind, set it up and let it run until it breaks, then figure out why it broke and make his physical design with corrected parameters, thus succeeding with it the first time around.

YouTube - How to Power Your Car Using Magnets - HacknMod.com

Check out this video for an upgrade of that same device