The following are all
approximately equivalent:
A flat bar PMH:

Round:

A reverse horse-shoe:

An outside ring with many folds:

Now, imagine the PMH energized.
There is a core on either side.
Which pole of the adjacent core touches the PMH's North pole?
-Like this:
NS-NS-NS-NS
Right?
Automatically.
It is a closed PMH.
There are no obvious poles.
If coils were installed all the way around and wired as
they prefer, we'd have a PMH with a core made of PMH's.
-
Not like this:
NN-SS-NN-SS

The machine
could be wired into the configuration shown, and produce obvious poles, but why
should it?
This configuration could lose a lot of magnets, horizontally.
A circuit would form between the pipe and the nearest PMH.
The other PMH's could "lose" their magnets assisting that one, rather than into the air.
As the wheel turns, the next PMH becomes "nearest", and the currents transfer themselves.
The strongest magnetic current would always be on the "pipe side" of the flywheel, regardless of how the flywheel is turned.
As the flywheel turns, clockwise, the "next" PMH is counter-clockwise from the current one.
The current would keep jumping from PMH to PMH, always in the opposite direction of the flywheel.
The current jumping from PMH to PMH in a circle is, itself, a separate current.
(An imbalance moving in a loop.)
From the flywheel's point-of view, the flywheel is stationary.
From the flywheel's point-of view, the
current is circling around
it.
Viewed from the top, the magnetic field chasing the pipe would look like a Slinky falling
upstairs around the perimeter of the flywheel.
Imagine the flywheel and pipe as "gears."
The magnetic current is the "chain" around them.
-I see a possible third configuration, as well:
It would make the U of every core North, and the forks of every core South. (Or vice-versa)
In this configuration, the
two rings above and below the cores are the "coils."
The coils don't turn multiple times around each core.
Instead, they are two circles around all of the cores, on opposite sides.
EDL showed us we can make cores into magnets just by passing current across them.
We don't
have to coil, or even use wire.
The resulting shape of the magnetic field would be a horizontal toroid.
What is the general consensus about this?