>... so therefore there will be no detailed specs available.

I only want power, phase, torque, weight (mass actually), heat and noise output, some other basic properties of portable motors/generators... nothing that a competitor could use. Just something to give me faith these things actually exist other than on paper.

> It may turn out, for instance, that you need oodles of power to energise your permanent magnets in the first place, and that when you do the sums it turns out just to be a very efficient 'transformer' and that magnets are equally efficient 'batteries'.

My money's on this; we discussed this before, ISTR. I'll definitely join you in the Argos queue though.