>>I'll tell you what to do, try to hold this 1KG magnet at arms length for say 2 hours, you will soon find out how much work is being expended, you will probably drop it after about 20mins due to fatigue, there is a large flow of energy.
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>Sure, you can waste energy this way. You might also conceive of something blowing an object up, using up energy.

So you are saying that there is entropy (wasted energy) when you hold the magnet, but none when it is attached by magnetic attraction to a perpendicular steel plate. Sorry you can't have one without the other.

I ask once again, where does the energy come from that powers the magnetic clamping force.

>No energy, as long as there is no movement.

Ah, a force appied with no energy expended, this would be an over unity process, not possible in the current model.

>You don't need energy simply to maintain a force.

I am sorry but you do need energy to maintain a force, you have just highlighted the flaw in the current model.