I need to know why this works!

I'm not sure that it does. It could easily be a hoax. About halfway through, part of the leads disappear off screen. Someone could easily snip them at that point and attach them to batteries.

I'm about 99.99% certain you can't generate power this way at all. The amount shown is really kind of ridiculous.

Hmm, he brings the leads back in towards the end. The motor is sitting on top of something though. I don't know. Still, I don't think you can make a battery out of candles.

Well, I dont really believe this either, what the hell has lighting the candles to do with electricity? BTW towards the end of the video he does bring the cables back into view.. Someone who knows stuff about electric stuff either explain or discredit this ASAP..

The metacafe link has some bizarre reasoning posted but I'm just not sure I buy it.

OMG.. What is with all these fake videos, that seem plausible. I guess there is a new online sporting of trying to see what you can make people do after watching GooTube vids..

I liked the electrical taping stuff versions.

Ok, so clearly you can't make magic electricity. Maybe the "rubbing with magnet" should ahve tipped you off from the beginning. Also, Didn't you notice the light instantly comes on full strength at the wrong moment and turns off at wrong moment. Clearly a switch. Sadly, if they were more sophisticated, they could have had an RC circuit and the electricity would look like it matched the candle wax lighting up...

By the way I saw this posted on another site.. There are a lot of dumb people!!! Anyways, thanks for making this idiot rich. What is wrong with people, clearly there is some video editting, or way the candle makes contact through the bottom of the candle, across or under the table and either he, or someone throws a switch.

"The guy has made over $750 with this video."

if it's then it needs to be *discarded

Self-discarding this video (discard called by original submitter koshmar)