Florida Man invents novel electric motor that uses zero rare-earth materials

17 years old, and Robert Sansone pops onto the scene with a 3D designed and printed novel electric motor he invented a few years ago after hearing about the high fiscal and environmental cost rare-earth elements demanded. Smithsonian magazine describes Robert Sansone's genesis story as:

Over the course of a year, Sansone created a prototype of a novel synchronous reluctance motor that had greater rotational forceor torqueand efficiency than existing ones.