Re: Pine Trees and generators

Billy M. Williams ( (no email) )
Mon, 16 Mar 1998 00:15:50 -0500

Like I said..I haven't tested the pine tree to even see if one can generate
a current yet. I thought of the idea one day when I remembered that pine
needles were acidic.
So if the needles are acidic the sap should be too. Hmm if copper can kill
a tree,
wouldn't tapping the tree with a pair of copper and zinc nails for poles of
a battery defeat the purpose by killing the tree? Sigh...my mind does
wander about...

I've a idea for a power generating unit but it's not overunity.
It uses a windmill to keep a 12 volt battery charged to supply volatage to
a pair of 12VDC electromagnetics. The magnets are mounted 6" apart and
spaced veritically.
Both facing the same direction. Across from the magnets is a pair of
mounted shafts which can slide back and forth and are attached to a clutch
plate. The ends of the shafts facing the magnets have round wieghted heads
4" long by 4" across.
The clutch plate is attached to a gear box and the gear box turns a AC
generator
to provide a output.

As the top electromagnet powers up it attracts the face of the weighed head
and draws it toward it, this spins the clutch plate a half rotation and
turns the gears.
As the top shaft reaches it's full draw forward the top magnet shuts down
and the bottom magnet powers up, pulling the bottom head forward turning
the clutch plate again and at the same time it pulls the top shaft back to
the original position. Each magnet triggers at a adjustable rate via a
timer circuit. The clutch plate works in a seesaw fashion but the gear box
is timed so that the generator is kept moving at a steady pace.

As the generator does not have to provide any power back to the
electromagnets and to recharge the battery, all the power from the
generator could be used. In Georgia where I live the wind blows at least
4-5 days out of the week and sometimes all week. The size of the unit would
determine the power output. Tho It'd probably be easier just the tap the
wind for the generation of power. ;)
Billy M. Williams

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Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.

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> From: Keith and Shelley Schmidt <kschmi01@m9.sprynet.com>
> To: KeelyNet-L@lists.kz
> Subject: Re: Pine Trees
> Date: Sunday, March 15, 1998 10:34 PM
>
> You'll also need to be careful how you tap the electricity. A friend of
mine used
> to "remove" other companies trees if he felt they blocked the view to his
company.
> He would take 2-3 copper nails and hammer them in to the trunk. The
natural flow
> of nutrients up the tree caused some toxic formation (copper nitrate I
think). The
> more water the tree consumed, the more it poisoned itself. However you
decide to
> remove electricity, make sure it doesn't remove the tree.
>
> How were you going to anyway? I like the idea. Wire up a bunch of trees
and maybe
> do the ground battery idea. Who needs the grid when you have the
forrest.
>
> Keith
>
> John Berry wrote:
>
> > Well you may kill the trees if you are not careful, Current flowing
down a tree
> > will kill it!
> > In the other direction it will help in grow!
> >
> > John Berry
> >
> > Billy M. Williams wrote:
> >
> > > Heheheh...ok heres another of my wierd ideas...
> > >
> > > Lemons are naturally acidic so it's easy to use one to run a LCD
clock, the
> > > kits to do so have been sold for years. Now...Pine trees are also
> > > Acidic....I haven't tested this yet, but I wonder if you can get
voltage
> > > out of pine trees like lemons?
> > > If so...What about a group of 50 to 100 trees hooked up all together?
> > > The trees are alive so they should keep growing and providing energy
for as
> > > long as they are wired up.
> > >
> > > I warned you I had stange wandering thoughts ;)
> > > If only my mind would wander over and see the Big Game Lottery
numbers for
> > > next tuesday...23 million would go a long way to research things. ;)
> > > Billy M. Williams
> > >
> > >
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> > >
> > > The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a
> > > bowling ball wouldn't.
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