Energy Storage in Magnetic fields
Meat Truck ( (no email) )
Tue, 6 Oct 1998 04:18:59 -0500
Ten years ago I began my course of reasoning to try and ascertain how the
Newman motor could work. At that time I knew that energy was definitely
stored in the magnetic field. This was readily evidenced by the destructive
arcing on the commutator on the model I constructed. In fact this was one
of the reasons I discontinued research on the idea. But at that time I
simply believed what was in the physics books and never actually questioned
how the energy got there. Now I am seriously wondering if that energy got
there for free! Consider the following; If the wire was not in a coil
formation, but in a straight wire, the dc amperage would almost instantly
assume its full ohms law value. Therefore most all of the available
electrical energy went into the conversion into heat energy as expressed by
I squared times R. Now if the wire is coiled work is said to be done in
overcoming the self induction of the coil which produces an emf in
opposition to the source emf. Ordinarily without actually considering the
matter we might assume that part of the energy that normally went into
heating the wire went instead into establishing the magnetic field. But
upon actual analysis we find that in the second instance the actual energy
that goes into heating the wire is less than what it would be if no
inductance were present. This supposed amount of energy set aside to be
available for expression as magnetic field has actually never been taken
aside for conversion purposes. All that actually has occurred is that
energy that would normally be available to heat conversion has been
prevented from expressing itself, but this should not be misconstrued that
input energy is actually consumed in the process of establishing a magnetic
field. In light of the above considerations perhaps the blinking principle
employed by Newman begins to make a lot of sense. It might be amazing that
the format of reasoning among scientists wondering about the Newman process
could be reduced to the classical shell and pebble game in which the
manipulations of movements make us wonder which shell contains the pebble?
In fact if no pebble actually exists, the progenitors of this great con job
win every time. Sincerely wondering? H Norris mnorris@akron.infi.net