REAL FREE ENERGY?
This page is by "Eric the skeptic" who has been unable to find quality evidence for any free energy claim. He provides a popular History of False Free Energy Claims. But, to be positive, the following are some real free energy possibilities:
- Temperature Changes You could theoretically harness power with a low speed sterling engine off daily power changes (a better way would be to harness the temperature differential between a supply of underground water and hot summer air) It's also possible to harness constant temperature changes at different altitudes in the air or in the sea (but incredibly expensive)
- Wave power This way stinks because the salt water corrodes, hurricanes trash it and wires are hard to run to it. A plausible Scottish attempt.
- Hydroelectric power We've all heard plenty about this (it has a down side of making lakes)
- Windmills Already done,
not very profitable but is improving. See WindCrank at
http://www.geocities.com/windcrank/index.html - Earth Axis Gyroscopic Power I read of a company making a prototype of a giant top which processes once a day - you need a weird gear box to get out power (I doubt this one is worth it)
- Solar Power I think this holds the most promise. - we can get very economical heat and when materials scientists get their act together (or when the cost of energy goes up enough) , we can have roof tiles out of solar cells.
- Air Pressure Changes It is theoretically possible to harness low levels of power (some gimmick clocks run this way) off small changes.
- Fusion I'm afraid this looks as far away as ever in spite of many billions of research dollars.
- Fission This is my favorite - but most people are too afraid of the waste.
- Random Ground Voltages You can drive a pipe in two distant places in the ground and get some current flow - it's not real reliable (I learned this the hard way from designing communications systems with ground loop problems)
- lightening - big power, but not often and hard to control
- Power Company Ground Differences In Europe, some power companies use the earth as a return. - You can often run a small flash light bulb off the potential between your meter and earth.
- Sky Voltage Worldwide thunderstorms charge the Earth negative and the ionosphere positive. Loft an antenna wire with a balloon, and you can intercept a small current and run a simple electrostatic motor like Dr. Oleg Jefimenko at the U. of W. Virginia. (Special thanks to Bill Beaty)
- Dry Pile (DuLuc/Zamboni pile.) These were used to power "perpetual pendulums," one of which has been running since 1840. However, they are simply dry-cell batteries which produce nanoamperes at thousands of volts.
- Radio Tower Bleed-off Energy: The following is an article by "Radio Tom" about how you can erect an antenna near a large AM radio transmitter to suck off FREE ELECTRICITY:
I
simulated a broadcast station array with my antenna program. I used ideal situations
to give the farthest possible results on the claim you told me about someone
intercepting kilowatts of power from a 10 KW broadcast station. I don't recall
the distance from the station that was stated.
I used 540 kHz. for the transmit frequency
(longest wavelength in the broadcast band), two 1/4 wave tall towers (approx.
450') in the highest gain two tower phased array design. This is two towers
spaced 1/4 wave apart fed 135 degrees difference. A total of 50 KW was fed to
the two towers. The ground used for the simulation was IDEAL ground. I moved a
matched, terminated third 450' tower towards the other two towers until I got 1
KW into the third "freeloader" tower. The distance was 2400' from the
closer transmitter tower. I didn't bother simulating with real ground yet.
Results would be worse, the third tower would have to be closer. I wanted to
use ideal conditions to show the absolute farthest you can be from the tower.
Higher gain arrays could be made with more towers. But this should be a yardstick
to discriminate against the bull___. I hope this is a help. What was that
previous claim? 73, Radio Tom
Here are some really whacked out ideas from Fred Mitchell for FE:
*
piezoelectricity - strap some quartz crystals to bridges and roads at the right
places and generate electricity during rush
hour traffic. Or bury them near a fault line in California!
* swivel chairs - wire up dynamos to all the swivel chairs in an office and use that power to run all the coffee makers! Attach solenoids with magnetic cores to chairs so electricity is generated when you get up and sit down. Let that power run the computer at your desk. I can just see the slogans. Bounce your Butt to Keep it Up!
The ultimate
problem with the above ideas is the same problem that the media won’t admit
about solar voltaics: “It takes more energy to make a device that harnesses energy in
these ways than you would ever get from the device”.
There will still be lots of scientists and fringe inventors still looking for cold fusion or over unity machine or space energy and the following is a great summary of current free energy claims. Before you get too excited about any of them, consider that none have made a serious effort to go for my $10000 prize for proof of a free energy machine. Some people say, “there is huge power to be had in real perpetual motion, like the earth spinning or atoms spinning” – this is true, but there is no frame of reference where we could harness such motive energy sources. Most talk of power from hydrogen is BS, because most all available hydrogen is already burnt – its ashes are what we call WATER. And it will always take more energy to separate hydrogen out from water than you can get burning it back.
· More Free Energy and Hot Air - by Milton Rothman
· ERIC'S OPEN OFFER TO VALIDATE CLAIMS OF FREE ENERGY
· Joe Newmans Free Energy Claims - are they valid?
· free energy with wires and magnets
· Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion in Hawaii
· Electricity out of thin air What about claims of reactionless drives?
· Perpetual Motion Machines ("Over-Unity Devices")
· whynot
- some free energy ideas (some may work, but are very low power)
pages exposing Joe Newman
and Dennis Lee who some people suspect of leading a nationwide
scam. Also, Amin, Mills (who may be legit?) Tewari Also,
Tilley, Perendev, Bearden Lutec Xogen and GWE cold fusion
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