Re: gEDA-user: Calculating a linear self excited induction generator

[Karel Kulhavy <clock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 06:20:17PM -0400, Bob Paddock wrote:
> On Sunday 11 June 2006 16:40, Karel Kulhavy wrote:
> 
> > My bike alternator sucks and I would like to have one which has no
> > moving parts.
> 
> Look up the MEG:
> 
> "The Motionless Electromagnetic Generator,
> Extracting Energy from a Permanent Magnet with Energy-Replenishing from the Active Vacuum".
> 
> US Patent 6,362,718.   The main proponent of the MEG is Tom Bearden,
> http://www.cheniere.org/ .  Also see the claimed replication at
> http://jnaudin.free.fr/meg/meg.htm .  Personally I consider using a
> "burned out resistor" as a non-linear load to be bad science.  The
> jury is still out on if this works.

This has one "tiny" disadvantage, that it, with current physical
knowledge, cannot work.

> 
> > I read about self excited induction generator, homopolar generators,
> > liquid metal dynamos, interstellar plasma dynamos, linear motors
> > and electric meters.
> 
> There are four conventional ways to generate electricity.
> 
> 1) Move a magnet in relation to a coil.
> 
> 2) Move a coil in relation to a magnet.
> 
> 3) Change the reluctance between the magnet and the coil.
>      John Ecklin Patent, 3,879,622.  Switched Reluctance Motors are
>      becoming more common these days.
>   
>     When I win the lottery I'm going to build one of these out of
>     Metglas and see just how efficient this can be made.
> 
> 4) Oscillate the magnet above and below its Curie Point,
>      in relation to a coil.    Tesla patent from the 1800's.
> 
> Less conventional but still accepted by main stream science are generators
> that move some type of seeded fluid such Magnetohydrodynamics and
> its brethren.

SEIGs that are used on wind turbines don't fall into either category.

> If you want unaccepted science for generators then look up
> Otis T. Carr: "Utron" http://www.rexresearch.com/carr/1carr.htm ,
> US Patent # 2,912,244, 1959, and "Cook's Coil", 
> http://my.voyager.net/~jrrandall/CookCoil.htm ,
> US Patent 119,825  1871.  Both of these are based on odd-ball shaped
> magnetic fields that rotate.
> 
> If you start to play with Plasma Dynamos beware that they can generate
> Gama Rays if you do them badly.
> 
> > 2) Drive the wheel manually and see on a scope if the contraption really
> > generates more energy than it eats
> 
> Perpetually motion is impossible in a closed system, unfortunately.
> Which is not to say you can not have Free Energy from systems open
> the environment, Active Vacuum [Aether]/ZPE et.al.

I meant more electrical energy that it eats - the energy comes from
spinning the wheel.

CL<
> 
> > 3) Remove the external drive and place some magical capacitor(s)
> 
> http://www.thatcorp.com/datashts/dn114.pdf and 
> http://www.thatcorp.com/datashts/600034-1.pdf cover the "magical"
> Non-Linear capacitor.  Neat circuit, can really be built.  How do you simulate it?
> 
> > Does anyone have an idea how this thing should be calculated? gnucap
> > doesn't have a part "inductor coupled magnetically with a running
> > aluminium strip" so I can't simulate it.
> 
> In conventional physics you still have to deal with the Eddy Current loses,
> and counter EMF.
> 
> Try looking up the "Adams Motor".  You can find several off the wall
> ideas for generators/alternators at http://www.rexresearch.com/ and http://www.keelynet.com/ .
> Make sure you check out the "BBS File" section at Keelynet, especially the "Energy" section.
> 
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