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Is using magnets and copper wiring to power light bulbs a money saver?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJr9T761TrY ^

Posted on 07/14/2018 1:06:56 PM PDT by Jonty30

Aside that it is neat, is it actually worth the expense over time?


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Education; Science; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: fake; snakeoil
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To: ThunderSleeps

“Conductors and magnetic fields can oscillate.”

This is the best explanation I have see so far. If fact it may be fun to reproduce. The light bulb being a gas discharge device, has a negative resistance region which can be used for amplification. It may be possible to configure it as an oscillator using the energy supplied by the tube movement via induction. Crossing my eyes a bit, it looks like the magnets and coils are setting up a loosely coupled transformer. How long would it last? Not very long, but once the gas in the tube is ionized who knows. It may be able to sustain with ambient RF. Free energy? BS, it has to come from some place.

Yeah I know it sounds like rambling, but it kept me employed for years.


81 posted on 07/14/2018 5:06:05 PM PDT by Dawggie
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To: marktwain

Can’t Weasel Mueller bend these Laws of Physics?


82 posted on 07/14/2018 5:11:59 PM PDT by Paladin2 (no spelchek, no problem...)
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To: fruser1

Somebody mentioned that, if it was working as presented, it was probably acting like an antennae and picking up energy from other sources, like a nearby lamp


83 posted on 07/14/2018 5:12:46 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death by cults.)
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To: marktwain

Lord Kelvin’s Thunderstorm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv4MjaF_wow


84 posted on 07/14/2018 5:30:00 PM PDT by Ozark Tom ("Enjoy the weather. It's the only weather you've got.")
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To: GraceG
Probably a scam powered by inductive fields and a high voltage transformer. Correct, the whole damn thing is bull sh--.
85 posted on 07/14/2018 9:34:50 PM PDT by cpdiii (Cane Cutter, Roughneck, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist: THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
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To: libstripper

Of course after they stole his land for the benefit of the customers. He wasn’t paid anything near fair value for the easement.


86 posted on 07/15/2018 2:43:30 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: Paladin2

I remember one store when lightening hit the giant towers numerous times.


87 posted on 07/15/2018 2:45:36 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: Dalberg-Acton

Interesting. Those bond wires are of a substantial gauge size.


88 posted on 07/15/2018 2:47:52 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: mad_as_he$$; Paladin2

store=storm.

Auto correct sucks.


89 posted on 07/15/2018 2:50:07 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: Dalberg-Acton

Related:

https://www.ema3d.com/power-transmission-railway-circuits-numerical-analysis-common-contributors-induced-voltage/


90 posted on 07/15/2018 2:55:19 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: Jonty30

Lamps don’t emit rf. Rf is the full spectrum of radio signals such as for tv, radio, cb, shortwave, etc. low power but ever present, ready to be amplified.

Radio shack used to sell a simple kit for a radio that was powered in the same fashion. Just used a solenoid with thousands of turns around a ferromagnet.

Tvs and radios generally plug into the wall so don’t require as strong a solenoid to amplify the signal by induction.


91 posted on 07/15/2018 4:27:51 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: mad_as_he$$

I failed to explain properly.
When you pulled the wire off of one side of the joint, you could touch it back to the rail you had just detached it from and draw an arc. Using that arc, you could write on the rail.


92 posted on 07/15/2018 10:22:39 AM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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