Posted on 05/17/2019 12:01:57 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
...he has invented a magnetic generator, a flywheel system that extracts usable energy from the interplay of exotic magnets—also known as a free-energy device, a cousin to the fabled perpetual-motion machine... He will have also achieved something that has eluded great minds from Leonardo da Vinci to electrical pioneer Nikola Tesla. How is that even possible? “Tesla didn’t have rare-earth magnets and digital machine control,”...
If there’s more energy out than in, we throw away the textbooks and send [Mr. Danzik] half a dozen Nobel Prizes, because one isn’t enough.... , the R32 Earth Engine, hucks two 900-kilogram flywheels at speeds between 125 and 250 rpm, generating 240V or 480V at 100 amps. On the high side, that’s 48 kilowatts, about what a small backup diesel generator puts out. But unlike a diesel generator, the company says, the R32 produces no emissions, no noise (the unit comes in a vacuum-sealed, tamper-proof housing) and uses no fuel. ...If the Earth Engine is an illusion, it’s a spectacularly elaborate one with no clear way of paying off. IEC isn’t selling, or even leasing, the machines, to keep the secret guts secret. Instead, it will charge by the kilowatt-hour delivered in the field—and a pittance, too, 8 to 45 cents per kWh. Oil-field operations can easily pay the equivalent of $1 per kWh for diesel.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
For Extra Credit: How It Is Supposed to Work
A magnet is any material or object that produces a magnetic field. Among the strongest magnets are those derived from rare-earth minerals. In the case of the Earth Engine, superstrong magnets paired with computer control and the good old flywheel allow IEC to claim it can “suspend entropy.”
Mr. Danzik says he became convinced he could extract energy from powerful magnets (mostly ordinary iron) that are clustered in a way that magnifies their effect. Such arrays are well known. For example, Tesla cars use electromagnetic motors with what are called “Halbach” arrays, which are about 30% stronger than typical neodymium magnets.
The magnets IEC uses are also highly one-sided, or “anisotropic,” which means their field is stronger on one face than the other—say, 85% North and 15% South.
In the R32, magnets located in three black towers interact with ones placed in the two one-ton, counter-rotating flywheels. As the flywheel rotates, small battery-powered motors move the tower magnets’ orientation at moments of highest drag. This allows the magnets to accelerate as they approach and not slow down as much when they pass.
The net force imparts angular momentum to the flywheels that can then be harvested, mechanically or electrically, IEC claims.
The biggest riddle involves the conservation of energy. Conventional physics holds that magnets have nearly zero inherent energy. Mr. Danzik believes that is because we calculate magnets’ strength by how much current they induce in a loop of wire. He argues that with the emergence of anisotropic, rare-earth magnets, we need a new set of equations to calculate a new physical quantity, which he describes as ‘’the resulting center shaft torque produced from angular momentum derived from the force of paired magnetic fields.”
If it all checks out, this new quantity would have to be measured in a new unit: the Danzik.
It will eventually drain the earth’s magnetic field.
Then we all die.
;)
I’d rather have a Mr. Fusion.
Is that THE, Mr. Fusion?
It’ll be fine until the hamster dies..................
It will eventually drain the earth’s magnetic field.
Then we all die.
Oh, crap!
I hate when that happens.
The South gets shortchanged again...................
In about 12 years according to aoc.
Ever wonder why we have not detected any advanced alien civilizations?...........THIS...................
Oh, yeah? And what are they gonna do when these things suck all the magnetic energy out of the earth’s core? Then the earth goes wobbly in its orbit and erratic surge tides start flipping over islands and wiping out coastal cities? We’re all gonna die! Unless. of course, we give up our sovereignty and pay a global magnetic flux tax.
Prior art, and well defined too!
Does that mean it’s back to cold fusion?
And the goofy Italian scientist?
Ross????
Is Tor Eckman back out?
Stock up on Chuckles!
It's not an "unlikely quest."
It's a silly, ignorant, and ridiculous quest.
The man who is pursuing (named Dennis Danzik) is the personification of the Dunning-Kruger Effect.
Maybe I should say he's "a personification of the Dunning-Kruger effect," because he's so totally not alone. We seem to be living in a world-wide Dunning-Kruger Overdrive culture.
The South gets shortchanged again...................
This was a simple article about a possible new power source for Teslas, and you go and bring in some off the wall political theory.
You may need a break from the AOC threads?
Total rubbish!
The ONLY way to make a gravity or magnetic perpetual motion machine would be to find a method of shielding gravity or magnetism....i.e a thin sheet of material that magnetism or gravity could not pass through.
No such material can possibly exist..the laws of physics prohibit such.
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