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Originally posted by Cryptonomicon
If you hooked this thing up to a generator, the resistance of the electric motor would cause this magnet resistance engine to come to a screeching halt.
Also, those magnets will lose their magnetism over time. If you left that thing spinning for 2 to 3 years, it would eventually stop. You don't get something from nothing.
Originally posted by arpgme
This seems so simple, why didn't we [humanity] think up this idea for the last thousands of years?
Originally posted by pryingopen3rdeye
Originally posted by r2d246
reply to post by samlf3rd
So when can I buy one pre build that will at least charge my iphone?????? It's NO WHERE TO BE FOUND.
THEREFORE IT'S BULLSHEAT AS FAR AS i'M CONCERNED
this ladies and gentlemen is called the entitlement generation, they have no patience and think they "deserve" #,
"dont show me how to fish just give me a fish or # you"
"dont show me how to build it, build it for me and give it to me NOW or # you"
this is what happens after 200 years of government build up to a welfare dependant populace. coupled with the pansy ass parenting we have today, they are all too busy with the 9-5 job to bother instilling morals into their children
Originally posted by Cryptonomicon
If you hooked this thing up to a generator, the resistance of the electric motor would cause this magnet resistance engine to come to a screeching halt.
Also, those magnets will lose their magnetism over time. If you left that thing spinning for 2 to 3 years, it would eventually stop. You don't get something from nothing.
Originally posted by LittleBlackEagle
Originally posted by CthulhuMythos
I am not great at these things, but if you surrounded this drum with a copper coil, would it produce free electricity?
if built on a lager scale with adequate gearing the shaft going through the cylinder could drive an electrical turbine thus producing electricity yes.
Originally posted by arpgme
reply to post by hellobruce
Ah, you're right. It would be impossible to keep it spinning all the time without some type of energy to make it spin again.
Well, imagine a car made from this technology? It would be good because the fact that the car is moving will keep it building its own energy.
" bits for bytes" is right"
Originally posted by bitsforbytes
reply to post by samlf3rd
It turns......But where is the load? These spinning devices spin and to spin they need little or no friction which is useless when you want to activate a generator that needs a lot of torque to start and maintain which mean a lot of friction.
So far mathematics prove that you cannot create more energy then what you input. Nothing is destroyed and nothing is created. Maybe we will push that boundary someday, but in all my engineering classes so far mathematically it is impossible. BTW, I studied electrical engineering.
Originally posted by Cryptonomicon
If you hooked this thing up to a generator, the resistance of the electric motor would cause this magnet resistance engine to come to a screeching halt.
Also, those magnets will lose their magnetism over time. If you left that thing spinning for 2 to 3 years, it would eventually stop. You don't get something from nothing.