Post by lamudbug on May 5, 2013 15:01:35 GMT -5
Atmospheric Electricity Generation: Is this “true energy” the sleeping giant of renewables?
What this company is trying to do was previously done by GE labs back around 1970.
I read about it in Popular Science and even looked at plans to build a home static motor with a record turntable, several albums (stacked with aluminum foil circuits between them , a couple of light bulbs (silvered on the outside)
and a few sewing needles hung 40' up in the air with speaker wire carrying the static charge down to the motor/generator.
back to the article:
>A company called SEFE says that it will soon be able to generate a limitless supply of renewable energy by converting static electricity from the atmosphere into direct current.<
excerpts only
visit link for full story
landartgenerator.org/blagi/archives/2148
> SEFE’s Harmony system is designed to draw the static electricity in direct current form from the atmosphere, converting it to alternating current for immediate power consumption. <
>SEFE’s flagship product is called the Harmony III and it incorporates an electrostatic motor that operates as a generator when it is supplied with a high voltage/low current power source, such as that which is in abundant existence in the atmosphere. So far SEFE has received four patents for its system and has more pending approval.<
How it works:
The static charge travels to ground via the bulbs which act as static accumulators.
Needles between the spinning disks, first attract the static charge,
very weakly pulling the already rotating disc toward the accumulator.
As they approach, the static charge jumps to the grounded needle.
Momentum carries it on past, then...
Then, both having the same charge, they weakly repel each other.
By the time the needle has rotated to the next charged accumulator,
it's charge has drained to ground.
It's called electrostatic attraction and electrostatic repulsion.
Back when GE Labs did it, bearing friction was the problem.
They used one needle atop a 40' pole and one turntable which powered one 40 watt light bulb until bearing friction brought it to a stop.
I've had to wait 40 yrs for a company to try to market this free energy from the natural static charge in our air.
Long past time IMHO.
btw
I recognized a static motor in pictures of "Coral Castle" ruins in FL
It's like a reality of the fictional John Galt's motor in Ann Rand's
Atlas Shrugged
What this company is trying to do was previously done by GE labs back around 1970.
I read about it in Popular Science and even looked at plans to build a home static motor with a record turntable, several albums (stacked with aluminum foil circuits between them , a couple of light bulbs (silvered on the outside)
and a few sewing needles hung 40' up in the air with speaker wire carrying the static charge down to the motor/generator.
back to the article:
>A company called SEFE says that it will soon be able to generate a limitless supply of renewable energy by converting static electricity from the atmosphere into direct current.<
excerpts only
visit link for full story
landartgenerator.org/blagi/archives/2148
> SEFE’s Harmony system is designed to draw the static electricity in direct current form from the atmosphere, converting it to alternating current for immediate power consumption. <
>SEFE’s flagship product is called the Harmony III and it incorporates an electrostatic motor that operates as a generator when it is supplied with a high voltage/low current power source, such as that which is in abundant existence in the atmosphere. So far SEFE has received four patents for its system and has more pending approval.<
How it works:
The static charge travels to ground via the bulbs which act as static accumulators.
Needles between the spinning disks, first attract the static charge,
very weakly pulling the already rotating disc toward the accumulator.
As they approach, the static charge jumps to the grounded needle.
Momentum carries it on past, then...
Then, both having the same charge, they weakly repel each other.
By the time the needle has rotated to the next charged accumulator,
it's charge has drained to ground.
It's called electrostatic attraction and electrostatic repulsion.
Back when GE Labs did it, bearing friction was the problem.
They used one needle atop a 40' pole and one turntable which powered one 40 watt light bulb until bearing friction brought it to a stop.
I've had to wait 40 yrs for a company to try to market this free energy from the natural static charge in our air.
Long past time IMHO.
btw
I recognized a static motor in pictures of "Coral Castle" ruins in FL
It's like a reality of the fictional John Galt's motor in Ann Rand's
Atlas Shrugged
