So in light of UFOs being demonstrated well enough to exist for me to accept they are real and they fly, I've become interested in figuring out how to get the energy needed to do what they do.
Doing this has led me down the rabbit hole of reading old patents and old theory to see if there is a branch of science that got neglected for some reason or another.
In the investigation, it leads me to electrostatic machines.
Now these are interesting.
They are typically made using 1 nF Leyden jars and they can make megavolts of electricity with the right set up.
Regardless, I'm watching this YouTuber turn his machine by hand and it starts throwing 6 inch sparks every 2 seconds.
I ran the numbers and that's 457 kilovolts to jump that far. At 1 nF that works out to 200 watt-seconds per spark.
So an average of 100 watts per second as an average.
He's spinning it with his hand, when he stops, it takes a good 15 seconds for friction to stop the wheels. I have serious doubts that something that could be spin with one extended finger uses 100 watts to run.
The motion of the wheels are really only being affected by friction. In span the same way in an early part of the assembly video when none of the electrical components were attached.
This is an electron pump in the same way as an air conditioner has a heat pump.
I think high voltage electrostatics is the key to efficiently separating charge so that you can do other work. There's basically almost nothing for me to research about these things. They aren't even conspiracy level, they're just assumed useless outside of being a demo of high voltage and abandonned as a technology.
The only place I can see where they use it is in high voltage experiments, everything always comes with the discalmer that the watts made by these machines are uselss because it's high voltage and low amperage, like step down transformers and power conditioners don't exist.
They are also super, rediculously dangerous with big capacitors and can kill you in an instant by striking you with lighting from a distance of inches!
Edit:
- Edited because I wrote uF instead of nF.
- Added link to video series on how to make this particlular type of electrostatic machine from beggining to end including a working demo. (I assume he makes them as demo units for universities) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kMQJk8HZZg&t=2899s
- A comparison of how hard it is to make 700 watts of power through electromagnetics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4O5voOCqAQ
- Calculations by me can be found in the comments bellow
Where are you getting a full second of spark from?
The spark is likely much less than one second
Yes it is, but the spark contains 0.00045 amp-seconds of electrons. It means that if you distributed the flow of electrons that's contained in that spark over 1 second and measured it with an ammeter you would read 0.00045 amps.
1 Amp second is defined as 1 coulomb of charge moving past a given point over 1 second of time.
1 farad is defined as 1 coulomb stored in a capacitor at 1 volt. (C = q / V)
So if a 1 farad capacitor is fully charged to 1 volt, as it discharges it's average voltage is half the peek voltage which is 0.5 V, We know that 1 coulomb of charge is being delivered so we can plug that into the calculator P = I * V = 1 A/S * 0.5 V = 0.5 Watts/seconds.
A farad is just a rating of how many coulombs a capacitor will store if you charge it up to 1 volt.
Take that same 1 farad capacitor and, physics permitting, charge it to 450 kilovolts and it would hold 450 kilo-amp seconds (125 amp hours) worth of electrons.