You will find that I am very active in answering any questions beneath my posts, I am not here to fight and name call, I'm just honestly doing my best to share what I found.
For those who missed the context in my previous posts:
I am following the instruction of Steven Greer because I agree with him and his sentiment. I agree that, if you discover free energy, you must share it with everyone anonymously, as soon as possible, as quickly as possible to make sure that everyone gets it. He also makes the case that, if your claim is true, if you keep it to yourself and try to monetize it, your life is in danger. I agree.
So I am trying to get you keks to build these too and make it happen with me, if you don't like my reasoning then don't participate, if you like my reasoning, or just want to play along with these machines as well. Follow my posts. If you don't like it, fine. But I'm not here to have a fight, I'm sharing this with this community because I feel like you're my internet friends.
I have more in my previouse posts but, the three main reasons boil down to:
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A good tool to calulate the energy stored in a capacitor: https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/capacitor-energy
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The breakdown voltage of air: https://www.microwaves101.com/encyclopedias/atmospheric-breakdown
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A video of a man shooting off 60 joule sparks at a frequency of 1 Hz when his wheels are at speed, using a wimshurst machine and turining it like it's nothing. Fast forward to 42:32 in the video and watch from there. He never spins it for long, but when he gets it to speed, you get 1 or two sparks that are only separated by a second on some of the times he spins it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kMQJk8HZZg&t=2086s
When I consider how hard it is to to make that much wattage with a hand crank generator, just thinking about the little 10-15 watt ones that are in flashlights and crank radios and I look at how easily he spins that machine.
I see overunity in the sense that it lookes like a heat pump to me. It looks like it opperated with a coefficent of performance like a heat pump instead of having an efficiency.
I have 3 justifications for viewing it this way:
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A heat pump creates differential thermal kinetic energy and the magnitude of those differentials is larger than the magnitude of energy required to establish that differential.
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This machine is creating a differential in electron density, and therefore, electric potential energy and if we can make one differential energy type with a coefficient of performance, it's not unreasonable to assume we could make others like that
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I think the reason that this can have a COP is because we can easily get 90% conversion efficieny with standard electromagnetic generators. Magnetism is only a side effect of charge motion and the directionality of the electric force is perpendicular to the magnetic force.
If you really stop and think about it, and I know the analogy is not perfect, trying to move electrons with magnetism is kind of like trying to pump water through a pipe by compressing the pipe walls.
Conversely, static electricity kind of already wants to happen naturally all over the place all the time by accident. These wimshurst machines are not friction machines (triboelectric), they are electrostatic influence machines.
Any calculation that you find that is based on the efficiency of a Van Der Graaf is incorrect for these machines. Van Der Graafs use friction on a belt and could never be made effient because it is a friction machine.
So I'm testing it myself an encouraging the rest of you to follow along with me. I am certain that I am correct so now I'm building it.
End of context
2 Kilograms of PLA, 24 feet of PVC tubing, 2 practice cuts and 2 final cut 14 inch acryclic disks, 60 cut and stuck petals, the neutralisers on, and a few busted knuckles later and I was ready ready to spin her up.
I got it going a few times and I've been experimenting with how to drive them. Right now, the system I'm using has no criss crossing gears. I'm using pulleys on bussings instead of the pop bottle in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_K9bMGcaug
I made a bunch of ozonze so far. I haven't placed any electrodes yet and I haven't hooked it up to capacitors yet and I'm just putting some finishing touches on the drive train.
But it's not hard to spin at all. It's easy, even when I'm getting my face blasted with ozone it doesn't get any harder to spin. The only resistance I feel is a tiny bit in the neutraliser brushes and the machine.
Yesterday, I spun it up with a 60 watt scavenged diswasher pump motor and it spun it faster than I've seen any hand cranked machine go.
It had a round shaft, so I printed a compression fitting to attach it to my drive shaft, unfortunately, my pla is too slippery for that and after a minute the fitting burnt out.
So I ground the shaft so I can attach with a set screw and now I have to print a new fitting to match.
Right now, I'm printing an addition to the drive train to relieve strain on the drive shaft at the center.
My drive shaft is 3 feet of pvc tubing so it can't handle the force without flexing and ruining the alignment of my other bushings and making it hard to spin.
When I'm all set and done the plan is to make a proper spark gap with simple ball electrodes with known capacitors and record the frequency of sparking to measure voltage.
From there I can calulate the power generation in terms of watts. Just have to monitor the load on my drive motor and then I will have 1 of the 1000s of independant physical proofs this requires.
I am extremely confident because my first reaction to seeing that little motor spin those wheel was maniacal man giggling. It ruined the moment when the motor melted the fitting, but then I played with the motor like a drill a little bit and there's no way in hell I can match the power output of the motor with one hand. It spins too fast and has too much torque.
If that guy makes 60 joules per second (60 watts) by hand.....
I've been following the other posts... Love the can-do approach. And updoots for the anon contribution to society. I've tinkered with a lot of things, but generally stick to simple mechanics or basic chemistry, non-electric. But this project might inspire me to level up!
Question: why do you want to use sparks to measure your output when you could hook up a voltometer of some type? Hooking it up to a toaster comes to mind for morning toast, or other random appliances like a space heater. A long time ago I used a stationary bike with a power output meter on it... old exercise equipment is not hard to come by.
Spark gaps are cheap and effective, just have to do a little math. A common meter wouldn't work.
We're looking at hundreds of microamps being supplied at hundreds of kilovolts. Highest number output voltage I found for a machine like this was a sector less one (a bonetti machine) which was 6 megavolts.
The other thing is that the power may not necessarily be useful in equipment that was designed for high amperage and low voltage.
Thanks.