A great homebrew generator plan

Get a 12 volt battery, 12 volt motor, 12 volt alternator, and a 12 volt to 110 volt inverter. Make a platform of sorts to set the equipment on. Make a spot for the battery to sit at. At another part of the base, put the alternator and motor next to each other, so that the motor and the alternator can be belted together,"connecting the two pulleys using a belt". Now, wire it up, first, wire the alternator to the battery, then wire a line from the battery to the motor. The motor will turn the alternator, the alternator will provide fresh juice to the battery, and thus the generating process will continue non stop. Now, wire in the inverter, with leads from the battery to the inverter. Now you can have free, continous 110 volt power. Good Idea. If I can, ill post a diaghram.

Soon in show class, im going to build a driving generator. Im getting an old John Deere riding mower, fixing it up, taking the deck off, then rigging a pulley system to either a self induction motor, or a generator head, and I turn the mowers pulley on, it will turn the belt, turn the head, and provide power, and I can gnerator power and drive the mower at the same time. Now, Ill I have to figure out is what can I generate power for while driving the "mowernator" at the same time

To your "genar-mower" example that may work, but it is not free energy, the gas to the engine negates that.

Anyway good luck, everyone thought Henry Ford couldn't make cheap cars. Plus tinkering around is the true way you learn if something will work or not.

Rick

If you were to get a flat tire on the front of your loader tractor, would you just tie a chain to the loader bucket, other end to the front axle and then lift the whole tractor front end off the ground using the loader? :>)

Allan

"One day in math class"

Well then here's some numbers to work with;

1hp = 746w

A alternator has pumping losses so figure 85% efficiency. Makes maximum wattage at 2000rpm for automobil types. A typical alternator output is rated at 13.6v@130amps.

A voltage regualtor for deep cycle battery's is 95% efficient.

V-belts are 93% efficient

Invertors are typicaly 90% efficient.

Maximum battery drain is 75% of max rated amperage for a lead acid deep cycle battery's. Absolute discharge is 50%. Typical T-105 6v golf cart battery's are 105amp/hr rated at 20a/hr discharge rate.

From the above numbers, Now tell me how many watts your invertor will output and for how long ?

T_Bone

The closest that I ever came to accomplishing perpetual motion, was by observing two basics laws of physics. Law no.(1) If you hold a cat upside down and drop him, he always lands on his feet. Law no.(2) If you drop a slice of buttered bread, it always lands on the floor butter side down. So, the idea was to tie a slice of buttered bread on the cats back, buttered side up. I then held the cat in the air by his feet and dropped him. This made the buttered bread falling buttered side down, that was right, but the cat was falling with his feet up. About a foot off the ground law no. 1 took over, and the cat flipped over to land on his feet. This put the bread falling buttered side up, law no.2 then flipped the bread over to land buttered side down.Then law no. 1 reversed this, then law no.2 took over. After watching this phenomena rotating about a foot off the floor for a short period, I went to get some pulleys and belts to see if I could harness some of the free energy. On the way back I met the cat running full speed leaving home.( he probably didn't like physics) When I got in the room, sure enough the string had broken, and the bread was lying on the floor buttered side down. End of my perpetual motion career.

Be plenty wary and skeptical until you see first hand whether ANY devices work.

When I was a kid my brothers and I played/experimented with all sorts of homebrew devices, nothing as grand a scale as you speak of however.

I encourage you to proceed with the fun project. Be sure to start with a fully charged battery. Install an ampmeter on the line going to the motor, and an ampmeter on the line from the alternator to the battery. Check the difference.

When you put the device into operation be sure to time it to see how long it takes for the battery to completely run down. Uh, hate to agree with the others, but it will fail to produce enough to keep operating.

I would rather see you young men work on the capacitors and device needed to gather "ether" electricity courtesy Tesla's ether plate collector. There are books bearing his patent information, but as far as I know the capacitors and trigger devices do not exist today.

To get you to also think along other energy lines, how about coming up with a device to gather the heat from household waste water? There are a few on the market, but I think one could be made better. Dishwasher water, washing machine water, etc. capatured to extract the heat from it to preheat incoming water heater water. Get the idea?

How about relocating the compressors from freezers and refrigerators so that the heat is expelled from the house during the summer, and is used to help heat the house in the winter. Perhaps use the heat from them to preheat water heater water.

Jake, I have faith in you young people. WE NEED young people like you to kick around ideas until they work and become reality. YOU GO GUY!!!! Never stop dreaming.

Joe

You're right, I should never have accused our corporate good neighbors of anything so dastardly. After all, didn't that guy with the 100 mpg carburetor retire to Florida?

Interesting you should bring up cold fusion. It turns out the Dept. of Energy just released a new study; check out the link below.

So you don't have to read the whole paper, here's the conclusions:

"While significant progress has been made in the sophistication of calorimeters since the review of this subject in 1989, the conclusions reached by the reviewers today are similar to those found in the 1989 review.

"The current reviewers identified a number of basic science research areas that could be helpful in resolving some of the controversies in the field, two of which were: 1) material science aspects of deuterated metals using modern characterization techniques, and 2) the study of particles reportedly emitted from deuterated foils using state-of-the-art apparatus and methods. The reviewers believed that this field would benefit from the peer-review processes associated with proposal submission to agencies and paper submission to archival journals."

So you still can't create fusion in a Dixie cup.

• DOE Cold Fusion Report

"So you still can't create fusion in a Dixie cup."
I would never have figured out what they were saying.(shell game of words?)
I'm glad you cleared that up.

--->Paul

There is a wind farm near Montezuma, KS that produces enoungh energy to supply power for 34-35,000 homes.

While I am reading some new reports stating that there is a slight climate change beneath them, I doubt such change of a degree or two would matter. At night supposedly the blades fan a slight amount of aloft warmer air to the ground. Just a longer growing season. Ha.

Seems I remember the $2,000 per unit term being bantered around. A quarter section full of machines would be farming all to heck---and you would still have 90% or so of the land to farm.

Think of the property taxes a county would collect if they have not waived away the rights to it for a few years.

Yes, I suppose they are an eyesore to some, but I'd rather have the convenience of electricity than not. Personally I rather enjoy watching them turn instead of a smokestack belching it's waste.