I've always wondered since my electronics school days, and maybe it's just a simple physics problem as to why it's not possible, but have you ever seen one of the small "play generators" where you wind it to make a small light bulb glow? Maybe the final device would be too BIG for any real applications. I'm very interested in your thoughts, because in my mind, I can't see why it wouldn't work, or why there isn't any already, but maybe I'm missing something simple. In the Play generator you physically rotate a magnet in windings to produce current to make the lamp glow. Why wouldn't this work? 1. Start with 12volt battery and 12v electric motor. Motor would turn generator producing small amount of current. 2. System is connected to gear system that, for instance, turns 10 other generators all producing current. 3. Primary motor is disconnected from original starting battery and source by 5 of the running generators 4. Could you not use the current from the remaining generators to power devices, charge starting battery, or fire other starting generators. 5. In a gear system, could you not turn even 100's of these generators from the motion of one running generator.
I realize this may be over simplified, and maybe it would take too many to get any power you could actually use, but would love to hear the thoughts of more physic minded persons on why this would not work, or a scaled down version etc.
Pretty much electric motors are generators. Its similar to your alternator in your car. New hybrid cars use the electric motor as both motor and generator.
Nice idea and far be it for me to be a ney sayer..... but I must at this juncture. Basic fault with what you are proposing is the load factors. First of all there is gear or belt drag from the physical connect between your drive motor and all generators added to the system. Second the more current you draw from the generators the more induced load you motor has to over come. The more load your motor has to over come the more current you need and so and so. I am certain this has been tried numerous times. Just do the math and let the results speak for themselves. Keep on thinking and anylizing the answers are out there.
Hi jv What could be of interest to you is what I call "the secret of sympathetic vibrations"-Google 'The Secret Doctrine by HP Blavatsky Vol.1- Page 555.
Im doing some projects where i want to use 3 frequencies which are harmonics of each other (similar to when a choir sings in harmony- 1st, 3rd and 5th, say 262hz thats middle C, 330hz E and 392hz G) I just made a Joulethief circuit with 3 secondary windings with lengths of wire to match these three frequencies/wave lengths. it lights the led's pretty well. Now i have to observe the setup for a few days to see how fast the battery which is 1.25V lighting 3 leds loses it's energy compare to other similar circuits.My theory is that you have 3 harmonicaly varing resistances/inductive reactances.I have drawn acurate 2D replicas of these sine waves and they have "nodes" where they meet in sympathy. Also read Pythgoras-"Music of the Spheres"
Maybe make a motor on this same principle. The John Bedini Motor uses 2 coils of a thicker trigger coil and a thinner charging coil.My experience with these motors, is that they dont have much torque and although the charging battery does show a voltage rise, it seem to be just voltage, similar to a capacitor which disgarges instantaneuously when a load is applied. This is just my experience, im not a professional.