Many many years ago in a Boys Own Annual 19xx vintage there was info on Building a Electromagnetic motor, the Motor ran on just a Antenna..
Use a large 1 meter mica disk from memory as the rotor, but why I think its a meter I just don't know as meters was not used in those days, unless the article came from the EU..
One of the links at the top is: Amazing Motor That Draws Power From The Air Popular Science Magazine, April 1971 (PDF file) (it didn't want to load in to my old version of adobe reader)
What this means is you could create a power system to provide all your household power needs with only 100 watts drawn from the power grid. The only real reason to use the power grid is for the right frequency for all your present appliances. Done with an oscillator you could use a battery or hand crank generator to start it up and then run off a capacitor bank for the first stage. If the magnetic transistor idea proves out then one stage or two stages might be sufficient. " --
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Wow! World's energy crisis is imaginary, we can make electric cars that run themselves! Just hand crank to start, the run off a cpacitor bank -- why use a battery at all? Must be big oil or the Govt stopping this 'technology' being made available to all?
Electrostatic motors can be powered by wind friction charges. Some old diagrams show power coming from an antenna symbol but the only photo I could find shows a ballon generating the power.
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Say Mike are you an EE or a Physicist? (It OK to be a bit of both.)
I'm a fish monger, well really a shrimp monger. hmm... can a shrimp seller be a monger? My wife and I run a small retail shrimp store on a marina. Been doing electronic tech type work most of my life, but now it is a hobby. Science was always high on my interest list, my last job was working for a physicist, we had a lot of fun on worthless projects, but I did learn a lot! Any reason you ask? MikeK
Dunno, I tend not to follow these. I noticed people putting coils on powerful magnets and then doing crest-factor measurement errors to 'explain' their power gain.
Only tempco I can think of is the curie point where magnetics stop working? Useful for say Weller irons way back, as a control function, can't see it being a way to generate power though.
If it were easy or true, everyone would have one. Must be them evil power companies stop these so they can charge for wiggling electrons about, like AC power has zero energy 'cos it takes back what it gives?
Mad thinking, except some take it all too seriously.
Dangerous for attracting lightning though, electrostatic antenna seems so attractive until one contemplates catering for the 'fault' currents during storms.
Yes, I like PDF-XChange too now I've run through many datasheets and other documents , hasn't goofed up on any of them :) I can live with the 'hand' tool not selecting text.
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