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)
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
Ya, we're still getting them everyday even with the BP problem. I'm in Panama City Fl. we did see any oil here, one day they did say they got about 10lbs of tar balls off the beach,
coke bottles?
Actually no, that was a home project just to delight me and my physicist buddy. I gave it to a local museum and when I checked back they had done a clean out and tossed it. Kinda ticked me off, I did a nice job on it. A while back I repaired my son's science teachers Van de graaff generator, I got to play with it a while before I returned it :-)
I mis-spent my youth also. I say that because early on in school I tested in the top 2% in science. I didn't have any kind of mentor to guide me along until I was in my late 40's and then I didn't have any math to make it really useful. Spent most of my years as a tech in assembly and repair on video equipment, geophysical test equipment, automobile test equipment, worked in an electric motor repair shop till I got layed of during the Carter recession. I worked with the physicist building high power, high frequency ultrasonic equipment, for use in mostly aqueous solutions. Right now I have work on me and my son's electric gocart, and I'm about
60% finished with two solar collectors simular to this;
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Got a 4 ft tesla coil that I never finished, damn! But enough about me.... MikeK
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