Free Electricity From Rotation of the Earth

Possibility of getting electrical energy from the rotation of the Earth through its own magnetic field.

The homopolar generator has a conducting disc rotating along with an axially mounted cylinder magnet; the disc is cemented near the pole of the magnet. Rotating through the magnetic field, a potential difference is between the center of the disc and its rim. Brushes pick up voltage here. The Earth is doing essentially the same thing; it rotates through its own magnetic field. The Earth?s oceans near the poles are conductors, moving through the Earth's magnetic field, containing positive and negative salt water ions. There should be a separation of charge in the ocean, near the poles. There could be a potential difference between the ocean water near the poles and any grounded wire on land at the same lattitude. Cables could be used connecting these two places and you could get a constant supply of direct current, provided by the Earth?s rotation through its own magnetic field. The ions in the sea water near the end of the cable should be constantly replenished providing a constant voltage. Near the poles, the magnetic field should be stronger as it is with a magnet. Also, the cable near the poles would be cold, causing the electrical resistance in the cable to decrease. [Because the cable is parallel to the lattitude, there should be no back emf to cancel out the effect.] Near the poles the field lines are coming up out of the Earth. [Emf is generated perpendicular to the motion through the field and perpendicular to the field lines. The separation of charge moves in this direction.]

In this case it would not be a closed circuit. It would be like picking up volage from the different terminals of a battery. Just like the charge is separated in the rotating disk at the pole of the magnet, the salt water aound the polar region, rotating through polar field lines (going upward) would cause a separation in positive and negative ions of sodium and chlorine; the separation would be close to the ice cap and the other charge pushed away from it southward. This should cause an electrical potential difference in these two regions of water. Running a cable from the seawater near the pole, to a ground wire on land at the same lattitude, should produce electrical current, if the potential in that water and the potential in the ground wire is different enough. Emf is produced perpendicular to the field lines and the motion through the field. The only emf produced in a cable, by it moving through the field, that is running parallel to lattitude would be from one side of the cable to the other side; IT WOULD NOT BE ALONG THE LENGTH OF THE CABLE. So, there should be no back current to interfere with the current between the sea water and the ground line. The electrical potential in the sea water would continually be re supplied by more ions as the sea water rotated through the magnetic field of the Earth. Magnetic field is probably stronger near the poles and the cold temperature would reduce resistence in the cable. I think it should be investigated to see if there is a potential difference between sea water near the north pole and a ground wire on land at the same lattitude. What I described to you is picking up voltage between two points, like it is with a car battery. This is not a coil, like you have in an induction generator. That is why I am using the h*mo-polar generator as the model, to try to get electricity from the motion of the Earth through its own magnetic field. See telluric currents. There are natural earth currents called telluric currents, and these might also be caused by the Earth rotating through its own field. - this is also another line of investigation, to find a source of electricity from the Earth's rotation.

Any direct current obtained from the Earth's rotation could be used to turn a direct current motor attached to an alternating current generator, to produce AC current. The AC can be fed into a city's power lines.

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stone2
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Surely the earth's magnetic field rotates *with* the earth so this idea does not work.

Ian

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Ian Bell

I'm not so sure this is the truth because I read somewhere the core of the Earth rotates once in about 400 years. How would those brilliant people know that unless there is some kind of difference between the rotation of the Earth and its magnetic field ? It is interesting to note the fluid bearing surrounding the core means the core does not necessarily rotate at the same angular velocity as the Earth.

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gmv

Well, it is not clear there is a connection between the earth's magnetic field and the core. For starters, the core is well above the curie point so all magnetic properties will be lost.

Ian

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Ian Bell

If I remember correctly, the curie point of iron results from iron changing from the face-centered-cubic crystal structure to the less-dense body-centered-cubic crystal structure. The temperature at which this change occurs will vary directly with pressure. I suspect the pressure in the Earth's core could be enough to make the solid part of the core the denser face-centered-cubic.

- Don Klipstein ( snipped-for-privacy@misty.com)

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Don Klipstein

This 1997 article suggests the core rotates between 1 and 3% faster than the mantle....

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CWatters

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"In reality, however, the Earth's magnetic field rotates along with the Earth."

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CWatters

I think you may not remember as well as you hoped. The long range order which creates magnetic domains in ferromagnetic materials arises from a quantum mechanical interaction at the atomic level. This interaction is remarkable in that it locks the magnetic moments of neighboring atoms into a rigid parallel order over a large number of atoms in spite of the thermal agitation which tends to randomise any atomic-level order. For a given ferromagnetic material the long range order abruptly disappears at a certain temperature which is called the Curie temperature for the material. The Curie temperature of iron is about 1043 K. This is not pressure sensitive.

For some info on the development of current theories about how the earth's magnetic field is created see:

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Ian

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Ian Bell

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