The gererator is alive!
 

Behold:D

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Excellent!
I can't wait for these to become so available that half the worlds population owns one. Before that happens however, all the oil producing nations will drop the price of crude so low that I (and you) can again buy gasoline at about 30 cents a gallon!

I love progress.

Hummm....Think that guy (inventor) lives in San Francisco? or New York?

I'm not sure what I'm seeing there. Anyone care to explain?

"This is your future people!":D

That's cool but could somebody, for the love of God(if you believe in God), please put it in a car a bit cooler than a freakin' Geo Metro.

I've never seen someone who loves to hear themselves talk so much about nothing. Not even former girlfriends.

"It's a beautiful automobile and I love it." :)

Seems that experiment would be easy to reproduce. You take a small electic motor which spins a very efficient rotating mass as fast as you can get it to spin. Then you pull the cord and watch the lightbulb stay lit for a few minutes or so. Amazing. Actually not a bad idea. You would only have to apply power to the gererator a few times an hour to keep the light bulb lit. Unfortunately my power needs are a little greater than lighting one bulb.

There was an article in Wired a few years ago about something similar using flywheels to store energy in the form of rotational kinetic E. When you want to store it, you spin up the flywheel faster. When you need to tap it, you convert the rotational KE to electrical or other forms. The flywheels are many times more efficient than any electric motor casing, having virtually no internal friction. NASA is using them on spacecraft - very, very lightweight, precision-balanced flywheels in evacuated cannisters suspended with magnetism.

The intention is to someday (hopefully) replace chemical batteries, which are always a problem.

But for short term, sure a motor casing would probably work. The flywheel systems won't spin down for DECADES however.

Am I missing something? I don't see anything.

I'm not sure if i understood that video so much. Looks like that first experiment he applied some power to that larger generator/motor, spun it up to store some potential energy through it's rotating mass (inertia) than used it to run that 60w light bulb. Then he runs a car off of what looks like that same motor and explains that at the same load you want the voltage to build and cut down on the current, which makes sense since you don't want to overheat anything. What i don't get is how this is anything new here, maybe i don't understand enough about electrical physics? Any EE's in here want to take a crack at this?

That's what the investors said too:D

there was a car trailer there
i guess he had to tow the stupid green shizzle over there on the counts of it having the same autonomy as an aircraft carrier on a duracell battery

"this is your future"

i'de rather gnaw off my own 2 feet, then run to work on the bleeding stumps, then drive anything that ugly for the rest of my life.

So we have a flywheel type generator? Wouldn't the amount of power generated by the flywheel be directly related to the amount of power used to get the flywheel up to speed minus losses of efficiency in this system?

But, yes, it is a beautiful automobile and I love it too. :)

Best,

Kurt

shhhh

Conservation of energy?! What did that moron Newton know?

Why is there an enclosed car car trailer in the background in the parking lot?

Hmmmm......

He knew how to make a tasty fig bar.

Best,

Kurt :D

The guy is obviously pretty intelligent to do what he has done. Too bad he cannot communicate in coherant sentences. Too bad he has no grasp of reality.

you need to look up the gererator thread
it's very high tech, not everybody understands it