Re: The Earth Engine - the dawn of civilisation? No, it's the dawn of the infinite credulity drive.. Archived Message
Posted by John Monro on June 18, 2019, 8:49 pm, in reply to "Re: The Earth Engine - the dawn of civilisation? No, it's the dawn of the infinite credulity drive.."
Thank you mack. Magnetism in a solid permanent magnet is a state of matter, a force, as I said like gravity. It's not a resource of power, which is what the article appears to be claiming. Which is what I stated. I agree that in a wider (semantic) sense it's a "resource" that's capable of use in an electric motor or dynamo, so you and Tesla are correct there, but only in the sense as steel is a resource in constructing buildings or making cars, or soil is a resource for growing vegetables or grass. Magnetism's resource is only useful if electricity is supplied as in a motor or motion is applied as in a generator - magnetism is like a conduit between power and electricity - because electricity and magnetism are part of the same phenomenon, electro-magnetism. It's a means of converting power to electricity or vice-versa. And of course you don't even need a magnet for an electric motor, as the supplied electrical power can provide the necessary magnetic field to the motor through copper windings in an electromagnet. But on its own magnetism is not a resource that can be "tapped" in any way to produce power. There is a form of captured "energy" in a magnet, which represents the power required to magnetise the magnet. But it's not available as work. And it's very small, There's a huge amount of confusion in regard to magnets and work and electricity. For instance, you can see a small amount of work done when a magnet attracts a paper clip but that's it, you can't do anything now, without forcibly moving the paper clip, thereby using exactly the same amount of work as you gained initially. i/e the laws of thermodynamics are preserved. You can read about all this in many articles posted on the internet. For instance here, http://www.coolmagnetman.com/magenergy.htm As an example, the amount of energy stored in a 1 kg neodymium magnet is about 0.0000869 MJ compare with say 1kg petrol = 46 MJ or even a 1 kg lithium battery = 1.8 MJ. So the potential (but non-realisable) energy stored in a neodymium magnet is half of one ten thousandth of that in a lithium battery. So the claim that a machine based on magnetism can do any useful work, even supposing such could be physically realised, which it can't, is nonsense. The article claimed that the magnets are a depleting resource, and have to be recharged every three years. Well, there you are, even supposing that this machine works the way it's claimed it does, the work to "recharge" the magnets, ie remagnetise them, will be much more than even the tiny amount of energy contained in them and the machine/motor could ever produce - remember the article claims that this machine/motor produces 25 kw of energy!!! The article remains a total nonsense, and that should be immediately obvious to anyone with a scintilla of scientific understanding.
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- The Earth Engine - is this the dawn of civilisation? - fredjc June 17, 2019, 10:39 pm
- Re: The Earth Engine - is this the dawn of civilisation? - Dave F June 17, 2019, 11:30 pm
- Re: The Earth Engine - the dawn of civilisation? No, it's the dawn of the infinite credulity drive.. - John Monro June 17, 2019, 11:53 pm
- Re: The Earth Engine - is this the dawn of civilisation? - turtleman June 18, 2019, 3:17 am
- Oh, and . . . - turtleman June 18, 2019, 4:53 am
- Got any actual evidence about this machine, fred? The vids, etc. provided add up to nothing much, - Rhisiart Gwilym June 18, 2019, 10:31 am
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