Concept in Renewable Energy
Here’s a concept in renewable energy that a reader submitted, to which I wrote:
Here’s the problem you’re going to run into: the first and second laws of thermodynamics. If, for instance, you drag the device behind a golf cart to charge a battery, there will be less energy in the battery you’re charging than there was in the golf cart’s battery before you began. In other words, you’d be better off driving the portable tool (or whatever) directly from the golf cart’s battery and forgetting all about the device.
If you doubt this, I invite you to go to a local school and ask a science teacher.
I’m glad to see that you’re building a prototype, because testing it in the physical universe will prove this to you even better than my words or those of the science teacher.
I’m not happy to see that you’re raising money, however, and there are laws that make it a criminal offense to raise money for concepts that violate the laws of physics and are thus theoretically impossible. You may want to rethink that.
I suppose, as you suggest, that the device could be dragged around by a team of oxen. Not sure I’ve seen too many teams of oxen in the last 150 years, but, hey, could happen. Even then, however, the chemical energy in the food you’d have to feed the oxen would have to be hundreds, probably thousands of times more than the energy that will ultimately charge the battery.
My WindJammer Generator Prototype does work and it does make electricity. I’m in the process of improving and upgrading it to produce more voltage. Some of the problems that I was having are solved by other people and companies.
I’m planning on displaying the prototype at The Circus McGurkis Event on 10/20/18.
Circus McGurkis is a Quaker Event.
I will post some videos after the Event.
OK. Please keep us posted.
Craig,
Like you, I’m always amused and fascinated by earnest, delusional ‘would be’ inventors with oddball, hair-brained or just plain bat-shit crazy, projects !
However, I notice in the last two years you seem to have lost interest in promoting, or even discussing, any of the hundreds of promising clean(er) tech projects either in development or on the market today.
These more humble products may not be as grand as Wind turbines, but each are small advances in producing a better, cleaner environment and deserving of consideration. I’m genuinely curious as to why you ignore these important products.
Sadly, it appears your obsession with the occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, has so diverted your attention from development of clean(er) technology, that now the environment takes second place to your obsession with political dogma.
Oh, just as an aside, the “the first and second laws of thermodynamics” aren’t really “laws” in the legislative sense !
I know of no Criminal Code that makes it a “criminal offense ” for any genuinely deluded idiot to ” to raise money for concepts that violate the laws of physics and are thus theoretically impossible”.
The offense of obtaining financial advantage (or any advantage) by deception or false and misleading representation, requires an element of “Knowing or Intent”. The alternate charge of “recklessness indifference”, isn’t really applicable in cases such as these.
Those who wish to invest in delusional idiocy, shouldn’t look to the law to protect them from their own folly.
That would be a great idea if the .laws of thermodynamics didn’t exist, but they do. You’ll be better off attaching it to a kite and flying it around whenever you’re walking.