08-17-2023, 05:22 PM
tihomir, I don't know if this will be useful or not, or even accurate, but I studied HV devices in the past and came to some conclusions. Granted, this is different than the Tesla systems, but it does relate to HV and static machines.
In a nutshell, I think there's a way to get "free energy" from static machines. It's a bit different than what we expect when we think of useful work produced by electricity.
Static machines, like a Van De Graaff or Wimshurst, work by moving a charge physically from one place to another. A VDG uses an insulating belt to move the charge to the sphere. In operation, as charge builds up so does the voltage on the sphere.
Technically, these are considered a current source because they produce a current across a high internal resistance (in this case, the insulating belt). This makes them different from voltage sources like batteries or generators that have a low internal resistance. An ideal current source has an infinite internal resistance.
We think of static machines as only producing high voltage and low current but that's not accurate. They produce a current, but the voltage is determined by the load. Now I advise anyone interested to read-up on an ideal current source, but the jist of it is- as an ideal current source has infinite internal resistance, as load resistance approaches infinity so does voltage. This has real-world implications that have never been tested.
Basically, if you had a VDG capable of producing .25 amps, then you could power a 30W lightbulb (480 Ohms) and see that the VDG is producing 120V. This is because I (.25A) x R (480 Ohms) = 120V.
But because it's a current source if I put two bulbs in series, we'd see both bulbs light up and the voltage would increase to 240V. If three bulbs were powered in series, the voltage would increase to 360V. And this is because voltage will always increase to the point at which it allows the full current to flow across the load resistance.
So theoretically, if I put 100 30W bulbs in series, the load resistance would be 48K Ohms, the current across all of the bulbs would be .25A, and the voltage on the VDG would be 12KV.
My point in this whole book of text is that if we had a static machine that produced a decent current, we could power every lightbulb in the city, at the cost of running the motor on the static machine. But like I said, this has never been tested on a large sclae, and I doubt many people have interpreted a current source to act this way. I do have a small VDG, but the current is too low to power any bulbs. Although I could probably use it to power hundreds or thousands of fluorescent tubes.
In a nutshell, I think there's a way to get "free energy" from static machines. It's a bit different than what we expect when we think of useful work produced by electricity.
Static machines, like a Van De Graaff or Wimshurst, work by moving a charge physically from one place to another. A VDG uses an insulating belt to move the charge to the sphere. In operation, as charge builds up so does the voltage on the sphere.
Technically, these are considered a current source because they produce a current across a high internal resistance (in this case, the insulating belt). This makes them different from voltage sources like batteries or generators that have a low internal resistance. An ideal current source has an infinite internal resistance.
We think of static machines as only producing high voltage and low current but that's not accurate. They produce a current, but the voltage is determined by the load. Now I advise anyone interested to read-up on an ideal current source, but the jist of it is- as an ideal current source has infinite internal resistance, as load resistance approaches infinity so does voltage. This has real-world implications that have never been tested.
Basically, if you had a VDG capable of producing .25 amps, then you could power a 30W lightbulb (480 Ohms) and see that the VDG is producing 120V. This is because I (.25A) x R (480 Ohms) = 120V.
But because it's a current source if I put two bulbs in series, we'd see both bulbs light up and the voltage would increase to 240V. If three bulbs were powered in series, the voltage would increase to 360V. And this is because voltage will always increase to the point at which it allows the full current to flow across the load resistance.
So theoretically, if I put 100 30W bulbs in series, the load resistance would be 48K Ohms, the current across all of the bulbs would be .25A, and the voltage on the VDG would be 12KV.
My point in this whole book of text is that if we had a static machine that produced a decent current, we could power every lightbulb in the city, at the cost of running the motor on the static machine. But like I said, this has never been tested on a large sclae, and I doubt many people have interpreted a current source to act this way. I do have a small VDG, but the current is too low to power any bulbs. Although I could probably use it to power hundreds or thousands of fluorescent tubes.