That was pretty intense. I don't know whether to think those are rather weak or if it was really that outrageously windy. Either way, I wouldn't want to be stuck holding on to a stop sign in that!
Wind generators usually have a controlled brake system to prevent over revolution, they loose efficiency at to high of a speed. Still cool to see it smash!!!
My dad has worked at a nuke plant since we immigrated to Canada 33 yrs ago started out at THE BRUCE(BNPD) and now trains every1 at PICKERING (PNGS) and my younger bro is a engineer for OPG(Ontario Power Generation) and they have a clean bill of health so shut your gate when u dont know what your talking about
The same applies for safe nuclear power. Even if the plant does work without hiccups (which they usually don't, Three Mile Island, Tchernobyl, Sellafield, just to name the major accidents, minor ones happening all the time) you have the problem what to do with the waste.
That's why we need constant war to get rid of the depleted uranium
Makes for great bullets and, with it's 4.5 billion year half it also has the added bonus of rendering entire areas covered in radioactive dust, causing hundreds of thousands of potential casualities, increased cancer, high rates of birth deformity as well as being an undoubted component of the Gulf War Syndrome that neither the US nor UK governments will acknowledge
It's estimated that approx 500 tonnes of the stuff have been fired / dropped in Iraq. Consequently some parts of the country have seen a rise in cancer rates of the order of 400-500%
Nuclear fallout is happening NOW. It's not been consigned to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
That said, I need to make sure my TV, DVD player and a/c all work 24/7 so I'm all for it.
Nuclear power is actually seen by many as a highly viable proposition - maybe we need to just build a bunch of them on the Antarctic and pipe the power globally to all the countries who need it
What advantage it does it have over a standard fixed magnetic DC motor has I don't get. However one of the sites that sponsor this stuff is called Swallow Command (hint, hint).
IMHO as a EE, I don't dismiss what they are doing, but the claims of functional operation on the site you posted are conflicted and simply on the edge of gibberish.
shallowground - In my opinion this is a linear motor folded into a loop. The inner circle is the track, the rings are the train, and the coils on the outside are the coils that would be on the train. This is the principle for maglev trains, they move by induction of magnetic fields in a conductive bar, and float on that field. It is not anti-gravity, and it is not a generator, just magnetic levitation.
I'm quite sure this is possible because all around us is energy. Everything on the planet is energy. It's just a matter of it being converted from one state of being to another. John Searl states in his experiment while working for an electric motor company in England accidentally aligned these magnets known as rare earth magnets to exponentially gain speed. It's to my understanding that the Russians made a version of it that needs to be forced upto 2000 rpm and then it takes off from there. John Searl was subsequently hired by the UK Government after they found his version to work. I have my doubts wether or not he went willingly or forced to be apart. As we all know free energy would destroy every major oil company and kill the entire NYSE. It would send the world to a halt. All that would need replacement is a recharge on the rare earth magnets. There is no friction created with J.S.'s design. I've been checking on imprinting of the magnetic polarization between the rollers and the ring. The ratio would have to be in such that it would continually advance, but I guestimate with the price of brass, insulators, a machine shop bill, coils, and the transmitter to keep the speed under control from it's over unity operation, would probably run from 5 thousand to 8 thousand USD. You would need data aquisition software hooked to sensors (to measure voltage) and accelerometers at 5 different points to show a bench mark of progress with the design.
The part they left out is the coils that surround the outside magnets that pass through them. Picture a bearing with the cover off and the outside ring is just a bunch of coils (ferret core windings) in a "C" shape toward the center. The magnetic "rollers" pass through the "C" coils which creates electrical current at each coil just like a generator does. All the coils are "daisy chained together" and measured. The speed will determine what frequency the output is at. You will need an scope to check the sine wave or convert the process from AC to DC and filter it. After you filter it convert it back to AC again. The problem with converting it back to AC again is that it's becomes quite more inefficient. But.... what's inefficient when it just utilizes electrons in the atmosphere surrounding it? Beats the snot outta oil/gas/everything else.
There's a big controversy going on here on Cape Cod. A private engergy developer has been pushing to establish a "wind farm" in Nantucket
Sound, waving the "clean energy" flag. It would be sited on public land, and consume an area greater than Manhattan. It's total power output would be a negligible addition to the northeast energy grid, but it would make lots of money for those who build it and those who operate it.
In fact, its economic justification depends heavily on federal subsidies...in other words, it doesn't make economic sense unless the government grants funds and financial support for its construction, and thereafter, its operation (and they do DO that for renewable energy sources these days).
SO....while defacing this exceptional site of natural beauty, and constructing an inefficient energy facility dependent on your tax contributions for economic viability, we may blindly acceed to the witless cry for "progress", at any cost.
canadaman - seen huge arrays in southern California...Livermore Valley, out toward Desert Palms...they are located away from more scenic areas (one might disagree re: the Livermore Valley array).
Nantucket Sound is a scenic treasure. I am all for renewable energy, but dammit, it had ought to be financially viable on its own, and not located on public (i.e., free) land.
They get you plenty power before they kill you.
I have read this news and many people are discussing about this on RichMingle.com, a site for celebrities and wealthy people. Really hot!
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