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Generator + High capacity batteries + electric motor + all the gears, transformers, wiring and inverters needed = my vision. Electric motor uses charge from old car batteries to turn generator. Generator makes the electricty, duh, which is stored in batteries and flows through inverter to whatever you need power for.Power also is supplied to a small electric motor which in conjunction with neccasary gears or pulleys turns the generator. I am not an electrician or an engineer so I don't know enough about the subject to know how to pull this off. It's just an Idea I came up with while thinking of an inexpensive way to power my house and farm. Any one ever heard of something like this? Be nice.
leuico, Jan 24 2008
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Not going to happen..what your trying to create is a machine with 100% efficiency, which unfortunately do not exist.
I agree with jterry85, at best you are trying to create a perfect energy circle (closed system) that runs indefinitely. At worst you are not seeing that you state that you are going to introduce a load (you are asking the energy to do work)into the circuit by powering the house, which draws off the energy you need to go back to the generator to charge up the batteries again.
If I am incorrect in my assumptions please let me know.
You are doing this:
Batteries-->Electric Generator-->Batteries
If that is the case, you will have losses due to heat (friction), vibration, etc. as the batteries charge and discharge and the generator wheels turn which will ultimately eat up your available charge and the system will stop.
or, you are doing this:
Batteries-->Electric Generator-->External load (house)+Internal load (electric motor with belt to turn generator) both drawing off of your available charge to do their work-->Electric Generator-->Outside load (house)....and so on.
You would actually get longer 'work' out of both systems if you got rid of the generator altogether. In the first case that would simply mean that you would be shorting the battery (allowing current to flow from negative to positive) which would continue until the battery was discharged, or in the second case, the batteries would power the house until they discharged, and you can leave the generator and pulleys out of it.
Electricity wants to flow in a circle (called a circuit), from A to B and back to A. Think of all the various parts of your setup as impediments (or loads) to the flow of electricity. The harder you make it for the electricity to flow, the more of it will be needed to overcome the obstacles that you have placed in its path.
The wires, the generator, the inverters, the house, the pulleys, all of those are obstacles to the stored electrical energy in the battery from completing its circuit. The more obstacles there are, the quicker that the stored energy in the battery will be used up, until it can no longer overcome the obstacles, and the flow ceases.