Free Energy from a Magnetic Power Generator:

This video shows the 26+5/8″ diameter 3/4″ birch plywood flywheel ring which has been attached to the bike wheel, and a spin test is performed with the stator at full height above the rotor. The flywheel has some runout that throws the wheel off balance, which of course is a negative aspect that needs to be addressed. Also, the 3+3/4 pound additional weight will cause further drag on the bearings, which are already in rough shape. Thus, I perform this test spin not knowing if these negatives can be overcome by the magnetic forces of attraction and repulsion, and whatever amount of inertial momentum that can be provided by the flywheel. Does it work? Watch and see…….

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This video shows a new wheel mounted in the Pipe Dream apparatus, and with the polyurethane rotor magnet space maintainers and polycarbonate timing track base applied to the rim. Work is definitely progressing, although progress has been slowed by the time consuming nature of fully documenting every step of the construction process. The builder’s document now stands at 100 pages of photos and instructions, and more is added as each step is completed. I have also been very busy answering e-mail inquiries and requests from people wishing to replicate the Pipe Dream apparatus and join the project effort. I have also established a Pipe Dream project website, and will be talking about that, and the project in general, in my next video. Anyone wishing to join the project, or learn more about it, should contact me by e-mail at rickandlezel@hotmail.com

Thanks for watching,

Rick

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…You exhibit a slight twitch when introduced to anyone with the first names of Charley, Frances, Ivan, or Jeanne.

…Your freezer never has more than $20 worth of food in it any given time.

..You’re looking at paint swatches for the plywood on your windows to accent the house color.

…You think of your hall closet/saferoom as "cozy".

…Your pool is more accurately described as "framed in" than "screened in".

…Your freezer in the garage now only has homemade ice in it.

…You no longer worry about relatives visiting during the summer months.

…You too haven’t heard back from the insurance adjuster.

…You now understand what that little "2% hurricane deductible" phrase really means in your homeowner’s policy.

…You’re putting a collage together on your driveway of roof shingles from your neighborhood.

…You were once proud of your 16" electric chain saw.

…Your street has more than 3 "NO WAKE" signs posted.

…You now own more than 5 large ice chests.

…Your parrot can now say "hammered, pounded and hunker down".

…You recognize people in line at the free ice, gas and plywood locations.

…You stop what you’re doing and clap and wave when you see a convoy of power company trucks come down your street.

…You have the personal cell phone numbers of the managers for: plywood, roofing supplies and generators at Home Depot on your speed dialer.

…You’ve spent more than $20 on "tall white kitchen bags" to make your own sand bags.

…You’re considering upgrading your chainsaw from 16" to 20".

…You know what "bar chain oil" is.

…You’re thinking of getting your wife the hardhat with the ear protector and face shield for Christmas.

…You now think the $6000 whole house generator seems like a reasonable investment.

…You look forward to discussions about the merits of "cubed, block and dry ice".

…Your therapist refers to your condition as "generator envy".

…You fight the urge to put on your winter coat and wool cap and parade around in front of your picture window, when you finally get power and your neighbor across the street with the noisy generator doesn’t….

I live in Northwest Florida. Yesterday was the 2 year anniversary of Hurricane Ivan. Can you believe there are still some people rebuilding from that? I can!

Thank goodness for those generators no matter how much noise they make.

We have several chainsaws, but not nearly as many trees as we once did. I guess we’ll spend our time helping neighbors who still have trees. We’ll even bring our own bar oil.

When the power company convoy came into our neighborhood people sat out in their front yards and watched them. They had a TANGLED mess to clean up. A tornado went through a wooded area and tied knots in the power lines.

During Ivan we didn’t sustain any damage that we needed the insurance adjuster, but Hurricane Dennis in 2005 made up for lost time. Our adjuster was out right away too. I guess we’re fortunate in that regards. We’re still working on getting things back to "normal" though.

I don’t have a parrot, but if I did, I would teach him to say "hunker down". My mother has a phrase "WE’RE GONNA DIE!" that she says with sarcasm about the time the panic hits the town drama queens… I would teach the parrot to say that too. I just can’t do it justice here.

Ya just gotta love this place!

This should be America’s #1 priority. "Free" electricity to all US citizens. A federal initiative to generate the US power needs from wind, solar, ocean currents and other alternative energy sources. By setting the goal, we can easily achieve that goal as a nation. Just as we set the goal to land on the moon… With free electricity, cars can be plugged in, instead of fueled. This initiative saves American’s a significant amount of money, it protects us from relying on foreign oil, it helps planet earth, it provides millions of new jobs. We have plenty of desert for solar panels and we are surrounded by ocean currents and tradewinds that can easily produce all the electricity we need. Now we just need a leader with a little common sense and some guts!
Of course this is not an easy task and there were plenty of people who said:

1) man will never land on the moon
2) a country will never have a national roadway sytem that connects the east and west coasts
3) TV will never catch on
4) the great wall of china can not be built
5) pyramids cant be built
6) man cant fly
and many more examples….

All great accomplishments seem insurmountable at the conception. But if the human mind can pictured it, then it is possible. I don’t know exactly how (no one does), but I am sure that a combination of nuclear, wind, solar, wave, fuel cell and other technologies can make it happen. At this point it is a matter of setting the national goal, allocating resources and not making excuses why it cant be done.

Not remotely practical. Solar and wind power are far, far away from being practical on a large scale. California is the leading state for both sources of energy. Some facts:

"Two thirds of America’s wind power capacity is located in California. The state’s 1817 MW of wind farms, nominally 3.4% of in-state generating capacity, are available only when the wind blows at optimum speeds. Thus they produce only 1.2% of the electricity consumed in the state." (See reference source below.) Even with this very limited use of wind power, environmentalists are already complaining about how the windmills scar the landscape, kill birds, generate EMFs, etc. Significant expansion of wind power, enough to make a real dent in our demand, would be nearly impossible, especially in that short time frame.

As for solar, another quote from the listed source below is instructive: "All of America’s central station solar electricity is generated in California. At maximum capacity, California’s nine solar stations-with a combined total of 11 square miles of mirrors focused on steam drums that drive steam turbines-can generate 413 MW of electricity, 0.8% of the state’s capacity. Because the sun sets at night and is sometimes attenuated by clouds, these plants produce only 0.3% of California’s electricity. "

This very limited solar energy production is the product of enormous and expensive subsidies. The real cost of this power, therefore, is many times greater than the cost of fossil-fuel generated electricity. Again, we should do some math here. In order to generate enough electricity for the state of California alone, we would need about 4,000 square miles of solar mirrors/panels, plus specialized turbines and generators. We have neither the room nor the money to make this happen. And imagine the firestorm of protest if we were to create such a monstrocity in the middle of the state. Other states are not so sunny, and would require an even greater proportion of solar panels in order to meet demand for electricity.

The irony is that we have an alternative source of energy that is both clean and safe: nuclear power. However, we have not constructed a new nuclear power plant since the 70s. Fears raised about potential for accidents are way overblown. For example, Chernobyl could never happen here for dozens of reasons, but mostly because: (1) the Soviet design was seriously flawed and no one in the west would ever have considered constructing a similarly designed plant; and (2) the Soviet system produced substandard equipment and materials, so, for instance, they would run out of concrete in the middle of a pour and just pick up where they left off when they got more…horribly unsafe practice. We don’t have these problems in the U.S. Waste is a problem, but certainly not insurmountable. It’s time to consider seriously a return to nuclear power.

Some time ago a man named Nicholae Tesla realized that the Earth is a huge electrical generator. He said that if humanity could create a copper cable long enough to circumnavigate the earth from South pole to North pole and back, we could use the power generated naturally by the earth’s magnetic field and have enough power to light a billion New York-sized cities. I assure you this is true. So my question is really this: Why do you think we haven’t we decided to use the most efficient form of renewable energy? At this point in history, we have the technology and engineering ability to achieve it, so what’s the hold up?
For those of you questioning whether it’s even possible. It is. I can be done from orbit at this point in time and spinning motion necessary is already achieved by the flow of molten iron under the earth’s crust that generates the field in the first place. I do acknowledge that it would require more than one loop, but still is more feasible than a manned mission to Mars. Just not as sexy.

NASA did an experiment in space that showed that this idea might work. They strung a wire out from the shuttle and it developed a strong voltage just from passing through the earth’s field. But then it burned out.

My fear is that if we actually did build an earth generator as described it would affect the rotation of the earth. You can’t get something for nothing. You have to put mechanical energy into a generator to get electrical energy out of it. In this case the mechanical energy comes from the rotation of the earth. The earth is just coasting so extracting energy to make electricity would cause the rotation to slow down. Do we really want that?

Stationary Magnetic Field Generator: Part 3 Taking measurements and the result.

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Getting ready to put the theory to the test and understanding just what the magnetic field is doing in a solenoid

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I’m up for suggestions! I made a list of the music that is on my computer so you can get an idea of what I listen to. As you can tell, my music taste varies. However, I despise most of the popular bands (okay, ALL) bands of today. Also, keep in mind that I have many more artists on CD that isn’t on my computer so they are not listed….so, try to be as obscure as possible. Thank you!

10 CC
13th Floor Elevators
38 Special
The 5th Dimension
A3
Abigail Washburn
AC/DC
Aerosmith
Al Green
Al Kooper
Al Kooper, Mike Bloomfield and Steve Stills
The Alan Parsons Project
Albert Hammond
Alice Cooper
The Allman Brothers Band
Amazing Rhythm Aces
The Amboy Dukes
America
Amos Lee
And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
Andrew Bird
The Animals
Apollo Sunshine
April Wine
Artic Monkeys
Aretha Franklin
Arlo Guthrie
Asia
The Association
Atomic Rooster
Ayreon
B.J. Thomas
B.B. King
Bachman Turner Overdrive
Bad Company
Badfinger
The Band
The Barbarians
The Beach Boys
The Bears
The Beatles
The Beau Brummels
Beck
Beethoven
The Bellamy Brothers
Ben Harper
Big Bill Broonzy
Big Head Todd and the Monsters
Big Joe Turner and T-Bone Walker
Big Mama Thornton
Big Star
Bill Haley and his Comets
Bill Withers
Billie Holiday
Billy Idol
Billy Joel
The Black Crowes
The Black Keys
Black Oak Arkansas
Black Sabbath
Blackfield
Blackfoot
Blind Faith
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Blondie
Blood, Sweat and Tears
Blue Cheer
Blue Oyster Cult
The Blue Van
Blues Image
Blues Magoos
The blues Project
Blues Travelers
Bo Diddley
Bob Dylan
Bob Marley
Bob Seger
Bob Welch
Bob Wills
Bobbie Gentry
Bobby Darin
Bon Jovi
Boston
Bread
Brewer and Shipley
Brian Eno
Brian Hyland
Bright Eyes
Brothers Johnson
Bruce Springsteen
Bryan Adams
Bubble Puppy
The Buckinghams
Buddy Guy
Buddy Holly
Buena Vista Social Club
Buffalo Springfield
The Buzzcocks
The Byrds
Cake
Cal Smith
Can
Canned Heat
Captain Beefheart
Carl Orff
Carl Perkins
carlos Santana
Carlos Varela
Carly Simon
The Cars
The Castaways
Cat Stevens
Chad and Jeremy
The Chambers Brothers
The Charlatans
Charley Patton
The Charlie Daniels Band
Charlie Musselwhite
Chicago
Chopin
Chris Robinson
Chris Whitley
Chuck Berry
Cinderella
Clarence Carter
The Clash
Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen
The Commodores
Comus
Confederate Railroad
Count Five
Country Joe and the Fish
The Cowsills
Crash Test Dummies
The Crazy World Of Arthur brown
Cream
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Crispian St. Peters
Crosby, Stills, Nash and (Young)
Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions
Damn Yankees
Danny O’Keefe
Danzig
David Allan Coe
David Bowie
David Gilmour
Davie Allan and the Arrows
The Decemberists
Deep Purple
Def Leppard
The Del-Vetts
Delaney and Bonnie
Derek and the Dominos
The Desert Rose Band
Diana Ross and the Supremes
The Dictators
dion and the belmonts
Dire Straits
Dobie Grey
Don McLean
Donovan
The Doobie Brothers
The Doors
Dr. Hook and The Medicine Show
Dr. John
Dream Theater
Drive-By Truckers
Dwight Yoakam
The Eagles
The Easybeats
Eddie Cochran
Edgar Winter Group
Edison Lighthouse
Edvard Grieg
Electric Flag
Electric Light Orchestra
The Electric Prunes
Elliott Smith
Elmore James
Elton John
Elvis Costello
Elvis Presley
Emerson, Lake and Palmer
Eric Clapton
Eric Johnson
Erin McKeown
Etta James
The Everly Brothers
The Fabulous Thunderbirds
The Faces
Fair To Midland
Fairport convention
Fats Domino
Fear Factory
Firefall
Five Man Electrical Band
The Flaming Lips
The Flamingos
Fleetwood Mac
The Flying Burrito Brothers
Focus
Foghat
Foreigner
Frank Sinatra
Frank Zappa
The Fratellis
Fred Astaire
Fred Neil
Free
Friends and Lovers
Funkadelic
Galler
Garbage
Gary HOey
Gary Moore
Gary Wright
Genesis
George Clinton
George Jones
George Thorogood
The Georgia Satellites
Gerry and the Pacemakers
Gil Scott-Heron
Blen Campbell
Golden Earing
Gordon Lightfoot
Gram Parsons
Grand Funk Railroad
The Grassroots
Grateful Dead
The Greencards
The Guess Who
Guillermo Portabales
Guns N’ Roses
H.P. Lovecraft
Hank Williams Sr.
Harper’s Bizarre
Harry Chapin
Harry Nilsson
Hawkwind
Head East
Heart
Henry Mancini
The Highwaymen
The Hollies
The Hombries
The Housemartins
Howlin’ Wolf and Willie Dixon
Humble Pie
Ida Cox
Iggy Pop and the Stoogs
Igor Stravinsky
Incredible String band
INXS
Iron Butterfly
It’s A Beautiful Day
J. Geils Band
J.J. Cale
Jackie DeShannon
Jackson Browne
James Brown
The James Gang
James Taylor
Janis Ian
Janis JOplin
Jeff Beck
Jeff Buckley
Jefferson Airplane
Jethro Tull
Jim Croce
Jimi Hendrix
Joan Baez
Joan Jett
Joe Bonamassa
Joe Cocker
Joe Satriani
Joe Walsh
John Cale
John Cougar/Mellencamp
John Denver
John Fogerty
John Lee Hooker
John Lennon
John Martyn
John Mayall
JohnPrine
John Williams
Johnny Cash
Johnny Mathis
Johnny Payecheck
Johnny Thunders
Johnny Winters
Jon butcher Axis
Jonathon Edwards
Joni Mitchell
Journey
Judas Priest
Judy Collins
Kaiser Chiefs
Kansas
Kenny and the Kasuals
King Crimson
The Kingsmen
The Kinks
The Knickerbockers
Kris Kristofferson
Kyuss
Larry Graham
Laura Nyro
Lead Belly
The Leaves
Led Zeppelin
The Lemon Pipers
Leo Sayer
Leonard Cohen
Little Barrie
Little Feat
Little River band
Live
Lobo
Looking Glass
Los Trio Matamoros
Lou Reed
Love
The Lovin’ Spoonful
Lucinda Williams
Lynyrd Skynyrd
The Magicians
The Mamas and the Papas
Manfred Mann’s Earth Band
Maria McKee
Marianne Faithful
Mark Knopfler
Marshall Tucker Band
Marvin Gaye
Mason Williams
The Masters Apprentices
Mathew Southern Comfort
MC5
Meatloaf
Medeski, Martin and Wood
Megadeth
Melanie
Merle Haggard
Merilee Rush and the Turnabouts
Mike Oldfield
Mississippi John Hurt
Moby Grape
Modest Mouse
The Mojo Men
Molly Hatchet
The Monkees
Montrose
The Moody Blues
Mott The Hoople
Mouse and the Traps
The Move
Mr. Bungle
Muddy Waters
Mungo Jerry
The Music Explosion
My Morning Jacket
Nancy Sinatra
Nancy Wilson
Nazareth
Neil Diamond
Neil Finn
Neil Young
Neutral Milk Hotel
New Riders Of The Purple Sage
The New Seekers
New York Dolls
The Nice
Nick Drake
Nickel Creek
The Nightcrawlers
Nine Inch Nails
Nirvana
Nitty Gritty Dirt band
Norman Breenbaum
Old Crow Medicine Show
Oliver
Opeth
Otis Redding
Otis Williams and the Charms
Ozzy Osbourne
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
Paul McCartney
Paul SImon
The Penguins
Percy Sledge
Peter and Gordon
Peter Frampton
Peter, Paul and mary
Phil Collins
Phil Ochs
Phish
Pilot
Pink Floyd
The Pixies
PJ Harvey
The Platters
The Pogues
Porcupine Tree
The Pretenders
The Pretty Things
Procol Harum
Psychedelic Furs
Pure Prairie League
Queen
Quicksilver Messenger Service
R.E.M
Racer X
Radiohead
Ram Jam
The Ramones
The Rascals
The Raspberries
Ravi Shankar
Ray Charles
Red Rider
The Remains
REO Speedwagon
The Replacements
Richard Thompson
Richie Havens
Rick Drringer
Rickie Lee Jones
The Righteous Brothers
Ringo Starr
Robert Johnson
Robert Palmer
Rod Stewart
Rodrigo Y Gabriela
The Rolling Stones
The Ronettes
Rory Gallagher
Rose Hill Drive
Roxy Music
Roy Orbison
Rufus Wainwright
The Runaways
Rush
Russell Morris
Ry Cooder
Sagittarius
Sam Cooke
Sammy Hagar
Sammy Johns
Sanford Townsend Band
Scorpions
Scott McKenzie
Seals and Crofts
The Seeds
The Sex Pistols
The Shadows Of Knight
The Shocking Blue
Sigur Ros
Simon and Garfunkel
Sir Douglas Quintet
Skid Row
Skip James
Slaughter
Sly and the Family Stone
The Small Faces
Smith
The Smiths
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
The Soft Machine
The Sonics
Sonny Boy Williamson
Sopwith Camel
Soul Survivors
Sound Team
Spencer Davis Group
Spin Doctors
Spirit Doctors
Spirit
Spiritualized
SRC
The Standells
The Staples Singers
Status Quo
Stealers Wheel
Steely Dan
Steppenwolf
Steve Earle
Steve Miller Band
Steve Morse Band
Steve Vai
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Stevie Wonder
Sting and the Police
Stone Poneys
The Stone Roses
Strawberry Alarm clock
Styx
Supertramp
Sweet
Syd Barrett
T-Bone Walker
T-Rex
Tavares
Tchaikovsky
The Teardrop Explodes
Ted Nugent
The Temptations
Ten Years After
Terry Jacks
Them
Thin Lizzy
Three Dog Night
Thunderclap Newman
Tim Buckley
Tim Hardin
Todd Rundgren
Tom Cochrane
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Tom Waits
Tommy James and the Shondells
Tomorrow
Toni Fisher
Tony Bennett
Tool
Tori Amos
Traffic
The Tragically Hip
Traveling Wilburys
The Tremeloes
The Troggs
The Turtles
The Twilights
Uncle Tupelo
Urge Overkill
Uriah Heep
The Vagrants
Van Der Graaf Generator
Van Halen
Van Morrison
Vanilla Fudge
The Velvet Underground
Voxtrot
The Wallflowers
War
Warren Zevon
Waylon Jennings
The Who
Widespread Panic
Wilco
William Elliott Whitmore
Willie Nelson
Wilson Pickett
Wings
Woody Guthrie
The Yardbirds
Yes
Yngwie Malmsteen
Yo La Tengo
The Young Rascals
The Youngbloods
Zager and Evans
The Zombies
ZZ Top

Some albums:

"The Way Of The Vaselines" by The Vaselines (quirky Scottish group, now defunct, influential on Nirvana)

"L’Amour Fou" by Kanda Bongo Man (soukous music from Zaire – brilliant guitar playing and very uplifting)

"Barbed Wire Kisses" by the Jesus & Mary Chain (it’s a best-of, but as you don’t have any, it’s a start : )

"45s And Under" by Squeeze (great melodic pop from a songwriting duo who were heralded as the new Lennon-McCartney. Not quite, but worth checking out)

"Beers, Steers + Queers" by Revolting Cocks (the weirder side of industrial)

"Architecture & Morality" by Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark (elegant early electronica from 1981)

that it costs 40,000 dollars a year to house a criminal?Geez for 40,000 a piece I would take a few criminals into my house.I already have bars on the windows so they would feel at home.And I don’t think we should give prisoners free room and board.They should have to run 12 hours a day on a treadmill generating electricity and if they do not want to run they can sit in a chair that is hooked up to the generator.Anyone agree?

I think there is all kinds of potential energy being wasted in prison. Just put them in hamster wheels! If not using them for energy production can we at least make them work on chain gangs again? There’s all kinds of trash on the highway.

Have you looked at solar cells and wind generators?