NO FAIR! My free engine refuses to violate the laws of thermodynamics!

Yesterday I found a power washer which a neighbor was discarding. The power washer pump is broken, but it has a perfectly good 5.0 horsepower Honda OHC engine.

The thing is on a nice cart with rubber wheels, which makes it very easy to move, so I thought about pulling the pump and transforming it into a generator. There are plenty of how-to sites, and this one even sells kits that I could use to make my engine directly drive an automobile alternator. Here’s what it would look like:

 

However, for reasons which are beyond my expertise, the alternator has to be hooked up to a battery, and then only indirectly to an inverter strip. I’m not interested in charging batteries and I don’t want a heavy car battery in my way, taking up room, and generating potentially explosive gases.

The site also discusses adding generator heads (instead of or in addition to the alternator).

But ready-to-go generator heads are expensive, and they cost only slightly less than complete generators. Now, many household electric motors also work as generators, but there are slightly tricky issues with RPM ratios. So I kept looking (in the hope of finding the cheapest and easiest way to get maximum wattage out of this thing) and as has happened before, I ran into the inevitable sites which proclaim that they have discovered long suppressed “secrets” about how to generate free energy!

They have a video showing what looks like a little aluminum pyramid defying the laws of physics, and for only $70.00, you can get your own kit which will show you how to build an amazing generator which makes power out of thin air!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoAOSELPO0Q

This all sounds too familiar.. I have read endless rants about how Tesla knew about these things, and they killed him, and if you so much as read about Tesla, BEWARE!

“Try looking up Nikola Tesla…..you’ll be all over the federales computers”

OK, so bring ’em on. I’m not afeared to look up that Tesla guy, the feds be damned. Come and get me!

Anyway, the “fuelless” generator seems to have been thoroughly debunked here.

A related and recurrent question — “Can an electric motor run a generator to power itself” — seems almost silly. But a lot of people ask about it and debate it.

As I know and as you know unless you are a devout crank, there is no such thing as a perpetual motion machine. Yet because people want to believe in perpetual motion, people spring up everywhere to tell them what they want to hear. The con artists and fakers take it a step further, and offer to sell them the government-suppressed secret!

There as elsewhere, an acronym made popular by Heinlein keeps coming up:

TANSTAAFL

Such infinite common sense. And the laws of thermodynamics work so well with physics that it’s just too bad someone can’t apply them to economics.

Or even politics.

I mean, if declaring that there is free energy does not create free energy, it also ought to follow that declaring that there is a “right” to free energy does not create free energy — notwithstanding the cries of those who scream that this is a serious question.

Why Don’t We Have Free Electricity For Everyone?

This is a serious question that we should all ask ourselves. Who has the right to have a monopoly over something that mother nature owns? Why do electrical companies have the right to own the rights to something that everyone has the right to develop a system for that works for everyone? Why did Tesla get put in jail for trying to develop a system of free electricity? I don’t understand this. If someone today was to try and introduce a system of free electricity for the World, what would happen to that person? Would they sued by every single electric company that exists? If they were to try and sell a product that produces free electricity for every household in the United States, would they be in danger of losing their rights, and possibly even facing imprisonment? And why is this?

Why do we have a system today where the amount of electricity a person uses is monitored, and also regulated? What would happen if someone developed a way to get an unlimited amount of electricity from a product that would provide everyone with as much electricity as they wanted without being charged a single penny for the electricity? Why has this not been done? And furthermore, why is it not being ALLOWED to be done? Who controls this stuff? Why are there people who don’t have access to free electricity? Why? Why can’t there be free electricity?

Does anyone have these answers? I’m also going to post some stuff about Tesla and what he tried to relative to this subject. I just don’t understand the logic behind preventing the people of the World from having access to free electricity.

If I was to develop a way to tap into an electrical grid of the planet from my location what would happen to me? Would I be arrested? Would I be sued? Would I get killed? What would happen? And why? Why would it happen? What gives someone else the right to dictate this process?

A better question “might be what gives someone the right to invoke the unfair laws of thermodynamics”?


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10 responses to “NO FAIR! My free engine refuses to violate the laws of thermodynamics!”

  1. Charlie Avatar
    Charlie

    Eric, you don’t need a car battery. Any small 12v battery will do it, as it only needs to “tickle” the alternator to get it to start – er – alternating.

    And there may be enough residual magnetism in the alternator to have the same effect.

    And a 5 hp motor is ridiculous overkill for an automotive alternator. Most only put out 700-1200 watts, or draw 1 to 2 hp at full load. Buit since it’s free –

  2. Simon Avatar
    Simon

    Car alternators are not very efficient. Figure at least 2X the horsepower based on the watt rating of the generator. Standard calculations use 740 watts per HP. Which means you need at least 2 HP for your 740 watt load.

    And the battery is needed to tickle the field winding. A small sealed lead acid job should do the trick. You can even switch it out of the circuit once the alternator has started.

  3. Eric Avatar

    If the motor is overkill for an alternator, then wouldn’t it be more efficient to build a generator from an electric motor?

    BTW, I can buy a 140 amp alternator cheaply, as well as a 1500 watt inverter. My worry is that I don’t want things to fry.

  4. Sigivald Avatar
    Sigivald

    Poor Nikola Tesla never did anything to deserve what those lunatics have done with his legacy.

  5. John Avatar
    John

    Ha Ha …

    The “unfair” laws of thermodynamics. I thought that the Dhimmis in the Senate and the Whitehouse already outlawed those …

  6. Simon Avatar

    Most electric motors don’t have field windings. And those that do are very expensive. As are the fixed field (permanent magnet) motors and alternators.

    BTW Tesla was not quite the genius all the ignoratti make him out to be. He didn’t understand circuit “Q” and Q multiplication. That little fact is evident from reading his books. Any third year EE student today could best him on those subjects.

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    Your 1500 watt inverter and 140 amp alternator are a good match for your 5 HP motor. Also check on how much current your inverter needs to start. You may need to keep your battery in the circuit until your inverter/load are fully functioning.

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    This is a good battery disconnect relay:

    http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/TE-Connectivity/1904000-1/?qs=sGAEpiMZZMtSzCF3XBhmW2Mkn0ZEaNw9%252bplfQTMaWgE%3d

    But it is pricey at $25+. Goo to a junk yard and see what they want for a starter relay.

    This is a nice one for about $5 but they only have 8 left. It is a closeout:

    http://www.rockauto.com/catalog/raframecatalog.php?carcode=1188738&parttype=3804&partkey=1985020&a=FRc1188738k1985020-3270992

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    Here is a nice one on ebay $8

    http://compare.ebay.com/like/130524307221?_lwgsi=y&ltyp=AllFixedPriceItemTypes&var=sbar

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    Pages of them at various prices:

    http://www.nextag.com/starter-solenoid/products-html

  7. Veeshir Avatar

    One of my projects was a camping generator, I made a water wheel (using stuff from Lowes) and hooked it up to the same GM alternator they use. It’s more or less useless because it weighed far too much to actually back-pack in but it was fun to build.

    Patent offices around the world get lots of applications for perpetual motion machines.

    The US Patent Office just demands a working model and they go away, the German Patent Office hands out the patent and lets them fight it out in court with the other crazies.

  8. John S. Avatar
    John S.

    Sure, you can have free electricity… Just go ahead and start producing it yourself. What’s that you say? It takes work to produce electricity? You have to procure fuel to power your generator, or (if you’re a greenie) purchase solar cells? Well, just produce the fuel yourself, or build your own solar cells! What’s that? You don’t know how?

    Hmmm… it seems like you’re saying it takes work, knowledge, and skill to produce electricity, and that you’re not personally equipped for the task. Well, I guess you could always buy electricity from someone who IS…

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