Termyn8or
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I'll assume this is the comment section....... About 35 years ago if I told you that a simple series electronic circuit could have more current flowing at one end than the other, if you were familiar with the technology you would've said that I am absolutely crazy. It was considered totally impossible until the advent of the switching regulator. Take for example the operation of a solid state light dimmer. It does not actually regulate, it switches. It switches on and off so fast you can't see it. That simple device was made possible by what's called a four quadrant triac. It switches at the line rate - 60 Hz. The idea is that power is wasted by resistance, which is what transisors do - they are electronically controlled resistors in a sense. When they are between full on and full off they dissipate power. This is why there is a big piece of aluminum in your stereo, to dissipate the wasted energy in the form of heat. Well in most equipment many sources are needed at different voltages. For example your PC needs + and - 5 volts, 12 volts etc. You have 120 volts AC. This is changed to DC in the power supply and goes through a transformer after a transistor, which switches on and off very fast, thus producing the AC which drives the transformer. But in certain applications the transformer is not needed, just a coil will suffice. Fo example, to supply the processor in your PC, it takes a hell of alot of current. The voltage is lower and lower as the technology advances but let's say the processor needs 1.5 volts at 40 amps. A switching regulator takes the 5 volt supply at about 13 amps, and steps it down to what is required. This is proof of the impossible because without a transformer, it is (actually was) impossible. But the math bears it out. Because the active device is always either full on or full off, it dissipates no appreciable power. If it is turned on for 50 % of the time you would expect half of the input voltage at the output after filtering. It's not quite that simple but close enough for illustriative purpose. So it puts out 2.5 but takes in 5. Where did the other volts go ? In the old days they went into a big piece of aluminum called a heat sink. Now it goes nowhere. Literally, the part that suppies the power to the microprocessor in your computer right now defies the laws of physics as they were thought and taught decades ago. THE FACT IS, THE LAWS OF PHYSICS DID NOT CHANGE, we just learned more about them. We are liars and fools. We have very smart fools and honest liars. People who can adapt to new discoveries, and believe me not everyone can. They know who they are. They claim that a perpetual motion machine is impossible despite the fact that we all live in one, in a way. Thee original energy that propelled the motion of celestial bodies in the universe is not wasted. Even if it does not strictly qualify as perpetual motion, it's close enough. This budding motor/generator technology does not violate the laws of physics, it just uses them in a new way. Supposed fools and liars make up a good portion of the innovators of the last century or so. It's not magic. It's not slight of hand. When I heard about these generator things I was just as skeptical as anyone. Again, the laws of physics did not change, my understanding of them did. The technology used is older than you think actually. For lack of a better term I would call it effective modulation of force produced by permanent magnets. More simply, they use this force to cause motion, which is the scientific definition of work. Some people seem to think that all innovation comes from major universities and research labs, and that is simply not true. Sure they have a function. Specially controlled environmnets in which to test theories, special tools and measuring equipment, things like that. But very few true innovations were discovered that way. I put it that way because if you really think about it, invention really is nothing more than discovery. Major research centers operate within a certain paradigm. Independent innovators operate outside that venue, but are of course subject to the same laws of physics. If you take it that way, you can see that very little is impossible. It may be impossible for us, but only the dumbest geniuses think they know everything. Take Henry Ford as case in point. It's not as technical, but serves to illustrate - consider the scenario ; Ford : I'm gonna put up this big building and steel and other raw materials will go in one end and cars will drive out the other ??? : You're full of shit, you can't do that, you know what that would take ? Ford : Yes ??? : Then you are either a fool or a liar Ford : Good fucking bye. Sure Ford went to school, but how could he have been taught at school how to do something that had never been done ? Riddle me that. Have you driven a Ford lately ? That is my point about having an open mind. Of course I dismissed the idea about these solar cells that came up recently. Know why ? Because I have an idea how they work, and when they started talking about polarized light it didn't fit with extant facts in my mind. Of course neither did the hummingbird motor which is based on the same technology as the "perpetual" generator. Look up hummingbird motor and see when it came out. You may be surprised at just how old the technology is. It has not been brought to market, but they can get a new drug passed so fast it'll make your head spin. The status quo depends on the status quo. This is why technology is so fucked up. This is why alot of things are so fucked up. One Man with the means can change history. He will be a loner, without support from the establishment. Really, if you're making millions on petrofutures, would you fund a project that would put you out of business if successful ? You tell me. This is long enough, I could write a book on the subject. I have seen the advancements in technology in my lifetime. I have literally seen the impossible, so it seems. But it isn't what it seems. You have to look at the roots of the tree, the teeth of the gift horse and the ball joints on a used car. You must remain skepical yet openminded. This is a paradox for those who were educated primarily in a structired system. And what I mean by that is that many people have gone to school. It gives you the basics, but not the mental tools to innovate. Go figure, because innovation is an anaethma to the status quo. Before Ford, car chassis' were built, and then bodies were selected, much as the top end of a stagecoach. And that's really what it was, it just didn't require a horse. Cars were very expensive and Ford's goal was to simplt make them affordable for the average Joe. If Ford were alive today, in light of these new technologies I think he would be in the thick of it. He was that type. No I didn't know him personally of course, but he saw an untaken opportunity. It takes more than a sheepskin to do what he did. Who will be the one to actually change the world this time ? T^T
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