Clockwork Generator: real 'free energy'

[Bubu]

this I dea have been lingering on my mind for years I tried and tried to find a big clockwork mechanism but no success. Today I decided to google and was lucky to find one video.
We have determined on this thread
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?60192-The-cost-of-solar-power
the cost of solar power. Which turned out to be just the same as the cost of grid power. Thanks to Ron Mauer Sr. The newest more popular alleged free energy device to hit the web is the billions of change free electric. where by pedaling you store the electricity generated into the battery banks. Same old story the cost of power will be the cost of replacing the batteries. This clockwork generator however do not need a battery all you have to do is crank it when you need power

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPQoQW1hRkA

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here is another variation of same genre

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

[Bubu]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4hAd5t4KCg

[Nick Matkin]

A good idea that has been developed by the clockwork radio chap, Trevor Graham Baylis. He knew something like a radio could easily be powered by clockwork and made a prototype. He wanted to develop the idea so that isolated communities in developing nations, those of Africa in particular, could receive radio programmes delivering information about AIDS.

There's quite a lot to his story, but he was successful in the end. I know because I bought one.

His radios were being sold in the West in the 1990s quite expensively, and were sort of novelty items, but their high price here helped subsidise the further development and sale price where they were really needed.

Not sure how widely known this story is outside the UK.

Anyway, yes, you can use clockwork to run relatively low-power items for relatively short periods. But a kettle for example, not with conventional clockwork. (Do the maths to work out why!)

Nevertheless, building a mass-transfer system with a 500 W to 1 kW hour capacity using a parked car for mass, (as in the video) if really achievable and not just wishful thinking or bad power measuring, could do something very useful, like just about boil a kettle or power a lot of LED lighting, and quite a lot of conventional incandescent lighting.

I've not seen the mass transfer system used like that before, and with specially designed generators with neodymium* magnets, it could be very useful for some isolated communities.

Thanks for posting.

* neodymium magnets are cheap and widely available. Apparently back-engineered from alien technology - if you chose to believe human metallurgists, chemists and physicists haven't got the ability to develop rare-earth permanent magnets themselves...

[TargeT]

here's another "free" energy device... this produces very little power, but does it with zero effort; perhaps scaling it up is the key?


Freevolt generates power from thin air
http://o.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/midas/c62ae001aed1131010f2a5679bdbb971/202728898/freevolt.jpg
What you see above may look like an unremarkable slice of electronics, but it can theoretically power a low-energy device forever, and for free. If that sounds like a big deal, well... that's because it is. Drayson Technologies today announced Freevolt, a system that harvests energy from radio frequency (RF) signals bouncing around in the ether and turns it into usable, "perpetual power." Drayson isn't exactly a household name, but the research and development company has a particular interest in energy, especially where all-electric racing is concerned. And now it's developed the first commercial technology that literally creates electricity out of thin air.

We're constantly surrounded by an ever-denser cloud of RF signals. They're the reason your smartphone gets 2G, 3G and 4G coverage, your laptop gets WiFi, and your TV receives digital broadcasts. Capturing energy from this background noise is nothing new, but most proof-of-concept scenarios have employed dedicated transmitters that power devices at short ranges. Furthermore, research into the field has never really left the lab, though a company called Nikola Labs is hoping to release an iPhone case that's said to extend battery life using RF energy harvesting.

According to Drayson, Freevolt is the first commercially available technology that powers devices using ambient RF energy, no dedicated transmitter required. The key to Freevolt is said to be the efficiency of its three constituent parts. A multi-band antenna scavenges RF energy from any source within the 0.5-5GHz range, which is then fed through an "ultra-efficient" rectifier that turns this energy into DC electricity. A power management module boosts, stores and outputs this electricity -- and that's all there is to it.
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Freevolt may well be the most efficient system of its kind, but it's still only viable for devices that require very little power. In a location where lots of RF signals are flying around, like in an office, a standard Freevolt unit can produce around 100 microwatts of power. That's nowhere near enough to say, run your smartphone, but Drayson has some specific use cases in mind. The company thinks Freevolt can be the backbone of the connected home, and in a broader sense, the internet of things. Sensor-based devices, such as a smart smoke alarm, can be powered by Freevolt indefinitely. Beacons that provide indoor mapping and targeted advertising are also perfect candidates.

While it's easy to visualize specific examples -- a smoke alarm that never needs a new battery, or a low-power security camera that isn't bound to a mains outlet -- the true potential of Freevolt is hard to grasp. We're talking about free energy here: devices that never need charging, cost nothing to run, and aren't limited by the location of an external power source. An entire smart city -- where roads know when they're busy and bins know when they're full -- could be devised using countless sensors that require no upkeep, and have no overheads beyond the price of the hardware itself. It's a powerful idea, and beyond sensors, Drayson imagines Freevolt being used to trickle-charge all kinds of hardware, significantly extending the battery life of a wearable, for instance.

What's more, Freevolt can be scaled up for applications that require higher power outputs, and Drayson is currently working on miniaturizing its initial reference design and creating a flexible version that can be integrated into clothing, among other things. There are limitations to the technology, of course. The amount of power Freevolt can harness depends on the density of ambient RF signals, which are way more prevalent in urban areas than the countryside. A sensor-based product could still operate in these lower-yield environments, though, by monitoring a value every five minutes instead of every five seconds, for example.
more here:
http://www.engadget.com/2015/09/30/freevolt-free-energy/