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Perpetual motion produces clean energy
Assumptions are the foundation of any proof. In physics, for example, there are laws of motion which are assumed to be true. However, assumptions can also be obstacles that obscure innovation. The possibility of a perpetual motion machine, if you accept the assumptions of the basic laws of physics, is impossible.
However, removing assumptions is the foundation of creativity. It’s also called reframing the question. The process opens new realms of possibilities which permit radically innovative solutions.
Is there another way to view the possibility of a perpetual motion machine? Yes. In fact, we live on one. Forget the laws and look at the facts. First, the earth revolves around the sun. It will likely continue to do so indefinitely, rendering arguments about friction irrelevant. Second, the rotation of the earth causes the continuous movement of the oceans. There is no equal or opposite reaction to stop this motion. So, the perpetual motion machine exists. The task at hand is how to harness it.
There are numerous ocean wave power generation projects in progress globally. One “ocean wave park” is in its early stages a few miles from the Oregon coast. A floating buoy containing a magnetic piston within a wire coil will convert the perpetual motion of the ocean into electrical current. The size and shape of the waves combined with the proximity of suitable utilities make this an ideal location to generate and transfer electricity directly into the power grid.
Oregon harnesses the Pacific. Lori Tobias, in a recent article in The Oregonian, interviewed Dr. Annette von Jouanne, Professor of Power Electronics/Energy Systems at Oregon State University. von Jouanne defined the potential of her wave power generation research. “It is estimated that if two-tenths of a percent of the oceans’ untapped energy could be harnessed, it could provide power sufficient for the entire world.”
Dr. von Jouanne provide me a further explanation of the research in progress at OSU. "The Oregon State University Wave Energy team is developing several novel direct-drive prototypes including a Permanent Magnet Linear Generator Buoy, a Permanent Magnet Rack and Pinion Generator Buoy, and a Contact-less Force Transmission Generator Buoy. These buoys are designed to be anchored one to three miles offshore, in typical water depths of greater than 100 feet, where the buoys will experience gradual, repetitive ocean swells."
Advanced designs of these prototypes are also being developed to achieve higher efficiencies and power output performance. The estimated potential for installations of these systems is about 20MW from each square mile of ocean. This isn’t rocket science. It’s simple math. A never-ending, non-polluting energy resource covers 73% of the earth’s surface. Why are we fighting over oil reserves?
There are other forms of wave power generation being tested. Scotland, one of the leaders in this research, is about to receive serious competition from Oregon State University. OSU plans to expand its research to test technologies from around the world in a proposed ocean research park.
In addition to the various power generating buoy designs, another technology under study includes submerged tidal powered turbine which capitalizes on ocean currents. Again, the earth/ocean perpetual motion machine provides an endless force to generate an endless supply of electricity. U.K. based Marine Tidal Turbines is in the final stages of their R&D. The company will complete the initial phase known as Seaflow by the end of 2006, and install a commercial prototype at that time. The target is for 300MW of installations to be completed by 2010 and after that, there is far larger growth potential from a market literally oceanic in size.
As efforts increase to find alternatives to fossil fuel, it seems natural that the sustainable solutions should focus on the most renewable energy source, the perpetual motion of the earth itself.
Chas Martin
Interesting how we accept physics and science in general as fact. Scientisits and physisits don't. If they did, they would not have jobs. But, as history has proven, the general public is willing to accept "facts" as facts because someone has proven them to be so.
In James Burke's "The Day the Universe Changed"," he provides one example after another about how the world's understanding of itself has changed, sometimes dramatically, each time an accepted fact is proven wrong.
Perpetual motion is considered to be a myth by many. That simply means no one has accepted that there are solutions now, and will be more and better solutions in the future. The whold concept of perpetual motion is really about dynamic balance. The planet could use a bit of that these days. Our systems are too dependent on coal burning powerplants, internal combustion engines, nuclear reactors. If a simple, balanced source of power existed which took nothing from the earth, returned nothing to the earth or its atmosphere, and harmed no one in the process, we would have a Utopian solution. But to discount the possibility is shortsighted and self defeating.
Chas Martin
Oceanlinx looks at Oregon coast
(reprinted from the Oregon Live.com 4/30/07)
Austrailia's Oceanlinx Limited has taken preliminary steps toward developing a wave energy facility off the Oregon Coast near Florence, further evidence that the state could become a U.S. leaser in ocean-powered electricity generatin.
Through its U.S. subsidiary, Oceanlinx has applied to the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission fr a preliminary permit to establish the Florence Wave park project about one to three miles off the Oergon shoreline.
The permit would allow the company to conduct research and decide whether the project is economically sound.
The proposed wave park would involve 10 devices anchored to the seabed. A turbine would convert the waves' energy into electricity.
A New Jersey company, Ocean Power Technology, already is moving ahead on a wave energy park near Reedsport. It has applied to the federal commission for permits to pursue two other projects, one near Coos Bay and the other near Newport.
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Clean energy? It is possible as well.
My idea is very difficult for understanding. It is not difficult for engineer - mechanic, who knows very good the Pascal's law and even-arm lever.
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Non fate vedere prototipi!
Se vi è stato dato un Motore di Schietti non parlatene a nessuno!
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Non mettete a repentaglio la vostra vita inutilmente, stiamo combattendo contro un nemico potentissimo, che non conosciamo e che non è disposto a trattare ed ad essere aiutato.
Non sappiamo perchè i nemici dell'umanità non ci lascino dare acqua ed energia gratis, ma noi abbiamo deciso di darla lo stesso!
"Come costruirsi un Motore di Schietti "
Il Motore di Schietti sfrutta la pressione atmsosferica attraverso il principio dell'acqua che risale nei pozzi attratta dal vuoto.
Risucchiando aria con una semplice pompa, si riesce a far risalire l'acqua fino a dieci metri.
Con lo sforzo di risucchiare aria, avete sentito bene, si può risucchiare acqua fino a dieci metri.
A quel punto basta lasciarla cadere e sfruttare con una turbina idroelettrica l'energia prodotta. Il lavoro utile è enorme.
Per confutare il funzionamento del Motore di Schietti versione a pressione atmosferica si dovrebbero addurre queste prove:
a) che l'acqua nei pozzi non risale di dieci metri attratta dal vuoto a causa del peso dell'aria che esercita la pressione di 1 bar
b) Che pompare acqua da un pozzo alto dieci metri richieda cento volte più forza che pomparla da dieci cm e non invece la stessa forza
c) che l'acqua cadendo da dieci metri eserciti la stessa forza che cadendo da dieci cm
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The conception of an energy is discreate one to the same as a imbecility. No one has seen the energy and no one has seen the imbecility. We are able to observe results of the energy and imbecility. At present we have got to few energy because we have got to much imbecility.
Thank you for your time and interest.
Physicists may try to test their knowledge of physics by proving, without using thermodynamics, that a proposed perpetual motion machine cannot work. Also, sometimes physicists will discover "apparent" perpetual motion in thought experiments. Such "paradoxes" expose .
Posted by: Orlowski Zygmunt | Sep 3, 2006 9:46:04 AM
Bravo! It makes perfect sense to me - there should be a crash program to get this thing going. I hope the word spreads more and more on this idea.
CEC: Thanks for your enthusiasm. If you are in a position of influence, start the conversation among your peers! I believe in the U.S. we have given real creativity a back seat in the past few decades. It's time to realize the potential of alternative thinking and alternative execution. Please see my comments on the failure of straight line thinking.
The Portland Business Journal posted this item on investment in the offshore Oregon wave farm.