mike3 said:
That's just a static generator.
ZPE is real. What is debatable is whether or not one can get useful
amounts
of energy out of it.
Huh??? How? A Wimshurst Generator takes energy IN, to generate a
static charge imbalance. It does NOT put energy OUT. Could you
provide a working model (nothing huge, just a small model that can
power 1 lightbulb) of your device, anyway? To create a charge
imbalance,
you have to pull charges (usually electrons) out of a material _against
their own electric binding forces_, which takes IN energy, not put
it out.
Do you understand what makes the Wimshurst Generator work? Well, it
isn't a different principal, and it is the same as this one constructed
around Lord Kelvin's Water Powered Electrostatic Generator.
http://www.cvcaroyals.org/~rheckathorn/documents/KelvinWaterDropGeneratoreXPLANATION.doc
It doesn't take any electricity. Nothing is perfect, no matter how
well made, the noise starts with the brushes and differences in
contact. The neutralizer bar and brushes start a rush of current, it
can't stabilize either, which is a product of stray inductance. Why is
it unstable? That's simple to, just like you have N and P dopants for
silicon, anything with free electrons is more negative than a
dielectric, which will always appear more positive. Now, if the area
or volume of one plate is every so slightly larger than the other, the
negative charge will go to the larger plate through the neutralizer bar
even when no charge was applied. Every conductor is subject to some of
the same rules, and stray inductance is one. Once, current flow is
established in one direction, it doesn't want to stop right away.
Therefore, there is an oscillation between two plates sharing the same
neutralizer bar. This will generate even more of an imbalance, and can
result in a plate that is smaller retaining a much higher negative
charge.
The foil petals on Wimshurst Generator, really only represent capacitor
plates. You should always view one side as positive, or mostly
positive, and the other mostly negative. When a plate reaches a
discharge brush, it effectively neutralizes the charge potential there
in the gap between the two disks. In moving the wheel and contacting
all of these brushes in order, each capacitive plate is attempting to
stabilize with 3 different capacitve plates. All that is making it
really work starts after the instability has beaten the odds, and one
side of the disk is majorly positive, and the other majorly negative.
In theory, you should be able to do the same thing with a mechanical 8
pole 32 position rotory selector swich and a properly wired bank of
non-electrolytic capacitors, and one coil that would have a value of
..01 ohms at the resonant frequency of the pair. So, if you used 32
..01uF capacitors, you would need something like a 0.001uH coil to
represent a neutralizer bar. As long as the switching is organized in
the same fashion to for each position of the switch to play the same
role as to the brushes for the two rotating disks, the plates of any
given capacitor, treated the same as one disk or the other, and they
will charge up. That same kind of instability still exists. Two poles
would represent the brushes connect to one sphere in the spark gap,
then two more the opposing pole. 2 other contacts would represent
would represent on neutralizer bar, and the final 2 the last
neutralizer bar. Your spark gap would be a neon bulb with a 1 mega ohm
resistor in series with it.
They already have a few that power lightbulbs, you didn't look for one.
