A Machine that Generates Energy with No Moving Parts

You Can Power Your House or Office with a Device that Cranks Out Energy, but Doesn't Have a Single Part that Wears Out Over Time?
Every time I start thinking about the physics of sound I always end up daydreaming about other devices that I would like to build besides noisemakers that might actually serve some viable purpose. One of these is, of course, my energy generator that I designed to operate without any moving parts. I have made several of these little wonders which I refer to as "P.E.G.'s", or Personal Energy Generators, on a very small scale but they always seem to get tossed out or cannibalized for the magnets when another pressing issue, or project come about. Anyway, Here are my directions on how you might go about constructing one of your very own. If you are as elated as I am when you first see it working, please let me know.

You will begin to assemble your P.E.G. by acquiring stackable neodymium magnets. Neodymium magnets, a.k.a. NdFeB magnets are permanent, rare earth mags made out of a neodymium, boron, iron alloy that forms a tetragonal crystalline of the form Nd2Fe14B. The uniaxial magnetocrystalline anisotropy (HA~7 teslas) is super high giving this compound the greatest potential for high coercivity, or demagnetization resistance. In other words, you're going to use them because they are strong and they last.

You will place your stack of neomags in the center of a toroidal core that should be rectangular in shape. A toroidal core is a magnetic core that is typically shaped like a ring and made out of iron powder, or ferrite, or some similar material. When wire is wrapped, or coiled around such a core, it becomes an inductor. Some of the common and desirable characteristics of these toroidal core inductors are their high Q Factors, higher inductance that similarly constructed solenoids, and a smaller number of turns needed due to the closed magnetic path that such a core provides. Another cool characteristic of these toroidal cores is that their energy is somewhat prevented from being absorbed by objects in close proximity, and their magnetic flux remains largely in the core. They are pretty much self shielding.

Make a mental note that geometrically, the poloidal flux threads the hole in the center of a torus, and toroidal flux runs parallel to the core.

OK, so, moving ahead now, We are stacking out neomags in the center of our toroidal core. You want your mags to actually touch each side of the core on the inside. Also note that at this point, your coe doesn't have any coils yet.

Each leg of your core is going to receive flux from the mags that will be divided equally between the left and right.

It is at this point that the coils are placed onto the core. Each side of your magnet stack, on the top, is going to employ the use of one of two control coils. On the vertical legs, on opposite sides, you are going to wind two output coil. All of the magnetic flux has to be able to be switched to one side or the other. You are going to accomplish this when the opposite control coil opposes the magnetic flux. The coil is going to have to produce half of the magnetic flux because that is what is flowing in that leg. Meanwhile the other open circuited coil will remain off. Due to the fact that current is not able to be produced in it, there isn't going to be any back flux produced in it either. You are going to have to pay special attention to ensuring that the core is not magnetically saturated, otherwise it is going to take more energy to force the flux over to the other side.

When the control coil is off, both coils are off. At this point the magnetic flux will go back to the starting position without the magnet requiring any assistance.

The idea is that we are going to use our mag stack as a sort of flux battery and make it do half of the work. What I mean is when the control coil was originally on half the mag flux was removed from the other leg. During the 1st half cycle, there is only half of the normal induction in each output coil because we started out by only switching half of the mag flux into one of the legs and out of the other.

After that, the mag flux returns to its original state and the magnet does the work. At this point, both coils are off. When the mag flux hits equilibrium we flip on the other coil and perpetuate the flux change in the opposite direction. Each coil, therefore, only has to switch one half of the total flux, instead of the entire amount. So, following the 1st half cycle there is a complete change of the flux in each output coil for each cycle resulting from an input that is pretty much exactly half of the total output. Cool, Huh?

Wanna make it even cooler? You could incorporate more exotic materials to make up your core and in turn get faster switching times. A faster rate of flux change will yield a higher output. We want this thing to change as fast as possible. Changing the duty cycle might also allow us to reduce the power needed at input.

Now think about this. If you could make a solidstate generator that had a gain of say, 1.75, you could theoretically reduce your power bill by as much as ½ by putting these babies in between your breaker box and your energy sucking appliances. You could actually cascade the little buggers so that they would be using 100 watts to get 15KW. You could make this happen in about 9 stages.

If all of these assumptions are correct, and they damn well ought to be, you might be able to put together a power system that would allow you to provide all of the energy your household requires while only sucking up a measly 100 watts off the power grid, and frankly the only need you would have for the grid would be to get the right frequency for your appliances.

Is this any reason for you to go charging out into the night for the components needed to put what I like to call the Mannis generator together and punch it into operation? Hell no! We all know that the real reason for that is, plain and simple - Chicks Dig It!