Renewable Energy Using Magnets

The video here actually isn’t a scam; the machine and its user will generate some electrical energy, though the title is a bit misleading; the energy doesn’t come from the magnet.

In the 1830s, Michael Faraday discovered the relationship between electricity and magnetism, in particular, that changing a magnetic field near a conductor will induce a current to flow.

The energy in the video ultimately comes from the sun.  The sun’s energy is converted into chemical energy in food, which becomes the work that the person performs to move the magnet, which becomes electrical energy that drives the fan and lights the lamp.

 

 

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2 comments on “Renewable Energy Using Magnets
  1. Scott McKie says:

    Boy can you wordsmith.

    “If” your going to put something like this forward (which you can because you own the site) why don’t you also calculate and publish the following:
    a.) what the caloric value of the “work done” by moving the magnet;
    b.) site the magnetic values of the two magnets involved, and;
    c.) site both the voltage potential and amperage developed.

    That would be the honest thing to do.

    • craigshields says:

      a) There’s too much I don’t know about the set-up, and b) even if that weren’t the case, there’s a limit to how much time I want to commit to these posts.