Re: Self generating generator

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Tuncay wrote:  

> I've had this idea in my head for the past 5 years and still cant figure
> out the reason that it wont work. If it works it can power those
> electric superchargers or those vibrating gearnobs. Here it is.
> 
>    ()-------()
>    a          b
> 
> You spin motor (a) when motor (a) spins, it creates electricity (like
> any other electric motor). You use the electricity just created to spin
> motor (b) then you get motor (b) to spin motor (a) and the cycle should
> keep on going or should it? Put me out of my misery!! And don't bloody
> flame me!

No flames, but sorry - it won't work.  It takes energy to turn the
generator, and it takes energy to overcome the motor's own internal
friction.  The electric motor can turn the generator, but because of
friction and conversion inefficiencies in the motor and the generator,
it will require considerably more electricity to turn the motor than
the generator can produce.  So once spun up to start it, the whole
system will quickly coast to a halt.  There ain't no free lunch. :-) 
I'm speculating that the closest thing we have to perpetual "motion"
right now is probably a tuned electrical tank circuit maintained at
cryogenic temperatures so that the electrical oscillations therein
don't quickly damp over time.

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Bill Gusky
http://www.totcon.com/users/moments
DeLand, Florida
"Too soon oldt, und too late schmart!"

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