As an old "back-to-the-land" Hippie who lived in rural WV in the 70s, I recall an inventive fellow that arranged 55-gallon drums with windings of copper wire around them set up under the high-tension power lines running through the middle of nowhere next to a spring where it would power electric burners to make Moonshine! During the several years that I was there, he never got caught because there was no fire to smell to lead the cops to it. He made one of the best livings of anyone in the county! A lot of people wondered about him.
He would need several kilowatts at 240 volts. Not sure if that is possible. Has anyone else accomplished this? In any case, picking up power from the magnetic field of a transmission line is not the same thing as getting free energy from the atmosphere as thsi video is claiming.
@@8546Ken I don't know if others did it, but I know he did, one of the three ways that he could get near his still was past my place and I would see him coming and going. He was a friend. I never saw his rig, he was rather private about it. He would drop off a "gift" now and then. A large water heater would use 4000 watts (4kw) which could be produced by a medium-sized gas generator.
I was building a Wimshurst generator with 3D printed parts. The output was disappointing. It barely made any sparks no matter what I did. I learned that the plastic itself absorbs water which absorbs the electrical charge. Other people were having the same problem, so I coated the plastic with enamel paint while it was still dry which improved the performance. Your motor might benefit by removing the water in the plastic and protect it from absorbing moisture.
@@tabascoraremaster1 Enamel or polyurethane had a very high die electric constant which is the main reason I used it. And also it's easy to use because I can just spray it.
Your issue is known as CTI or a comparative tracking index. Just check for this property and yes, porous plastics that can soak atmospheric water are quite bad for the task indeed.
@@andyfumo8931 Special type of metals is not necessary. What's really important is keeping moisture out because water will reduce its effectiveness by a lot. Plastic absorbs a good amount of water which makes it a bad material for this project. Glass also absorbs water to a certain degree. Another important thing is by reducing sharp corners and points to prevent leakage of charge into the atmosphere.... These type of machines depend highly on surface area. If you want a powerful generator, you will need larger discs and use materials that keep moisture out.
it's a shame he didn't wait till he'd straightened out the little structural niggles and shown us the device running from a wire plugged into the sky. I love the gentle, no nonsense, humbly light hearted style here. Most refreshing
yep, I have seen him in few of his videos, and he seemed fair. but this time he clickbaited us. OK, he made an motor, but he used a battery. If he had harnessed at least an milliwatt, I would have not complained, even the system would have been impractical. .
I really don’t know squat about electricity as it is, but what makes me happy is how enthused this community is because they understand the ‘potential’ in what they see/hear. Love the energy [see what I did there 😊] in the video and the comments to boot. Carry on good people!⚡️🔋💡
I know much about electricity. Unfortunately, the community is enthusiastic but not competent. Energy from atmosphere is best researched. Although there is a voltage gradient of about 100 volt per meter the power behind this electricity is minuscule. When a load is connected, this voltage breaks down at once. Which is fortunate, since we wouldn't feel well with almost 200 Volt from feet to the head! Voltage alone is not power, you need a current also, and you don't get a reasonable current form atmosphere. Electrostatic motors as shown in this video are known since a long time. They can be run with a suitable power supply but power from atmosphere is much to weak to run a useful motor.
@@brianlee9310 You should listen to @durchblick6886 the video early on demonstrates how little he understands about physics and electricity. Paraphrasing "When the voltage is low the force isn't very big and you can't do a lot with it", bizarre conflation of voltage, force and work. This is high school level stuff, truly disappointing that he and others have been failed through childhood education. I'm not just sad that people believe it, I'm sad because a 14 year old kid would realise it's nonsense, why can't adults?
Impressive!!! I'm familiar with how the voltage rises with altitude. I made myself a storm warning device, which detects a charge build-up as a thunderstorm approaches. It uses a Mosfet Semiconductor on its input and the antenna is set to a particular height above the ground.
I have seen where they launch small rockets trailing a fine wire behind them, to cause a discharge of the static in the general area. I am not sure of the results over all, but, they were supposed to protect larger rockets carrying sensitive electronics from damage, when they were fired.
that is the most stupid thing I've read today. " I'm familiar with how the voltage rises with altitude. I made myself a storm warning device, which detects a charge build-up as a thunderstorm approaches." YOU said that an approaching storm's electric field is evidence of elevation = voltage. You even explain that the cause it the storm and then claim that this proves something unrelated. Either stupid or intentionally misleading - I'll choose stupid.
@@jeffreyyoung4104 yes you can 'earth' a cloud. This is charge cause by moisture in the clouds rubbing together NOT anything to do with a fantasy that 1M of height magically creates 100v of PD.
Tesla did not tap into a source of free power. He put power into the air with his Tesla coil, Whatever he extracted was part of what he first transmitted.
"belittled by competitors?". Allow me to clarify. Tesla was a brilliant understudy of Thomas Edison. Thomas Edison had only come up with DC (Direct Current), which in order to power communities/cities would require many power substations all over the place to carry the power from point a to point b. Tesla developed AC (Alternating Current) which testing eventually proved, carries itself much further distances efficiently. Edison's ego wouldn't let him acknowledge that AC was better so yes, belittled the concept and refused to pursue it, so Tesla left on his own, developing AC further. JP Morgan was already financially backing Edison, who was in JP Morgan's back pocket. As the potential for Tesla's AC was clearly proving to be far superior to DC for powering communities/cities, Tesla (apparently along with other of his creations) made it known that his goal was to provide power to the masses - FOR FREE. JP Morgan, wanting to build a profit (Intangible) commodity, approached Tesla to acquire his AC system. Tesla remained steadfast on his FREE ENERGY TO THE MASSES philosophy which negated Morgan's profitability goal, so Morgan put big $ behind Edison's DC and propagandized the public about the dangers of Alternating Current by promoting a public demonstration event supposedly demonstrating the dangers of Alternating Current. With a massive crowd & news media present, Edison & Morgan grotesquely connected an elephant to a massive source of AC and electrocuted the poor animal to death. Morgan's $ & Edison's propagandized reputation ("competitors"?) continued the campaign against Tesla in any way they could to where eventually Tesla ended up with certain bankruptcy. That's when Morgan came in to force Tesla into signing over his AC system, and so General Electric was born. Tesla spent his last days alone in an apartment and died as such. THIS, is one of multiple reasons why whenever possible I'll buy any competitor's comparable product before I'll buy a General Electric product. And by the way yes, that is why you have an electric bill to this day.
Your laughter is definitely contagious, I very much enjoyed this video. I hope you and your fellow scientists can figure this out and make a difference! Thank you for your efforts.
Last week I assembled a sand battery in a 1.5 gallon metal pail. Living room test for 12 hours. Got so warm the cat refused to come back in till I shut it down. GREAT ! And the temp outside hovered in the mid 30°F all day. Deconstructed it and getting my 14" SPARK pot bellied stove ready to become the cutest sand battery in this end of the universe ❤️
He could be talking about using material store heat and then realease when needed. So you have sand or something pipe going some loops in middle and outside really well insulated. You heat it with some cheap energy and when you need heat you push cold air trough pipe to access that stored heat. "Cheap", easy to build and efficient but currently emerging tech, in use in one municipal in Finland. Best really for industrial uses.
Electrostatic motors exist since a long time, but their power is poor. And can you drive them with energy from atmosphere? No. Electrostatic motors and energy from the air have no relevance for the household. A fact, which is unfortunately not mentioned in this video. There is indeed a strong voltage gradient of 100V per meter in our atmosphere, but there is no power behind. If you try to use the energy from atmosphere, this voltage breaks down at once. That's why Robert runs his motor from a high voltage supply connected to the plug and not from an antenna collecting energy from atmosphere.
@@dredrotten Robert says a lot of things during ths video. But you seem to think of a specific statement. Why don't you mention this statement and thus make your comment less cryptic for me and other followers of this thread?
I love Robert Murray Smith! every video he makes, I learn something obscure, and it makes me wonder where he learned this information. A walking encyclopedia, this man. 10/10
I am embarrased I am approaching mid forties and only now really understand electricity and how it all works... thank you for making this fantastic content ❤
The content of this video is not fantastic at all. The voltage gradient of about 100 Volts per meter in atmosphere is well known, but there is no power behind. Why do you think he drives his motor with a high voltage generator run from a plug and not from an antenna? Because you can't get reasonable power from atmosphere. The atmospheric voltage breaks down at once if a load is connected.
@@heinzpg cool story .. I dont understand a word you just said here, I was refering to his entire channel and the content he is making, anyways have a good day
@@spoiledbeans7402 Well, I must confess I have only seen three videos of this channel so far. In all of them he claimed to present devices which are innovative and somehow superior to the devices in common use. This may be very catching for those without knowledge in this field. For me as an electrical engineer (MSc) nothing was new and nothing really superior and fit for practical use. After all, if these things would be so superior, they would be in practical use already.
@@heinzpg thats ok I am not looking for superiority or anything like that, he has a few Videos that go into theory for people with no electrical engineering background and it is quiet accessible and easy to follow, but more importantly he instills interest and excitement encouraging people to research and learn, which is nice..
Very impressive. Originally found your channel when researching conductive copper ink for printers to see if you can produce PCBs, lol, and ended up here. Great channel.
You can get acid resistant ink, I believe and us it to make masks for etching, or you can make a mask with normal ink then use a photo-etch-resistant PCB technique. But a microscopically thin coating of copper grains from an inkjet (if it were possible) would never give you anything like the low resistance or reasonable current capacity you need for many circuits (unless it is all low power ICs with no descrete components.)
@@occamraiser I was looking at copper impregnated U.V. ink. This would allow the ink to be built up in layers, similar to a 3D printer. Also has the advantage that the tracks can be of different thickness on the same board. Haven't found anything worth investigating further though.
Great job Rob! This is actually something I am putting quite a bit of research into and believe that if we marry this "Aetheric Energy" with other technologies combined with frequency and harmonics, we can capture and store this energy and then use it in nearly any practical working and useful application. The practicality will be again what I have always been saying, and that is, the local power production and not centralized energy. We can build useful and highly functional devices that use this energy directly or we can build conversion methods to use it with existing devices. The devices that use this directly are what is known as devices that utilize this"cold energy" of which is the opposite of the motors and devices that we use currently as "hot energy". Obviously we have been long on the wrong track and wrong way of thinking as the current devices we use today produce heat and thereby extreme losses and inefficiencies. Thanks Rob for stimulating the viewers minds and perhaps awakening the minds to New ways of energy and prosperity!
@@chudleyflusher7132 Is this some kind of ineffective way to insult or try to somehow make yourself feel better by trying to label or with some ill effect belittle someone with a term that was perhaps once given to you?
Fantastic, you made a simple motor powered with electric current. Can't wait for the follow up vid actually using the free magic whatever energy you speak of...
Once again its very impressive. I have a suggestion that may improve it substantially. You can buy silicon coated multi stranded carbon fibre conductive wire around 3mm . Maybe the tips of each nail can be sleeved with it by just pushing 5mm of it on with say 3mm of the carbon fanned out a little bit to increase the surface area of the corona discharge. I also think maybe the points of the nail lower that output ,as a sphere contains more energy so maybe just having the head of the nail near the rotor might be better! I am not certain of the effect but it did cross my mind from what i learnt from a physics doco on static electricity recently . It might not work in reverse .⏪. IDK
I was thinking on similar lines as to how to get a 12V car battery to charge using this genius idea. In fact that charging circuit doesn’t even need this machine but maybe two long Antenna sticking out in the woods up high above ground maybe 300-500 ft. Tall.
Google "free energy pjk book" and download it. Find the section on electrostatics. After tesla's device there is a scalable circuit that will directly charge a battery with a ground and an aerial.
Title very misleading. No where does he demonstrate tapping into the earth’s electrical field that surrounds the earth, rather he used his own power source to make his motor run. 😟
Anyone with a rudimentary understanding of physics understands this is all quackery. The titles. "What big oil doesn't want you to know." It's all garbage. Making a small propeller turn or ball bearing move is cute.....but scale it up and the net output of the machine has to produce enough power to be commercially viable. I think folks forget that a power plant has to power itself first🤔.
the point he makes at the end that it's an accessible and quick to build motor at home with much less metal parts, just the fact that you can build it with minimal parts without any soldering is pretty interesting on it's own
Sad, how He got Exploited. Sad his Discoveries made America and World a Better Place. But he got NO, Credit for Decade's, now some realize, Screwing HIM, was F-ing Earth's Whole population for Gawd the ALIEN, Gluton.
If I recall we really can not put a load on these. However, you sparked an Idea. Can you charge supper capacitors that in turn disburse the power when full?
More free RFI energy can be harnessed, too. A few decades ago, I visited a fellow who had a longwire antenna in his backyard. He connected it to a large capacitor and used the stored energy to power the light in his fishtank.
I love ur guide lines I'm a retired industrial mechanical electrician I've always had to think outside the box to get the job done engineer always left something out. A lot of my invention are now out in the field.
This would be great in rooms to power usb ports. Can have a off switch or lever or just have it going to a power station. Would be great for off-grid living. You just need to charge up a few electronic USB devices from time to time. No risk of fire too.
Great work Robert! Might I suggest a simple design for an atmospheric accumulator? Take three hula hoops and wrap them with bare copper wire then offset them on a common axis to create a sphere. Put that atop a non-conductive extension ladder sandwiched by two A-frame ladders. Run an extension cord from the accumulator and use all three wires. Do this near a cliff where you can run another cord to a river or lake for your ground. Bring the two cords together and put in appropriate switches and load devices. Also watch out! I saw a video of linemen having to ground out the unpowered high-tension wires so he wouldn't be killed. Constant mega-spark making a six in jump. The power is there, simply, constantly.
Sounds like a plan! I’m going to move out of city to a mountainous area. When I find my spot I will try to build your suggestion 😁 If I can find back this post I’ll let you know how it worked out! (Probably in a year, or maybe 2..)
Amazing results! As a kid discovering static by touching a doorknob, my instincts told me there was energy everywhere. All that needed doing was to tap it and transform it.
@@janeblogs324 that is what I found out. But it was not manifest until I touched a metal doorknob. That one thing spawned many questions, which Dad easily answered. Such a small incident actually made me more curious about the whole world.
so now if there was an axel flocks it starter siting on the tope Spinning magnets i wold say we have a vert tasty gestating system to charge up a battery bank . a some if it power could be bled of to charge up capacitor's to drive it. almost self productive energy then ?
my idea on the modified electroscope with a grounded plate, would be to send the charge through a coil, to another scope also grounded so it finally reaches the actual earth, but passes through a coil then another coil each wound in reverse to each other, as a primary so a secondary coil can collect and step down or up the voltage, each way so you get AC current pulses from it :) the coils should cause a decent sine wave too, if calculated out for the amount of voltage it would take to make contact for discharge, and the electroscope is properly sealed so no moisture nor pressure changes happen.
Ive been living off free energy for over a year. I built a stand alone solar power system that runs my entire house. But there is an even greater flow of endless natural free energy next to me in the river flow. I could easily build a floating hydro generator to provide constant power. I dont need to be fixated on perpetual motion magnet motors as I have much better, well established alternatives that really work. Keep trying though guys. Its awesome to pursue free energy.
@@KETi-ws2hp stand alone solar power, hydro power, wind power, steam power to name a few. Then different uses of energy for example instead of electric or gas hot water you heat it with the sun or with the waste heat going up your woodheater chimney in Winter.
Hello Rob, I printed this to replicate your motor and to conduct some experiments with that I would love to send you some videos about them. I was having some issues with getting it to spin. All the leads have good conductivity and the rotor spins freely when spun by hand. Each of the leads that have the nails are alternating. What I was possibly thinking was maybe my bearings are to stiff, of the shaft I used is to long or heavy, or the tape might be the issue? In your video you used 4 inch Al tape and all I had was 2 inch tape and then put three parallel layers on the rotor. For a power source I found a tazzer module that claimed 400kv, but probably only puts out maybe 20kv. Powering that is a single 18650 battery. Would you mind talking about the hv generator that you used? I was wondering if the module I have is the issue? For shaft I had 18 inch long of allthread and used that since I had it. Thank you for your time and any comment that might help.
I tend to think of Earth as a great big capacitor with a + charged ion layer above and the ground as, well, the - ground below. Seems as if a balloon were used to take a conductive plate high in the air as to be insulated, tethered by a shielded wire, that the charge potential that increases with altitude could be tapped just like that. There are some very old, like late 1700's to early 1800's designs and illustrations that Paul Cook has shown on his channel that suggest this has been done at that time and said to have worked. I wonder if it's a DC static charge that could be tapped or an AC charge derived from electrical oscillations between the ground and ionosphere. Love your channel.
I think the Earth is powered by frequencies generated by the movement in orbit. I believe the core of a planet is hot because the frequency is heating it like a microwave oven.
What a wonderful world it is. One thing I thought I noticed was how well the rotating drum balanced as it ran faster. When the machine was first assembled, I had expected it to have an imbalance that would limit its speed quite severely, but the faster it ran the smoother it seemed to run. Can I ask, are there any balancing forces involved somehow? Say, between the combs and the drum? Thank you, for a thinkingly-good episode.
Forgive me if my question is stupid. Can you use a charge controller to swap the high voltage, low amps for a much lower voltage with higher, more harvestable amps to charge batteries?
Not stupid but this is a really low torque motor so a motor / generator would be the inexpensive approach with the use of the motor in the video . for For your question examples : using 1000 capacitor array charged at 5000 Volts would be very bulky because of all the switches each need dielectric spaces to get the 5 Volts out and this would also vary significantly because atmospheric electric voltage varies significantly . Whereas capacitor or inductor discharge buck conversion have other advantages and disadvantages . There have been several approaches made with various degrees of success and some designs can cause significant radio interference ! As with all antenna like devices please switch out the antenna to and from your devices to a earth ground in accordance to electrical and radio regulations with a grounded switch lever .
This is true, I am a qualified Electrician. One day while maintaining a three phase motor, I removed the rotor, and took compressed air to blow out the dust between the windings, and another Electician touched the exposed wires. It shocked him so hard that he fell backwards, and I could literally hear the Crack of the electrostatics hitting him.
@@damianstasek8946 does it make you feel like more of a man to be disrespectful to others? Obviously your knowledge of motors is very limited, the windings don't spin Damian, the rotor he removed does the spinning, the windings are the stationery part of the motor .. Also he wasn't the electrician that grabbed the bare wires ! No need to be mean Mr. Stasek. I liked his story, very relevant to this thread! 👍
@@brianlybarger6032 Obviously YOUR knowledge of motors is limited, LOL. It depends on the type of motor, sometimes the windings spin and sometimes not. There is a rotor (it turns) and a stator (it is STATIONARY and does not turn). The windings can be on either.
You may improve the efficency by removing the combs that ionizes the air making heat giving off light and moving air. And, instead use carbon fiber brushes to commutate charge flow onto and off conductive sectors on the rotor. The Coulomb force, will still cause repulsion and attraction beteeen charged particles on the rotor and stator.
Would be interesting to try to harness the energy through a high ratio step down transformer, possible from a MOT in reverse with just a couple windings replacing it's usual primary (if the voltages are very high)? Could use a spark gap on the input to create the pulsing required for the transformer to work and then smooth the pulsed low voltage output with a large electrolytic cap.
Your device reminds me of the fasces, seen in many early American photos. The coils on your device look similar to the wooden/copper(?) circular objects that surrounded the axe. Often, prominent Roman officials and our forefathers were seen carrying them. I think they generated free energy and was a mobile energy source that gathered electricity from the aether.
This is hyper-interesting work, sir! Thank you. I had no idea this kind of thing was even being investigated. Also, I bet you hear this all the time, and it is a compliment, believe me, that you strongly resemble the great Anthony Hopkins. All good wishes!
It beyond my mind. Can you charge a battery with this.? To me its batteries that make passive electricity use friendly. Lots or those power stations becoming a thing lately. I think people dont understand just how much electricity we use. Its a staggering amount. Everything we own had to use electricity to be made. We also use huge amounts or water.
Rob, given that the E field of the atmosphere is extremely weak, and the maximum power you can realistically extract is on the order of 500 nanowatts per sq. meter of the earth's surface, how many acres/hectares of flat plate capacitor do you imagine would be required to provide enough current to spin that? Obviously during a storm there is tremendous current available, but on a clear day I am curious if there is even a practical size that will provide sufficient power.
Electrostatic is based on very very low amperage, thus it has no usable torque, force, and working force. You have to build up over a very unreasonable time into a capacitor, and in a few seconds, the power is gone. It's like trying to power hydrogenerators with captured mist versus flowing water.
What an unreasonable demand?! You suggest they should demonstrate their free energy device without powering it off a battery? That would collapse the entire pseudoscience!
@@beardedchimp its not pseudoscience, there is an atmospheric voltage difference its just that its not feasible for anything more than a toy and he didnt demonstrate it lol
@@bugaboo9442 pseudoscience often has real science within, they just horribly distort our best understanding in to complete nonsense quackery. Imagine if there actually was this near limitless current from potential difference everywhere. All of our electronics would have induced currents running haywire. It would be like unending coronal mass ejections, the 1859 geomagnetic storm but for every second of every day. Bitflips... oh the bitflips. Luckily in real life even with large potential differences, any amount of current draw floors the voltage. The induced voltages/currents are so small they can be trivially removed by filtering capacitors before processing.
Volts mean nothing if there is not enough AMPS to do useful work. Its like the Casimir effect, it exists.........but finding a way to exploit it to be than a curiosity is the challenge.
Wonderful! I've always agreed with Tesla that electric energy is all around us; all we have to do is learn how to tap into it. -- Keep it up! I'd love to see it in action outside in the open!
Just like we put a windmill into air currents ...which is basically energy from nothing. Same can be said for finding a tool to harness other energies running our Universe!
Hello Rob, great video, love the motor. You triggered an idea while watching you. What happens if you combine this electrostatic motor with that magnetically assisted axial flux reluctance motor in episode 1045 as part of a LC circuit?
I did my thesis on atmospheric generation and modelling yield from the atmosphere. You’ll love how felid emitter nano-material can scale your collection of charge by orders of magnitude.
the foundation of youth is in the Air right in front of our eyes,I like smart people why is it when electricity passes through the body it accelerate becomes stronger ? with the right conductor.
Hey.. do you remember waaay back when you did some work with the "earth battery" with the soil? I seem to recall that the voltage was high but amperage was low. Perhaps your voltage input can come from such a setup.
So the point would be to connect it to the difference in voltage between it's location (closer to the ground the better?) And the ionosphere. That's where it becomes a harvesting generator. He's testing it with a high voltage low amp source to try to match the type of energy you would get if you connected it to the ionosphere with a mechanism designed to pull in charge from up in the air. Something like an antenna with a special type of inductor and capacitor setup at the top. So the power source would be the difference between it's location and the location of the top of the antenna.
Fantastic job, I definitely will follow this more. I am thinking about proposing a project similar to this for our middle school. This would go well with the students study programs. Definitely looking forward for your next video!
I think I missed something. In other such motors, the foil is separated into strips. It looks like you have a continuous sheet here. What is different about this machine from others?
If you had two of these and had a hillside on your property with a 100 foot tree , could you put a wire from the lowest place to the top part of the tree and then hooked it to a inverter, could you use just this, to charge say a 12 volt battery?
Nice work Rob. I made a static motor using razor blades and a VHS bearing years back, powered by ZVS which was totally inefficient but proved the concept. I look forward to seeing an elevated "antenna/collector?" to capture static and see this motor rotate, that would be very interesting. I remember feeling the cold air force from static which was very counter intuitive to me.
Electrical power distribution by radio waves has been a 'thing' since Maxwell and Tesla. Ditto collecting static from clouds since Ben Franklin's near suicidal experiment. But apart from thunder storms there is negligible power available unless you are sitting underneath an H.T. transmission line - and I wonder if you'd get accused of stealing electricity because sucking up all that radio frequency radiation presumably causes more power to be lost from the lines as there is no field opposing additional field generation (just thinking aloud there BTW)
problem of using these motors to drive anything I feel has too many losses of friction (heat) and other mechanical loss in conection to a useful thing (dynamo to charge a battery/ air or fluid pump / compressor - certainly not a lathe I would have thought
@@schrodingerscat1863 in addition, for it to draw any reasonable load you need to position your inductor as close as possible. Which invariable sits inside the heavily regulated and controlled land beneath power lines.
So did we get to see the motor working using the atmospheric energy or just an electrical power source? From what I saw there was no evidence of anything but an electric motor. Why was it not shown working as it was explained it would with "free" electricity? Or did I miss that?
I only had 1 problem with this. The device was not used in the way to grab energy from the atmosphere. The most I got from this was a nice theory. You had me into it for the entire content and then left me dry with the actual experiment. It's a grrr, moment.
Love your approach..I am currently building free energy as well thru magnetism and kinetic energy..it's free and it's everywhere...wake up people!! Great presentation
I've been curious about magnetism since my early college years, I really think there's something to do there, like more and more research heh I particularly like the work of Professor Eric Laithwaite and I always wondered if there was a way to close his loop on his straight line magnetic plate displacement project where we could feed back whatever we could get out of the induction from the moving plate, so with a 'push', prolly a really good push ;) maybe we could make it feed itself and ramp up the efficiency of it. Anyways, great project there sir ! thank you for sharing, it is important !
magnetism very much needs more thoroughly researched the universe is electromagnetic (or more precisely magnetoelectric)! I actually got the concept for an essentially free energy/perpetual motion device bestowed on me by the universal consciousness. Also the concept itself is quite simple (couldn't believe I or anyone else hadn't come up with it before) it's an alternator in which no parts are in contact they are held in place using magnetic attraction and repulsion to levitate the parts as well as magnets arranged in such a way to have a slight pull/acceleration of the cool of the alternator. It would constantly increase the amount of energy it produces until the material q breaks down and the only investments would be cost ofmaterials and energy to build it but nothing beyond that!
Very interesting and well explained. However, until a video is made showing the use of this motor with the "free" energy mentioned, it's just an interesting DIY project, not an actual energy source. Will you be doing a video showing how you harvest energy from the air with this object ?
I was hoping to see you take it outside and demonstrate. If you were getting that speed at 5-10v, and you say that there is an increase in voltage of 100v/m as you increase height, I would expect this thing to be going nuts at just 2m, right?
I'm a huge fan of electrostatic motors and generators. I'm building a Lord kelvin replenisher for my needs. But not a fan of corona motors nor sourcing atmospheric electricity becaus, the resistance of air so very high and is why the power availability, reguardless of how high the voltage you get, will always be little more than a lab curiosity and far from practical and much energy is lost as ions are moved through the air. But I also question the unintended consequences of large scale harvesting atmospheric electricity Starting with reduced atmospheric nitrogen fixation.
Thanks Robert this must be my favourite video done by you because you demonstrated it so well. Over the years others have made it so complicated. I was wondering how long it would be before you feature this natural phenomena because I suspected you must have been aware of it for a very long time. I believe that the national grid are using this method and charging the public for what they are paying nothing for .. I'm expecting some time soon they'll make these wonderful announcements of how they've acquired massive amounts of energy for all. But won't want to tell anyone how it's done.
They burn coal, oil, or gas and convert it to steam which spins generators. Few are nuclear, fewer are hydro-electric. Which also use stream. Yes, it would be great for mankind to get off that system.
Hi Rob could you recomend so links to the principles behind this? It looks like exciting technology but I didn't understand exactly how it works. Cheers mate keep up the good work!
Hey Robbie!!! First of all, let me say I love your channel 😁👍 You (and your team, as well as on your associated channels) have AMAZING content; i'd say MOST dealing with everyday phenomena, power generation, AND the accessibility of resources and (where you guys come in, with the no-fuss, down to brass-tacks skill info) the various techniques and tips to build and design various projects. A few of those that come to mind are the (many!) wind/air turbines, and the different types of 'fins/blades'(?) and their different efficiencies and applications. I personally really liked the vertical, cylindrical wind turbine (forgive me, i forget the exact Ep.# or name you gave it/type). Another are the AMAZING AND SIMPLE little alcohol and veg/oil burners for keeping warm or just for atmospheric-aesthetic value. And the "vortex stove-pipe"! That is also a favorite of mine. AND, I havent even mentioned the..... i mean YOUR (lol, 😉👍👍) Conductive Ink you guys have created!! I mean, and then on top of that SHOWING and explaining how to create your own conductive ink/graphene-products, and how to use them in creating EXTREMELY simple AND usable/efficient(enough) for home/personal use. I mean, big Ups to you and your team!!! Anyway, forgot what else I meant to write, but, another GREAT topic and vid!!!
Where is it tapping off of free energy? You are showing me a low voltage input. Where is the wire up in the air tapping off the ether? Did I miss something?
As an old "back-to-the-land" Hippie who lived in rural WV in the 70s, I recall an inventive fellow that arranged 55-gallon drums with windings of copper wire around them set up under the high-tension power lines running through the middle of nowhere next to a spring where it would power electric burners to make Moonshine! During the several years that I was there, he never got caught because there was no fire to smell to lead the cops to it. He made one of the best livings of anyone in the county! A lot of people wondered about him.
All that current flowing through....and he's hardly even be detected as load on any transmission lines 👍 smart hippie respect
He would need several kilowatts at 240 volts. Not sure if that is possible. Has anyone else accomplished this?
In any case, picking up power from the magnetic field of a transmission line is not the same thing as getting free energy from the atmosphere as thsi video is claiming.
@@8546Ken Where you getting 240 volts from?
@@8546Ken I don't know if others did it, but I know he did, one of the three ways that he could get near his still was past my place and I would see him coming and going. He was a friend. I never saw his rig, he was rather private about it. He would drop off a "gift" now and then. A large water heater would use 4000 watts (4kw) which could be produced by a medium-sized gas generator.
@@jameshatton4211 I wonder if the load is fed back to the generator as back emf and back torque at all.
The sheer mad scientist joy you get when one of your contraptions works is infectious!
My condolences to his family for the accident he had next week
😂😂😂
ha ha h- What's his address.
This is basic knowledge for physicists
That actually got a LOL out of me.
Lmao. I'll send some flowers now, so they will be wilted then.
I love neighbors like this.. check on people like this and make sure they are always good.. God bless this man
Everything is in motion, at all times. That energy is perpetual, transforming, transferring, coming and going. Just gotta tap into it.
The world needs more people like you
I was building a Wimshurst generator with 3D printed parts. The output was disappointing. It barely made any sparks no matter what I did. I learned that the plastic itself absorbs water which absorbs the electrical charge. Other people were having the same problem, so I coated the plastic with enamel paint while it was still dry which improved the performance. Your motor might benefit by removing the water in the plastic and protect it from absorbing moisture.
Use waterglass for that. ;)
@@tabascoraremaster1
Enamel or polyurethane had a very high die electric constant which is the main reason I used it. And also it's easy to use because I can just spray it.
Your issue is known as CTI or a comparative tracking index. Just check for this property and yes, porous plastics that can soak atmospheric water are quite bad for the task indeed.
How much magnitudes more effective would this be with a different material? Metallic or precious metal?
@@andyfumo8931
Special type of metals is not necessary. What's really important is keeping moisture out because water will reduce its effectiveness by a lot. Plastic absorbs a good amount of water which makes it a bad material for this project. Glass also absorbs water to a certain degree.
Another important thing is by reducing sharp corners and points to prevent leakage of charge into the atmosphere....
These type of machines depend highly on surface area. If you want a powerful generator, you will need larger discs and use materials that keep moisture out.
it's a shame he didn't wait till he'd straightened out the little structural niggles and shown us the device running from a wire plugged into the sky.
I love the gentle, no nonsense, humbly light hearted style here.
Most refreshing
Niggles😅
There is a good reason why he didn't (couldn't) show it running . . .
yep, I have seen him in few of his videos, and he seemed fair.
but this time he clickbaited us.
OK, he made an motor, but he used a battery.
If he had harnessed at least an milliwatt, I would have not complained, even the system would have been impractical.
.
Robert you're like a modern day Eric Laithwaite. Thanks for your inspiration and enthusiasm!
I really don’t know squat about electricity as it is, but what makes me happy is how enthused this community is because they understand the ‘potential’ in what they see/hear. Love the energy [see what I did there 😊] in the video and the comments to boot. Carry on good people!⚡️🔋💡
I know much about electricity. Unfortunately, the community is enthusiastic but not competent. Energy from atmosphere is best researched. Although there is a voltage gradient of about 100 volt per meter the power behind this electricity is minuscule. When a load is connected, this voltage breaks down at once. Which is fortunate, since we wouldn't feel well with almost 200 Volt from feet to the head! Voltage alone is not power, you need a current also, and you don't get a reasonable current form atmosphere. Electrostatic motors as shown in this video are known since a long time. They can be run with a suitable power supply but power from atmosphere is much to weak to run a useful motor.
@@durchblick6886 i dont buy it a bit!!
@@brianlee9310 You should listen to @durchblick6886 the video early on demonstrates how little he understands about physics and electricity. Paraphrasing "When the voltage is low the force isn't very big and you can't do a lot with it", bizarre conflation of voltage, force and work. This is high school level stuff, truly disappointing that he and others have been failed through childhood education. I'm not just sad that people believe it, I'm sad because a 14 year old kid would realise it's nonsense, why can't adults?
I'm the same mate, my dads much better at understanding this stuff.
I'll run it by him, he'll be pleased I'm sure?...
No they're just stoked because they don't know anything except potential. Or they're 8 years old.
Impressive!!! I'm familiar with how the voltage rises with altitude. I made myself a storm warning device, which detects a charge build-up as a thunderstorm approaches. It uses a Mosfet Semiconductor on its input and the antenna is set to a particular height above the ground.
The telaric currents change if clouds travel overhead according to old research on telaric (earth) waves
I have seen where they launch small rockets trailing a fine wire behind them, to cause a discharge of the static in the general area.
I am not sure of the results over all, but, they were supposed to protect larger rockets carrying sensitive electronics from damage, when they were fired.
that is the most stupid thing I've read today. " I'm familiar with how the voltage rises with altitude. I made myself a storm warning device, which detects a charge build-up as a thunderstorm approaches." YOU said that an approaching storm's electric field is evidence of elevation = voltage. You even explain that the cause it the storm and then claim that this proves something unrelated. Either stupid or intentionally misleading - I'll choose stupid.
@@jeffreyyoung4104 yes you can 'earth' a cloud. This is charge cause by moisture in the clouds rubbing together NOT anything to do with a fantasy that 1M of height magically creates 100v of PD.
There are static potentials in the atmosphere, but you can't extract energy from those.
What an amazing build!!! Good job!! Nothing like increasing the knowledge of many people.
Isn’t this the power that Nikola Tesla wanted to tap into to make free energy for everyone before he was belittled by competitors?
Yes, this is it from what I can gather
YES!! And it was J.P. Morgan who censored him by paying the media to trash talk Tesla. Sound familiar?
Tesla did not tap into a source of free power. He put power into the air with his Tesla coil, Whatever he extracted was part of what he first transmitted.
@@8546Ken he put it into the permafrost actually, yes whatever he put in he could take out more importantly there was no waste.
"belittled by competitors?". Allow me to clarify. Tesla was a brilliant understudy of Thomas Edison. Thomas Edison had only come up with DC (Direct Current), which in order to power communities/cities would require many power substations all over the place to carry the power from point a to point b. Tesla developed AC (Alternating Current) which testing eventually proved, carries itself much further distances efficiently. Edison's ego wouldn't let him acknowledge that AC was better so yes, belittled the concept and refused to pursue it, so Tesla left on his own, developing AC further. JP Morgan was already financially backing Edison, who was in JP Morgan's back pocket. As the potential for Tesla's AC was clearly proving to be far superior to DC for powering communities/cities, Tesla (apparently along with other of his creations) made it known that his goal was to provide power to the masses - FOR FREE. JP Morgan, wanting to build a profit (Intangible) commodity, approached Tesla to acquire his AC system. Tesla remained steadfast on his FREE ENERGY TO THE MASSES philosophy which negated Morgan's profitability goal, so Morgan put big $ behind Edison's DC and propagandized the public about the dangers of Alternating Current by promoting a public demonstration event supposedly demonstrating the dangers of Alternating Current. With a massive crowd & news media present, Edison & Morgan grotesquely connected an elephant to a massive source of AC and electrocuted the poor animal to death. Morgan's $ & Edison's propagandized reputation ("competitors"?) continued the campaign against Tesla in any way they could to where eventually Tesla ended up with certain bankruptcy. That's when Morgan came in to force Tesla into signing over his AC system, and so General Electric was born. Tesla spent his last days alone in an apartment and died as such. THIS, is one of multiple reasons why whenever possible I'll buy any competitor's comparable product before I'll buy a General Electric product. And by the way yes, that is why you have an electric bill to this day.
Your laughter is definitely contagious, I very much enjoyed this video. I hope you and your fellow scientists can figure this out and make a difference! Thank you for your efforts.
my man done solved the secrete to going green in a 3rd grade class room with a idea and a entry level 3d printing software! good work !
Last week I assembled a sand battery in a 1.5 gallon metal pail. Living room test for 12 hours. Got so warm the cat refused to come back in till I shut it down. GREAT ! And the temp outside hovered in the mid 30°F all day.
Deconstructed it and getting my 14" SPARK pot bellied stove ready to become the cutest sand battery in this end of the universe ❤️
Sand battery?
He could be talking about using material store heat and then realease when needed. So you have sand or something pipe going some loops in middle and outside really well insulated. You heat it with some cheap energy and when you need heat you push cold air trough pipe to access that stored heat. "Cheap", easy to build and efficient but currently emerging tech, in use in one municipal in Finland. Best really for industrial uses.
@@extended_e thanks
Love to see/hear more on this.
A storage heater in modern day terms.
Seen the electrostatic motor written up in a text book, yet this is the first excellent implementation i've ever seen. Well done.
Electrostatic motors exist since a long time, but their power is poor. And can you drive them with energy from atmosphere? No. Electrostatic motors and energy from the air have no relevance for the household. A fact, which is unfortunately not mentioned in this video. There is indeed a strong voltage gradient of 100V per meter in our atmosphere, but there is no power behind. If you try to use the energy from atmosphere, this voltage breaks down at once. That's why Robert runs his motor from a high voltage supply connected to the plug and not from an antenna collecting energy from atmosphere.
@@heinzpg Watch the video again and pay close attention to what Robert says?
@@dredrotten Robert says a lot of things during ths video. But you seem to think of a specific statement. Why don't you mention this statement and thus make your comment less cryptic for me and other followers of this thread?
I love Robert Murray Smith! every video he makes, I learn something obscure, and it makes me wonder where he learned this information. A walking encyclopedia, this man. 10/10
I am embarrased I am approaching mid forties and only now really understand electricity and how it all works... thank you for making this fantastic content ❤
The content of this video is not fantastic at all. The voltage gradient of about 100 Volts per meter in atmosphere is well known, but there is no power behind. Why do you think he drives his motor with a high voltage generator run from a plug and not from an antenna? Because you can't get reasonable power from atmosphere. The atmospheric voltage breaks down at once if a load is connected.
@@heinzpg cool story .. I dont understand a word you just said here, I was refering to his entire channel and the content he is making, anyways have a good day
@@spoiledbeans7402 Well, I must confess I have only seen three videos of this channel so far. In all of them he claimed to present devices which are innovative and somehow superior to the devices in common use. This may be very catching for those without knowledge in this field. For me as an electrical engineer (MSc) nothing was new and nothing really superior and fit for practical use. After all, if these things would be so superior, they would be in practical use already.
@@heinzpg thats ok I am not looking for superiority or anything like that, he has a few Videos that go into theory for people with no electrical engineering background and it is quiet accessible and easy to follow, but more importantly he instills interest and excitement encouraging people to research and learn, which is nice..
@@heinzpg lol u r no MSc 🤡
Very impressive. Originally found your channel when researching conductive copper ink for printers to see if you can produce PCBs, lol, and ended up here. Great channel.
You can get acid resistant ink, I believe and us it to make masks for etching, or you can make a mask with normal ink then use a photo-etch-resistant PCB technique. But a microscopically thin coating of copper grains from an inkjet (if it were possible) would never give you anything like the low resistance or reasonable current capacity you need for many circuits (unless it is all low power ICs with no descrete components.)
@@occamraiser I was looking at copper impregnated U.V. ink. This would allow the ink to be built up in layers, similar to a 3D printer. Also has the advantage that the tracks can be of different thickness on the same board. Haven't found anything worth investigating further though.
Fascinating design Rob … absolutely love your drive and enthusiasm
Great job Rob! This is actually something I am putting quite a bit of research into and believe that if we marry this "Aetheric Energy" with other technologies combined with frequency and harmonics, we can capture and store this energy and then use it in nearly any practical working and useful application. The practicality will be again what I have always been saying, and that is, the local power production and not centralized energy.
We can build useful and highly functional devices that use this energy directly or we can build conversion methods to use it with existing devices. The devices that use this directly are what is known as devices that utilize this"cold energy" of which is the opposite of the motors and devices that we use currently as "hot energy". Obviously we have been long on the wrong track and wrong way of thinking as the current devices we use today produce heat and thereby extreme losses and inefficiencies. Thanks Rob for stimulating the viewers minds and perhaps awakening the minds to New ways of energy and prosperity!
Okay Mr. Dunning Kruger.
@@chudleyflusher7132 xD
@@chudleyflusher7132 ????
@@chudleyflusher7132 Is this some kind of ineffective way to insult or try to somehow make yourself feel better by trying to label or with some ill effect belittle someone with a term that was perhaps once given to you?
@@terryhigson434 Nice guys we have here. Both of which know nothing about me and yet for some reason, desire to only contribute negativity. Nice!
Fantastic, you made a simple motor powered with electric current. Can't wait for the follow up vid actually using the free magic whatever energy you speak of...
Didn’t see him running it off the copper wire in the air or ether. Did I miss something?
Beautiful design... can wait to see you connect the wire up
You got yourself a subscriber. My interest is in toroidal feilds and zero point craft. Led me here.
Structured watee
Once again its very impressive. I have a suggestion that may improve it substantially. You can buy silicon coated multi stranded carbon fibre conductive wire around 3mm . Maybe the tips of each nail can be sleeved with it by just pushing 5mm of it on with say 3mm of the carbon fanned out a little bit to increase the surface area of the corona discharge. I also think maybe the points of the nail lower that output ,as a sphere contains more energy so maybe just having the head of the nail near the rotor might be better! I am not certain of the effect but it did cross my mind from what i learnt from a physics doco on static electricity recently . It might not work in reverse .⏪. IDK
Thank you so much for this video. Even a small engine that can charge up a battery over time and never wears out is quite an invaluable invention.
I was thinking on similar lines as to how to get a 12V car battery to charge using this genius idea. In fact that charging circuit doesn’t even need this machine but maybe two long Antenna sticking out in the woods up high above ground maybe 300-500 ft. Tall.
Google "free energy pjk book" and download it. Find the section on electrostatics. After tesla's device there is a scalable circuit that will directly charge a battery with a ground and an aerial.
Title very misleading. No where does he demonstrate tapping into the earth’s electrical field that surrounds the earth, rather he used his own power source to make his motor run. 😟
Yes I was impressed then disappointed that earth energy wasn't used. I thought that was the whole point?
Anyone with a rudimentary understanding of physics understands this is all quackery. The titles. "What big oil doesn't want you to know." It's all garbage. Making a small propeller turn or ball bearing move is cute.....but scale it up and the net output of the machine has to produce enough power to be commercially viable. I think folks forget that a power plant has to power itself first🤔.
the point he makes at the end that it's an accessible and quick to build motor at home with much less metal parts, just the fact that you can build it with minimal parts without any soldering is pretty interesting on it's own
@@PassengerFifty7 zero gravity would help.
Tesla did it
“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.”
― Nikola Tesla
Should be updated to include probability
@@alexwoodhead6471 and pigeons...
@@TheChzoronzon 😅
Sad, how He got Exploited. Sad his Discoveries made America and World a Better Place. But he got NO, Credit for Decade's, now some realize, Screwing HIM, was F-ing Earth's Whole population for Gawd the ALIEN, Gluton.
Here Now - "nobody makes something that I can't put a meter on" J.P. Morgan
If I recall we really can not put a load on these. However, you sparked an Idea. Can you charge supper capacitors that in turn disburse the power when full?
More free RFI energy can be harnessed, too. A few decades ago, I visited a fellow who had a longwire antenna in his backyard. He connected it to a large capacitor and used the stored energy to power the light in his fishtank.
I love ur guide lines
I'm a retired industrial mechanical electrician I've always had to think outside the box to get the job done engineer always left something out. A lot of my invention are now out in the field.
This would be great in rooms to power usb ports. Can have a off switch or lever or just have it going to a power station.
Would be great for off-grid living.
You just need to charge up a few electronic USB devices from time to time.
No risk of fire too.
Great work Robert!
Might I suggest a simple design for an atmospheric accumulator? Take three hula hoops and wrap them with bare copper wire then offset them on a common axis to create a sphere. Put that atop a non-conductive extension ladder sandwiched by two A-frame ladders. Run an extension cord from the accumulator and use all three wires. Do this near a cliff where you can run another cord to a river or lake for your ground. Bring the two cords together and put in appropriate switches and load devices.
Also watch out! I saw a video of linemen having to ground out the unpowered high-tension wires so he wouldn't be killed. Constant mega-spark making a six in jump. The power is there, simply, constantly.
David Gordon - I love a good cliff hanger, just do it
Sounds like a plan! I’m going to move out of city to a mountainous area. When I find my spot I will try to build your suggestion 😁
If I can find back this post I’ll let you know how it worked out! (Probably in a year, or maybe 2..)
@@sjihtraahfrohcs1524it’s been a year, do we have an update?
I look forward to seeing more electrostatic motors on your channel.
Amazing results! As a kid discovering static by touching a doorknob, my instincts told me there was energy everywhere. All that needed doing was to tap it and transform it.
Same , and then you see lightning for the “first time” if only..
That static came from you shuffling your shoes on plastic carpet though
@@janeblogs324 that is what I found out. But it was not manifest until I touched a metal doorknob. That one thing spawned many questions, which Dad easily answered. Such a small incident actually made me more curious about the whole world.
It's DC, transformers require AC.
Thanks!
so now if there was an axel flocks it starter siting on the tope Spinning magnets i wold say we have a vert tasty gestating system to charge up a battery bank . a some if it power could be bled of to charge up capacitor's to drive it. almost self productive energy then ?
my idea on the modified electroscope with a grounded plate, would be to send the charge through a coil, to another scope also grounded so it finally reaches the actual earth, but passes through a coil then another coil each wound in reverse to each other, as a primary so a secondary coil can collect and step down or up the voltage, each way so you get AC current pulses from it :) the coils should cause a decent sine wave too, if calculated out for the amount of voltage it would take to make contact for discharge, and the electroscope is properly sealed so no moisture nor pressure changes happen.
Ive been living off free energy for over a year. I built a stand alone solar power system that runs my entire house.
But there is an even greater flow of endless natural free energy next to me in the river flow. I could easily build a floating hydro generator to provide constant power. I dont need to be fixated on perpetual motion magnet motors as I have much better, well established alternatives that really work. Keep trying though guys. Its awesome to pursue free energy.
Can you share what other alternatives are?
@@KETi-ws2hp stand alone solar power, hydro power, wind power, steam power to name a few.
Then different uses of energy for example instead of electric or gas hot water you heat it with the sun or with the waste heat going up your woodheater chimney in Winter.
So do you have a video of this device actually running without a power source?
For the love of god keep helping the people
Hello Rob, I printed this to replicate your motor and to conduct some experiments with that I would love to send you some videos about them. I was having some issues with getting it to spin. All the leads have good conductivity and the rotor spins freely when spun by hand. Each of the leads that have the nails are alternating. What I was possibly thinking was maybe my bearings are to stiff, of the shaft I used is to long or heavy, or the tape might be the issue? In your video you used 4 inch Al tape and all I had was 2 inch tape and then put three parallel layers on the rotor. For a power source I found a tazzer module that claimed 400kv, but probably only puts out maybe 20kv. Powering that is a single 18650 battery. Would you mind talking about the hv generator that you used? I was wondering if the module I have is the issue? For shaft I had 18 inch long of allthread and used that since I had it. Thank you for your time and any comment that might help.
also I know you used copper tape on the rods with the nails and all I had was AL tape so I used that along with AL tape on the rotor.
when I power it up I get a lot of arching from the combs to the rotor.
Díky!
I tend to think of Earth as a great big capacitor with a + charged ion layer above and the ground as, well, the - ground below.
Seems as if a balloon were used to take a conductive plate high in the air as to be insulated, tethered by a shielded wire, that the charge potential that increases with altitude could be tapped just like that. There are some very old, like late 1700's to early 1800's designs and illustrations that Paul Cook has shown on his channel that suggest this has been done at that time and said to have worked. I wonder if it's a DC static charge that could be tapped or an AC charge derived from electrical oscillations between the ground and ionosphere. Love your channel.
I think the Earth is powered by frequencies generated by the movement in orbit. I believe the core of a planet is hot because the frequency is heating it like a microwave oven.
What a wonderful world it is.
One thing I thought I noticed was how well the rotating drum balanced as it ran faster. When the machine was first assembled, I had expected it to have an imbalance that would limit its speed quite severely, but the faster it ran the smoother it seemed to run.
Can I ask, are there any balancing forces involved somehow? Say, between the combs and the drum?
Thank you, for a thinkingly-good episode.
Forgive me if my question is stupid.
Can you use a charge controller to swap the high voltage, low amps for a much lower voltage with higher, more harvestable amps to charge batteries?
The only stupid question is the question that never gets asked! I commend you for asking! Thank you!
Not stupid but this is a really low torque motor so a motor / generator would be the inexpensive approach with the use of the motor in the video . for For your question examples : using 1000 capacitor array charged at 5000 Volts would be very bulky because of all the switches each need dielectric spaces to get the 5 Volts out and this would also vary significantly because atmospheric electric voltage varies significantly . Whereas capacitor or inductor discharge buck conversion have other advantages and disadvantages .
There have been several approaches made with various degrees of success and some designs can cause significant radio interference !
As with all antenna like devices please switch out the antenna to and from your devices to a earth ground in accordance to electrical and radio regulations with a grounded switch lever .
@@dr.froghopper6711 according to my old chemistry professor there is one stupid question that can be asked: “where the hell’s the fire extinguisher?”!
Isn’t that called a transformer?
Every time .. your video inspires me .. please keep up your good work Mr.Murray
This is true, I am a qualified Electrician. One day while maintaining a three phase motor, I removed the rotor, and took compressed air to blow out the dust between the windings, and another Electician touched the exposed wires. It shocked him so hard that he fell backwards, and I could literally hear the Crack of the electrostatics hitting him.
So qualified you are that you didnt know the windings would create power if spun by hand.
@@damianstasek8946 does it make you feel like more of a man to be disrespectful to others? Obviously your knowledge of motors is very limited, the windings don't spin Damian, the rotor he removed does the spinning, the windings are the stationery part of the motor .. Also he wasn't the electrician that grabbed the bare wires ! No need to be mean Mr. Stasek. I liked his story, very relevant to this thread! 👍
@@damianstasek8946 He didn't spin the rotor, he merely blew compressed air thru it and charged it electrostatically is the point.
@@brianlybarger6032 Obviously YOUR knowledge of motors is limited, LOL. It depends on the type of motor, sometimes the windings spin and sometimes not. There is a rotor (it turns) and a stator (it is STATIONARY and does not turn). The windings can be on either.
You may improve the efficency by removing the combs that ionizes the air making heat giving off light and moving air. And, instead use carbon fiber brushes to commutate charge flow onto and off conductive sectors on the rotor. The Coulomb force, will still cause repulsion and attraction beteeen charged particles on the rotor and stator.
Would be interesting to try to harness the energy through a high ratio step down transformer, possible from a MOT in reverse with just a couple windings replacing it's usual primary (if the voltages are very high)? Could use a spark gap on the input to create the pulsing required for the transformer to work and then smooth the pulsed low voltage output with a large electrolytic cap.
Thats something. A really subtle force archieved by scary sparks. Lightweight, efiicient and promising
Did you show it running off of atmospheric electricity? It appeared you fed power into it, and it ran.
Have you checked out the mercury balls ? When they put the mercury up high it spins fast to increase the electricity
Your device reminds me of the fasces, seen in many early American photos. The coils on your device look similar to the wooden/copper(?) circular objects that surrounded the axe. Often, prominent Roman officials and our forefathers were seen carrying them. I think they generated free energy and was a mobile energy source that gathered electricity from the aether.
This is hyper-interesting work, sir! Thank you. I had no idea this kind of thing was even being investigated. Also, I bet you hear this all the time, and it is a compliment, believe me, that you strongly resemble the great Anthony Hopkins. All good wishes!
Really? You've never heard of Tesla?
Seems like the awesome uncle I wish I had. The one that does all the really cool fun stuff :)
Your contraptions with all those threaded bolts probably explains the large number of "wingnuts" found in your channel.
I resemble that remark! Ha ha
... and my tin foil hat 👷
It beyond my mind. Can you charge a battery with this.? To me its batteries that make passive electricity use friendly. Lots or those power stations becoming a thing lately. I think people dont understand just how much electricity we use. Its a staggering amount. Everything we own had to use electricity to be made. We also use huge amounts or water.
Rob, given that the E field of the atmosphere is extremely weak, and the maximum power you can realistically extract is on the order of 500 nanowatts per sq. meter of the earth's surface, how many acres/hectares of flat plate capacitor do you imagine would be required to provide enough current to spin that? Obviously during a storm there is tremendous current available, but on a clear day I am curious if there is even a practical size that will provide sufficient power.
I didn't see any free energy generated, he put voltage in . Did i miss something?
You’ll just have to like and subscribe bro 👀
@@JackSchidt finally someone answered😅
He explained different ways to harness a charge, but for demonstration he is going to use a supply. Because he is in his garage filming a YT vid
Electrostatic is based on very very low amperage, thus it has no usable torque, force, and working force. You have to build up over a very unreasonable time into a capacitor, and in a few seconds, the power is gone. It's like trying to power hydrogenerators with captured mist versus flowing water.
did i miss the part where it runs on just “the electricity in the air”?
What an unreasonable demand?! You suggest they should demonstrate their free energy device without powering it off a battery? That would collapse the entire pseudoscience!
@@beardedchimp its not pseudoscience, there is an atmospheric voltage difference its just that its not feasible for anything more than a toy and he didnt demonstrate it lol
@@bugaboo9442 pseudoscience often has real science within, they just horribly distort our best understanding in to complete nonsense quackery.
Imagine if there actually was this near limitless current from potential difference everywhere. All of our electronics would have induced currents running haywire. It would be like unending coronal mass ejections, the 1859 geomagnetic storm but for every second of every day. Bitflips... oh the bitflips.
Luckily in real life even with large potential differences, any amount of current draw floors the voltage. The induced voltages/currents are so small they can be trivially removed by filtering capacitors before processing.
Volts mean nothing if there is not enough AMPS to do useful work. Its like the Casimir effect, it exists.........but finding a way to exploit it to be than a curiosity is the challenge.
Exactly.
When movies need a maniacal laugh, they call this guy ! 😂
The maniacal laughter at 8:20 was priceless. 😎
Mad Scientist Award granted. 🏅
Wonderful! I've always agreed with Tesla that electric energy is all around us; all we have to do is learn how to tap into it. -- Keep it up! I'd love to see it in action outside in the open!
Just like we put a windmill into air currents ...which is basically energy from nothing. Same can be said for finding a tool to harness other energies running our Universe!
Hello Rob, great video, love the motor. You triggered an idea while watching you. What happens if you combine this electrostatic motor with that magnetically assisted axial flux reluctance motor in episode 1045 as part of a LC circuit?
You are not related to scotty on the starship enterprise are you. Sounds like something he would say. 👍 gotta love that tech talk.
@@captainscarlet6758 No, I don't think so. He might be one of the Mysterons though 🤔
Anything similar to a flux capacitor?
I did my thesis on atmospheric generation and modelling yield from the atmosphere. You’ll love how felid emitter nano-material can scale your collection of charge by orders of magnitude.
the foundation of youth is in the Air right in front of our eyes,I like smart people why is it when electricity passes through the body it accelerate becomes stronger ? with the right conductor.
Hey.. do you remember waaay back when you did some work with the "earth battery" with the soil? I seem to recall that the voltage was high but amperage was low. Perhaps your voltage input can come from such a setup.
You're so clever and inventive. Love your videos, and this is a cracker. Thank you
More power Egor! 😂😄
What about running these in a vacuum chamber with a magnetic coupler for transfering the rotation out of the vacuum chamber?
When do we get to see you pull energy out of tge atmosphere with a copper wire?
this motor works only if it's connected to a power source so how is this "free energy" ??
@@radurobert1 atmo motor
@@radurobert1 because it is being run on static electricity.
@@bigdipper620 did you build one and it's working ?
So the point would be to connect it to the difference in voltage between it's location (closer to the ground the better?) And the ionosphere. That's where it becomes a harvesting generator. He's testing it with a high voltage low amp source to try to match the type of energy you would get if you connected it to the ionosphere with a mechanism designed to pull in charge from up in the air. Something like an antenna with a special type of inductor and capacitor setup at the top. So the power source would be the difference between it's location and the location of the top of the antenna.
@@jeremiahswartz2314 did you build one and it's working with no "battery" or energy voltage supply ?
Fantastic job, I definitely will follow this more. I am thinking about proposing a project similar to this for our middle school. This would go well with the students study programs. Definitely looking forward for your next video!
You don’t look middle school age….
Robert for the next Dr Who....let's get this started!
I think I missed something. In other such motors, the foil is separated into strips. It looks like you have a continuous sheet here. What is different about this machine from others?
If you had two of these and had a hillside on your property with a 100 foot tree , could you put a wire from the lowest place to the top part of the tree and then hooked it to a inverter, could you use just this, to charge say a 12 volt battery?
Nice work Rob. I made a static motor using razor blades and a VHS bearing years back, powered by ZVS which was totally inefficient but proved the concept. I look forward to seeing an elevated "antenna/collector?" to capture static and see this motor rotate, that would be very interesting. I remember feeling the cold air force from static which was very counter intuitive to me.
Electrical power distribution by radio waves has been a 'thing' since Maxwell and Tesla. Ditto collecting static from clouds since Ben Franklin's near suicidal experiment. But apart from thunder storms there is negligible power available unless you are sitting underneath an H.T. transmission line - and I wonder if you'd get accused of stealing electricity because sucking up all that radio frequency radiation presumably causes more power to be lost from the lines as there is no field opposing additional field generation (just thinking aloud there BTW)
problem of using these motors to drive anything I feel has too many losses of friction (heat) and other mechanical loss in conection to a useful thing (dynamo to charge a battery/ air or fluid pump / compressor - certainly not a lathe I would have thought
@@occamraiser inductive coupling to power lines is considered theft and they can detect when it's happening.
@@schrodingerscat1863 in addition, for it to draw any reasonable load you need to position your inductor as close as possible. Which invariable sits inside the heavily regulated and controlled land beneath power lines.
@@beardedchimp the Inductor is placed directly beneath power lines. This is often farm land with inductors placed at the edge of fields.
This bloke didn't kill himself.
Why would he have killed himself?
Absolutely genuis, loved your reaction when it worked 💪
So did we get to see the motor working using the atmospheric energy or just an electrical power source? From what I saw there was no evidence of anything but an electric motor. Why was it not shown working as it was explained it would with "free" electricity? Or did I miss that?
I only had 1 problem with this. The device was not used in the way to grab energy from the atmosphere. The most I got from this was a nice theory. You had me into it for the entire content and then left me dry with the actual experiment. It's a grrr, moment.
Love your approach..I am currently building free energy as well thru magnetism and kinetic energy..it's free and it's everywhere...wake up people!! Great presentation
Don't think these youtube videos work. They make money from views
I have been thinking a lot about gravity, anti gravity and, magnetism.
@Brentfrequ have you reached any conclusion?
I've been curious about magnetism since my early college years, I really think there's something to do there, like more and more research heh
I particularly like the work of Professor Eric Laithwaite and I always wondered if there was a way to close his loop on his straight line magnetic plate displacement project where we could feed back whatever we could get out of the induction from the moving plate, so with a 'push', prolly a really good push ;) maybe we could make it feed itself and ramp up the efficiency of it.
Anyways, great project there sir ! thank you for sharing, it is important !
magnetic ramps could be the future of making motors that run on magnetism only without power
magnetism very much needs more thoroughly researched the universe is electromagnetic (or more precisely magnetoelectric)! I actually got the concept for an essentially free energy/perpetual motion device bestowed on me by the universal consciousness. Also the concept itself is quite simple (couldn't believe I or anyone else hadn't come up with it before) it's an alternator in which no parts are in contact they are held in place using magnetic attraction and repulsion to levitate the parts as well as magnets arranged in such a way to have a slight pull/acceleration of the cool of the alternator. It would constantly increase the amount of energy it produces until the material q breaks down and the only investments would be cost ofmaterials and energy to build it but nothing beyond that!
@@repaer20622 maybe you should try building one. I also got some ideas, that I will try out soon. Just waiting for my magnets to arrive 😊
Very interesting and well explained. However, until a video is made showing the use of this motor with the "free" energy mentioned, it's just an interesting DIY project, not an actual energy source. Will you be doing a video showing how you harvest energy from the air with this object ?
I was hoping to see you take it outside and demonstrate. If you were getting that speed at 5-10v, and you say that there is an increase in voltage of 100v/m as you increase height, I would expect this thing to be going nuts at just 2m, right?
Sorry - I guess I missed it // when do start to spin this item without voltage???
I'm a huge fan of electrostatic motors and generators. I'm building a Lord kelvin replenisher for my needs.
But not a fan of corona motors nor sourcing atmospheric electricity becaus, the resistance of air so very high and is why the power availability, reguardless of how high the voltage you get, will always be little more than a lab curiosity and far from practical and much energy is lost as ions are moved through the air.
But I also question the unintended consequences of large scale harvesting atmospheric electricity Starting with reduced atmospheric nitrogen fixation.
Thanks Robert this must be my favourite video done by you because you demonstrated it so well. Over the years others have made it so complicated.
I was wondering how long it would be before you feature this natural phenomena because I suspected you must have been aware of it for a very long time. I believe that the national grid are using this method and charging the public for what they are paying nothing for .. I'm expecting some time soon they'll make these wonderful announcements of how they've acquired massive amounts of energy for all. But won't want to tell anyone how it's done.
Oh ffs…
They burn coal, oil, or gas and convert it to steam which spins generators. Few are nuclear, fewer are hydro-electric. Which also use stream. Yes, it would be great for mankind to get off that system.
Apparently everything is possible when you know nothing..........
Hi Rob could you recomend so links to the principles behind this? It looks like exciting technology but I didn't understand exactly how it works. Cheers mate keep up the good work!
Olivier, try youtube "atmo motor". There is a guy that made a motor with loads of torque. He sends a drone up to collect static....its insane
@@natureiscrazy Thanks man I'll go have a look.
I can’t see his comment! YT gaslighting us
@@whirled_peas the same
This reminds me about the time l constructed a Darlek!
Great stuff Sir Robert.
My question is.. how do you take that and use it in the house for a fridge, oven, outlet?
Hey Robbie!!! First of all, let me say I love your channel 😁👍
You (and your team, as well as on your associated channels) have AMAZING content; i'd say MOST dealing with everyday phenomena, power generation, AND the accessibility of resources and (where you guys come in, with the no-fuss, down to brass-tacks skill info) the various techniques and tips to build and design various projects. A few of those that come to mind are the (many!) wind/air turbines, and the different types of 'fins/blades'(?) and their different efficiencies and applications. I personally really liked the vertical, cylindrical wind turbine (forgive me, i forget the exact Ep.# or name you gave it/type). Another are the AMAZING AND SIMPLE little alcohol and veg/oil burners for keeping warm or just for atmospheric-aesthetic value. And the "vortex stove-pipe"! That is also a favorite of mine.
AND, I havent even mentioned the..... i mean YOUR (lol, 😉👍👍) Conductive Ink you guys have created!! I mean, and then on top of that SHOWING and explaining how to create your own conductive ink/graphene-products, and how to use them in creating EXTREMELY simple AND usable/efficient(enough) for home/personal use. I mean, big Ups to you and your team!!!
Anyway, forgot what else I meant to write, but, another GREAT topic and vid!!!
I thought he was going to power it with a wire in the air. But he used a battery? I’m confused about the free energy thing here? Where is it?
Are you a Jedi?
@Robert Murray-Smith, Nice engine,
But the question is, how can we safely harvest a usable amount of energy from atmospheric electricity?
Where is it tapping off of free energy? You are showing me a low voltage input. Where is the wire up in the air tapping off the ether? Did I miss something?