Richard D. Hall launches "Richplanet Power", a project to in

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vestigate energy technologies

This is quite interesting because he has a background in electrical engineering goes on to investigates the Faraday Paradox by building and testing his own homopolar generator.

Yeah the guy is a bit of a conspiracist, but his electrical experiments seem science based and I imagine could be peered review if he wrote a paper on it.

I've not watched all the videos but I don't believe you can "Get something for nothing". In a closed system output is always less than input due to losses of one sort or another. Otherwise you can feed output into input and produce a perpetual motion machine.

But he comes across as nice guy and is easy to watch.

https://www.richplanet.net/richp_genre. ... t=1&gen=99

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Well I watched 15 min that I will never get back... Its all woo woo. No facts, no explanations just a disjointed word salad of physicsy sounding stuff and daft claims and assumptions.
Mixed in with actual physisists names, theories and a bit of actual well known physics, (non of which has anything to do with his claims n any way) or stories. He is a nut.


The generator you are talking about was basically the same as the motors in your chair. But MUCH less efficient and simple to make. Its a dismal generator. Crap loads of energy in, very little out. But makes DC without mechanical complications like commutators or mosfets. It led to a better generator/motor (same thing) after some development in time. There's nothing we dont understand about how it works, and theres no mystery or magic here.

The Faraday paradox was only a paradox in faradays day. Before they understood things properly. Before they understood the atom, or how magnetism actually worked.
The wiki page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_paradox
Explains why it isnt a paradox at all, and why that is. We have known this for a very long time. Theres no pardox to explain.
A schematic stolen from duck duck go below:

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You're not working for the petrochemical industry are you BM? And working to suppress "Free Energy" from the masses? There's no reason I can see why Elon can't power his thirty something booster raptors on plain old water.

But "Rich" does actually go on to show the building and testing of his own machine in the follow up video. He's reckons there's an over unity effect where output power exceeds input power - losses.

I.E. Output Power > Input Power + Losses (my own equation )

He tries to demonstrate the effect by doing something like this:

running generator with [url]no load[/url]and measuring input power (volts x amps) = "x" watts

running generator [url]with load[/url] and measuring input power increase AND also measuring output power.

He reckons the OUTPUT POWER is greater than the CHANGE in INPUT POWER as in equation Output Power > Input Power + Losses

Yes the losses are massive so machine has a lousy efficiency.

But he reckons this down to frictional losses of the carbon brushes. And if he had liquid brushes, say mercury brushes, then output power would exceed input power. And engineering device with liquid brushes would cost big bucks, and if you'd like to contribute to a gofundme BM all donations are welcome! Nah he didn't say that, but he did say if any with lots of money would like to fund project, yadda yadda ya.

I think he is perhaps chasing dragons in that he'll never be able to be able to get the frictional losses low enough to show an over unity effect.

But unlike a lot of these woo woo merchants he does actually get some big neodynium magnets made and does actually build the machine.

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Yes he does. And then goes on to talk comlete bollocks!

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You're not working for the petrochemical industry are you BM? And working to suppress "Free Energy" from the masses? There's no reason I can see why Elon can't power his thirty something booster raptors on plain old water.

Many companies do exactly that.
Hydrogen and oxygen like the shuttle engines.
Thats water. But its not great in rockets for a bunch of reasons.

But "Rich" does actually go on to show the building and testing of his own machine in the follow up video. He's reckons there's an over unity effect where output power exceeds input power - losses.

Thats where the talking bolllocks part comes in. Theres millions of nuts on ebay that have done the same. Its will all work when they have enough "investent"...

I.E. Output Power > Input Power + Losses (my own equation )

He tries to demonstrate the effect by doing something like this:

running generator with [url]no load[/url]and measuring input power (volts x amps) = "x" watts

running generator [url]with load[/url] and measuring input power increase AND also measuring output power.

Yes. Lets be nice. He hasnt a clue what he is doing. Or is mistaken. Or he is just lying. What we have here is the muller sky car.

He reckons the OUTPUT POWER is greater than the CHANGE in INPUT POWER as in equation Output Power > Input Power + Losses

Yes. Complete bollocks. For a start the magnetic flux escapes all over the place. So if the gain was 10% of what he puts in thats already bollocks.

Yes the losses are massive so machine has a lousy efficiency.

But he reckons this down to frictional losses of the carbon brushes. And if he had liquid brushes, say mercury brushes, then output power would exceed input power.

Theres frictional losses and operational losses. The stray magnetic fields are lost. So if it was frictionless it would STILL be completely hopeless. Its all bollocks!

And engineering device with liquid brushes would cost big bucks, and if you'd like to contribute to a gofundme BM all donations are welcome! Nah he didn't say that, but he did say if any with lots of money would like to fund project, yadda yadda ya.

Yep, as I say. Its the muller sky car for engineering or physics ignoramouses.

I think he is perhaps chasing dragons in that he'll never be able to be able t
o get the frictional losses low enough to show an over unity effect.

The frictional losses are irellivant. It would lose crap loads more energy than he puts in even if it was 100 percent freiction free just in lost magnetic flux energy.

But unlike a lot of these woo woo merchants he does actually get some big neodynium magnets made and does actually build the machine.

Without a fake woo gadget he cant hope to get funded by some moron with no sense though can he?

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You see this tube?
Its the same as that disk.

All thas happening here is that at any time a magnetic feild moves across copper, aluminium etc it generates electricity.
The disk on the generator machine, or the magnet down the tube in the video below. Same thing.


It slows the magnet (that I drop into the tube) right down. Because of EMF. It takes the energy from the gravity/weight of the magnet. And that downward movement generates electrical current (eddies) in the metal. Its a generator! This just heats the metal. It ALWAYS heats the metal as that metal has resistance. The current generated warms it like an electric fire. Same happens on the generator disk.

The reason it doesent stop the magnet, and just slows down, is because the metal has electrical resistance. So the copper/aluminium in the tube or that disk heat up some and the opposing magnetic feild that this generates is weaker. The pipe warms up slightly and the magnet falls instead of stopping. If that tube was a super-conductor, the magnet would stop completely.

This is the exact same mechanism that generates electrical power in that disk. Worse, that magnetic eddie force escapes the machine in all directions too. As all current causes magnetism and its in the wrong places/uncontrollable. So yet more losses.

Anyone with a tiny grasp of physics can see that its a sad joke on the bewildered. Even if non of this was true. (it is) It would then make the same power as you put in... So achieves nothing. Theres are 100 zero point energy scams on yourtube. They are more common than the flat earthers.

https://www.wheelchairdriver.com/doomed/magnet2.mp4

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You're not working for the petrochemical industry are you BM? And working to suppress "Free Energy" from the masses? There's no reason I can see why Elon can't power his thirty something booster raptors on plain old water.

Many companies do exactly that.
Hydrogen and oxygen like the shuttle engines.
Thats water. But its not great in rockets for a bunch of reasons.

Yes! They doing something like at Starbase. Instead of shipping in thousands of gallons of liquid propellant by tanker, they're going to produce their own propellant on site.

Because of EMF. It takes the energy from the gravity/weight of the magnet. And that downward movement generates electrical current (eddies) in the metal. Its a generator! This just heats the metal. It ALWAYS heats the metal as that metal has resistance. The current generated warms it like an electric fire. Same happens on the generator disk.

Ah, yes I've seen that experiment before but never realised it was an aluminium tube and the physics behind it.

I know in AC transformers the metal former that the copper coils are wound round is laminated. Very thin sheets of metal with insulator between each sheet. That's to reduce something like eddy currents being produced in the metal former and over-heating it or something.

I remember at college we covered iron losses and copper loses. Iron losses were losses in metal like above, and copper losses were resistance losses I think, I.E. I squared R losses.

Looks promising to me

youtu.be/oExv29jDf8jUo3mD

Try this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=deskt ... kGq6g&t=3s

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That muller sky car thing had millions of investment. And all it ever was, is a modern quadcopter and they have already been overtaken. It did nothing except attract £££ for 55 years. That was all it was ever intended to do. Just like all the free energy, run your car on water, etc.

Musk currently uses kerosine and oxygen in the falcon 9. And starship uses Methane and oxygen.

Well he cant make methane or kerosene. He can make oxygen, but that takes a hell of a lot of power. Which is generated by mostly coal, and shale gas... By spliting water. Which is around 40% efficient. And is why the HHO water splitting car MPG kits are also a scam.

Physics... Its a bitch!

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Physics... Its a bitch!

It is! And sometimes counter-intuitive.

I wonder what's happened to Branson's space plane, Virgin Galatica?

I know of one person who bought a ticket when they were first on sale. Cost him something like £185,000, dunno if he's had his money refurnded or is still waitng for his flight?

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And starship uses Methane and oxygen.

Well he cant make methane or kerosene. He can make oxygen, but that takes a hell of a lot of power. Which is generated by mostly coal, and shale gas... By spliting water. Which is around 40% efficient.

But I think the raptor exhaust is green isn't it?

But you can squirt water into the carb or inlet manifold or something to get extra power. I think they did that with the spitfire?

Have you ever tried it?

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Thats a different thing.

Water in the intake system REDUCES power. Unless its to prevent detonation and then it allows more boost before detonation causes engine damage. So no it doesent add power in itself, it allows more boost, and more fuel to be burned and so more power.

You can also just run the engine a bit richer too.

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I've never quite understood detonation and why it's bad. Sometimes in very hot weather after a long run an old mini of mine used to run on after the ignition was turned off. But it used to splutter and die eventually.

Likewise pinking sometimes used to happen going up a steep hill.

I think they used to say it was worse if your engine was coked up.

NB: And not the Columbian marching powder type of coke neither!

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In a race engine like the turbo nitrous injected stuff I used to drag race, or even in a highly tuned naturally aspirated engine, then preignition, and the subsequent detonation that can happen is enough to cause engine destruction in seconds.

What happens is this.

PETROL has an octane rating. That is a figure that tells us how resistant it is to auto igniting due to heat or compression alone, or a bit of glowing carbon in the engine. We do NOT want that to happen.

In a cylinder you want the piston to rise, compress the fuel/air and then spark ignite it, very close to the point where the piston is at the top of the cylinder.
Exactly when the spark tells it to burn. You do not want that ignition to happen because of heat or some glowing carbon even a fraction of a degree before the spark comes!

Why? Because if it ignites early, before the spark, then the burning mixture is now trying to expand. And it cant! As the piston is still on the way up... That causes a massive spike in pressure in the cylinder. This early (PRE) ignition, that happens too soon, is called preignition for obvious reasons. That causes your engine noise in your hot mini engine... Then if the pressure increase was enough you get blown head gaskets, and broken rings etc. Possible crank bearing issues. But this pressure spike is still a normal controlled burn. Where the flame starts at one point in the cylinder and burns through the mixture in a normal controlled way. Just faster because of that increased pressure. But this same pressure spike can cause the entire fuel/air mix to detonate at once if it happens fast enough. This is DETONATION. If it does that at 12000 rpm, your engine just destroyed itself... Burned pistons, damaged gaskets and rings, destroyed melted plugs, valves, damaged everything in the engine!

So how can we stop that?
Well on my bikes with silly horsepower levels, and high turbo boost levels, I used VP race fuel. Or Avgas. That is basically the same as te pump petrol, but higher octane rating. Octane allows higher cylinder pressures, higher temperatures before it auto ingites. That ONE thing. But alone thats not adequate.
To run a lot of boost (power) wth a turbo, you also MUST lower the compression ratio of the engine. (dished pistons in my case). And instead of normal spark plugs that have a ground strap, (which glows orange in a high reving boosted engine, and so preignites the fuel. Because of 300bhp and 12,000 rpms... we used flat surface discharge ones. The plugs have nothing hanging in the flames to glow! And we also do not run the best fuel mixture for power on purpose, but we inject additional fuel that makes it run quite rich. So that this extra fuel cools the combustion temperatures. And doesent get burned.

Then, the nitrous injection system. So that as you hit the loud button, it adds fuel (much more than is required again, so it cools the charge and runs aproximately 60% over rich) and nitrous oxide as a liquid, which also lowers the intake charge temperature and combustion temperatures too.
So as you see, theres a lot going on!

But thats the basics.

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You also have to understand that a mini engine will see around 40 horsepower at the wheels. From a heavy, iron, low reving engine. Whereas a bike engine that is STOCK is making around 150 to 210bhp. From a much lighter, alloy engine thats spinning at 11,000 to 13,000 rpms. Then with a big turbo, and nitrous we are talking about 300bhp at 30psi boost + 100 horsepower of nitrous on the button, back in 97.

So where your mini made a slight knock going up a hill, the bike engine would have destroyed itself in seconds. Double the RPM, 10X the horsepower (and so heat) and a lightweight alloy engine of a quarter of the thermal mass... No room for error there!