1840 Atmospheric Electricity An Exciting Possibility

foreign static motor now it's actually behind your hand it's 3D printed and you can see what it is it's a rotor made out of a few fins and a state of the couple of fins covered in Copper and that's the thing about electrostatic Motors they're almost invariably really simple things it's one of those school kid projects where you put a cup on a pencil they're stunningly easy to make and to get them going all you actually do is connect them to a high voltage Supply you put a high voltage positive a negative on and they spin line Billy oh and they're just fascinating things coming in a whole range of styles and there's a whole load of ways of supplying it with that high voltage now the new next to nothing in terms of savant you're talking about microamps to Pico amps what they really need is a stunningly high voltage arguably one of the earliest electrostatic Motors was the Benjamin Franklin wheel and it was basically a bunch of Thimbles on a wheel and it worked because electric Chargers are just like magnets like charges will repel and unlike charges will attract and if you have a high voltage negative and a high voltage positive they'll attract each other and all electrostatic Motors work in this way so to get that high voltage well one way is with the high voltage Supply obviously plug it in and you'll generate itself a high voltage Supply another way is to pull it from the air the Earth is basically a big old ball of electrons and bombarded with Cosmic red as the atmosphere is full of positively charged ions that basically drift towards the Earth and that creates a situation where the Earth is considered to be zero and every meter up or so you get a hundred volt difference so one meter is 102 meters it's 200 and this extends to the upper atmosphere about 31 miles or 50 kilometers or so so that voltage difference is huge unfortunately amps isn't very big it's about 10 Pico amps per square meter or something like that but it it accounts that difference in voltage as you go up meter by meter now because we stand about two meters high got plenty of buildings at hundreds of meters high and this doesn't happen to them because there is standing on the ground so they create a Zone around them that is zero in respect to the ground because they're standing on the ground and they're a good enough conductor for that but that just bends around it still holds true that that thing is happening so as we go higher we get an incredibly high voltage now if you're thinking you can use this to run a motor you would not be alone and there are lots of experiments basically all you really do is stick a wire up there and you can do it with a drone or a balloon or some way of getting a wire high enough to get a good voltage stick the other side of the motor into the ground so you've got your positive and your negative side and you get a motor you get the kind of Motors like um rimstar org made with this Corona motor these motors will turn one issue with them being is they don't have a lot of talk or at least that was the conventional wisdom until irritating me enough Lazar said we came along and developed an atmospheric electricity driven motor that was powerful enough to use as a drill so a huge amount of torque and then of course you've got people like Olive Jeff romanca who's worked on this and done some amazing work in the 60s and and another company who produced an electrostatic motor called the sea motive so inside a c-motive machine and there's some plates so he brought her in a stator put a high voltage on them and the rotors are going to spin now changing the voltage allows more torque to be delivered but the plate itself while the stator is just plus and minus a high voltage and that creates an electric field now the state is very similar but it has airbnc like a three phase applying a supply voltage sine wave onto it causes it to rotate pulling it along and this number of status and rotors determine chances are you knew about atmospheric electricity and if you didn't well you do now and the bulk of it actually comes from cosmic radiation you have to remember the sun alone provides 122 million million million watts of power daily basing the Earth and this has been there free for the taking by basically sticking a wire up high enough the problem today is has been the way of using it they have to be honest it's been a little wimpy but that's kind of all changed it would take your hat off for creating an atmo motor that can drill a hole that's pretty impressive and then of course cmotive have been working on that with quite powerful machines so at the moment we're all worried about energy I'm not particularly because I think there are lots of really excellent and hopeful things going on we're on the verge of these massive breakthroughs of course that doesn't mean we can sit back and do nothing we won't make batteries unless we work on avenues that look exciting and interesting and can possibly answer our problems and give us a solution and Atmospheric energy is extremely promising so if you thought that it was wimpy a bit useless and a bit of a scientific curiosity turns out you really should have thought again anyway I hope you enjoyed the video I hope it was of interest to you thank you very much for watching and please do remember to like subscribe and click the Bell notifications

Channel: Robert Murray-Smith

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Length: 6min 6sec (366 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 17 2023