Hi people,
I'm new on this forum, French (sorry for my english, I will try to do my best, promise
), and I want to share some ideas / theories about vacuum energy and homopolar generators (HPG)/space power generator (SPG) called N-machine.
Fascinated for more than 30 years by alternative energy sources, I have recently done a lot of research on the potential energy contained in vacuum, and I have come to conclusions, or rather intuitions,based on facts or experiences already carried out.
Energy contained in vacuum, is a fact accepted by the entire scientific community, validated by the Casimir effect, or the Lamb shift, among others.
As far as I know, vacuum is made up of creation of virtual particles and antiparticles which are generated and canceled every 10⁻²⁵s approximately, electron/positron, proton/antiproton, neutron/antineutron, etc...
I made the connection between the N-machines which are capable of generating currents of thousands or even millions of amperes, but with a low voltage ,and the energy of vacuum when watching a documentary on Hawking's radiation, it was a sort of revelation.
Hawking radiation is the thermal radiation predicted to be spontaneously emitted by black holes. It arises from the steady conversion of quantum vacuum fluctuations into pairs of particles, one of which escaping at infinity while the other is trapped inside the black hole horizonIt is at this limit that the attraction of the black hole will only be able to capture one of the 2 particles/antiparticles created from the vacuum, which will result in not canceling its opposite.
The result is that there will be a particle created, therefore matter/energy.
I made the link with the research of Bruce De Palma, Adam trombly, etc... on HPG or SPG.
N-Machines fascinate me, and are also often called "space power generator/extractor", in short, vacuum energy extraction machine.
I think that's exactly what happens in an HPG/SPG, generating so many amps with such a "small" machine is beyond comprehension.
Lots of people explain this phenomenon by the Lorentz's force, but I'm not agree with that, several experiences show with a embedded measuring device on a HPG show no output.
Here is one experience for exemple :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuK0ACNNfiII am convinced (it's only my opinion...
) that an HPG/SPG, by rotating a material (usually a copper disk) in a magnetic field without variation of this one, by "cutting" the flux lines will "capture" either a particle or an antiparticle (in the present case an electron or a positron), and thus allow its opposite to exist.
The "creation" of an electron or a positron will therefore create a current either positive in one case or negative in the other.
What brings me to this intuition is that if the HPG rotates in one direction it will generate a positive current, and in the other negative (I can be wrong, it can be not the case, only one of the particle electron or positron is "sensible"to this effect, but anyway at this stage it's not important for understanding, and I think it can be checked later, the efficiency should be different if it's electron or positron).
And on an other side,the yield of a HPG directly depends on:
-The strength of the magnetic field (which I think will increase the "disturbance" in vacuum)
-The diameter of the HPG (the peripheral speed increasing with the diameter will also increase the "disturbance" in vacuum)
-The speed of rotation, which intersects with the proposal above, and which will therefore also increase the "disturbance" in vacuum.
Why only electrons/positrons? I think simply that they are "basics" polarized particles, and that the energies involved do not make it possible to capture either protons/anti-protons, etc...
The materials that exist today have properties that have increased considerably compared to those that were used for the first HPG made (De Palma,Trombly, Tewari,etc...)
-Neodymium magnets instead of ferrite are much more powerful than those used before (~1.3 Tesla against ~0.4 Tesla), but I will explain later why I think it's not the better solution for generating a magnetic field in a HPG.
-The materials that will carry the field have progressed considerably: soft iron at the time with a saturation of the order of ~1.5 Tesla, against Hiperco 50 or Permendur (iron-cobalt alloy) which have the highest saturation of the order of ~2.5 Tesla, I will develop later this point as I think it can be a real advantage for a better efficiency.
All this would lead to an increase in the performance of an HPG, even if there is a way to do even better in my opinion, because inevitably this type of machine has its specifics problems (generation of direct current, high amperage difficult to handle, complex current "collecting" system).
Having thought about it for a long time, I have ideas to solve almost all these problems (It's my opinion...), it remains to be validated, of course.
I started to make a replica of a HPG, at a small scale to carry out tests, in particular to test the impact of the use of different materials and configurations, because I think ferromagnetic, diamagnetic or non magnetic materials will have a big impact on the efficiency.
I will test for axle and disc : iron, copper, brass, aluminium and bronze.
I already have interesting results, even surprising, but for the moment I have made only few tests, it's only the beginning.
Here is the "machine": (sorry I don't know how to insert an image)
https://ibb.co/swbcKT1I will publish photos/videos and the results obtained.
And here is the very first test, design have been improved since (pulleys and belt for more RPM, and some minor changes).
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KAVaOiw0mnAAs you will see, my HPG generate AC current, it was totaly due to chance, I didn't saw when I order the magnets it was diametrical magnetized magnets instead of axialy ,but it was very usefull for understanding next step. Axially magnetized magnets will be tested too.
So in this case it can be considered as a bipolar generator (BPG).
As you can understand, with 3 120° spaced "brushes", you can easily get triphased current, it's just a comment.
I have theories, which in my opinion are defensible, and already encouraging results linked to my first tests, even if on a small scale:
- If it's like I am thinking a "vacuum" effect ,does a HPG running in vacuum will be more efficient?
- Brushes have to be replaced with liquid metal (that is not new), for minimal resistance and drag , and maximise the surface for output. Today it's easy to find gallium or galinstan alloy for that purpose.
- Bearing have to be replaced with ceramic bearings, as I think it can create unwanted effects (current/magnetism)
- The position of the conductor for output can have unwanted effects, as it will generate a magnetic field who will bother the "equilibrium"of the HPG. Extracting current by one or several coils around the HPG can strengthen the magnetic field and therefore increase the efficiency.
- Instead of a disc for current collection, I think a cylindrical collector will be an advantage (a tube around the machine with a layer of liquid metal between them): more surface, less heat due to high current, even it will create more drag. Connnecting several coils around this collector could be helpful to renforce the magnetic field. So liquid metal for extraction will be between 2 magnetic fields, like a closed path, I don't know if the direction of the 2 magnetic fields will have an impact on efficiency (same/opposite?), but probably.
- As DC is hard to handle, especialy at high amps, HPG should produce AC, that I know now it's possible (I never said it will be easy...).
I will be happy to share about them, and have criticism on my theories.