The charge problem
Hi Simon and Pacedo,
The problem with parallel charging of
capacitors is that takes 2 times the current and discharge in series gives only half
the current. So no energy gain. You can see for yourself at:
Capacitor Energy Calculator
To solve this problem I can only think about two ways:
First:
A step up transformer like a 9 volt/230 volt transformer. This increase the
voltage by 25 times and decrease the current by 25 times. You only need a capacitor
that has 25 times less value on the high voltage side compared with the capacitor on
the low voltage side.
The second way is to make a voltage multiplier and
perhaps decreasing capacitors value. You can read about voltage multipliers at:
https://www.electronics-tutorials.ws/blog/voltage-multiplier-circuit.html
Best Wishes, Hermes
Hi Hermes,
Just where in this can you
identify a normal symmetry being broken? I can't see any asymmetry here.
If you charge a capacitor, then isolate it, and then reduce the capacitance (say by
using a radio tuning capacitor or similar) then the charge remains the same and the
voltage goes up. Hey, halve the capacitance and you get twice the voltage and energy
contained is now 0.5x(0.5C)(2V)(2V) or twice the energy! Thing is that turning that
tuning capacitor will take work which just happens to account for the extra energy
you've got in the electrical system. Thus you've turned mechanical energy into
electrical energy but haven't got any more energy overall.
Figuring out other
ways of varying your capacitor, such as making it into a pendulum and swinging it,
does the same energy-multiplying trick, but if you take it out then the thing will
stop swinging.
This sort of search for ways to increase energy has been done by
many people, and there have been many experiments, but claims to have succeeded have
been errors or fraud.
Thus you really do have to find a situation where the
field energy and other energy stores do not act as a single large energy store with
equilibrium between the separate stores, and work it out from the base looking for an
asymmetry between stores. So far, no-one has managed that.
As I've mentioned a
few times, the only asymmetry I can see here is based on the speed of light not being
infinite, and here you're not even doing anything that could exploit that loophole.
It isn't easy, and if it was easy it would have been done a long time back
and, more importantly (since loads of old claims), we'd be using it every day now.
Best regards, Simon
If you charge the 220uF Capacitor with the 9 volts battery, the
stored charge is 0,00198 coulombs and the stored energy is 0,00891 joules.
But if you transform the 9 voltage to 230 voltage and at the same
time charge a 22 times smaller capacitor. You store a charge of 0.0023 coulombs, but
the stored energy will be 0.2645 joules.
Maybe this is the reason why
Don Smith and
Zilano was so interested in high
voltage?
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