Harvesting Mechanical Energy.....................

[turbinetree]

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

1. Incredible.

Glad he's at a US college.

[TygrBright]

2. When this video was published five years ago...

...I said, "Damn', that makes me think of Cold Fusion."

But they swore it was real. And we'd start seeing real-world applications within five years.

It's five years later.

Muon catalysis, anyone?

amusedly,
Bright

[kiri]

5. you are correct--this is all nonsense

This is all nonsense.
Tribo-electric effects, like piezo-electric effects, have been known for 130 years. This mistake is that "electricity" is not the same as electric 'power'. Volts are not watts.

tribo means 'rubbing, friction'. It is akin to static electricity. Electric shocks in winter carpets will never light even an LED.

The bedazzled never ask, where do these electrons come from? How will they be replaced? What force will make more come forward?

[denbot]

7. Man will never fly, a locomotive at high speed will suffocate the passengers..

Blah blah blah. You could lobby for Exxon, and I’ve been around here long enough to know, you do know that.

[FSogol]

10. +1. I'll make a video promising to power all lighting using Triboluminescence!

I'll harness the power of chewing wintergreen life savers candies and capture the light generated by the sparks they give off. Sadly, once the candy gets soggy the effect stops and so each spark lasts only a few milliseconds, but I'm sure we can work that out in the lab! Wish me luck!!!

:beer"

[Uncle Joe]

3. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread turbinetree

[turbinetree]

6. Your welcome...................

[snort]

4. Brilliant.

[dembotoz]

8. but but clean coal is supposed to fix everything

[OnDoutside]

9. And we all remember Steorn

https://fora.ie/steorn-shaun-mccarthy-liquidated-3097083-Nov2016/

That was the moment Steorn ‘discovered’ it could use magnets to basically create a perpetual motion machine – a mythical contraption that has fascinated inventors for decades and can supposedly defy the laws of thermodynamics, generating energy from nothing.

Just to put that into context, so-called ‘free energy’ would be a monumental discovery – it would eliminate the need to burn fossil fuels and make electricity cheaper and more accessible to people around the world.

The author of The Guardian article goes on to reveal that none of the eight electrical engineers and academics “with multiple PhDs” that McCarthy cited would go on the record to confirm they had validated the contraction. Nor would the company that had partnered with Steorn to manufacture a prototype.

The journalist was also promised a diagram explaining how exactly the system worked but it is never delivered because of concerns about intellectual property rights.