How to Get Almost Free Energy From Wood-Iron Friction
If this truly works (and I don’t see why it shouldn’t), it is the greatest home-produced energy discovery since the wheel has been founded. Lloyd Tanner uses an incredibly simple assembly of two 4×4 inch wood pieces, and an iron wheel spinning in between.
The friction between the iron and the wood causes the first to warm up so badly that it reaches 500°C, and can heat up the water in a recipient, producing steam… you may guess what happens next.
It’s the principle that our ancestors used in their steam-powered locomotives, and steam cars. The steam causes pressure, which can drive an alternator (presumably taken from a car), which, in turn, can spin the engine causing the iron wheel between the woods to spin. Did I get your brains squashed, or not? Do you think this is perpetual motion?
No, it’s not perpetual motion, since the extra energy is efficiently extracted from the piece of wood and could drive your home’s electrical system. I don’t know any figures, but they say it does. The inventor says he used about four pieces of wood during an entire month!
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Oct 15th, 2008 at 3:19 am
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Oct 15th, 2008 at 7:49 am
Okay….
but what about the electricity used to spin the iron wheel?
I’m not saying that we may not have run into a new way to leverage energy out of matter but this fluff piece done by a (clearly) fluff reporter doesn’t axe the big question: does this brilliant idea create more electicity than it would require to run?
I’m not accusing this of being a Rube Goldberg machine because in addition to the electicity that runs the motor we are introducing the wood, which is depleted via friction to create heat. Rather I am looking for a definitive balance sheet from this clever inventor.
Oct 15th, 2008 at 10:26 am
@ mtorek re:does this brilliant idea create more electicity than it would require to run?
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Apparently it does. Here is a quote from the website: “The electric motor gets the electricity to turn the friction wheel from the energy cell it is plugged into. The energy cell gets recharged by the steam generator. The steam generator gets the steam from the boiler. The friction boiler will make more steam than you ever need.” http://www.blfdesigns.com/frictionheater/qanda.php
It seems so simple yet brilliant.
Oct 16th, 2008 at 12:02 am
LOL, one born every minute, so said ol PT Barnuum.
A steam generator producing enough steam to power a whole house but that you can lay your arm on and not get your skin scalded off. Try that with a hot teakettle and see how it works.
If that were realy hot steam hitting that guy in the face he would have been scalded to death.
It is a joke folks.
larry
Nov 5th, 2008 at 1:53 am
Hey genius, isn’t all steam hot? I’ve never heard of cold steam.
Jan 3rd, 2009 at 5:29 pm
Come on people…you see something new and you can’t get your head around it. It does not matter that it doesn’t power it’s self although I think it would. Wood as a primary source is well within the carbon cycle and does not add to the problem. It does not have to be magic inorder to make a difference. Everybody wants to complicate energy production through technology, some of the simplest ideas are the best. Some one needs to refine the idea and make it better that’s all. Some think free energy doesn’t exist and for the most part your right. It had to come from somewhere to begin with thus not free….but there are ways of dipping into the vast energy reserves that are stored in everything. Where did this power come from? Who cares it exists so use it and be happy. Potential energy is based only upon what you can get out, so if you can get more out then the thing has more potential than you first thought. What you get out is an open ended math problem, and can only give you a small window to see what the true potential energy was or is. In short as we get better and better at extracting energy from our environment the potential energy in that environment goes up. We will never see the true potential.
Jan 17th, 2009 at 10:08 pm
What a simple and great idea.I`m going to build one thanks.
Jan 30th, 2009 at 9:56 am
This machine does not work. law of thermodynamics.
Jan 31st, 2009 at 12:12 am
“my name is Solomon Sami Azar” who is another crank saying he is from God. So did Mohammad who claimed to be a PROPHET yet he could perform no miracles. But he knew how to betray 700 Jews who surrendered and cut off their heads because they refused to become Muslims.
Be careful of crazies like this, they are a menace to society.
Feb 3rd, 2009 at 7:55 pm
“not going to work” is right. a perpetual motion machine can simply not excist. this is ridiculous
Feb 4th, 2009 at 6:24 pm
Well, one can use a wind turbine to spin that metal so you don’t pay for electricity to create that steam.
But I guess it may be more efficient just to run the wind turbine and direct the power to an inverter to power a device rather than spin the metal, create steam, and pipe it to a steam engine which in turn creates electricity.
Feb 8th, 2009 at 3:15 am
Actually Bee, that is not perpetual motion. If nothing else that machine is going to wear the wood away and that wood will need to be replaced. I am not saying this thing is real and can actually work but I’m not saying it’s a hoax either. The friction that is wearing away at the wood will certainly produce heat and can therefore produce steam, it is simply a question of whether it produces enough to run itself.
Hmnn… considering that the metal wheel must spin pretty fast in spite of two pieces of wood being pressed against it, and considering how much heat it is likely producing, I would say that this can’t work. But I don’t know the equations to back this up, so if someone knows how to calculate how much heat is being produced, and can then convert that to the pressure of hot steam and then the rotation of the metal wheel (this assumes that it’s energy is being directed to running itself and nothing else) then I would be happy to see the results of these equations.
Feb 9th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
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Feb 13th, 2009 at 1:56 am
Soory folks you never get out what you put in. the motor takes more energy to run than any output you can configue. BUT if you use a free power like wind or maybe a stream . then of coouse you can produce power in this method.
Feb 13th, 2009 at 1:58 am
The equation to back this up is f=ma silly.
Feb 24th, 2009 at 1:10 am
Hey, man. Just make them and sell them. When you do, send me the link to buy it. If its practical, people will buy it.
Mar 13th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
Stuff and nonsense.
Imagine a wood fired boiler, generating steam and powering a turbine. This machine would not generate more energy than that (less actually) as combustion is more or less self sustaining and “friction energy” would require a relatively huge “parasitic” load to power the motor.
Mar 26th, 2009 at 12:31 am
What about the energy required to cut wood and transport it? I could see the device running itself, but not much more. Good try though, you have to admit its different.