http://tech.golod.com/articles/25.html Tech talk, gadgets and geek talk. Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:57:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://tech.golod.com/articles/25.html/comment-page-1#comment-10023 Marc Sun, 18 Apr 2010 18:29:18 +0000 http://tech.golod.com/articles/25.html#comment-10023 I have been searching for the holy grail of free energy now for many years. This is in relation to an invention that I designed more than thirty years ago and funny as it is I have never read anything remotely close to this in any way shape or form during the last thirty years so I figure I might as well put this out there for others to see and digress. I'm not worried about patents or anything but would like to hear of anyone who is ... or maybe already has investigated a similar idea. It goes like this. Take the concept of the aircraft carriers rubber band launching system. I'm just using rubber band loosely so take it with a grain of salt everyone. Now reverse the idea. Take a huge recoil (duplicate a lawnmower recoil) and put it on a huge flywheel and support the flywheel on magnetic bearings. Put the flywheel in a vacuum if you like and eliminate the friction of air. Leave only the output/input shaft exposed. Now mount this flywheel in a hole in the ground under your driveway furthest from your street, with the handle of your recoil at the center of the driveway (sideways). Now make a slot that runs down the center of your driveway and have your handle sit in this slot. Make the handle such that it has a catch and your vehicle also has a catch underneath. When you come home and park, the catch on the handle meshes with the catch on the car. When you pull out of your driveway your car pulls the handle... spinning the flywheel... running a generator or other devices. If you could build a flywheel of sufficient mass and proper balance that is would continue to spin useably for say forty eight hours... then you have energy that is not necessarily free but is otherwise just wasted. If you lived in the northern climates as I do you could build this so that it would heat your driveway and you would never have to shovel it. The nice thing about this is it is relatively simple. Essentially three components... a flywheel, a recoil and whatever charging system you like to use. Almost everybody has one vehicle in the driveway and if everyone built one of these... I could just imagine! I have been searching for the holy grail of free energy now for many years. This is in relation to an invention that I designed more than thirty years ago and funny as it is I have never read anything remotely close to this in any way shape or form during the last thirty years so I figure I might as well put this out there for others to see and digress. I’m not worried about patents or anything but would like to hear of anyone who is … or maybe already has investigated a similar idea. It goes like this. Take the concept of the aircraft carriers rubber band launching system. I’m just using rubber band loosely so take it with a grain of salt everyone. Now reverse the idea. Take a huge recoil (duplicate a lawnmower recoil) and put it on a huge flywheel and support the flywheel on magnetic bearings. Put the flywheel in a vacuum if you like and eliminate the friction of air. Leave only the output/input shaft exposed. Now mount this flywheel in a hole in the ground under your driveway furthest from your street, with the handle of your recoil at the center of the driveway (sideways). Now make a slot that runs down the center of your driveway and have your handle sit in this slot. Make the handle such that it has a catch and your vehicle also has a catch underneath. When you come home and park, the catch on the handle meshes with the catch on the car. When you pull out of your driveway your car pulls the handle… spinning the flywheel… running a generator or other devices. If you could build a flywheel of sufficient mass and proper balance that is would continue to spin useably for say forty eight hours… then you have energy that is not necessarily free but is otherwise just wasted. If you lived in the northern climates as I do you could build this so that it would heat your driveway and you would never have to shovel it. The nice thing about this is it is relatively simple. Essentially three components… a flywheel, a recoil and whatever charging system you like to use. Almost everybody has one vehicle in the driveway and if everyone built one of these… I could just imagine!

]]> http://tech.golod.com/articles/25.html/comment-page-1#comment-4944 Cyndee Sat, 12 Jul 2008 14:09:20 +0000 http://tech.golod.com/articles/25.html#comment-4944 At least 30 years ago, I read in Popular Science a great article with ideas for community use of flywheel stored energy. There was a simple very low ramp (less than a speedbump) in the road that pumped the action of a flywheel every time a car drove over it. This turned a large spool of wire that could then be released (?) to produce electricity when it was needed. Anybody else remember that article? I would love to see it again! At least 30 years ago, I read in Popular Science a great article with ideas for community use of flywheel stored energy. There was a simple very low ramp (less than a speedbump) in the road that pumped the action of a flywheel every time a car drove over it. This turned a large spool of wire that could then be released (?) to produce electricity when it was needed. Anybody else remember that article? I would love to see it again!

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