Do you believe in Free Energy?

Question

Free energy as in the ether or vacuum energy. Nicola Tesla's free energy. Magnets have energy, lightning, static shock. These are forms of energy that exist in abundance. Obviously the device to collect this energy may indeed cost something, but then provide more energy than we could ever need. The impact this technology would be for the greater good of all on this planet. When we have this energy source there would be no more fossil fuels to buy. How much money do you think you would save every month when this is possible? No light bills, no gas for your car, you could grow your own food faster than you could eat it, everything would cost less if no one had to pay electricity for their company's or their company vehicles. So on and so on. These are just a few examples. If you don't believe......why not?

Please, this is not some idiot asking stupid questions. I will admit i don't have a degree from MIT or anything. That is why I want good feedback to my question. I can make water boil with a maginifying glass(I know, big deal). But steam engines do work....don't they. I am just trying to gather information that will help me understand the situation better. I have read a lot about Nicola Tesla and I have reasearched his inventions on the U.S. patent office website. It seems to me he was a genius and was a pioneer in electricity. And that was 120 years ago. Just imagine what could be done now. I guess i am really asking nonjudgmental people who care to help me understand. Thank you all.

Answer 1

Hi your question is valid. First thing though: you cannot produce energy out of nothing. People who say so are charlatans. Also you seem to confuse force and energy. Magnets are a source of magnetic force, which is not equal to energy. Energy is force time distance. So unless someone spends some joules moving the piece of iron in the magnetic force field, a magnet produces no energy.

BUT we could possibly find a source of energy so plentiful that it would be too cheap to meter. I am thinking of nuclear fusion for example or harnessing the complete energy of matter. 1 g of matter can theoretically produce 25 000 Mega-Watts.hour. If we could harness this, energy would become free.

If that was the case though, we could face huge problems: people would start using obscene amount of energy for whimsical reasons. And energy eventually turns to heat. If we were consuming more heat than our globe could radiate back in space, then the globe would heat up.

It would be a boon for space colonization though.

Answer 2

In theory there is abundant energy all around us. Energy abounds in the spaces between the atoms and Einsteins theories say that incredible amounts of energy can be released by converting matter to energy. The real question is how to harvest it or if it is even possible. That hasn't been demonstrated yet. Perhaps one day soon somebody will figure out how or perhaps it won't happen for a thousand years or more.

Paul: MythBusters is a joke. More than half their conclusions are fallacious. Many of their experiments are poorly designed and often overlook critical scientific fact. Don't put too much stock in that show. Entertaining is about the best that can be said about it.

Answer 3

We haven't learned yet how to stick this paddle into the wheel work of nature. It is clearly possible to have a situation where the transfer of energy between electric and magnetic fields exceeds the actual power input as the I^2R heat loss of the coiled conductor. In fact Overunity as it is called is PREDICTED by quadrature magic square design, which is the basis of my juxtaposed flux capacitor designs. This is precisely the reason I am building these special winding methods. But for now my experiments in time distortion must take precedance. Of course this is easy for me to say, since I was Nikola Tesla in a past life, and that makes me predjudiced on the subject. Just do a web search on my name Harvey D Norris and you will probably see some of my work in this category. Or just type in teslafy.

Answer 4

There is indeed a vacuum energy throughout space - it is a natural prediction of quantum field theory. It is also a prediction that you cannot obtain useful work from it - in essence, its existence cannot violate conservation of mass energy.

Its existence does, however, give rise to a surprising effect whereby bodies attract each other purely through resonance in this energy - in other words they attract without gravity, electricity or strong forces. This is known as the Casimir Effect.

Answer 5

The free energy exist in an unusable form. It must be converted which has a cost in terms of energy. The thu put is not all that great so it cost more to produce than can be gathered.

Answer 6

Science doesn't deal with "beliefs" - it only deals with reality, or as close to it as possible. Conservation of mass-energy is a principle which has never been violated and probably never will, so "free energy" is not physically possible.

Now stop this metaphysical daydreaming and do something useful. Or drift over to the Alternative section, where people will tell you just what you want to hear.

Answer 7

There's lots of "free" energy around us - sunlight, for example. But to run your house on sunlight, you need many square meters of photocells, storage batteries, and equipment to reshape the low-voltage DC into proper AC. By the time you get done adding up the cost of buying, installing, and maintaining all that, you may well conclude it's more economical to pay your ten cents per kilowatt-hour to the local electric utility.

Whatever the thermodynamic feasibility of what you imagine, it makes no economic sense to think you won't have to pay for it.

Answer 8

Yes, I know there are ways to develop natural energy but I don not believe we will ever see alternatives until Big Oil has taken control of them as well. That is why I believe this country needs to socialize energy as well as healthcare. We have been raped and plundered far too long by both.

Answer 9

I agree that we might some day be able to harvest some of the free energy around us. Everything is energy. Our bodies are energy fields, and to me they seem to be free energy. So yes I think there is free energy. Don't know how useful it is to us though. I think you're taking the idea to far but who knows what we'll be able to do.

Answer 10

IM WITH PAUL N MYTHBUSTERS already proved its not possible becuase the "free" part implies thier is no output ,mechnical or chemical , nesseccary but if you think about that its impossible