could you run a generator with a electric motor using electricity from the generator?

Answer 1

Yes, brilliant! Perpetual motion!!!

..except there will be net losses. For example, I'm familiar with motor-generator power conditioners. The electricity in spins a motor directly coupled to a generator, and the output of the generator is a cleaned-up version of the dirty input. If the load on the generator is say 100 kilowatts, the motor will draw something like 110 kilowatts... if no load at all, the motor will draw several kilowatts to generate zero kilowatts out.

You don't get something for nothing. You'll see and understand this once you take physics.

BW,
Gary

Answer 2

No that would be an impossible perpetual motion machine. When the electricity drives the motor some of its energy is dissipated. When the motor drives a generator more of its energy is dissipated. And so on and round and round. You can't run forever on the same small amount of energy becuae each use wastes some of it as heat in friction and electrical losses..

Answer 3

This violates the first and second laws of thermodynamics.
Simplified
Law1 - You can't get more energy from a system than you put in.
Law 2 - Entropy - You can't even get an equal amount out.

This is a fundemental law which really should be explained at some level even in high school , but mostly shows up only in physics and engineering study. This conservation of energy concept and entropy relation has to be understood to make rational energy and enviromental policies. Unfortunately the populace and the politicians are waiting anxiously for the "Something from Nothing" solution.

Answer 4

No.

The motor would consume more energy than it delivers to the generator. The generator consumes more energy from the motor than it generates in electricity. There is no way to sustain the process due to the continual energy losses.

Answer 5

No, due to ineffeciencies in the motor and generator it would be impossible. In an ideal world with absolutely no losses, I suppose, that once you got it started it could keep itself running, but you would have no power left to run anything else, so what would be the point?

Answer 6

YES YOU CAN, however you will need to add power to the motor to overcome the inefficiencies in the generator and motor. In other words, it will cost you more energy to produce energy in this manner then if you just used energy off the grid.

Answer 7

you would need to keep the engine cool ,at first;then you would need to have a relay transformer to convert the energy back into the motor ,but you need to use this power for other things too,or else the motor becomes redundant,] this could only be done with batteries and transformers, motor powers battereies,batteries power transformers, transformers relay the energy to what ever source you need then, batteries send power back to motor:in theory this does not work,but it would work if you had two motors,.....

Answer 8

Perpetual motion. Although you would need something else to start it up, and some energy would certainly be lost due to outside forces and whatever you need the energy for, but you could certainly use it to cut down on operating energy costs.

Answer 9

which comes first ? the generator or the motor? figure it out.

Answer 10

no, you lose power from the motor, in heat and friction.
generators get power from an external source, like wind, water fall, steam from nukes.