The device is supposed to create a small stream by treating the Earth’s magnetic field with the rotation of the planet.Credit: Getti
Electricity can be generated from the Earth’s energy that revolves through its magnetic field – according to a provocative demand presented by physicists today.
The researchers said the results are controversial but interesting. nature. The effect was only identified on a device made carefully and generated only 17 microphlets – part of the voltage that was launched at one -cell fire – which makes it difficult to check that some other effects do not cause notes.
If this phenomenon is real and the device can be expanded, it may generate emissions -free energy with a fixed survival, which may be useful in distant sites or medical applications. The authors published their results in Physical review research1 He presented them at a meeting of the American Physical Society in Nahaim, California.
“The idea is somewhat intuitive and has been possibly since Faradai,” says Paul Thomas, an honorary scientist at the University of Wisconsin -Claire. He adds that experiments, led by Christopher Sheba, a physicist at Princeton University in New Jersey, have ended with great care. “I find it very convincing and wonderful.”
Others agree that the results are striking, but remain skeptical. Rinke Wijngaarden, a former retired physicist at Amsterdam Free University, has followed the authors’ assurances since 2016 and He failed to find the influence in his experiences in 2018. The work finds very interesting, but it is “still convinced that the theory of Shaiba And others. It cannot be true. ”
Planet power
In theory, the device will operate in a similar way to the electric power plant, as the passing of Mosul through a magnetic field leads to electrons, creating a current. With the ground recycling and part of its magnetic field remains fixed (at least According to the proof of 1912) The conductor will move on its surface through some of the field ingredients.
Usually, this will not be created as a current, because in a unified field like Earth’s, the electrons that you feel that this batch will rearrange it to create an opposition electric power, and eventually leave the charges fixed (this does not apply in places where the power that Mosul feels constantly feel, as in the generator).
But Shiba and his colleagues say they found a loophole. Using a complex account, they showed that some materials – with unusual properties and when they are formed in a cylindrical tube – can direct the magnetic field of the Earth to a strange composition. They claim that this will create a magnetic boost that the electrostatic power within the device was unable to cancel it, generating a current.
To show their theory, the researchers put a hollow cylinder made of a soft magnetic material that contains manganese, zinc and iron. While controlling other effects, search for any effort and stream that passes through the device. The result is achieved from their predictions: note a small effort 17-μV depends on the direction of the preparation in relation to the magnetic field of the Earth. The voltage was zero when they used a solid part of the conductor, instead of a hollow tube.
“The monitored voltage is so small that there are many possibilities available,” Wijngaarden says, but he indicates that the Chyba team “made its best to try to avoid” other effects that could mimic its expected phenomenon, such as temperature differences.