Home Made Wind Generators - Wind Plans
Author: Sally Jensen
With homemade wind generators you can really take a huge benefit on it. Electrical power is usually generated by electro-mechanical generators driven by steam produced from fossil fuel combustion, or the heat released from nuclear reactions; or from other sources such as kinetic energy extracted from wind or flowing water.
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You really have to check on the background of an electrical power for you to completely make a homemade wind generator. Electricity is an extremely flexible form of energy, and has been adapted to a huge, and growing, number of uses. The invention of a practical bulb in the 1870s led to lighting becoming one of the first publicly available applications of electrical power.
Although electrification brought with it its own dangers, replacing the naked flames of gas lighting greatly reduced fire hazards within homes and factories. Public utilities were set up in many cities targeting the burgeoning market for electrical lighting. We have to be very particular as well, we have to give much of our efforts for us to be able to obtain and save electricity with our homemade wind generators.
So why not have your own with your recycled materials and that makes you a resourceful one. In making your own wind plans you have to have materials gathered as well as an effective manual for you to base your project. Wind generators can be very dangerous, with fast moving parts, electrical sparks, and violent weather conditions. So you really have to be careful in making and safety guidelines should be implemented.
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Homopolar generators and astrophysics?
where can i find information on how solar systems, quasars, and pulsars act as naturally occurring homopolar generators?
Where is there a university or private foundation exploring Homopolar Generators?
I have some expirimental concepts I would like to develop related to Homopolar Generators. Where can I get funding or join a team? I live in Texas near Dallas
Which generator produces the most current?
I read somewhere saying that it is homopolar generator that generates lots of current…is there any other suggestions?
Are there any elements involved in a homopolar motor/generator/machine?
Scientific elements, ones from the Periodic Table of Elements
Homopolar motor/generator contributions? Used in hospitals, maybe?
I saw somewhere that homopolar motors are used to generate electricity in some hospitals. Is this true? Is there anything else in this world that uses homopolar generators to generate power?
Thanks in advanced
One of the larger homopolar generators that was produced by Parker Kinetic Designs via the collaboration of Richard Marshall, William Weldon, and Herb Woodson. Parker Kinetic Designs have produced devices which can produce five amperes. Another large homopolar generator was built by Sir Mark Oliphant at the Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, Australian National University. It produced 500 megajoules and was used as an extremely high-current source for experimentation from 1962. It was disassembled in 1986. Oliphant’s construction was capable of supplying currents of up to 2 megaamperes.
Also, take a look at the University of Texas at Austin. Some research is also I believe, occuring there (and possibly take a look at the cited article).
http://www.electric-cosmos.org/galaxies.htm
http://www.kurzweilai.net/mindx/frame.html?main=/mindx/show_thread.php?rootID%3D53654%26o%3Ddate
just search each page for homopolar.
For more, just type:
Homopolar generator and pulsar or quasar into google.
Not sure why a hospital would need a homopolar generator these days. In the past they were used as power supplies for particle accelerators. So if a hospital still has a relatively old style accelerator for radiotherapy, they still might have a homopolar generator. Modern concepts would probably not (have to) use this arcane technology any longer.
In general the voltage/current regime a homopolar machine operates in is kind of extreme and makes construction and operation expensive (small voltage, hundreds of thousands to millions of Amps). With the advent of superconductors we have much better ways to generate strong magnetic fields and the required currents are quite easily managed with switched power supplies.
Thanks for the question, though. I have not heard of this application before!
Yes. Neodymium should be what you use for the magnet. Nd is element 60 on the periodic table. Neodymium magnets are the strongest permanent magnets known.
For the wire connecting the top of the battery to the Nd magnet, recommend Copper, element 29 as a cheap, readily available conductor.
I won’t bore you with what is inside the battery.
What do you need that current for?
Does it have to be dc, ac, constant or pulsed?
If you need a pulsed current in the kA to MA range,
a capacitor bank and a fast (gas discharge) switch
will be your best choices.
If you need thousands of amps of dc current, a homopolar machine might work fine, although I am not aware that they
are widely utilized or that many people know how to design
them. Such a generator will probably be quite expensive to
obtain.
And unless you need extremely low dc voltages at high currents, other ways of making them are certainly better. 1V/1kA is something a palm sized semiconductor circuit can do easily. A 1V/10kA circuit can probably be made no larger than a PC case including cooling. Do you have an application requiring more than 10kA at low voltage?