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The Flood / Re: Thread for my battery shit
« Last post by E on Today at 05:17:45 AM »
It looks like you're definitely getting there. I say this without a trace of irony: thank you for taking the time to update us with this thread. I can't say I've read all the posts, but I've read this one, and I'll make the effort to catch up when Sam goes to sleep tonight. I hope you have a fantastic Friday morning <3
Don't worry about reading. If I was going to tell you to read anything, I'd say to wait until I have concrete results.
The condensed version of what I've learned so far is that 90% of electric motors can be used as generators if they are spun rather than having power put into them. All electric motors are generators, and all electric generators are motors.
Two pieces of metal can be used in a lot of different ways to make basic batteries strong enough to light small electrical things. The simplest is water based, but if you want something more stable, throw the metal into dirt and water it like a houseplant every now and again. If you want to get fancy, you can align the electrodes with the Earth's telluric magnetic currents and they'll pick up on it, giving a boost.
I drop it all off here just in case anybody's interested, but my long term goal is learning enough about this shit to start building something quality enough to sell. I'm pretty sure if I can make anything with a reasonable output gravity powered that can run for a day on a windup, it would kill as a salespiece. But I don't have to just sell something. This shit could help somebody out one day if we end up in a shit situation like downed power grids long term and cut off gas pumps.