Hi Guys it's been a while and i meant to start experimenting on a few things but you know how it is! Anyway the other night i had a breakthrough idea but only to find there is a patent on it. It's not quite the same idea i had but it's damn close. And in any case it's not exactly rectification as there is never an alternating current in the first place although there should be but it's simple trickery. I'm not sure if it even works yet as i didn't try myself but it is sort of one of the answers i was looking for. Me design would have a continuous coil around the outside and infact it would not be a coil but a type of flat spiral that would not be easy to build but a 3d printer with electroplating technology or simple electroplating over plastic could form my design. Imagine the spiral disc technology used in the worlds largest electromagnets and then wrap them into a torus, so rather than wire being wrapped into the shape of a torus we would have copper spirals, more like discs that spiral the whole way around like a flat slinky. I also think there could be some capacitance formed between the spiral disc coils that may be of use. Here is a link to the patent i just saw so you can get a better idea of what I'm talking about.
https://www.google.com/patents/US20130162057
Remember in my design the coil would be continuous, so when you put a load in series with it it will force the magnets within to slow themselves. In his/her design he/she shows the magnets as spherical. This would not actually work very well as they would be trying to reposition themselves to align with the magnetic field, and energy can only be created if their field cuts through that of the coils potential field. So a rail of bearings within is recommended so that the magnets can be kept at the optimal orientation. Simple stuff!
If the continuous solenoid torus has potential for generating energy it may also have potential as a type of motor and possibly even have an effect on gravity if used on a large enough scale and at the correct speeds. My design would put the magnets in a vacuum to optimise the motion within the torus.
The other concept i would like to marry this technology with is the gyroscope. I couldn't help but become obsessed with the idea of trying to accelerate the magnets to great speeds with a very slow motion simply by using a gyroscope type design. The magnets would in this case form the flywheel and just like a Powerball (the toy used as a wrist/arm strengthener) We could spin the generator at high speeds with a simple slow stirring motion from the wrist. This could also be scaled up to any size including industrial level by using a motor to create the motion needed to simulate the action needed to spin a power ball up to high speeds. Here lies one big mechanical and or electrical problem, since the gyroscopic magnetic flywheel would be built inside a torus (ideally but not necessarily built with the flat spiral coil concept) then the torus would also have to be in motion making it impossible to tap to the wires without some type of brush or other wiping contact, initially i considered using the inductor technique to transfer energy from the inner torus to the outer torus but doesn't inductor transfer of energy rely on alternating current?
I've not given up here i just haven't had the time to look into this further and think about all possible uses of such a device. there could be super capacitors that charge within and then we collect the energy after spinning the device up for a few mins or so.
Many of these ideas came from thinking about how to collect the energy produced when a magnet is dropped through an aluminium or copper pipe, etc.
A pipe turned into a coil which turned into a flat spiral coil which turned into a torus so it's like an infinite solenoid formed from a type of coil but it has a load on it where you want to tap the energy from. Future experiments would also test the potential difference between the inside (narrowest) and the outside edges (opposite edge on the outside) of the torus. and also try tapping of of each turn or perhaps from segments of turns around the torus to divide or multiply voltages or use these tapping points for motor technology. I would also consider adding non magnetic spherical objects between the magnets to create the correct spacing.
So in a way i don't even know if i've answered the question here, i have more skipped around the outside to find the answer i was looking for.
Another of my original line of thoughts that lead me here was to fully encompass the magnets in a sphere so none of the magnetic field could escape.
All of the ideas have come from bits and bobs pieced together from existing technology. I was a bit gutted when i saw the patent above. however it is not essentially the same concept as i came up with, as he/she does not use a continuous coil, neither do they mention the flat spirals which would shield the device and capture maximum energy all be it lot voltage and high current compared to using many more windings of wire. although if combined successfully with the high speeds generated by the gyroscopic acceleration we may be able to achieve a bit of both depending on the resistance caused by the eddie currents which would try to slow the flywheel if too much current was drawn.
Can anybody answer this question:
If a strong magnet is dropped down a copper pipe it takes it's time to fall as it is converting energy into heat (there is a short circuit within the copper pipe) Then what would happen if that copper pipe was bent into a circle with the magnet inside and we were to turn or slowly roll the pipe along the ground?
Would the magnet continue to fall slowly around it's inner circumference? Or would the magnet suddenly no longer be effected by these laws and it would not tumble down the pipe as if it were inside a plastic tube?
This is the experiment i would like to try but with a coil of wire with a load across it, then moving up to a combination of magnets and non magnetic sphere within the torus. Then if there was success the idea would be to build a cage within with bearings (possibly ceramic) that would keep the magnets positioned in the best possible orientation for the production of power etc. Then the last step would be to swap out the wire for the flat spiral disc type wide slinky torus design (less coils but much more surface area) And then try to squeeze all of that into a gyroscope where the magnet array would form the flywheel.
It would be nice to see such a thing on a handheld scale but also in larger formats.