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On Sunday, November 18, 2018, Warren Keillor [email protected]
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> Norman
> Think how home computers and 3 D printers have changed the ease of
> building those clover leaf capacitors.
> You need to do a project book for kids to try building the simple stuff,
> using the technology that is now theirs.
> Enough of that trite shit like teddy bears, and vampire masks.
> Get the smart ones building stuff that matters..
> I remember my grade school best favourite book" the boy's book of model
> making" a printed in England, publication showing how to build steam
> engines, and pulse jet motors, with fold out pages of plans for real full
> sized projects.
> That was great for the early boomer era, but you get the idea.
> Later, the Whole Earth Catalog was the magic source.
> The Internet has been great, but we are losing it to jerks who just want
> power, and I don't mean energy.
> Politics, money, and religion have little in common with science, except
> they don't like people getting any ideas, that might topple their empires.
> Cheers Warren
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> On Sun, 18 Nov 2018 at 6:24 AM, Norman Wootan [email protected] [EVGRAY]
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> The principle of potential increase as the value of C is decreased was
> published by Charles Yost, Electric Space Craft Journal (RIP) as found in
> the Encyclopedia Britannica as an O/U device. I built one of the variable
> capacitance devices, interleaved clover leaf capacitive plates just like
> the old air variable tuning capacitors in your Ham rigs. The Hyde
> Generator works on the principle of voltage multiplication when C value is
> decreased. Most devices use a variable inductor to accomplish the same
> phenomenon.
> On 11/17/2018 9:59 AM, An Hö [email protected] [EVGRAY] wrote:
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> Hi Ole,
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> The imaginary part j or square root of -1 means reactive power. This has
> to be changed to active power without having to take active power from the
> source. A parametric change in capacitance ought to do this job as a
> decrease in capacitance at constant charge means increase in energy.
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> E = Q^2 / (2C)
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> ? I just re(did) the integration to see where this comes from. The above
> work had to be performed (energy spent) to get a specific Q into a cap. The
> above equation is valid for constant C during the charge phase only!
> Charging a cap to a given Q with decreasing C requires extra energy as can
> easily be seen in the following equation:
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> W = Integral (q / C) dq
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> So we already had to do extra work to get the cap with the decreasing
> capacitance charged. Let’s assume we have some C charged to some Q now. How
> could the C further be decreased (after disconnecting the voltage supply)?
> The only way I see is by increasing the distance between the plates but
> this requires mechanical work!?
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> I don’t see the potential for FE in this. It may theoretically be possible
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> • charge the cap at constant C
> • then after disconnecting the power supply (constant Q) decrease the
> capacitance without having to apply mechanical work
> • then discharge into a load
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> But these are many Ifs!? Where is the apparatus/concept that can do this.
> I see no potential at all! :-( Am I missing anything?
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> Thanks,
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> Andreas
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