Frequently Asked Questions

An asterix (*) indicates that these views are from the United Nation Commission on Energy.

1. How much energy does a person consume per year?
   An individual needs on average 2000 kw (kilowatts) per year to live an acceptable life style (*)
   
   
2. How much physical energy can a human produce?
   75 watts per hour can be produced for a long period of time.(*)
   75 watts x 12 hours a day x 365 days = 328500 watt/hour or 328.5 kw/h per year.
   A human being can produce, for a few minutes, bursts of energy as high as 400 to 600 watts.
   
   
3. How much external energy is needed yearly, per individual?
   To live an acceptable life style an individual needs 2000 kw/h per year.
   (1 kw/h = 1000 Watts/h)
   In one year an individual can only produce 328.5 kw/h.
   Therefore an extra 2000 - 328.5 = 1671.5 kw/h of energy per year must be found.
   In practical terms an individual needs to receive five (5) times the amount of energy he/she can produce.
   
   
4. How do you create this extra energy?
   
   • By increasing the production of energy
   • By producing more efficient systems
   
   
   
5. How efficient is the production of energy?
   In general the production of energy is only 4% efficient.
   In practical terms this means that to boil a jug of water you will need 25 times the energy input for the the desired result (a jug of boiling water).
   This means that you will require 25 x 2000 kw/h = 50 000 kw/h input for the desired output in order to maintain your 2000 kw/h life style.
   
   
6. What are the long term side effects of the inefficiency of creating energy ?
   
   • Individual wood burning creates deforestation and smoke.(*)
   • Coal burning in power stations creates ash, smoke and heat.(*)
   • Nuclear power stations create nuclear ash dangerous to human life for 24900 years.(*)
   • Hydroelectric power stations create flooding.(*)
   • Large diesel generators create smoke and oil pollution. (fuel tankers breaking up, trying to refuel power stations).(*)
   • Solar systems are the most promising in the equator. The voltage of large solar systems is difficult to boost to feed at least 32 KV lines. In cool or cold regions the shadow of these systems may interfere seriously with the environment.(*)
   • Wind turbines need to be installed in areas which are windy all year around (*)
   • Ocean waves or tide power generating are in their infancy(*)
   • Thermal energy from the inside of the earth's crust is only available from a few areas on earth.(*)
   NOTE : It should be noted that most of the above systems work well on a small scale, but develop problems when scaled up to serve cities or large communities.
   
   
7. Is it possible to replace inefficient energy systems with efficient ones?
   Yes.
   
   • The electric generators of the 1880's were replaced in the 1920s by smaller, lighter and more efficient electric generators. These 1920 electric generators have been replaced in the 1990s by electric generators which use new magnetic products.
     
   • The traditional windmills of Holland replaced by high-tec, high performance windmills similar to the ones available in California (USA) or Perth (Australia).
     
   • Since the end of the 19th Century, serious efforts have been made to replace these "old" systems.
     
   • The traditional electrical battery is being replaced by fuel batteries.
     
   • At the time of writing the most promising battery system is the cold fusion system.
     
   
   
   
8. I don't agree with what you have written. Can I discuss this issue with you?
   YES!
   I have purposely included the URL addresses of some news groups
   energy news groups
   • energy
     • sci.energy - Discussions about energy, science & technology.
     • sci.energy.hydrogen - All about hydrogen as an alternative fuel.
     • alt.energy.renewable - Fueling ourselves without depleting everything.
   • solar
     • if anyone knows of an active newsgroup, please email me - Generation of electricity from the sun.
   • fusion
     • sci.physics.fusion - Info on fusion, esp. "cold" fusion.
   • Mailing Lists contacted by E-Mail
     The Alternative Energy list is called AE in LISTSERV@SJSUVM1.SJSU.EDU
   
   You will find me contributing to these newsgroups.
   I look forward to discussions via these newsgroups.
   
   
9. You say that an individual needs 2000 kw/h to live an acceptable life style, then you mention 50000 kw/h?
   If as a farmer or gardener, I plough my field for one hour with a shovel. I would use 75 watts of energy .
   The fixed cost of the shovel is not included. (I may need to work three hours to pay for the shovel.)
   If, as a farmer or gardener, I plough the same field with an automatic shovel, with an electric motor attached to it, connected to the electric grid system, then the official statistics indicate that the power station has to produce 75 watts x 25 = 1875 watts.
   Efficiency becomes important because it represents a large part of the work being done to create a small effect. What happens if you raise the efficiency of an energy system by 1%? 1% more efficiency on a 4% efficient system, creates a new system 5% efficient.
   The system will pass from 4% to 5% EFFICIENCY.
   As shown before 4% of 1875 Watts/h = 75 Watts/h. 5% of 1875 watts = 93.75 Watts/h.
   Using the example in questions (5) and (9) I would plough more field area in the same time.
   The difference between 75 Watts/h and 93.75 Watts/h is 18.75 Watts/h .
   18.75 Watts/h more watts or 25% more field size compare to my manual ploughing done with 75 Watts of energy.
   Or if I plough the same field size it will take me 25% less time.
   25% of one hour or 60 minutes is 45 minutes.
   With an electric shovel system , 5% efficiency (5% = 1% plus 4%) will allow me to plough for 45 minutes instead of 60 minutes for the same output.
   
   
10. What about the farmer or person not connected to the electric grid?
    A farmer or person not connected to the electric grid, has systems creating energy
    
    • tractors
    • excavators
    • bull dozer
    • generators
    • windmills
    • harvesting equipment
    • packaging equipment
    • etc.
    
    The efficiency of this equipment will range between 1% to 60% depending on the type of systems used and energy produced.
    
    
11. Can sand replace the regular greasing of the bearings?
    I suppose like other farmers I have left the bearings of the disk plough unattended for too long.
    I have learned by experience that sand replacing grease/oil is very abrasive.
    Sand is more expensive in time and parts than a squirt of grease/oil from time to time.
    Grease/oil make the bearings lasts longer.
    
    
12. How do you produce free energy on the farm? Most systems producing free energy work on a cycle principle:
    
    • the piston of an engine turning a fly wheel
      
    • the coil of a generator inside a magnetic field producing eddy currents.
      
    The first part of the cycle requires energy. It all depends on whether you look at the chicken or the egg
    This "required energy" is transformed into "active energy".
    This "active energy" is transformed into "stored energy".
    Part of this "stored energy" can be accessed as FREE ENERGY.
    
    
13. What is the difference between free energy and zero-point energy?
    Zero-point energy is usually associated with perpetual motion machines or machines producing more energy than they receive. This is not the subject of this page.
    Please see the following web sites for more explanation.
    William Beaty Home Page
    Gravity/inertia .
    General products and experiments
    
    
14. What is the confusion between free energy and zero-point energy?
    
    • It is similar to the words ampere, volt and electricity.
      
    • It all depends in which context you use the word ampere, volt or electricity.
      
      • ampere and volt relate to the electromotive force(EMF).
        
      • abampere and abvolt relate to electromagnetic unit (EMU).
        
      • statampere and statvolt relate to electrostatic unit (ESU).
        
      • zero-point energy is a vibrational energy that molecules retain even at the absolute zero of temperature - uncertainty principle - .Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1982 - see question 14.
        
    • In this ESU
      • one statvolt = one erg of energy
      • one statcoulomb (ESU) = 3.336 x 10-10 coulombs as a unit of quantity of electricity.
    
    
    
15. In a practical sense what does it mean if I read one volt on my electronic volt meter?
    It depends where you measure the electronic circuit?
    What other components are in the circuit
    What type of transducer is inside your electronic voltmeter
    What the electrical design of your electronic voltmeter
    
    • An ANALYTICAL (OBJECTIVE) METHOD is used with reference manuals where the values of the components are measured against a KNOWN STANDARD.
      
    • The COMPARATIVE METHOD (SUBJECTIVE) is used to compare parts of a similar circuit.
      You do not need to reference your voltmeter against any standard.
      The voltmeter only need to be constant and stable.
      The example in this case will be to troubleshoot intermittent shorts.
    
    
    
16. Could amperes and volts be compared to an oil hydraulic circuit of a tractor?
    Yes.
    If you have a constant supply of hydraulic oil at 2500 psi, the lifting of a 44 gallon drum (full of water) will be dependent on the diameter of the piston. But as a short cut you may say casually: "I am lifting this 44 gallon drum of water with 2500 psi".
    Someone may hear you and may try to experiment with the words they over heard from you.
    Their experiment may not lift the 44 gallons of water even though they have got 2500 psi. The diameter of their piston may be too small.
    In this case the diameter of the piston is of great importance, just like the voltage is important in measuring electric energy.
    
    
    
17. Do I need some expensive measuring/testing equipment to reproduce your experiment?
    Many years ago, I was watching a show called "WHY IS IT SO?" produced by the late Professor Julius Sumner Miller. Professor Miller had sawn two feet out of a broom handle. He made some deep long, perpendicular grooves on that handle, nailed a small flat piece of wood at the end of the sawn handle to make it look like a propeller at the end of a broom handle.
    Professor Miller started rubbing a piece of wood on the grooves of the broom handle.
    Amazingly the flat piece of wood at the end of the sawn broom handle started to turn like a propeller. He rubbed the broom handle, faster and faster and the "propeller" spun faster and faster.
    I learned from that day that vibrations can be induced from a horizontal movement into a vertical movement.
    99% of experiments do not require any sophisticated equipment.
    As Professor Miller says in his book, "soon the experimenter learns to see when he/she looks, learns to hear when he/she listens, learns to understand knowledge".
    
    
18. Can you describe some specific measuring equipment?
    A pine cone will tell you it is humid or moist when the cone is closed.
    The same pine cone will tell you its dry when it opens up.
    Green frogs will climb a jar when it is going to rain.
    If my cat passes its paw behind the ears it will rain in the next few hours or the next day. I have checked it out. My cat is 95% right. It doesn't mean that your cat will do the same.
    
    
19. How do farmers and people in the bush get instructors to teach them?
    There are two ways to learn.
    1) learning by rote: learning in a mechanical way without the thought of the meaning
    Listening to a teacher, reading a book by repeating like a parrot without trying to understand how the words and text may relate to other things. Usually when the teacher or text are removed the student feels "left in the cold".
    2) learning by cognition: learning by knowledge, by knowing , learning to perceive or understand as fact or truth or comprehend with clearness and certainty. The teacher or book are only the provider of new blocks of experience which can be attached to other blocks of experience.
    
    
20. How do farmers and bush people find time to experiment and gather knowledge?
    I am doing experiments all the time in my lab with no walls.
    Instead of using half or one inch diameter test tubes, I use empty jam jars, egg cartoons, 10 gallon or 44 gallon drums.
    In 1989 at a Brisbane (Australia) conference on achievement Sir Edmund Hilary, the mountain climber and Antarctic explorer, the first person to reach Everest in 1951, said "I left school early but I am a self-taught PhD because there is no one who could have taught me how to conquer Everest or reach the South Pole".
    At the same conference, Neil Armstrong the first man to walk on the moon said "we are constantly learning from the past, the present, the future".
    
    
21. How does knowledge relate to free energy?
    If you are the user of a system and know how this system works, you will have a better chance to modify this sytem to extract the free energy for your needs than a person who doesn't know how a system works or has a poor knowledge of things.
    
    
22. How do free energy machines and practical experimenters network relate to each other?
    The purpose of these pages is to present ways of doing/aking things to harvest this free energy available in most farming systems.
    Examples:
    
    • how to clean the trees or wood logs out of a water dam
      
    • how to train a cattle dog to bring the cattle in.
      It is a way of "saving" time and effort which is the same as saying "gathering /using free energy".
      
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