----- Original Message ----- From: Horace Heffner <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, September 10, 2009 4:48 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:Experiment report, conical roller bearing motor
> > On Sep 10, 2009, at 11:29 AM, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: > > > > > OH -- I see the problem. > > > > The homopolar motor must be spun backwards to generate electricity. > > This thing hasn't got a "backwards". That's the point, right? > > Yes. It's all motor - born to spin! > > Best regards, > > Horace Heffner > http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/ > If you put bearing in a suitably shaped magnetic field and spun the bearing by means of an external power source (e.g. a water fall) would it generate electricity? Harry
