Homopolar Generators (N-Machine) by Bruce de Palma

[joe dirt]

Well, I think what this guy is doing is similiar to the faraday disk:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrhmA23L8cE

and another demo:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9056583546058572745&q=resonance+motor&total=35&start=20&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=9

Dirt

[alex681219]

See http://youtube.com/watch?v=aiuZQVrTCy4 william lyne describeshow the wwhmeter is a tesla homopolar generator, if some one can prove it...congratulations!!!   it have to much similarities , aluminum disk, cooper coils and magnetshttp://www.redrok.com/images/whrmeter.gif

[innovation_station]

it think you all will find that the homopolar generator will have no backtorque when assembled in the proper configuration magnets opsosing the problems lies with the extraction of power 

murcury was used as a wetted contact but now

no need for murcury there many syintethic materials avable witch can replace murcury use superconductive liquid metal on the edge of the disc and the brushes

william

[sm0ky2]

If i am understanding this principle correctly, you could essentially save yourself all the trouble, and take an existing permanent magnet transformer coil (or induce a field in a paramagnetic one) and spin it around??

[Gearhead]

A homopolar generator consists of a conductor which rotates in front of or with a magnetic pole.  There is an electric potential generated between the center and the od of the conductor.  This configuration has not proven to be OU.  These generators can be used for huge current flows at low voltage such as needed for rail guns and magnetic containment on partical accelerators.

The broken tether of an experiment done with the space shuttle glowed bright enough with induced electricity from traveling in the magnetic field of the earth to be seen clearly from 100 miles away by those on the space shuttle.  Perhaps it was good that it broke or it may have fried the electronics on the shuttle.

I have thought of using a coil spinning with the generator to increase the voltage and decrease the amperage.  This might make it easier to pick the current off of it.