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Virtual chaos offers several interesting insights into energy usage. First of all it says that the only form of energy in the cosmos is angular momentum. The trick then is to convert it from a higher dimensional form into electricity, two dimensional angular momentum. The next higher dimensional form of energy is nuclear energy [angular momentum in 3 dimensions] however the dimension above that is the one responsible for time and gravity.
Since four dimensions are also two twos, it is in theory possible to divide it as such directly bypassing the nuclear level completely. Energy levels above the vacuum energy density would produce a negative pressure i.e. gravitational attraction. The conversion of gravity into electricity might be attainable as well as the conversion of electricity into anti-gravity devices. The unfortunate consequence of this would be the large accumulation of antimatter created by prolonged usage. This antimatter would have to be contained in a magnetic field in a perfect vacuum. If at any time the magnetic field went down, the antimatter would bump into the side of the containment unit and she'll blow up like a supernova on the sun, cap'n!
The possibility exists that as the antimatter is created, it might be vented as heat which could then be reclaimed as well. This would be analogous to pumping light into a filament, and getting heat and electricity from it in return. It may also be plausible to go at it from the other angle. Use gravity to generate a lot of angular momentum and then combine it at right angles to itself to convert it into electricity. Then for ten bucks a month some guy will come and raise the weight for you. All energy is neither created or destroyed. It is merely converted from a more concentrated form to a less concentrated form. This is called entropy and is caused by our motion through time. The fact is that there is plenty of energy, we just need to use it in systems which are a series of operations requiring less dense concentrations of energy.
We are also wasting enormous amounts of energy which could be reclaimed. A health club for example could hook all that stuff up to generating equipment and sell the electricity. Add a heat exchanger and it could stay cool in the summer and warm the entire block in the winter. The club would be enticed to offer free unlimited membership to anybody who wanted one by the strenuous physical work this person desired to do for the club. Win -Win.
With current technology we can build our structures to be self sufficient and with the incorporation of gravity devices, could eliminate the need to degrade the planet in search of fuel, or stockpile vast amounts of radioactive debris or anti-matter. Virtual chaos describes free energy, and an anti-matter bomb. The observation is left to consciousness.
If the mass of an object is over the center of gravity it will rotate stably. If however this mass precesses around the center of gravity, it will radiate energy [angular momentum] and eventually fall over. Harnessing that energy, while not exactly free, might be highly efficient. Instead of allowing the precess, direct that torque into work. Gyroscopic motion with a weight pulling it off center can create considerable torque. Imagine starting something up by yanking the cord and sitting down!
Energy is usually thought of as a kind of force pushing whatever to do something. Incorporating gravity adds a low pressure component. Areas of low pressure create powerful hurricanes and tornadoes which are nothing more than angular momentum in our atmosphere. If that is a naturally occurring phenomenon in the gas on our planet, what kind of energy could we generate with a liquid? Could these whirlpools be used to store heat as well?
A lot of work has been done investigating above unity energy devices, but unless working products are being kept secret, no body has yet been able to bring one of these devices to market. Virtual chaos suggests that the electromechanical energy of these systems should balance exactly, at unity, but the inclusion of a low pressure source [vacuum energy density, gravity] might well produce energy. A mature technology of this sort would produce products that operate on their own weight. Either by creating a vacuum, or slowly tipping over.
A mass suspended in a tube by the vacuum its weight creates or conversely supported by the air it crushes could be set in vertical motion by means of a small magnetic pulse directed downward at the top of the mass' cycle. The mass [any mass] might then be dribbled like a basketball. A small force applied at the right point in the cycle could produce a huge bounce over time. Ever bounce the fluid in a drinking straw with your breath? The Tacoma narrows bridge collapse demonstrates the strength of the power that can be generated by harmonic resonance.
If a falling mass could be made to convert its gravitational acceleration into electricity which was then used to create a magnetic field that opposed the pull of gravity, it might be bounced up and down on the repulsion of its own magnetic field. Again a small driver pulse might create a huge displacement of mass that could be put to use doing mechanical work. More advanced units might be constructed like two railguns muzzle to muzzle vertically with a mass bounced between them. If a unit of this type were constructed in a shaft, then a loss of containment at the bottom would drop the mass harmlessly down the shaft while a loss of containment at the top would put a payload in orbit. Imagine putting satellites up by dropping them.
The power of the wind is also a candidate for renewable energy source. With a cross between a kite and a fishing reel, energy could be generated during a gust of wind and the line taken back in whenever there was slack. A spring attached to the reel could pull it back in. Changing the angle of attack could generate lift even in modest wind conditions. The ocean as well could generate electricity with parachutes dragged out by currents which then collapse and are reeled in by another chute being dragged out by currents. Or better yet, a bladder which would use the weight of the incoming tide to compress air and the outgoing tide to re-inflate the bladder. Lower air pressure will cause water to boil at a lower temperature so using the weight of the water to pull a vacuum, fresh water might be boiled out by the tides.
All of the preceding were examples of harnessing the gravitational energy of the earth. Many more exist. Such as using the earth's angular momentum directly. By reclaiming our spent energy and reusing it the efficiency of our systems will increase. If all entropy in the system could be eliminated, the system would continue forever from a single push. Since this is quite unlikely, our aim would then be to design systems that run for extended periods of time on the smallest possible expenditure of input energy.
The cosmological constant depends upon the amount of energy there is in the vacuum of space-time. That amount produces one atmosphere of pressure at 1g at sea level. If a balloon is raised above sea level, the pressure within it will cause it to expand, same pressure, different height. What has changed? The pressure outside at the new height is converted to a higher potential energy by gravity so its kinetic energy decreases to compensate. If we take the balloon underwater, it will collapse. Again the pressure has equalized. According to virtual chaos, pressure below the background density is seen as energy[or mass] while pressure above it is seen as gravity. By using gravity to push the state of the system below the background pressure, the upward push back can then be gathered as energy. If we create systems which exist above the background pressure but below the gravitational pressure, they should produce energy in both parts of the cycle.
Again the tides are a perfect example. The incoming tide would be sent through a turbine to generate electricity. From there, it would be allowed to pool and float a less dense mass, whose height could later be bounced out as energy or spun up as angular momentum. It would also compress air beneath it which could be used to power all sorts of mechanical devices. Potential energy could be stored as raised mass by using high tide to float in another mass and position it beneath the first. The outgoing tide would turn the turbines again and pull a vacuum [anti-compressed air]. Pivoting the raised mass and lowering it in another pool could push all of the water in it through yet another turbine before returning the mass to its original state. The net result of this system is three processes generating electricity, one process generating compressed air, and one process generating fresh water and vacuum energy.
The key to free energy is this vacuum energy. It takes as much power to pull something above the background level as it does to push it below. In either case, it will return to the background level over time. A harmonic resonance is one that is as high above the background as it is below it. By using only the push energy we are loosing half of the cycle because, every expression of energy causes a displacement. Capturing that displacement and redirecting it could drive less intensive systems ad infinitum. A mature technology of this sort might one day power our homes using only the sun and the weight of the rain or snow that fell on it.
The ultimate free energy system would of course, run on nothing more than the rotation of the earth. Why does your toilet flush one direction and not the other? The angular momentum of the earth itself. If that were to be collected and released in a way that raised a weight and pulled a vacuum, the preceding ideas might turn it into usable energy. Systems of this sort might be derived from the whirlpool. If the liquid contained a substance which carried an electric charge, it might be possible to create a rotating magnetic field which might then induce an electric current directly in a wire around the base.
The closer a system is to its natural resonance, the less energy it will take to set it in motion. Ideally it would balance well enough to trigger a shift in mass that pushed it all the way the other direction and tipped the weight back again. Since that would constitute a perpetual motion machine I won't get my hopes up. However if the system balanced well enough and the energy needed to set it in motion were less than that collected from the angular momentum of the earth, it would run indefinitely. Such as in the case of a mass oscillating with a period the same as the rotation of the earth.
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