Free Energy vs Renewable Energy?

[ARenergy]

Hello to all. I just wanted to pick the brains of some of you because I can not seem to find the answer on the internet. Maybe I am just not looking in the right places. We hear a lot today about renewable energy like wind, solar etc. But not too much about "free energy". I think I understand how it works using Tesla's model. . . what I would like to know is can it produce as much energy as wind and solar efficiently and consistently and is it more practical? Which would be the best choice and what would costs would be involved?

Your feedback is much appreciated.

[Hrothgar]

My two cents

Hello to all. I just wanted to pick the brains of some of you because I can not seem to find the answer on the internet. Maybe I am just not looking in the right places. We hear a lot today about renewable energy like wind, solar etc. But not too much about "free energy". I think I understand how it works using Tesla's model. . . what I would like to know is can it produce as much energy as wind and solar efficiently and consistently and is it more practical? Which would be the best choice and what would costs would be involved?

Your feedback is much appreciated.

The run of the mill renewable alternatives will do the job unfortunately unless you do ALLOT of DIY putting it together legal contractors and regulations are designed to make it as expensive as possible, yes there are incentives but it's out of most, reasonable non-risk taking peoples reach. The "free" energy isn't free as in zero dollars it usually refers to free as in ambient or free floating with the problematic grabbing enough to do squat, or puttering around changing out batteries on your super charging Bedini creation there are big corporations doing research on mass zero point electrical collection at the nano level but that would be free energy for millionaires only. In short there are viable technologies to be found here but it can be like switching from Windows to Linux, i.e. a heavy learning curve. I hope you dive in and find something useful.

[thx1138]

All energy is free energy - all energy is renewable

All energy in the universe is "free energy". Light, heat, wind, radiation, and gravity are all available to you for free. Energy can neither be created nor destroyed. It can only be changed from one form to another. Changing it back to its original form makes it renewable.

Even oil and coal are renewable given enough time. I saw an article the other day by some geophysicists that said they believed the creation of oil and coal was an ongoing process inside the earth - but on geologic time scales.

It's that transformation and control (so it doesn't blow your head off) that gets expensive.

Nikola Tesla never intended to provide anyone with power for free. Maybe in a less expensive manner than what was being promoted at the time but never for free. And that's where the control comes in. Although he had a system to transmit power around the entire globe it wouldn't be generated for free and it wouldn't be distributed for consumption for free. His intention was to generate power in locations where it was easier to do the generation (high altitudes for sun light and at locations like Niagra Falls for gravity) and then transmit it through the earth without wires, negating the need for transmission lines. He also patented devices for controlling the frequencies of the transmitters and receivers to be used with his transmission. He also worked on industrial scale power systems. So he wouldn't be transmitting to your house. He would transmit to a town or city and their receiver would distribute the power to your house over wires. If the town didn't pay their bill he could shut off their power by ceasing to transmit on their frequency.

How do you think Tesla systems worked?

As for costs, that depends on which energy source you want to transform and what you want to transform it to and how much of it you want to consume and at what rate. Some processes are scalable and some are not. So scale matters. The input and the output determine the kinds of controls and safety devices needed.

Since you mentioned Tesla's work I'll assume you are talking about electricity. If you want to light an LED a Joule Thief will do that. If you want to run the lights in your house another approach would be needed. If you want to run an electric welder and/or a machine shop that needs to be factored in as well. What's the minimum load? What's the maximum load? How much DC? How much AC? How many inductive motors? What horsepower? Single phase or three phase? Or are you going to build all of your own appliances to fit your own system?

If you are going to use off the shelf appliances and electrical fixtures you basically need to supply all of the functionality of the power company like tightly controlled frequency and voltage under widely varying loads and on a continuous basis. Who are you going to call when your system goes down? No one. So you'll also have to provide all the maintenance.

Now if you want to feed energy back into the existing grid you'll get into all kinds of switch gear and controllers and regulations, regulations, and more regulations.

So cost could range from $0.50 for a Joule Thief up to several million dollars for R & D and upwards from there, depending on what you want to do.