It occurs to me (and probably many other people) that this would be ideal for a flag pole. The constant flutter of the flag would give a large increase of vibration. You could easily power a warning light for the pole top!

@MacksCurley

Жыл бұрын

It would also negate the energy expended to make all the parts, as I am sure it will take a while to pay back all the energy used to make the parts.

@_g7085

Жыл бұрын

@@MacksCurley yeah, these sort of low-energy or short-lifespan green energy sources are really a sort of awkward battery: Energy was expended in making the materials or device, you ship it off to some remote location that needs power, and the special catalyst (Sun, Wind, Vibration) slowly "unlocks" the finite amount of energy stored in that device until it's usable lifespan is depleted.

@sebastienbeauregard-lucas1617

Жыл бұрын

Or hanging in a tree

@jainin7682

8 ай бұрын

@@justtinkering6713 maybe a bridge rectifyer would solve that.

@vociferonheraldofthewinter2284

5 ай бұрын

@@_g7085 At the same time, things like this could be made from parts that were destined for the landfill. Then the energy used to produce it for the original purpose was always paid off.

"I think this belongs in the public domain" - Epic. Simply epic. That simple statement speaks volumes for your integrity, sir.

@ThinkingandTinkering

3 жыл бұрын

cheers mate

@herenow2895

3 жыл бұрын

@Kevin Alexanderman - I hope that wasnt meant to be as negative and insulting as it came across ?

@richardpagan7690

3 жыл бұрын

@@herenow2895 No , he did have the answer. Look at his tower then look at the pyramids . It was a global network..

@jeremytenorio3099

3 жыл бұрын

This is great! I was thinking of a way to integrate power harvesting into sewage line exhaust vents in homes, I think this is it!!

@Shyamviswanadhan

3 жыл бұрын

Real heros like you make the world better.

Fantastic project. You're not the inventor we deserve, but you're the inventor we need. Very well done, mate!

@punkinhaidmartin

Жыл бұрын

people that get what they deserve go to Hell.

Robert: A library book about "Helmholtz Resonators" will give a whole bunch of useful information. I had to write a paper about them (I can't believe I'm saying this) 50 years ago. The principles are elegant. Same principle as flute, clarinet, saxophone, etc. and many other objects. Works really well in reverse, too, and will handle a wide range of "input" physical energy. Great to see some real science rather than "chop and bodge." Well Done Sir!

You just built the basis of a guitar amp reverb tank. They work on the same principle expect on a reverb tank there is a transducer at the input that vibrates the spring which is attached at the other end of the tank with another transducer. I never would have thought of using that principle to generate electricity, very cool! I work on vintage guitar tube amps by the way. Thanks for the upload!

"Lots of little things to get to one big thing " Outstanding! Humans are indeed a lot of little things. We can do it people

@kingtv6960

2 жыл бұрын

L

Robert, I was just going to say that! You read my mind! LOL. The world needs more guys like you. I’m impressed.

I recently bought a small sail boat, the goal is to make it as self sufficient as possible. This channel is a gold mine.

I've got my own wind generator, the best fuel for it is brussel sprouts. I'm 56 going on 12.

@alpharenz1329

3 жыл бұрын

@@denbecr49 nope he just added more methane gas in atmosphere.

@Gribbo9999

3 жыл бұрын

When the south wind blows everybody knows.

@RollinShultz

3 жыл бұрын

Finally a good use for brussel sprouts.

@tedvanryn1655

3 жыл бұрын

I can relate with sprouts, cabbage and even kale.

@adewilliams8

3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

A musicians flute is a perfectly tuned vibrating tube. If you mounted this like a weather vane, on a bearing, allowing the tube to rotate in the wind thus directing the air over the opening on the side of the tube this would cause the whole tube to vibrate like a flute if constructed to the same specifications. You could stack 10 tubes in a row and use that as your vane. I think your onto something big Bob!

FABULOUS! Has anyone in your group been working on the methane issue? We could near eliminate carbon yet still have a greenhouse gas problem due to methane. A plant based diet will help with that, but too many first world citizens are unwilling to give up their burgers (belching cows are a big problem). Decreasing the consumption of products created by cows (eating beef, consuming dairy, leather) would be a significant help. Thank you for your contribution to the many things we need to do to save our earth!

The company name is "Vortex Bladeless" from Spain.

Your delivery and enthusiasm is infectious....I'm off to the shed to have a go

@suki414

3 жыл бұрын

evanleebodies yeah , he reminds me of my teachers in Knaresborough , Yorks , where i grew up, he's old school , i wish more people were like him today .

@evanleebodies

3 жыл бұрын

@@arkangel8709 I had a go and it works!!

@chibuzo7746

3 жыл бұрын

Plz share with us when you are done, interesting!

"I think this belongs in the public domain". This guy's going to heaven. If they don't let him in, we'll throw him over the wall.

@leonkane8240

3 жыл бұрын

I get your enthusiasm for human tossing, but I' dunno if that is such a great idea. He does not seem like the kind of guy that shows up uninvited. & have you not read the old testament? :0*

@james10739

3 жыл бұрын

That's not how heaven works

@fritzwilhelm8258

3 жыл бұрын

@@leonkane8240 You're right. He might just be too polite.

@fritzwilhelm8258

3 жыл бұрын

@@james10739 I know. I was just illustrating how unfailingly helpful he is to everyone.

@leonkane8240

3 жыл бұрын

@@james10739 Allegedly :0)

We learned in school that successfulness was not one big change that you made but it was a series of small changes changes that walked you up the road of success. I believe you are correct. I’m gonna build one of these. Thanks P.S. they should mount these under train tracks

Hi Robert : I’m gob smacked, I used to be an avid sci-fi reader since childhood, since then I’ve transferred to Fantasy. The reason I tell you this is because I can remember vividly from a book I read positing, like you said, the idea of harvesting power from the wind. The methodology was not described so I remember thinking of this off and on for years how this could possibly be done. Now low and behold comes you laughing on screen and saying the same thing has been done. I remember to the representation of this harvesting devise as a large multi strung harp vibrating in the breeze and I’m blown away. It’s Arthur C Clerks satellite communication web coming into being again! Of course what this now needs is to be upscaled enormously for mass generation, on buildings or just outside of villages or even on aircraft to sustain cruising speed , !!! Oh! Oh! speak to the Airlander 10 people for inclusion on their flying buttock maybe. Once in flight there is a sufficiency of vibration surely?? Thanks for the spark of intense interest moment. Cheers Aah Kid.

Absolutely genius ideas. 👏. It is so refreshing to see inventions made in the public light and not kept in the dark. It's so easy to make more than enough power for personal use with very little. Thank you for sharing your discovery with us!

@eddierocksteady5740

2 жыл бұрын

I immediately subscribed to your chanell - Robert Murray-Smith " I think things like this Belongs to the Public Domain. You got me Right there because it speaks volumes of your standards, values and intergrity! As a design it is Robost. It is cheap and it works. Cheap is really important. It's got to be simple to make. It's got to be cheap to make or it never gets made." This is a listeners response, and i assure that it increases the conversation, it expands the discussion and thereby spark enquieries into further investigations. AlcoholIsActuallyBadSorry 1 year ago (edited) Came up with some improvements (about halfway through video): 1. The tube uses air entering through the orifice on the side to shake a diaphragm that generates electricity, and it can vibrate up and down along the length axis of the tube. Using air, it would be more effective and powerful to use a focusing horn to make the pressure vibrations larger. 2. Using different diameters, weights, and elasticity of diaphragms you can absorb a certain frequency of oscillation that is left out by the standard design, including using this to absorb bridge vibrations like a dampener or energy recovery from traffic. 3. This is not much different to how an unpowered microphone works. 4. Using materials that have a higher stiffness, or young's modulus, allows energy to transfer into the diaphragm more efficiencly without various substructures flexing, as well as reducing the overall weight. 5. There is not much benefit to using artificial plastic muscles versus a standard spring or pneumatic, unless the flexural energy lost to heat is lower than other materials and methods.* Warie Porbeni Founder and president of Radio Zeater Club radiozeaterclub@gmail.com*

Adding small ones of these to backpacks could give backpackers power to charge their phones or gps devices on the trail!

@reypolice5231

3 жыл бұрын

You could even make it like an expanding telescope. And have it as a dual functioning unit. Attach the lenses and you have a telescope to see. Take the telescope caps off and install the other part for power. Whole thing would be collapsible and compact inside of carry case. It was brilliant that you came up with this idea for compact use for backpackers and such.

@clintonrobinson8070

2 жыл бұрын

I was thinking something similar but built into the heels of hiking boots to generate power as you walk.

@kke

2 жыл бұрын

@@clintonrobinson8070 Or trekking poles.

@professorfukyu744

2 жыл бұрын

@@clintonrobinson8070 theres some piezo generators worth checking out.

@stupidscruff5794

2 жыл бұрын

@@kke or in tent poles!

Really really genuine and genious invention that would be a public domain. Great!

Fascinating. The principle has been around since sailing ships but I've never conceived of using vibration tension to oscillate a magnet within a coil. Quite Brilliant. I'll have a go at making this. I would suggest the PVC pipe be separated near the base and a portion removed and replaced by a weakly loaded compressive spring. Similar to some warning signs that are often knocked by vehicles but return to an upright position. In fact the pipe could well be dispensed with altogether & a frame work with multiple chords with magnets & coils could be used. You could call it a "Harp Generator". Have you any musically inclined members? My apologies for not becoming a member sooner. I followed your YT channel judiciously 2+ years ago, but life has it's distractions as I'm sure you're aware. At least I now have some 'hobby time', even if it's imposed upon me. Keep up the excellent work & happy inventing to all your members.

For whatever the reason, my mind drifts to the concept of something like this being crafted into either a complete artificial tree, where wind energy makes the bulk of it vibrate given the correct combination of core flexibility and strength. On the other hand, grafting (in a kind and non damaging way) onto existing trees to make use of that same energy. It certainly adds to a fascinating arsenal of accumulated energy harvesting techniques Rob, excellent stuff!

@haveagreatday8248

2 жыл бұрын

Speakin gof trees I think that all trees w/in ounty limits be removed . ll they do is dump leves bust up concrete adn fall over during storms and what not killing peopel. It's actually an alarmign number of fatalities all of which coul dhve been prevented. Now unliek the deth of the paper grocery bg tht ws forced out of use by certin "progresive"political actvists who sweore theey hd the perfect eco friednly replcement nd gave us the Plastic Grocery bag..I do have a perfect replacement fo rallthos etrees that beloongin the forest ..fruit trees!. They don't dump aleaves, grow large enough to bust up concreete or grow large enough to kill peope plus if you've ever been hungry and broke let me add it's no joke. There's really no ojective that out weighs to prevent hunger. People especially mom's wil always buy theri fruit from a store. So pro growers have nothign to fer. A detail her e or there to sort out but ala folks don't want peopel grabbing fruit off a tree in their front yard or back yrd. You coul dcollect it dn put tubs on the crne makign it available . I'm sure there;'s enough kids who it wouldn't hurt to maintainthem . If we cn go to mars to live Sm i expected to beleive we can't take a big bit eou tof hunger by replacign danger ou stree w one's tht have fruit on them? Next tiem yo ustep ou tside stop look around dn count how many trees yo ucan see. Way wy befoe my tiem but johnny Appleseed was a thing ??? a century ago??? BTW I bought the worse keyboard I'm gopign smashiinto tiny pieces keys stick so my bd for the typos. Oh liek you r idea I shoul dhav eled w that. rrr I should have led w that.

@zodsinclair8500

2 жыл бұрын

Could be added to the ones already used on todays ships! the normal motion of the water, swaying, vibration, could possibly be piced up by muitible 'zoom tubes'? & passively transferred to a power bank, along with other combined solar or wind power systems.

@aphilipdent

2 жыл бұрын

I've seen vids of artificial trees that the branches are basically mounting poles for mini VAWTs. The VAWT blades are crafted to look like leaves or flowers

@keijimorita1849

2 жыл бұрын

There are phallicly shaped vertical wind generators that work from being vibrated by the wind. Reverse vibrators.

@jasonmartindale3171

Жыл бұрын

E.T. basically did this in the 80s, using a line attached to branches when the wind blew, it transferred that mechanical energy and powered his "phone"

That is incredible! Kudo’s to you and your members that you made this with! When I saw the current jump on the ammeter, I was astonished and thought of this in an array on the ocean over waves crashing, and saw your vision as a reality. Nothing makes more vibration than the waves themselves. I would love to see you take this experiment another step further in the future.

@VizXRyRy

Жыл бұрын

I was also thinking about this for use in the ocean.

@nah9585

5 ай бұрын

Highways and train tracks vibrate quite a bit as well

Although Robert Murray Smith discourages comments about his person, I think I ll risk this - the fact that he shared his findings in "public domain" speaks volumes of his attitude to promote scientific thinking and the belief that every advancement is incremental thinking standing on someone else's shoulders. Robert, please make a video of this sort of thinking that you go by so it may help the inventors & thinkers of tomorrow.

Love ❤️ it. Awesome and amazing.. A group effort to help all. God-bless yall and your families 👪

Just saw it! Loved the video so much! And I was sitting outside when it was raining, this model could pick up rain drop vibrations also. What an amazing technology!! Thank you so much for paving the way!

Came up with some improvements (about halfway through video): 1. The tube uses air entering through the orifice on the side to shake a diaphragm that generates electricity, and it can vibrate up and down along the length axis of the tube. Using air, it would be more effective and powerful to use a focusing horn to make the pressure vibrations larger. 2. Using different diameters, weights, and elasticity of diaphragms you can adsorb a certain frequency of oscillation that is left out by the standard design, including using this to adsorb bridge vibrations like a dampener or energy recovery from traffic. 3. This is not much different to how an unpowered microphone works. 4. Using materials that have a higher stiffness, or young's modulus, allows energy to transfer into the diaphragm more efficiencly without various substructures flexing, as well as reducing the overall weight. 5. There is not much benefit to using artificial plastic muscles versus a standard spring or pneumatic, unless the flexural energy lost to heat is lower than other materials and methods.

@chuckthebull

2 жыл бұрын

What if I just stick a whole lot of old speakers outside near the road and absorb the road noise ,,designed more along the lines of not a microphone per say but a loose cone that will capture sub vibrations as well.

@Scott.Rhymeswithpot

Жыл бұрын

Per se

@B0NES1000

Жыл бұрын

@@chuckthebull speaker cone would not vibrate on it's own without input I would imagine plus if it would then the cone would absorb that energy.

@davidrobertson1980

10 ай бұрын

Hmmm you are causing me to think of the "echo chamber" I bought in the 70's which when opened up by damaging the enclosure was just a very thin vibrating spring that was extremely flexible. Also when I "spoke into my turntable needle when recording a record onto tape as it finished AND turned the recording volume up very loud", I could hear my voice clearly on the tape (along with a lot of very loud scratching sound from the vinyl surface and motor hum). Simple vibrations are easily magnified and I'd guess these devices if made correctly could be ramped up to produce much more than seen here (and maybe charge batteries for constant use.)

"...and belongs to everybody" grinning ear to ear! I love this guy, one of the best uplifting things I've seen in a long time.

Maybe making a group of these like a big wind chime 🤟🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Another great video Robert, keep up the good work, "Lots of little things", well said

Well done friend. If only humanity can learn your wisdom. Give freely to your fellow man. The rewards do come, in abundance. Huge respect from me.

Excellent video and excellent design! CANNOT believe no one has come up with this before! (The amount of highly paid so called genius engineers /designers in the energy industry now it amazes me!) Then again someone has to come up with it at some point and YOU have done JUST THAT with your subscribers so WELL DONE! GREAT British resourcefulness and Engineering at its finest! 👍😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

I am researching for the last 4 years on green energy harvesting by using vibrations. Your concept is so simple and more effective I think. great work.

Awsome, the right spring up the centre would be perfect and probably vibrate constantly. In fact, instead of the tube a row of open springs with each attached to a coil would work really well. Great idea.

Really great, entertaining and informative videos Your enthusiasm and openness about the origin of ideas you use makes all the difference

I was all down in this rabbit hole a few years ago whilst eating fish n chips watching the standing rigging slap against the masts in the harbour making that lovely racket. I saw vibrating wires everywhere, fencing ,telegraph wires, suspension bridge cables, vibratng in the wind or because of traffic noise or movement and imagined if we put coils and magnets in the right places combined with lower energy usage we could easily combat the energy problem and maybe have extra to run all the aircon units/ flood pumps everyone is going to want as the climate heats up! Ideas are great but you really need to share them! I agree its all about the little gains, greater diversity makes for a more robust system.

I admire your ethics well done. As you say, everyone is looking for an answer to power in jus one place, but just imagine if every lamp post on the m5 & m6 had one of these, the power would be incredible.

Seems to me the only purpose of the pipe is to tension the two ends of the vibrating coil. Perhaps you could string a few of the vibrating coils on a frame rather like a harp. The wind could then blow directly across the vibrating coils. You could daisy chain the induction coils at the bottom, in series or parallel as you wish to increase the voltage or current as necessary. Maybe/maybe not, just thinking outside the box. Many thanks for the idea, very inspirational

I have told the head of technology in a secondary school about your good self - surely tech A level students should be all over this stuff. Much respect.

@ThinkingandTinkering

3 жыл бұрын

cheers mate - thanks for that

Robert, I can't find words to express my gratitude for your effort.

Thanks for all the interesting content that you share and for the fact that you make it simple and cheap. As an added bonus, you really seem to enjoy doing this, which makes me really enjoy watching it and fiddling with the stuff myself. I'm in the corruption-stricken impoverished South Africa and have been living off-grid now for approximately 7 years, which means that every little bit of information regarding power production helps tremendously.

@dorriennorth5317

2 жыл бұрын

Hi boet.... Ja, let down by corrupt Nat. leaders.... My hearts grieves for all my brothers and sisters.... I have little but I'm blessed here... Stay safe boet🇬🇧

@danebecker

2 жыл бұрын

We are better off living off the grid. Eskom's and the country in general's power capabilities are not going to improve. simple hydro generation is also useful, provided you have a source closeby

@dorriennorth5317

2 жыл бұрын

@@danebecker Hey Dane, the cashless time is nearly upon us.... STOCK UP NOW BOET...

Make a small version that straps to your leg/legs, charge on the go. Cant believe its Christmas day and im in the shed looking for plastic pipe. Excellent video as always. Merry Christmas and a happy New to you all.

Linking the videos you mention would be amazing. These things could line highways and generate all the energy a city could want. Love your work. I completely agree, the future of energy is a lot of little things.

I would love to have this guy on my team foe new products. He is a genus

Fantastic easy to construct Just built one works great for a test model used a electromagnet from an old telephone ringer and a guitar string, was thinking of tuning it by hooking it up to a signal generator it and seeing what tone played the loudest while adjusting the tension bar and listen for a good match. Outputs from light taping on the desk as it is now can't wait to put up outside for more tests thank you and the community for all your hard work very helpful ideas for off-grid types.

@stormy439

Жыл бұрын

Nice input! Thanks, you got me pondering!

Awesome. A couple of things I thought upon seeing this....was to use a thin walled metal pipe. Then use a 1/2" dia metal 8" spring inside, attached to a steel guitar string. Which would be tensioned by a guitar string tensioner. The vibration resonance would increase, I think. The unit would be insulated at the proper points, of course. Then at the top, put a split "fan" type wind catcher mounted on a free wheel. With each side of the fan being offset from each other. In other words, each would catch wind blowing in directions180 degrees from one another. Each fan "handle" (bottom ends, by the top of the the pipe), would have a thin steel rod at it's base about 1 to 3 inches, with a thin section of nylon line (about 12 inches), supporting a ceramic ball. Then when the wind blows, a fan section will tilt, pulling the ball away from the pipe. When it slows down, the ball will strike the pipe (or just touch it), depending on the rate of decrease in wind speed. Regardless, I think that action would create lots of additional vibrations.... Thoughts, anyone? Again, awesome device!

@john_blues

2 жыл бұрын

I was thinking along the guitar strings and spring idea when I watched it too.

@noelalexisshaw-nas-noz5142

2 жыл бұрын

You Just Described the Hidden Tech and Truth behind the Last Remaining Great Organs of the Grand Opera Houses...many of these are connected to Deep Natural Subterranean Airflows...👈🏼 another thing they hide from Us 😉🤫 Much Love and Peace 🤜🏼❤🤛🏿

@stupidscruff5794

2 жыл бұрын

How about putting a tiny solar panel on top connected to a little motor with some wires to strum the string?

@Nikosi9

Жыл бұрын

Electrify a Victorian Aeolian Harp. That way, you'll get music and electricity

This made me think of my first radio, a crystal set that didn't require any batteries. The crystal would pick up, vibrate to different frequencies and created enough current to run the earpiece. I wonder if scaling this up is what Tesla was doing as he harnessed energy from the atmosphere? I've watched street lights, light up during a dust storm as we were installing them, with no conductors terminated, no circuits on. There was enough static in the air to energize those transformers. Plasma is the most abundant state in the universe, free electrons. Matter passing matter strips electrons, like the wind in the atmosphere or rain falling from thunder heads. Study Sprites, Green Elves, Lightning and Telluric Currents in the Earths crust stimulated by the sun and the magnetosphere/plasmasphere. Great example of energy being created by movement, thanks.

You literally stumbled on the easiest way to change the world I volunteer you for humanitarian of the year Sgt z USA engr respect

I just discovered this perfect channel!! Thank you sir and to all the members as well!

Awesome idea and thanks for sharing it. Couple of ideas come to mind. 1. On the idea of vibration capture, what if you took a similar device and strapped it to larger things that vibrate with a much larger kenetic energy ,Mass like a tree limb, or bridge cables etc. Or even moving water ocean or river, would cause it to vibrate constantly.

@studiokopregepru

Жыл бұрын

Bravo!

Yes make it a lot thinner or lighter and a whole bunch of them and you'll generate a lot of electricity wen a laurie/or autos drives by have them all mounted onto a fence and wire together next to a road that's very busy and you'll make a lot of electricity and you'll be able to lite the way with everybody's driving anyway with LEDs or something like that that don't use a lot of amps. Brilliant idea ducki.... SOUND can generate electricity.

I want to try this! We live less than a US football field length from a pretty constantly busy 4-lane street. Plus some breezes, plus some little tree movement, if mounted onto the flat cut of a couple 15’ snag tree stumps. Those are wide enuf than several could mount vertically on top of each. Thinking, longer is better, to pick up on more vibrations. All we need are parts! Let the collections begin! 😉

Brilliant, its a Public Domain Resonant Standing Wave Frequency Inertial-Vibrational Atmoshperic Wind Generator.

@viewer3091

3 жыл бұрын

Catchy ! Energy Catcher !

@garychandler4296

3 жыл бұрын

Springy Thingie.

Imagine the tube as a fork, with artificial muscle strung in the open air like a guitar, where they are tuned for different vibrations and rates of air flows... Great work love the open mind set! 🙏

@rogerbarton497

3 жыл бұрын

Has anyone tried hanging an electric guitar up by the machine head in the wind and seeing if you get an output from the pickup? You'd have to bypass the switches & pots.

@eddierocksteady5740

2 жыл бұрын

I immediately subscribed to your chanell - Robert Murray-Smith " I think things like this Belongs to the Public Domain. You got me Right there because it speaks volumes of your standards, values and intergrity! As a design it is Robost. It is cheap and it works. Cheap is really important. It's got to be simple to make. It's got to be cheap to make or it never gets made." This is a listeners response, and i assure that it increases the conversation, it expands the discussion and thereby spark enquieries into further investigations. AlcoholIsActuallyBadSorry 1 year ago (edited) Came up with some improvements (about halfway through video): 1. The tube uses air entering through the orifice on the side to shake a diaphragm that generates electricity, and it can vibrate up and down along the length axis of the tube. Using air, it would be more effective and powerful to use a focusing horn to make the pressure vibrations larger. 2. Using different diameters, weights, and elasticity of diaphragms you can absorb a certain frequency of oscillation that is left out by the standard design, including using this to absorb bridge vibrations like a dampener or energy recovery from traffic. 3. This is not much different to how an unpowered microphone works. 4. Using materials that have a higher stiffness, or young's modulus, allows energy to transfer into the diaphragm more efficiencly without various substructures flexing, as well as reducing the overall weight. 5. There is not much benefit to using artificial plastic muscles versus a standard spring or pneumatic, unless the flexural energy lost to heat is lower than other materials and methods.* Warie Porbeni Founder and president of Radio Zeater Club radiozeaterclub@gmail.com*

A fantastic idea worth further exploration 😃👌👏👏👏👏

Reading through the comments I have noticed everyone wants to add moving parts to the design. This is admirable in so much that everyone is trying to improve it, but the crux of it is the simplicity of the original design. 🤔🤨😀😎👌

All your smile, simplicity make the video worth watching. In fact, I just subscribed to your channel. I believe its worth it. Congrats, lots of love from Nigerian!

As with any device extracting energy from a fluid flow, the denser the fluid the more energy to be found. With a good unstable ‘paddle’ containing the trembler all stuck in a stream, this could give a very useful output. Thanks for the inspiration!

@albertcassler8763

2 жыл бұрын

You've just caused my brain to come up with an additional improvement. Add a series of vortex holes along the length of the pipe to induce vibration... vortex holes of different sizes...I must have a go at it..

@noelalexisshaw-nas-noz5142

2 жыл бұрын

@@albertcassler8763 Align the magnets, equally spaced in a Circle 👍🏼... Much Love and Peace 🤜🏼❤🤛🏿

@noelalexisshaw-nas-noz5142

2 жыл бұрын

Wind Doesn't just help to Produce Electric, it is Electric in itself, Scientists in the 1600/1700s knew this...Sadly its become part of the Occult Knowledge that is Kept from Us All...However Times are Changing...🤜🏼❤🤛🏿

@gravyboat2370

2 жыл бұрын

@@albertcassler8763 wouldn't vortex holes of different sizes reduce vibration ?

I see this beside the roads and highways... Instead of those white posts... On ships. Car antenas... Really everywhere!!! Giving it away, you are a hero!!!

I can see this being ideal for the leisure boat industry for trickle battery charging.

That was more than just a good video, that was an eye opener, and it's public domain, thank you Robert, my mind is racing with ideas.👏

I'm thinking of a marina, or harbor, full of sailboats. And, all the halyards are banging against the masts. Lots of energy!

For probably 8 years, I've been trying to imagine the electrical inverse of a speaker; a generator the works on sound vibrations. This is it. This is a fantastic starting point; thank you very much for sharing.

Fantastic project . Very well done, i am member in your chanel from TUNISIA

Thank you so very much! Your so right about the little concept. People who want more are likely trying for mass produce for profits. Self help goes much further. Again thank you and God speed.

As always, I love your projects. Here is a new(?) one for you! Ion generator. Capturing the electrical differential between the ground and an elevated antenna. Voltage increases at a rate of 100v per meter. So, if you have an antenna at 10m, you would have the potential to draw down and store 1000v. Amperage is dependant upon surface area of your collection antenna, and (you’ll love this) antenna wire covered in graphene (this far) appears to draw down the largest current (the more points, the more locations for gathering the electricity (ions). Oh! The only downside to this technology I know if tight now is that one either needs a good storage system for the power that can take power surges when storms come by, or one needs to go out and physically disconnect one or more antennas to decrease the amount of power being drawn down and stored. At the moment there is an experimental farm that runs off of the power generated in using this method. Once set up, it’s a “set it and forget it” system - if done right. Cheers

@krusk8

Жыл бұрын

did you have any link to understand better how it’s made ? Thank you

@fortunatodeguzman8017

Жыл бұрын

In line with what Tesla discovered, written in his "research logbook"?... If the natural occurence was proven true, why was the technology not dessiminated for public consumption- most specially a schematic drawing/ sketch- on step by step " do it yourself" procedure?.. Again, was the power monopolist behind the subtle "suppression" operation?... Just asking...

Awsum! I can see a bunch of small ones making light up wind chimes in every garden!

@ThinkingandTinkering

3 жыл бұрын

for sure mate

@ericf.wolcott4716

3 жыл бұрын

That is just a fun idea. Imagine them twinkling like firefly's as you sit outside in the dusk

@co1950

3 жыл бұрын

This would be a fun project for the grandkids

@MrBobWareham

3 жыл бұрын

@@ericf.wolcott4716 No wind at dusk

@domingodeanda233

3 жыл бұрын

That was pretty damn good, thanks

I see this and think of an electric guitar or bass. The string vibrates and the pick-up which is a magnet with a coil collects the vibration and converts it into an electric signal. You are brilliant sir! Thank you

Yall deserve a nobel peace prize.

I think you just made a microphone! Great job thanks for sharing.

@garychandler4296

3 жыл бұрын

Good catch! Ad a diaphragm and, sing away!

@hm4253

3 жыл бұрын

Yep, reminds me of a flute

@tarekahmeed7099

3 жыл бұрын

pls see my momment

@tarekahmeed7099

3 жыл бұрын

please see my comment above

Rob, I have an idea re: rotating a sort of camshaft (light, synthetic,tubular) loosely mounted with a propeller on one end, and a reed on the other. Bearings between the inner "camshaft" ends, and an outer housing ends. Prop and reed being multiple electrical stimuli, so to speak.Various other could be added. The "cam" is covered with many rings of circumferential magnets. Hot melt glued for example. Each ring of magnets on the cam has a corresponding coil or many coils on the outer housing that pulses with rotation (propeller), or vibration (reed) and is fixed in the tube that encloses the cam. It could have as many circumferential "magnets" as you liked, and for each ring added., a single, or array of coils (transducer). It could be small or large, 1 ring or 1000 rings. The only caveat being the cam should be as light as possible. I would mount it horizontally for weather protection. I see some weaknesses already, but basically, it seems like it might work. What think you ?? No rights reserved by author.

@stephansteyn3197

Жыл бұрын

Exactly what I thought when I saw the video! 😮

I'm impressed every time I watch this.

This channel and community are incredible!!

Bloody brilliant. Many years ago I thought of something vaguely similar when I held a flat rubber band in a breeze and saw it vibrate. I thought of gluing some magnets on to the flat band and allowing the wind to vibrate it within a coil. I found the best location was towards one end or the other as putting the magnets in the middle hampered the vibration. I thought of running strips horizontally of these at the top of roofs where they could vibrate with heat rising up the roof or with wind blowing over the roof.

@nelsonthibeau2050

3 жыл бұрын

Hey that's my design idea 😡 how did you hack into my head..mine comes with an interactive tensioner for frequency optimization

You could set it up like a wind chime with a few different sizes of tube so when they bang into each other you can see the out put of each tube and adjust accordingly

You could fashion this in to blades for the vertical windmill on the inside part of the blade, sharp edge on the exterior or entry point and the pipe would reside inside, two side sheets would make the blade, meeting at the exterior and land on each side of the pipe at the inside part. This would be designed like this so that resistance would be lower. Hope this little nugget has something for everyone. Thank you for the wonderful videos. Regards,

Inspirational and Robert's enthusiasm is contagious- what an excellent teacher. I'd also love to see it working in situ- maybe powering a LED or something. My house is on a main road, so these could be powering my lighting!

This is very simple to improve. Talk to people who study wind instruments....they know how to make vibrations from wind, also im sure resonance could add synergy to the system.

@thegoodlistenerslistenwell2646

3 жыл бұрын

@@scrapwomblecreatives6944 from your rant, I might assume you have only begun such ventures into physics. I have about years of study. Some of what you said is correct, just not very accurate. The problem with making any claim right now about quantum mechanics is simple. The people who work on it (most not all) including schrodinger himself, said the equations are obviously missing something. Never forget the wild imprecision of language. Never forget the vast gap of knowledge versus truth. The labels you currently use might one day not hold much water at all.

@ArchetypalCat

3 жыл бұрын

@@scrapwomblecreatives6944 Madam or Sir, inventors who believe they have created a new thing of value and want to maintain ownership / control of their invention, *ALWAYS* research the previous patents of similar items, and especially building-blocks thereto, at the US and EU patent offices. I appreciate your enthusiasm very much, but it is not fair to others to merely assume your invention(s) are new or unique. Humbly intended: there are certainly a lot of other people smarter than you or I. The problem here specifically is that resonance and vibratory physics is older than you or I - and older too than Quantum Mechanics, which you vaguely reference. (See Hertz, Helmholz, Maxwell, just to name a few.) Also, the video mentions that there might be previously existing, patented devices. Well there are - and it's not dozens, it's hundreds in just the US PTO alone, including resonant tension-release devices of *many* sorts, from nano-scale vibratory EMF generators, to massive commercial-level tidal generators for producing electricity. And, yes (to answer Mr. Murry-Smith's question), this particular device does have related patents. (I don't have more time to list them, but they are easy to find using appropriate key words.) Also I have to say, echoing other posters this thread, we were experimenting with vibratory wire-strings, coils, and magnets to produce micro amperages already in the 1970s. It was a high school electronics teacher who showed us how to do this - and he was 60 years old in 1972. In other words, you, Madam or Sir, are certainly not the first one to come up (or patent) such ideas or devices. Please do us all - and especially yourself - a favor before you post: do your homework first. Thanks -H (P.S. I have been employed previously as a patent researcher.)

@user-xb4nn6ql5l

3 жыл бұрын

I make loudspeakers in my goofing off time. My first thought was to use a speaker motor, which will almost certainly be more efficient. But I’ll have a think about what will improve vibration harvesting. I’m usually trying to get rid of weird resonances, but in this application those are what we want, right?

I'd love to see the array of thin ones you mentioned at the end, especially in a decent breeze. Very interesting!

Wow! I could put a few of these in my house with my large labs running through the house (at all hours depending on the sudden "zoomie" attcks that happen) , near my washer and dryer, and at the ND of my driveway! WOW! Intriguing!

This might be a silly suggestion, but wouldn't housing this inside the support structure for traditional offshore and onshore hawt's be an ideal place to capture more energy? The huge blades on the turbine would presumably create enough vibration in that post to create power using this design.

@hubertwebb9869

Жыл бұрын

Or Vawts.

I've watched your presentations with interest for some time now and recently subscribed... While I'm not a member, I'd like to throw in and make a suggestion to your design if it hasn't already been suggested. While the hole is placed in the tube wall creating potential additional vibration... my thought would be to utilize slots (lengthwise) possibly almost the entire length of the tube. Even several slots might increase potential, and yet turn the slots along the wall creating possible added turbulence within the interior cavity of the tube...all providing additional vibration ...equaling added energy... my 2 cents,,, thanks for listening. ( p.s. the reason I'm not a paying member is that I've been retired for about 10 years now and find myself building a house - by myself - for the last several years, out of necessity and monies are tight just now)

Brilliant! Love the small, cheap, and easy to make ethos. Thanks so much for sharing.

Never saw this idea before, but you now have me thinking of the many applications it can be used in/on or around . Thanks for sharing!

Brilliant! This was so interesting to watch. Congratulations on your invention and thank you for sharing it. This has the potential to make life better for anyone anywhere in the world.

@gul7809

2 жыл бұрын

how?

Amazing. I'm just blown away how cool this idea is. I have a bit of electrical engineering in my background and I think this device could really be amazing at scale.

I don,t know where you have been for the last 80years Robert but I have finally caught up with you. What a brain and what enthusiasm. Now I need to pick that brain,how can I communicate with you. John from Oz

As I watched this video the 1st thing that came to mind is adding a mini turbine to the top, bottom or both or even have the entire tube a turbine similar to another video you made using a vertical fan to make a wind generator. Combining the two ideas together would remain simple, cheap and increase the energy output pretty significantly I would think. I'm gonna try it anyway!

@davebeach2343

2 жыл бұрын

Have you tried out your idea yet? If so does it improve energy output? Have you been able to measure what it's electrical output actually is? Just watched the video and I'm curious about some of the improvements people suggested. Thanks

That was really interesting. Thank you for sharing. Making it into a thermoacoustic air conditioner immediately comes to mind.

@ThinkingandTinkering

3 жыл бұрын

cool idea mate - go for it

Absolutely brilliant! Thanks for sharing

WOW! I’m building one. Thanks!

What a genius idea and well described thanks Robert. I was thinking that the longer the tube the more sensitive the artificial muscle would be to the surrounding vibration. Also what about having 2 or 3 more of the artificial muscles, that would up the amps. Imagine a sea of coloured tubes on a roundabout island in the middle of traffic or running down the central reservation of a motorway.

@mjohnhayes

2 жыл бұрын

how about the white barrier tube along every curve bridge crossing etc along most highways in North America or the world they're plastic tubes ... they literally build themselves almost

@tigerteff015

Жыл бұрын

As Robert said there are many ways and combinations that might give significant results.

@jbrex2007

Жыл бұрын

@@mjohnhayes If the generators get a reflective surface it would also add a security feature to the posts...

You built what looks like a crude version of the Vortex Bladeless wind Generator. They have been working on getting one to work for a long time.

@charlieodom9107

2 жыл бұрын

@@gul7809 never say never!!! People said the mechanical carriages would never be better than a horse and converting sun light into electrical energy would never be possible as well!

@charlieodom9107

2 жыл бұрын

@@gul7809 efficiency is measured in more ways than power output!!!!!! You would know that if you did some research!

@charlieodom9107

2 жыл бұрын

@@gul7809 oh...so you claim to be an expert in a field with comments like you have been posting? I would be ashamed to call you an employee!!! You would have been fired 20 years ago!

I think the lots of little ones vs 1 big one comment is very versatile. Combined with take what you are given....just excellent

Sounds like a good fit for a sailboat!

0.270 amps is more than enough (@13 volts) to keep a car battery topped up for storage purposes. Most modern cars draw no more than 0.050 amps when the computers are "asleep". Better than a solar panel because this works at night and on cloudy days too.

@davelawson2564

3 жыл бұрын

Put it on top of car and harness the wind blowing by

@hlavaatch

3 жыл бұрын

Too bad you cant read the multimeter, its 277 microamps

@john_blues

2 жыл бұрын

I think Robert mistakenly said 277 milliamps. I read it a .277 milliamps, or 0.000277 Amps.

Great again. I will be having a go at this. Just a side note Robert, you seem to have trouble taking rubbers off.😊

@ThinkingandTinkering

3 жыл бұрын

lol - always had that problem mate - and you should see the mess I make putting them on!

@SI-GOD

3 жыл бұрын

The trick is to never put them on. After all...this channel is all about alternative methods. 😊 But, like always, just be safe. BTW...i have only 3 "clones".

@grahamh4960

3 жыл бұрын

You must refer to the "3W" method!

@just-dl

3 жыл бұрын

​@@SI-GOD I have 4...two of which are currently for sale. cheap. (definitely not "over worked" in any meaningful sense of the word) ;-)

My fricking roof rack on my Jeep whistles, shakes, rattles, and rolls, and it's hollow. If I had a camper that uses battery off grid power, there is something there also. Thats amazing great little thing you hot there. Aluminum vibrates nicely.

Just watched this again. My father, who grew up in the USA in the 1920s (& by extension me) was a big proponent of the saying "watch the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves". Completely agree with you that if we multiply the miliamps & milivolts, the amps & volts will be there as we need them.

I really wanted to see it working! Has it been tried in different situations? How much power did it produce over time? looks really interesting!

Think of the vibration of any vehicle, especially in the suspension.

@mixofreak

3 жыл бұрын

If it is lightweight enough and cheap enough to make, it'd be great for recharging a car battery while you're driving.