citro wrote:: arrow: It's funny, the diagram is reminiscent of an MHD (Magneto Hydro Dynamic) assembly.
You know, the old experience which takes up the principle of the rule of 3 fingers.
From memory it was made on the Thames at a place where it faces due south. the electroses had been placed on each bank and the circulating salt water generated the (weak) electric current then measured.
Even from memory, a Russian gas-fired power plant successfully used an MHD generator.
I think that one can find infos on the site of JP Petit ...
Well seen Citro,
it is a mini MHD generator. Particles ionized by lightning are deflected on the plates due to the magnetic field. The deviation between positive and negative particles is opposite. A ddp is created between the 2 plates. As the medium is ionized, a current loop is set up.
All MHD research with electric generation is abandoned to my knowledge, because the energy collected is very low compared to the energy injected. The other big problem is the behavior of the materials (cold plasmas require more than 1500 ° C, and it is already very little to maintain the ionized gas ...)
It would be interesting on this diagram: http://www.free-energy-info.co.uk/Ch11/Fig1.gif to know (with the optimist hypothesis that it works technically)
- the consumption of the oscillator
- consumption of magnets
- the power necessary to blow air (not shown ...)
- the output power