FREE
ENERGY refers to energy that you can get
without going through some utility
meter.
(The
machines you build to
collect
and use the free
energy
still cost money to
build
and maintain).
ELECTRICAL
Free Energy
refers
to energy that we either
save,gather
or convert,
ending
up with more useable
power
for free.
We
catagoize electrical Free Energy 3
ways:
1
NegaWatts,
which refers to electrical energy saving
technology, thus allowing
more
work to be done with
the same
energy.
2
Ambient, which refers to gathering
electrical energy
directly
from environmental
energy
flows.
3
MegaWatts, refers to
converting
other forms of
energy
to electricity.
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saving
energy
Negawatts is a
word coined by Amory Lovins of the Rocky
Mountain Institute; meaning electrical energy
saved. There are a lot of ways to maintain or
increase our standard of living, yet use less
electricity to do it.
Using proper
techniques, we could double the amount of work
done with the electrical energy we generate
today, thus 'creating' free energy. This would
be energy 'created' without building any more
power plants, no upgrading of utility lines, no
additional generating expense whatsoever. This
created free energy would mostly be the product
of innovative efficiency thinking and
engineering.
gathering
energy
In this case we
are actually gathering direct electrical free
energy from the environment. We see two distinct
types of electrical energy that we are designing
machines to gather; electromagnetic waves, and
free ions.
converting
energy
This is the
largest conventional way of making electrical
free energy. Usually there is some readily
available source of environmental (or 'dirty')
free energy which can be converted to electrical
energy. This electrical energy is 'Free' to
whoever converted it, except for the costs and
responsibility of the equipment.
Usually an
electric utility is formed to convert energy,
and then the resulting electricity is sold to
you. The technology now exists for practical
small scale environmental energy
conversion.
Nearly any kind
of energy can be converted to any other kind.
Example; the potential energy of water behind a
dam is converted to kenetic energy through pipes
and to mechanical energy in a turbine and
finally to electrical energy when the turbine
drives a generator.
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