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The Beginning...
Dawson Dufrane - Inventor
The idea of creating free energy didn't start with centrifugal force. I was actually working on some electrical experiments while reading a book by Nicola Tesla and studying some of his works, and had been struggling with the negative effects of centrifugal force as I watched my projects fly apart again and again as they increased in speed. Tesla tried inventing an alternator that created extremely high voltages by spinning much faster than other alternators. But one of the problems he faced was that at 7,000 rpms the metal disks he was using would actually start to stretch! This accounting struck me as aboslutely incredible - how much force does it actually take to stretch a metal disk?
When I began researching centrifugal force, I was surprised to find out that it was even more powerful than I had originally thought. I began to consider it a potentially "harvestable" force, and I tried quite a few different ways to gather and make use of it, but one idea after another failed to work as I had hoped.
I hadn't given up on the idea, but I turned my mind to other experiments for a few months. And that's when I had a breakthrough. I was actually working on a different project when I came across the idea to make a "chain" that becomes longer when squeezed together or folds up amost flat when pulled apart from the sides.
Because I had been planning to use this folding chain to literally move weight from one side of a balance point to the other, I soon realized I could use this concept to lift a very large object simply by spinning this chain very quickly, and thus the centrifugal chain was born.
Using an inexpensive 3D Printer (shoutout to Creality!), I began to experiment. The original prototypes were quite small, and I began experimenting first by lifting no weight, and then working my way up.
Here is the very first printed prototype, with a "stability bar" running through the center, and no weight hanging below it. I just wanted to make sure it was going to do what I expected. The four weights that hang from the chain itself equaled 22.2 grams total.
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Then I tried attaching weight, for the first test lifting 100 grams, which was almost five times the combined weight of the weights on this prototype. As expected, the weight was easily lifted.
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My next experiment involved using the chain horizontally. I realized that due to the action the centrifugal force, it truly doesn't matter which direction the chain is facing.
In the video below, this little guy is lifting almost 3 pounds! That's now around 60 times the weight of the chain itself, at about 1,500 rpm. But soon after this video was made, I tried to pick up more weight, and the model was destroyed.
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The next model I printed, which was larger and longer, was without the balance bar. This chain had three hinges, and six weights. The bucket I was attempting to lift weighed 7 lbs.
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As you can see in the video, it quickly flew apart. Once again I didn't give the power of centrifugal force enough credit. Upon inspection, I discovered that what happened was that the pins holding the chain together had broken from the pressure. Clearly, I would need something stronger.
I increased the size of this next chain while removing one hinge (and one set of weights), and after strengthening the pins, I printed a new chain and began experimenting again.
This was its first test lifting the 7 pound bucket, which I deliberately did slowly.
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Thrilled with how easily it seemed to lift 7 lbs, I added more weight for a total of 14 lbs. This video shows how quickly it lifted that weight.
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I have proved to myself that the idea is solid, and so the next step is to get it out to the world!
October - 2023
We are currently printing our biggest prototype yet!
Our goal is to be able to prove the concept, without leaving any room for doubt. Using the same 12 volt electric motor we have been using, our goal is to pick up several hundred pounds, which we will then drop against a geared system that will run a generator that produces more energy than the 12V electric motor. Considering the time to pick up the weight should be literally a matter of seconds, we're confident that we can drop the weight against the generator and run it for a much longer period, thus definitively proving the concept.
Building the Prototype
Assembled and rigged with a bag below for carrying weight.
Unfortunately, as you can see in the video below, the chain was not well balanced enough at the first test to reach the RPM's necessary to fold all the way up.
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This was a single bar (instead of double) design concept that we were testing for the first time. Adjustments were made to the unit, including adding additional bars, but we realized one of the bearings was actually keeping it from achieving high speed. Correcting the issue now.
We are also going to try a smaller chain and see if a chain with 6 weights can be accomplished while maintaining balance.
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53 lbs
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68 Lbs - But although there is a noticable lift, the bearings seem to be insufficient to allow such a low torque capacity motor (120 watts) to reach a high enough rpm to completely fold.
It is our estimation that much higher quality bearings are needed to advance beyond this point with an electric engine of this size and even with the right bearing the balance is hard to achieve as well since 1 gram becomes 0.3131 lbs at 1000rpms-5in radious.
We believe this simple concept to be inarguable - our next step is to find someone or an organization, etc., to help us build the concept out of metal, and machined to precision so as to be perfectly balanced.
Interested in Helping?
We're looking for our people! If you believe we can achieve the impossible and want to help in any way, we'd love to hear from you. Our end goal is to drop this weight against a geared system to spin a generator that produces more than the 12V electric motor takes to run, so anyone with knowledge/experience in this area is especially encouraged to contact us!