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I Don't Know...This Sort Of Sounds Like 'Snakeoil' To Me

by MoneyMagnetMagnate
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Electricity from gravity? Half-page Incobrasa Industries ad in local paper announces 30kW demo generator for fall 2013.

Electricity from gravity? Half-page Incobrasa Industries ad in local paper announces 30kW demo generator for fall 2013. - Imgur

*I checked - it is an actual company...but they deal in soybeans, etc.
  • Profile picture of the author thunderbird
    Originally Posted by MoneyMagnetMagnate View Post

    Electricity from gravity? Half-page Incobrasa Industries ad in local paper announces 30kW demo generator for fall 2013.

    Electricity from gravity? Half-page Incobrasa Industries ad in local paper announces 30kW demo generator for fall 2013. - Imgur

    *I checked - it is an actual company...but they deal in soybeans, etc.
    I have no idea of the merits of a gravity-powered energy producer. It does strike as bogus. That said, there are actually many under-utilized forms of producing energy. When US currency is completely pegged to oil, there are significant obstacles to actual application of cheaper energy production.

    As for snake oil, my great grandfather sold snake oil. It worked. It got its bad name from being maligned by jealous competitors peddling inferior products.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_oil

    "Chinese labourers on railroad gangs involved in building the First Transcontinental Railroad first gave snake oil to Europeans with joint pain.[2] When rubbed on the skin at the painful site, snake oil was claimed to bring relief. This claim was ridiculed by rival medicine salesmen, and in time, snake oil became a generic name for many compounds marketed as panaceas or miraculous remedies whose ingredients were usually secret, unidentified, or mischaracterized and mostly inert or ineffective."
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    Project HERE.

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  • Profile picture of the author MoneyMagnetMagnate
    Merely a colloquialism to describe the fakery (no snakes or their sales representatives were meant to be maligned :rolleyes
    But when I initially read the headline, I thought it might be something like the 'gravity light' we were discussing a few weeks ago...but this seems much more 'Tesla' than that...I guess we'll just have to wait and see what's watt...
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  • Profile picture of the author rondo
    I've read about buildings designed with moving roofs which send enough energy down through the structure (gravity) to power the entire building. Clever stuff.


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    • Profile picture of the author MoneyMagnetMagnate
      Originally Posted by rondo View Post

      I've read about buildings designed with moving roofs which send enough energy down through the structure (gravity) to power the entire building. Clever stuff.
      Andrew
      Can you elaborate Andrew? How would it work? I could see how some kind of dynamo contraption could hook up to an Elevator cable pulley system to a generator/battery storage system or some sort, similar to that gravity light, but even that would be way off the grid of thinking...

      Speaking of batteries, I also saw this story earlier today :
      'Three dimensional' battery could save large volumes of power and offer quick recharges
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  • Profile picture of the author rondo
    I can't remember all the details but these are large buildings like office towers or apartment blocks. The heavy roof slab is designed to perpetually shift or shake (by being off balance I think) producing a downward force on the building columns. The energy is harnessed to power the building.

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    • Profile picture of the author MoneyMagnetMagnate
      Originally Posted by rondo View Post

      I can't remember all the details but these are large buildings like office towers or apartment blocks. The heavy roof slab is designed to perpetually shift or shake (by being off balance I think) producing a downward force on the building columns. The energy is harnessed to power the building.

      Andrew
      So, in effect the bldg. is harnessing kinetic energy of some sort?
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      • Profile picture of the author tagiscom
        Hmmmm, interesting!

        About time someone cut the crap and released something like this on a large scale, so the US, and other oil dependent countries can't suppress or bury the tech,!

        That is unfortunately common practice for tech, like this that has been proven beyond a doubt to work!

        Odd,s on this is legitimate, a well established company isn't going to associate itself with a smaller company making these sorts of claims, unless they are true!

        Here is an article l found, the individual is bias towards it, but there is still some info, here!

        Electricity from gravity? Half-page Incobrasa Industries ad in local paper announces 30kW demo generator for fall 2013. [x-post from r/energy] : RenewableEnergy


        Simple magnets set up the right way can achieve this, but they might be using something different?


        And before this thread falls into, it can't work because of this and that law, l have tried the magnetic one, and it works! Obviously l won't push this to electrical co, because as others have shown, death threats, and harassment is the outcome, unless they can buy all rights, and bury it!

        Look forward to that release, it will finally make free energy available to the poorer countries, and get rid of the solar power, very expensive, not very reliable, etc crap!

        Thanks for sharing!

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