From KeelyNet News: (I could not find the patent that the article claims is pending. Inverter input can be from as low as 6VCD up to 120VDC which would be used to produce 120VAC or so which would determine if the 10 volt coils are in parallel or series. - JWD) Walter Owens thinks he has invented the machine that will "change the nation."
Known about town as a "tinker," the Florala resident has spent the last 18 years working on the concept of creating a device that would solve the nation's, if not the world's, dependency on crude oil. His idea: a patent-pending prototype for a generator fueled by static electricity.
"If this goes over, I'm going to change the nation," Walters said, as he began to demonstrate how the apparatus worked.
"It
works this way," he said. "Static electricity is all around us,
everyday. If you stick your hand in Styrofoam peanuts and pull it out,
they stick. That's static electricity. My machine draws the static
electricity from the air, as well as producing more. That charge then
goes into a coil system that magnifies the charge and converts it into
D/C power.
"That power then comes out of 12 different wires with enough amps to make electricity flow," he said.
A power converter is used to change the electricity converted from D/C power to A/C power for use in everyday needs, he said.
Operating
on four car batteries, the machine works by using start-up energy from
the batteries to drive a D/C motor that turns a flywheel. That magnetic
flywheel runs through a system where 300 feet of 10-guage cooper wires,
enclosed in sheepskin, push the electricity into 12 coils, with each
coil producing somewhere around 10 volts of electricity.
"This
thing will build enough electrical power to operate an automobile," he
said. "It needs no gas, no oil. This one unit is more than enough to
run a house."
He demonstrated his concept, by showing how his invention puts out enough power to run an outboard motor and corded work light.
While it may act as a traditional generator, Owens' invention looks nothing like one.
Sitting
in the back of his old Chevy pickup, some might mistake it for a pile
of rubbish, and it's a sentiment surrounding his inventions that he has
seen many times in his life.
"People have always said I was
crazy," he said. "I just ignore them. People said when the first
computer came out the idea was crazy. Look where we are now."
Owens,
an accomplished inventor, holds 27 patents for items such as farm
equipment, a boat, a commode system and a newspaper rack. After working
for more than 20 years as an Air Force flight engineer, Owens said the
idea for his generator was always there, burning in the back of his
brain, but it wasn't until an extended hospital stay that he finally
made up his mind to see if it would work.
"About two years ago,
I was laid up in the hospital with double pneumonia," he said. "And you
know, when you're in the hospital, all you have to do is think. I
decided the timing was right.
"Look at all of our men and women
who have lost their lives over the battle for oil," he said. "What if
we could stop our dependency on gas, oil? We could bring our guys home
and go a long way in stopping pollution. I knew it would be difficult,
but I had to try. This could be the turning point for our world."
Currently, Owens has completed a prototype and is looking for someone to take his invention into the marketplace.
"This
thing is much bigger than me," he said. "It's going to take someone
much younger than me to get this thing out in the forefront where it
needs to be. I'm looking for someone to do that."
Original article: http://www.andalusiastarnews.com/articles/2006/11/18/news/372news.txt
