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So one day my cousin and I were camping and I came up with a idea that would give us never ending power... Then Ryan shut me down, told me I was stupid and said it could never work, then hit me with a stick...

Equiment needed.
Battery
H.O Alternator
12v electric motor
Small Dc/Ac Inventor
wiring...

Use the battery to power the 12v motor, which would turn the alternator, which would charge the battery, would would power the dc/ac inverter.

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it would eventually die because of resistance in the wire and in everything else as well

but if you put out more power than you used..........?

like get a huge alternator 200+ amp

then get a small Dc/Ac converter (say like 80 amp)

Use it to power a light and a radio?

Surely you could get it to work somehow?

I think it will work for like 3 years. Just think of the monthly energy costs being saved!

you cant put out more power than you use.

exactly the alt will only create power as you need it.

I think the battery would die because the electric motor and alternator aren't 100% efficient, and like bill said the wires have resistance. Not to mention your light bulb sucking energy

well the problem comes in with the electric motor too....where are you going to get a high efficiancy electric motor that will spin an alternator at 4000 rpms or so to get full benefit of the alt. that will not eat up a lot of power itself? and like they said you are only going to produce the power being demanded

"but if you put out more power than you used..........?"

you'd win a nobel prize and probably become the single most important man in history.

you cannot create or destroy energy, so you'll never have >100% efficiency. essentially you'll use more power than you create, much the way it's inefficient to take an AC alternator, rectify it to DC, plug in a DC-to-AC inverter, and power a notebook PC that runs on DC current via the step-down transformer.

you lose too much to heat and so forth.

just the laws of physics there at work.