Self-Running Generator powered by Static Electricity
Date: Sunday, November 19, 2006 @ 21:30:03 UTC
Topic: Devices


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."

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