ZPEnergy.com - More on the MEG operation

"…A very simple way to look at the MEG: It is directly analogous in its operation to a common heat pump. Let me explain. The heat pump has TWO energy reservoirs, being (1) the electrical energy reservoir of the EM energy we ourselves input and pay for, and (2) the heat energy in the air that it draws in and processes, extracting some of the heat energy from it..."

"The air is freely available from the atmosphere as a "second energy reservoir"; one has to pay a little "processing" costs, but one can extract more energy from that free "second energy reservoir" than one has to pay to extract it. The heat pump system usually loses at least half the electrical energy we input, in its losses and electrical inefficiencies. However, we get much more energy out of that second reservoir when we process and extract the heat, than we paid to process it, and than we lost in the electrical part of the system. So from the overall system, we can get out more energy as useful work, than the electrical energy we ourselves input. The average COP of a heat pump, under nominal good conditions, is about COP = 4.0, or four times as much useful work as the electrical energy input we PAY for. Of course, the extra energy is indeed input to the system, but it is FREELY input from the second energy reservoir (the environment). So the EFFICIENCY of the heat pump is about 50% or so, but its COP is about 4.0 under nominal conditions.

The MEG works in similar fashion. We found a nanocrystalline core material that performs the same function (localizing the magnetic field) as a perfect toroid coil. In a good toroidal coil, all the magnetic B-field energy is held inside the coils, and none of it spills out into the space outside the coil. That's ONE energy reservoir, with the toroid. But as is well-known (the long proven Aharonov-Bohm effect), when such localization of the magnetic field occurs, then outside that localization volume there freely appears a second energy reservoir (in the form of the field-free or curl-free magnetic vector potential).

In the MEG, the core material of the transformer section localizes all the H-field flux (from the input coil and from the permanent magnet) inside the core volume. Hence, via the proven AB effect, there appears outside the core material a free second energy reservoir, in that special form (the curl-free magnetic vector potential).

Voila! By putting in some input signal into the primary, we have tricked nature not only into giving us the normal magnetic field energy reservoir of energy (which we pay for), but also have tricked her into freely giving us that extra energy reservoir in the space outside the core material.

Well, it happens that when we "change" the A-potential, that makes an ordinary E-field, by the simple equation dA/dt = - E. Note that the magnitude of that E-field depends on the time rate of change of that A-potential, not just on its magnitude. So by using nearly rectangular pulses for our input to the input coil, and adjusting the rise time and decay time of these pulses (and also the pulse width and duty cycle), we can control the magnitudes of the E-fields that are produced.

So we can use the normal magnetic field energy in the core, which because of the efficiency of the material will (by itself) give a transformer of some 90% to 95% efficiency (considering the energy delivered from the output coil into the secondary or load circuit, compared to the input energy in the primary coil. But additionally, we have those E-fields interacting with that output coil also, and producing extra output energy in it. We can make that energy appreciable by adjusting the magnitudes of those E-fields that interact.

So by extracting and furnishing to the secondary or load circuit energy from BOTH reservoirs, we can produce more energy output from the secondary coil than is input to the primary coil. Indeed, we can readily get COP = 3.0 or even CO = 5.0, but there are some other nonlinear effects at COPs in those ranges. But COP = 1.5 or 2.0 is readily achievable, by clearly understanding how one is extracting the two types of energy. One must optimize for this DUAL operation and dual energy use, not just a single reservoir use. If one neglects the second reservoir, one is almost certain to build just a good 95% efficient transformer, not the MEG..."

Tom Bearden correspondence - MEG assistance - Thu, 24 Apr 2003