The paper briefly reviews the homopolar generator, describes the tests on this particular machine and summarizes the resulting data. In particular, under certain assumptions about internally generated output voltage the increase in input power when power was extracted fro.n the generator over that measured due to fric-'ional losses with the generator unexcited seemed to be about 26% of the maximum computed output power. While it did not perform as claimed, repeatable data showed anomalous results that did not seem to conform to traditional theory. Known for over 150 years, the Faraday homopolar generator has been claimed to provide a basis for so-called " free-energy" generation, in that under certain conditions the exiraction of electrical output energy is not reflected as a corresponding mechanical load to the driving source.ĭuring 1985 the author was invited to test such a machine. Society for Scientific Exploration San Francisco Paper presented at the 1986 meeting of the Robert Kincheloe Professor of Electrical Engineering (Emeritus) _Stanford University_
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