Force Cells : Cleanest Fuel ?

[Commander]

It is proposed to produce Units of Energy / Fuel called FORCE CELLS !

Each of these cells hold a Unit of Mechanical Energy.

 

It is designed as a Spring which can be wound and unwound or Compressed and Decompressed.

 

 

Any of the above may do but I prefer a linear tensile wire which can be wound up and locked and when touched on a point opens out and produces a direct CIRCULAR FORCE for Automobile Motoring !! Like the Clock Spring.

 

Therefore the Car will be built with an Engine which takes in a stream of Fuel Cells from its Tank / Stack and have a Carburetor / Integrator which arranges these Cell on a platform which with one trigger will open out all the Fuel Cells and impart the Energy to a Flywheel !!!

 

 

Other Conventional Systems will be added to this contraption.

Similar Contraptions will be conceived and Built for other Applications.

 

THERE WON’T BE ANY EXHAUST and POLLUTION !!!!

 

The decompressed Fuel Cells will be RECYCLED in a Generator which will Reproduce the Fuel Cells.

 

The MAIN PURPOSE of this invention is for EMPLOYMENT GENERATION and HUMAN EMPOWERMENT !!!!!

 

Because Human Beings need not simply waste their Energy while EXCERCISING but directly CREATE FUEL CELLS in the Process or in other words Wind Up these Fuel Cell Springs AS A COTTAGE INDUSTRY or Work from Home Venture while at the same time BEING HEALTHY AND EXERCISED in the Process !!!!!!

 

NO HEALTHY HUMAN WILL BE OUT OF WORK !!!!!!!

[EdEarl]

The most power possible from a person is about 1/10th HP; whereas, most cars have 100HP engines. Thus, it would take more than 1000 man hours for people to charge the force cells for one hour's driving. I think your ideas have some insurmountable problems.

[Commander]

The most power possible from a person is about 1/10th HP; whereas, most cars have 100HP engines. Thus, it would take more than 1000 man hours for people to charge the force cells for one hour's driving. I think your ideas have some insurmountable problems.

 

Hi,

 

Thanks.

 

Many People would be collectively creating Cells which can be employed as many as possible and used at as high a rate as required.

 

It is only a Hobby and the Output will be evaluated Practically though what you claim may turn out to be right.

 

I will try and evaluate it myself soon !

 

Hi,

 

Thanks.

 

Many People would be collectively creating Cells which can be employed as many as possible and used at as high a rate as required.

 

It is only a Hobby and the Output will be evaluated Practically though what you claim may turn out to be right.

 

I will try and evaluate it myself soon !

 

Of course these Cells need not be only created from Muscle Power !

 

Other Sources like Wind Power , Tidal Waves, Hydro Electric Sources etc can also be used to output Cells [instead of only Electricity]

 

Instead of Fuels producing Pollution this will be a better alternative perhaps !!

Edited December 17, 2014 by Commander

[Fuzzwood]

You would be surprised how little energy a spring can actually hold compared to its mass.

[swansont]

 

THERE WON’T BE ANY EXHAUST and POLLUTION !!!!

 

 

How do the cells get wound up? You're just pushing that problem out of view. If, as you have implied, it's humans, then you have to look at where they will get the energy (food) to do this. I predict it will be not only polluting, but also incredibly inefficient and expensive. There's a reason we go away from human labor whenever possible, for problems whose main requirement is large amounts of power.

[EdEarl]

 

A Paper from UCSD

 

A short digression to contrast the miraculous energy density in fossil fuels: our 3 days of electricity storage at 30 kWh/day requires just 12 gallons of gasoline (1.6 cubic feet; 45 liters) burned in a 20% efficient generator (it seems like the other 80% is noise!). The Earth’s battery—a one-time gift to us—turns out to be vastly superior to any of these other “solutions” in terms of energy density and long-term storage, measured in millions of years. It will be sorely missed when it’s gone.

This paper discusses several energy storage methods, but not springs.

 

Examine this Wikipedia page. It gives energy density for various things, including springs, which are at the bottom of the list (i.e., lowest).

Edited December 17, 2014 by EdEarl