So Jeremy Smith here at HOK in Atlanta has just passed along a video to me that’s very interesting. I won’t make any save the world claims just yet as it seems ‘too good to be true.’ In this interview John Christie claims that he and his partner have been ‘tinkering’ with this generator for 6 years. This device uses magnetic polarity and physics to spin a rotor in the generator (as best a layman such as myself can understand it.).
The video interview had a 5:1 input/output ratio, but this website says15:1 by the physicist Jacco Van Der Worp.
Personally, I’m a skeptic on this particular project. However, it’s the first time I admit I’ve thought of the problem of electricity on a different level. Maybe a technology like this could help make our on-site/localized energy more efficient/effective for use in residential applications. Oddly, I saw a lecture a couple weeks back given by Larry Burns at GM talking about cars (and their efficient fuel cell technologies) being a vehicle, no pun intended, for crowdsourcing and information swarms of computing while they are not in use.