Users' questions

Can you generate electricity without magnets?

Can you generate electricity without magnets?

You can generate electricity by many methods without magnetic fields: chemical (batteries and fuel cells), solar (photovoltaic cells), and thermal (thermocouples, Seebeck effect). There are many biological generators as well (nerve and muscle tissues in your body) in addition to the obvious electric eels.

Why are we not use magnets to generate electricity?

Originally Answered: Why do we don’t use magnets to generate electricity even if it is possible? Simply stated: Magnets don’t do work. The force they exert on a charge is always perpendicular to the motion of the charge, the energy transferred is therefore zero.

Does electricity always create a magnetic field?

It’s not really that one causes the other, they just happen to always go together. Scientists have observed that a changing electric field creates a magnetic field.

Can a magnet motor be a free energy generator?

With a magnet motor, free energy generator wouldn’t work. Conventional science is quick to say that we cannot pull energy from an environmental source but we have been utilizing different forms of environmental energy such as hydroelectric power, solar panels, tidal power systems, and geothermal energy systems.

How does a magnet use free energy to make electricity?

We utilize free energy in different ways and we do not require a paid source of energy. Magnetic fields pull and push electrons in objects near them to make them move. When a magnet is moved quickly through a coil of wire, the electrons will move and make electricity.

Is it true that magnetism has no energy?

“Magnetism is a force, but it has no energy of its own,” says David Cohen-Tanugi, vice president of the MIT Energy Club and a John S. Hennessy Fellow in MIT’s Materials Science and Engineering department.

Can a perpetual motion machine have a free energy generator?

Perpetual motion machines cannot exist according to this law because no system without an external energy supply can deliver an unlimited amount of energy to its surroundings. With a magnet motor, free energy generator wouldn’t work.