Using Earth's Magnetic Core As A World Power Distribution Transformer

[epoch_time]

Every Country would have  a primary/secondary tap.  Countries in the sun light would pump solar energy in to their primary tap and countries at night would remove energy using their secondary transformer tap. 

Lets not confuse this concept with Nichol Tesla's ideas/experiments.

The frequency selected would need to achieve primary coil resonance.  A 1550 mile north south existing transmission line (1/2 wavelength @ 60hz) may possibly induce earth's magnetic field enough to begin experimentation.

If a coiled primary winding is used it's length would be considerably shorter.

What if a coiled primary winding at earths natural resonant frequency (somewhere between 2hz and 9hz) could be excited naturally and provide free energy or it might require manual excitation from human ingenuity.

This is essential that we solve the worlds energy needs to avoid human extinction.


 

[SteveThackery]

Losses.

Politics.

[golden_labels]

Where do I attach the energy meter?

(not even asking, how do you imagine that to work)

[Xena E]

Full moon again?

[T3sl4co1l]

The core isn't even ferromagnetic

[Andy Chee]

This is essential that we solve the worlds energy needs to avoid human extinction.

Your assessment of the root cause of human extinction is incorrect.

The root cause is human psychology, greed, selfishness, and the inability to share resources.

[Xena E]

The core isn't even ferromagnetic

Too much sci-fi watching on the part of the OP

I don't suppose they have considered the molten nickel and iron in the core is just a few degrees C above its Curie temperature ?

[schmitt trigger]

Hmmmm, I was going to write a technical reply, but my brain’s SOA has been exceeded and a fatal non-recoverable failure has occurred.

[SiliconWizard]

Fun. Yes the core is pretty hot (about 5000°C). That would be one heck of a hot transformer.

[Manul]

Sorry, but for the idea of transfering energy to the other side of globe, HVDC is a much more promising technology. I'm just not sure if we will ever need that, cause other options might be more efficient and cheaper. But earth-sized transformer is certainly not one of them.

[CatalinaWOW]

Why don't you try something easy and practical.  Like making a EM launcher in each country.  When the sun is shining you launch 10000 kg iron slugs to the dark side, aiming for the EM launchers on the other side, which work in reverse to recover the kinetic energy in the slug.  It will then be ready to fire back during the next day cycle.

There are a few minor technical details to work out.  I leave them as an exercise for the student.  Kind of like Spin Launch.

[Circlotron]

1/ Eddy current losses.
2/ All the world’s compasses would go nuts.

[tszaboo]

This is essential that we solve the worlds energy needs to avoid human extinction.

Your assessment of the root cause of human extinction is incorrect.

The root cause is human psychology, greed, selfishness, and the inability to share resources.

I think people foolish attempts at "trying to help" is what will ultimately ruin us.
The average person (probably including me) is so ignorant about 90% of the stuff, and greenwashing makes so much more damage than it supposed to solve.
Like trying to replace a plastic bag with a canvas bag, that uses 7100 times as much carbon and water (etc) footprint than plastic bags. And you can just as well reuse the plastic one dozens of times.

[BrianHG]

Like trying to replace a plastic bag with a canvas bag, that uses 7100 times as much carbon and water (etc) footprint than plastic bags. And you can just as well reuse the plastic one dozens of times.

The issue with plastic is how we end up managing the disposal of it VS how many times it is being used.
For plastic, it is not an energy utilization issue, it is a post use environmental pollution/toxin issue.

[radiolistener]

I suspect heat losses turns Earth surface into a large hot frying pan, there will be a lot of fish soup in the oceans and seas 

But such technology is definitely much more powerful than nuclear weapons to wipe out humans from the Earth

[Simon]

Lets not confuse this concept with Nichol Tesla's ideas/experiments.
 

Lets not, or your dream of being Tesla MKII will not come to be. Now go and take your medication.

[Halcyon]

free energy

There's no such thing. The energy has to come from somewhere, at some cost.

[radiolistener]

free energy

There's no such thing. The energy has to come from somewhere, at some cost.

What tariff do you pay for the energy we receive from the Sun in the form of light and heat? 
And what about wind energy? Do you pay for that as well?

It’s also interesting to know, what tariff do you pay for the energy of cosmic background radiation coming from space?

[themadhippy]

What tariff do you pay for the energy we receive from the Sun in the form of light and heat?

We dont cause were illegally tapping  into it and billy the alien aint to happy about paying for a  fusion power plant only for us to be nicking there energy. All those ufo sightings are actually billy's  enforcement agents sent to try and get us to pay the bill.

[radiolistener]

Maybe they want to introduce a subscription fee for a relic radiation noise? 

[Xena E]

free energy

There's no such thing. The energy has to come from somewhere, at some cost.

What tariff do you pay for the energy we receive from the Sun in the form of light and heat? 
And what about wind energy? Do you pay for that as well?
...

To answer that sensibly, no you don't pay for harvested energy, however you do have to pay for the rather expensive means to do so, not to mention storage devices...

These things are not one time costs either unfortunately, as they also wear out and need replacing.

Originally, nuclear was seen as Free Energy. Of course energy itself is all around but it has to be harvested, converted, concentrated, distributed, all that comes with effort and cost, which the overunity crowd, don't seem to understand

[schmitt trigger]

Originally, nuclear was seen as Free Energy. Of course energy itself is all around but it has to be harvested, converted, concentrated, distributed, all that comes with effort and cost, which the overunity crowd, don't seem to understand

“Nuclear energy will be too cheap to be metered”.
Yeah, right. Famous last words.

[iMo]

Why to mess with oil, coal, nuclear, sun, wind, thermal - we have here everywhere the energy of vacuum..

Wiki:

Using the upper limit of the cosmological constant, the vacuum energy of free space has been estimated to be 10−9 joules (10−2 ergs), or ~5 GeV per cubic meter.[3] However, in quantum electrodynamics, consistency with the principle of Lorentz covariance and with the magnitude of the Planck constant suggests a much larger value of 10^113 joules per cubic meter. This huge discrepancy is known as the cosmological constant problem or, colloquially, the "vacuum catastrophe."[4]

[TimFox]

Originally, nuclear was seen as Free Energy. Of course energy itself is all around but it has to be harvested, converted, concentrated, distributed, all that comes with effort and cost, which the overunity crowd, don't seem to understand

“Nuclear energy will be too cheap to be metered”.
Yeah, right. Famous last words.

The original meaning of that statement is that the cost of production would be very small, and therefore pricing would depend on capacity or maximum demand, dominated by transmission costs, rather than actual energy used.