So I need some electronic assistance to help me with a concept I dreamed up, involving a variable capacitor. This is not your ordinary variable capacitor like one would find on an old transistor radio, but a variable capacitor that is connected to a rotor driven by a precise timing motor. Consider an LC or RC circuit where you could exactly control the capacitance at any moment in time, leaving the inductor or resistor completely static in it's value. Could you not design an oscillator circuit that could take advantage of this mechanically variable capacitor to achieve some energy gain? My idea is that you either charge the capacitor when it's capacitance is low and then rotate it to a high capacitance or vice versa. Just seems like there is a way electronically to take full advantage of this mechanical "feature". Rotating capacitor plates would take nearly zero mechanical torque and would not suffer from the dreaded Lenz Law that rotating inductors impose.
There must be something to this. I don't dream up stupid stuff anymore. :dodgy: If anyone can help me see this through to a prototype, I sure would appreciate it.
Have a look at these pics and see if you don't recognize what I'm talking about here:
Now obviously the timing of the circuit must synchronously coincide with the changing of variable capacitor. Keep in mind, with my idea in play, you can change the time constant on the fly, so the curves above are fully dynamic.
I just can't help but think you could essentially create a time compression of energy, which would translate into an energy gain. A variable capacitor would turn these otherwise linear circuits into non-linear circuits which opens the door to some intriguing possibilities.
There must be something to this. I don't dream up stupid stuff anymore. :dodgy: If anyone can help me see this through to a prototype, I sure would appreciate it.
Have a look at these pics and see if you don't recognize what I'm talking about here:
Now obviously the timing of the circuit must synchronously coincide with the changing of variable capacitor. Keep in mind, with my idea in play, you can change the time constant on the fly, so the curves above are fully dynamic.
I just can't help but think you could essentially create a time compression of energy, which would translate into an energy gain. A variable capacitor would turn these otherwise linear circuits into non-linear circuits which opens the door to some intriguing possibilities.