Practical Guige to Free Energy Devices

simply, using everyday examples. After the basic explanation, we will explore a full analogy in the form of a
rain barrel.
Flux
Flux, or energy flux to be more precise, is essentially a by-product of energy creation. For
example, an automobile engine uses a mixture of gasoline and air to power the car. Older
engines in particular were not extremely efficient in burning all of this mixture and the byproduct
is the smog that comes out the tailpipe of the car.
Modern car engines are more economical; less unburned gasoline goes out their tailpipes.
However, even the most efficient cars on the road today still push unburned gasoline out the
tailpipe. On top of that, part of the heat generated by the burning of the gasoline inside the
engine also leaves that way. In a manner of speaking, the smog that comes out of your car's
exhaust is like flux. It is a by-product of the process of creating the energy needed to make your car travel
down the road.
Flux and Efficiency
Before the oil embargo of 1973, American car designers largely ignored the issue of flux
by building cars with larger engines to go faster. Consequently, this fuel economy suffered
from the embargo. However, in 1973 the price of fuel did not make this an important
issue. Once the fuel price rose after 1973, American auto manufacturers began losing
sales to foreign manufacturers who were building more fuel-efficient engines.
Efficiency
We define efficiency as the useful application of energy flow. This means that if we build a more fuelefficient
engine, it will send less unburned fuel out the tailpipe and thereby increase the number of miles we
can go on the same amount of gasoline.
The part we call useful here is the energy of the burned gasoline whose heat is used to move our car. That
is what we aimed for, that part divided by the total energy that could be produced from the amount of gas we
used, is called efficiency.
Efficiency and Unity
Since 1973, the goal of auto manufacturers is to use the available energy in gasoline as much as
possible. The most they can hope for is what is called unity. Unity means that a system can use 100% of the
energy input into it. In this case, that would be the energy stored in the gasoline to generate the desired
output, the output in this case is the horsepower our engine delivers to move our car down the road.
No matter how efficient the designs are in pushing toward unity, the most a system can hope to achieve with
present technologies is around 30% efficiency, which is some 70% short of unity.
Unity and Closed Systems
When we commonly think of unity (100% efficiency), we also tend to think in terms of
closed systems. A closed system is a system that is
completely isolated from the rest of the world. In a manner of
speaking, an automobile engine is a closed system. The
energy released from the burning of the gasoline to extract its
energy is either captured to power the car or blown out the
tailpipe as wasted flux. Likewise, you continually reduce the
amount of gasoline in your tank as you drive down the road.
The total amount of energy that is either still stored in
unburned gasoline or is moving your car along or is leaving
the tailpipe as waste flux is constant.
The essential point to keep in mind about a closed system is that it does not draw energy from the
environment around it. On the other hand, an open system does draw energy from its surroundings.
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