Insight

For awhile now I’ve been toying with the idea of using artificial gasses (collection of soft metals) influenced by a magnetic field to heat up air.  Originally I was playing around with the notion of use in hover crafts or some similar technology.  The artificial gas would not have to be contained and the acceleration of the air into the chamber would be minimal compared to the velocity of the air exiting it.  However it was pointed out to me that this would require more energy than conventional methods.

Later, while discussing windmill technologies-I came across the premise that the perfect windmill (one that would absorb all possible energy from the air) would create a vacuum.  Albeit a small and temporary one.  Though the perfect windmill is most likely an impossibility at any near time in the future it made me appreciate how great vacuums could be in generating a much greater amount of energy than windmills do.  I imagined a device, roughly in sphere with several dozens of layers of very small electric generating fans.  Placed in the middle of a collapsing vacuum the onrush of air would generate much more energy than a much large windmill blade even given the greater volume of air.  Not to mention if placed right the displacement of air into the vacuum would be evenly distributed so as to maximize energy yield.  The energy requirement of creating a vacuum however, is again greater than the energy yield.

So I started thinking that if it were possible to create a bubble, that was basically filled with a vacuum and would exist momentarily before collapsing-it would drastically cut back on the power requirements.  If the bubble was responsive to an electric static filled, and the artificial soft metal gas (manipulated by a magnetic field to behave like air) could maintain and cause the bubble to expand.  A powerful magnet at the center then could turn on and pull the soft metal artificial gas back to the center faster than the bubble collapses.  The rapid diffusion of air into the new vacuum would then hopefully generate more energy then was required creating the vacuum in the first place-since the real energy would be generated by air that is already present around us it wouldn’t violate a conservation of energy law.

Of course this may not be feasible or practical at all.  However the idea of creating vacuums using an artificial gas that can be virtually destroyed on a seconds notice could have a wide range of applications.  Used in a mixture of some combustable gas could influence the direction and rate of reaction.  It could depending on conditions-one day hold back liquids generating areas of no pressure deep underwater.  The ability of an artificial gas, possibly even a liquid that can be turned off and on with a magnetic field rather than cooling or heating it (or pumping it out) could have an impact on how we produce electricity and chemical reactions.