Timothy Ellington

An electric power generator is comprised of a cooper coil rotated within a magnetic field, or a stationary coil with a magnetic field revolved around it. The moving magnetic field frees electrons from the copper producing electricity. The copper coil in the basic description above is usually a length of solid wire wrapped around an iron core. My design differs in that the coil is made of a copper tube or hose. A basin below the coil is filled with a ferrofluid (liquid magnet). One end of the hose is immersed in the fluid, and through the uses of a siphon or vacuum suction, the ferrofluid is drawn into and through the coil. The length of the tube comprising the coil is many times longer than the length of tube drawing up the fluid. Gravity’s pull on the larger volume of fluid in the coil overcomes the lesser gravitational pull on the shorter length immersed in the ferrofluid. This imbalance in the ratio between the immersed portion of the tube and the portion that is coiled produces and maintains a siphon effect. The other end of the hose positioned under the copper coil discharges it’s fluid back into the same container from which the fluid was drawn. This process produces a siphon that pumps fluid for extended periods of time without need for maintenance.