{"id":13542,"date":"2024-12-08T02:22:20","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T09:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13542"},"modified":"2024-12-08T14:45:06","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T21:45:06","slug":"history-catches-up-to-ben-franklin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2024\/12\/08\/history-catches-up-to-ben-franklin\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Franklin Was The Balls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/electrostatic-motor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from IEEE Spectrum<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Electrostatic Motors Reach the Macro Scale&nbsp;<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>It turns out that Benjamin Franklin was on to something in 1747<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/u\/glenn-zorpette\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">GLENN ZORPETTE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"C-Motive Explained: Plates\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CXW-nQvbb5w?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s a pretty sure bet that you couldn\u2019t get through a typical day without the direct support of dozens of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/tag\/electric-motors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">electric motors<\/a>. They\u2019re in all of your appliances not powered by a hand crank, in the climate-control systems that keep you comfortable, and in the pumps, fans, and window controls of your car. And although there are many different kinds of electric motors, every single one of them, from the 200-kilowatt traction motor in your electric vehicle to the stepper motor in your\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/quartz-watch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">quartz wristwatch<\/a>, exploits the exact same physical phenomenon: electromagnetism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For decades, however, engineers have been tantalized by the virtues of motors based on an entirely different principle: electrostatics. In some applications, these motors could offer an overall boost in efficiency ranging from 30 percent to close to 100 percent, according to experiment-based analysis. And, perhaps even better, they would use only cheap, plentiful materials, rather than the rare-earth elements, special steel alloys, and copious quantities of copper found in conventional motors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cElectrification has its sustainability challenges,\u201d notes&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/directory.engr.wisc.edu\/ece\/Faculty\/Ludois_Daniel\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Ludois<\/a>, a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. But \u201can electrostatic motor doesn\u2019t need windings, doesn\u2019t need magnets, and it doesn\u2019t need any of the critical materials that a conventional machine needs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/electrostatic-motor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at IEEE Spectrum<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from IEEE Spectrum Electrostatic Motors Reach the Macro Scale&nbsp; It turns out that Benjamin Franklin was on to something in 1747 by GLENN ZORPETTE It\u2019s a pretty sure bet that you couldn\u2019t get through a typical day without the direct support of dozens of\u00a0electric motors. They\u2019re in all of your appliances not powered by a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}