Vasilesco KARPEN : Electric Pile -- Article & French Patent -- a "perpetual motion" thermoelectric transformer that has operated continuously over 50 years.

Vasilesco KARPEN

Electric Pile

Vasilesco Karpen

Google "Vasile Karpen", and you'll find thousands of this:

"Built by Vasile Karpen, the pile has been working uninterrupted for 60 years..."

Here is is again, PLUS his French Patent ( erroneously reported as being patented in 1922 -- actually, it was 1924...

http://uk.ibtimes.com/articles/20101227/karpen-039pilebattery-produces-energy-continuously-since-1950-exists-romanian-museum.htm
27 December 2010

Karpen's Pile: A Battery That Produces Energy Continuously Since 1950 Exists in Romanian Museum

by

Ovidiu Sandru

The "Dimitrie Leonida" National Technical Museum from Romania hosts a weird kind of battery. Built by Vasile Karpen, the pile has been working uninterrupted for 60 years. "I admit it's also hard for me to advance the idea of an overunity generator without sounding ridiculous, even if the object exists," says Nicolae Diaconescu, engineer and director of the museum.

An old photo of Karpen's pile

The invention cannot be exposed because the museum doesn't have enough money to buy the security system necessary for such an exhibit.

Half a century ago, the pile's inventor had said it will work forever, and so far it looks like he was right. Karpen's perpetual motion machine now sits secured right in the director's office. It has been called "the uniform-temperature thermoelectric pile," and the first prototype has been built in the 1950s. Although it should have stopped working decades ago, it didn't.

The scientists can't explain how the contraption, patented in 1922, works. The fact that still puzzles them is how a man of such a scientific stature such as Karpen's could have started building something "that crazy."

The prototype has been assembled in 1950 and consists of two series-connected electric piles moving a small galvanometric motor. The motor moves a blade that is connected to a switch. With every half rotation, the blade opens the circuit and closes it at the the start of the second half. The blade's rotation time had been calculated so that the piles have time to recharge and that they can rebuild their polarity during the time that the circuit is open.

The purpose of the motor and the blades was to show that the piles actually generate electricity, but they're not needed anymore, since current technology allows us to measure all the parameters and outline all of them in a more proper way.

A Romanian newspaper, ZIUA (The Day), went to the museum for an interview with director Diaconescu. He took the system our of its secured shelf and allowed the specialists to measure its output with a digital multimeter. This happened on Feb. 27, 2006, and the <strong>batteries</strong> had indicated the same 1 Volt as back in 1950.

They had mentioned that "unlike the lessons they teach you in the 7th grade physics class, the 'Karpen's Pile' has one of its electrodes made of gold, the other of platinum, and the electrolyte (the liquid that the two electrodes are immersed in), is high-purity sulfuric acid." Karpen's device could be scaled up to harvest more power, adds Diaconescu.

Karpen's battery had been exhibited in several scientific conferences in Paris, Bucharest and Bologna, Italy, where its construction had been explained widely. Researchers from the University of Brasov and the Polytechnic University of Bucharest in Romania have even performed special studies on the battery, but didn't pull a clear conclusion.

"The French showed themselves very interested by this patrimonial object in the 70s, and wanted to take it. Our museum has been able to keep it, though. As time passed, the fact that the battery doesn't stop producing energy is more and more clear, giving birth to the legend of a perpetual motion machine."

Some scientists say the device works by transforming thermal energy into mechanical work, but Diaconescu doesn't subscribe to this theory.

According to some who studied Karpen's theoretical work, the pile he invented defies the second principle of thermodynamics (referring to the transformation of thermal energy into mechanical work), and this makes it a second-degree perpetual motion machine. Others say it doesn't, being merely a generalization to the law, and an application of zero point energy.

If Karpen was right, and the principle is 100% correct, it would revolutionize all of the physics theories from the bottom up, with hard to imagine consequences. Though I guess this isn't going to happen very soon, the museum still needs proper private funding to acquire the necessary security equipment required by the police to exhibit the device.

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The so-called "Tesla Secrets" being touted of late are anything but that. It is a pathetic regurgitated ripoff of Joe Tate's expired patent for the "Ambient Power Module". Tesla my gluteii...

See also -- Joe TATE : Ambient Power Module

And : JACQUES' Coal Battery

FR577087
Pile électrique

[ Thermoelectric Battery ]

EC: H01M6/00; Y02E60/12
IPC: H01M6/00; H01M6/00
1924-08-30

Pile électrique. L'objet de la présente invention est une pile électrique transformant la chaleur du milieu ambiant en énergie électrique. Cette pile est formée, soit de deux. phases liquides, soit l'une phase liquide et d'une phase gazeuse, les deux phases étant en contact, mais n'étant pas miscibles, soit enfin d'une seule phase liquide; et de deux électrodes en métal ou en charbon en contact avec les phases. Les électrodes sont, dans tous les cas, inattaquables par les liquides ou les gaz:avec lesquels elles sn trouvent en contact, leur poids et leur na ture restent invariables pendant le repos et le fonctionnement de la pile, différant en cela de toutes les piles connues. Il en est de même des différentes phases liquides ou gazeuses de la pile, lesquelles resténf égaiement invariablés, aucune réaction chimique ne seproduisant entre les éléments de la pile phases et electrodes.

Les figures annexées de i â 3 indiquent des formes diverses de réalisation de la pile, objet de l'invention.

La figure 1 représente une pile formée de deux phases liquides A et B, les électrodes étant complètement immergées l'une dans la phase A, l'autre dans la phase B.

Exemple se rapportant â la figure 2. Les phases A et B résultant d'un mélange d'eau, d'alcool amylique et d'hydroxyde de sodium, mélange qui se sépare, â l'équilibre, en deux phases; la phase B surtout aqueuse, la phase A surtout alcoolique. Les électrodes sont en charbon ou en platine. La force électromotrive, dirigée, â l'extérieur, de A vers B est, â la température de la chambre, d'environ 0,4- voit. La figure n représente une pile dans la quelle l'une des phases est liquide et l'autre phase est liquide ou gazeuse. L'une des electrodes est en partie immersed dans l'une des phases, en partie dans l'autre phase, la deuxième électrode est complètement im mergée dans l'une des phases.

Exemple se rapportant â la figure 3. La phase B est formée d'une solution- aqueuse d'hydroxyde de sodium, la phase A est formée d'air et de vapeurs- de B ou de benzine. Les électrodes sont en platine, en nickel ou en charbon. La force électromotrice dirigée, â l'extérieur, de À vers B est; â la température de la chambre, comprise entre o,4 et o,8 voit.

La figure 3 représente une pile formée d'un seul liquide, dans lequel se trouvent deux électrodes différentes.

Exemple se rapportant â la figure 3. Le liquide est formé d'eau rendue bonne con ductrice de l'électricity par un sel alcalin, par exemple le carbonate de sodium, et les electrodes sont formées : soit de deux métaux dif férents comme le platine et le nickel, soit d'une électrode métallique et d'une autre electrode en charbon, soit encore d'une électrode en charbon et d'une autre électrode toujours en charbon, mais de qualite différente, par exemple, une électrode en graphite et l'autre en charbon de cornue ou une électrode en charbon de bois et l'autre en charbon de cornue, etc. Les électrodes peuvent être mas sives ou formées de poudres contenues dans. des sacs, ou des vases poreux, etc. La force électromotrice est comprise entre o, & et 0,8 voit.

Dans tous les modes d'exécution de la presente pile, les phases sont en équilibre chimique; aucune réaction n'a lieu entre les phases en contact, il ne se produit aucune va riation de la concentration des phases, comme c'est le cas pendant le fonctionnement des piles de concentration connues. Aucun changement n'intervient non plus dans le poids ou la nature des electrodes. La pile se refroidit, pendant le fonctionment, sous la tempéra ture du milieu ambiant, lequel peut être un milieu naturel que Pair, Peau, la terre, etc., et reçoit de ce milieu la chaleur équivalente â l'énergie électrique déveloped.

'Les piles connues de concentration, emp aussi au milieu extérieur la chaleur équivalente à l'énergie électrique produite, mais pendant le fonctionnement de ces piles les concentrations de l'électrolyte autour des électrodes, tendent â s'égaliser et la force électromotrice de ces piles finit par s'annuler; la quantité d' electricite fournie est limitée. Au contraire, dans la présenté pile, les concentrations des phases en contact avec les electrodes se maintiennent invariables, la quantity d'électricité que cette pile peut débiter n' est limitée. Gette pile transforme indéfiniment la chàieur du milieu ambiant en energie electric, elle contredit donc 3rd deuxième princïpé, de la thermodynamique.

"Translation" :

Electrical Pile -- The object of the present invention is an electrical pile transformer of heat of the ambient medium into electrical energy [ thermoelectric battery ]. This pile is formed, is two liquid phases, either the one liquid phase and of a gas phase, the two phases being in contact, but not being miscible, is finally of only one liquid phase; and of two electrodes in metal or out of coal in contact with them phases. The electrodes are, in all the cases, unattackable by liquid or gas with which they find contact, their weight and their nature remain invariable during the rest and the operation of the stack, differing in that from all other known piles...

Figures 1, 2, and 3 indicate the various shapes of performing of the pile, object of the invention.

The figure I represents a formed stack of two phases, liquides A and B, the electrodes being completely submerged one in phase A, the other in the phase B.

Example referring to Figure 1. Phases A and B resulting of a mixture of water, of amyl alcohol and sodium hydroxide, mixture which separates, t equilibrium, in two phases; the especially aqueous phase B, phase A especially alcoholic. The electrodes are out of coal or platinum. The force electromotor coach, directed at the outer one, of A towards B is at room temperature, of approximately 0,4 - sees. appear N represents a stack in it which one of the phases is liquid and the other phase is liquid or gaseous. One of electrodes is partly submerged in one of the phases in part in the other phase, second electrode is completely immersed in one of the phases.

Example referring to Figure 2 -- The phase B is formed of an aqueous solution of sodium hydroxide, phase A is formed of air and vapors of benzene. The electrodes are out of platinum, in nickel or out of coal. The directed electromotive force at the outer one, towards B is a temperature chamber, included enters O, 4 and O, 8 see.

Figure 3 represents a formed stack of only one liquid, in which two electrodes are different.

Example referring to figure 3. - The liquid one is formed of water made a good conductor of the electricity by an alkaline salt, for example the sodium carbonate, and the electrodes are formed either of two different metals like platinum and nickel, or of a metal electrode and another coal electrode, an electrode out of coal and of another coal electrode always, but of quality different, by example, an electrode of graphite and the other out of retort carbon or a wood coal electrode and the other out of retort carbon, etc. The electrodes can be powders contained in porous bags, or vases, etc The electromotive force enters O, & and 0,8.

In all the preferred modes of operation: stack, the phases are in chemical equilibrium ; no reaction enters the phases in contact, producing no generation of the concentration of the phases, as it is the case the operation with the known concnetrating piles. No changes intervene either in the weight or the nature of the electrodes. The stack cools, while it functions, under moderated action of ambient medium, which can be a natural medium, and receive from it heat equivalent to energy electrical developed.

Thermopiles of concentration, also employing the ambient medium heat have produced electrical energy, but during the operation of these piles, concentrations of the electrolyte around the electrodes equalize and the electromotive force of these piles cancel themselves; the supplied quantity of electricity is limited. To the contrary, in the present pile, the concentrations of the phases in contact with the electrodes remain invariable, and the quantity of electricity that this stack can output laughed is unlimited. This stack transforms indefinitely the heat of the ambient medium into electric energy, despite the second principle of thermodynamic.