When I saw the headline I thought, at first, he might be the brother of the Thai guy who invented the Ebola cure but, on reading what is said he might be onto something. The gearing must be quite something but I guess it could be done. Good on him. Maybe short on info and detail but ......just what if it does work? I don't think we should knock him until all is reveled. I await with bated breath.

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There has to be more to this... Bet there is some amulets in that strange magic orange box

18 hours ago, KiChakayan said:

Peak power output of a top cyclist is about 500 Watts so if Chris Froome wound this generator's spring for 15 minutes if would give us a total potential power output of about 0.125 Kwh. Not everyone is Chris Froome, and of course we are not taking into account the energy spent in the mechanism.

Just another Thai joke, a small one though.

Pretty sure the old boy would generate more power than Chris froome right now,as he

fell off his bicycle recently and is not too flash.

18 hours ago, Beggar said:

"gear system which needs to be wound up by hand"

 

Now imagine you let an animal do this that runs in a circle. What a future proof invention. The water buffaloes could do this. But no idea how many of such things I would need to power my aircons... 

..you could hitch the animal a large round stone there and grind rice whilst charging the battery.

22 minutes ago, Graemej100 said:

When I saw the headline I thought, at first, he might be the brother of the Thai guy who invented the Ebola cure but, on reading what is said he might be onto something. The gearing must be quite something but I guess it could be done. Good on him. Maybe short on info and detail but ......just what if it does work? I don't think we should knock him until all is reveled. I await with bated breath.

...who...the 'power card' man?

remember cold fusion, but who knows?  great things sometimes have humble beginnings

35 minutes ago, Naamblar2014 said:

There has to be more to this... Bet there is some amulets in that strange magic orange box

Buddha Power!

4 hours ago, Orton Rd said:

Thais have never really invented anything, unless you want to count red bull, a couple of gambling games and silly Ebola claims.

+ a bit more … 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Thai_inventions_and_discoveries

 

BTW - the amusement parks (walkingstreet's) was not mentioned … ????

19 hours ago, Beggar said:

"gear system which needs to be wound up by hand"

 

Now imagine you let an animal do this that runs in a circle. What a future proof invention. The water buffaloes could do this. But no idea how many of such things I would need to power my aircons... 

You could use an exercise bike and get some cardio workout at same time.

 

19 hours ago, BobBKK said:

He can join the doctors who cured Ebola, the researchers who cured HIV and all the other claims down the years. UNLESS he's right of course than he'll be a multi-billionaire and Elon Musk will be phoning soon.

Providing his invention can generate enough power to charge his phone so that he can actually receive calls.

28 minutes ago, ttrd said:

+ a bit more … 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Thai_inventions_and_discoveries

 

BTW - the amusement parks (walkingstreet's) was not mentioned … ????

Pok Deng a gambling card game.

A worthwhile invention considering gambling is illegal. ????

 

Even if it has a ghosts hope of working, the energy retailers will buy the patent of him and shelve it for ever

1 hour ago, tandor said:

..you could hitch the animal a large round stone there and grind rice whilst charging the battery.

or pump water for your waterfall

 

42 minutes ago, ttrd said:

+ a bit more … 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Thai_inventions_and_discoveries

 

BTW - the amusement parks (walkingstreet's) was not mentioned … ????

That's almost as short as the Italian achievements in WW2. Red bull of course is a rip-off of Lipovitan, Japanese drink. Not many editors for that wiki page I suppose.

Hmm, so it's a device which you can "charge" for a certain amount of time, and which will then let you use that charge over a period of time.

 

Let's call this amazing new invention the battery.

Would be perfect to build onto the exercise machines as load in the gym, and save the Planet a bit of CO2, instead of wasting all the energy that is produced there...????

I am deeply suspicious of someone who can invent a spring powered generator yet doesn't know which way to wear a baseball cap????

Its essentially a spring loaded generator, you wind it up and the spring unwinds spinning the coil around magnets generating electricity. It won't charge that battery for sure, but if you gear it right you can make it run for a couple hours and power a small led light bulb. But for 8 hours, I doubt it.

 

Here is something similar, using weights, its called gravity light.

https://www.amazon.com/GravityLight-System-GL02-Portable-Powered/dp/B01M7SM0KE

2 hours ago, ttrd said:

+ a bit more … 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Thai_inventions_and_discoveries

 

BTW - the amusement parks (walkingstreet's) was not mentioned … ????

and  then  compare  that "huge" list  with  the  uk  list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_inventions_and_discoveries

He overlooked the obvious - instead of getting exhausted by winding up that machine for 15 minutes he should use an electric motor, much more convenient!

5 minutes ago, sweatalot said:

He overlooked the obvious - instead of getting exhausted by winding up that machine for 15 minutes he should use an electric motor, much more convenient!

One running on fossil fuels??

 

He could gear it up to a waving coconut tree. This has been done before. A tree bends with the wind many hours of the day and can be harnessed through ropes, pulleys  and a wheel the power transferred to his winding device.

Sure he did.

2 hours ago, RJRS1301 said:

or pump water for your waterfall

 

..is that the same waterfall that has a small turbine hooked up to that same battery?

Anytime a Thai person creates something scientific and useful, it is cause for celebration. Kudos to this guy for his creativity, in a land not know for much of it. Hope it works. Hope he has success promoting it. Good on him. 

Wind-up radios have been around for years, same principle.

 

Maybe the generator works on bullshit ?

3 hours ago, Myran said:

Hmm, so it's a device which you can "charge" for a certain amount of time, and which will then let you use that charge over a period of time.

 

Let's call this amazing new invention the battery.

Well, in real speak it is a battery. 

Well at least he’s trying. It is said, Thomas Edison found 999 ways not to make a light bulb.

Seems many ill-informed and you could say ignorant posters commenting on this post - hand wound energy stored devices are commercially available for various uses, including power generation. 

 

Where this article is at fault along with the Thai patents office is this idea is not new and very unlikely to be patentable outside of Thailand, and in fact probably shouldn't be patented here either.