Drive input / machine
—Electricity drawn by the separate driveYour machine. A country-scale question.
Scale Wegawomb.
Account for every watt.
This scenario uses a fleet of your proposed magnetic–spring transducer machines—not a mix of existing generating technologies. A separately powered drive turns each assembly.
This is an experimental conversion system, not a new energy source. The drive supplies electricity; the machine returns part of that energy as useful electricity. Magnets transfer forces, springs store and release energy, and neither supplies sustained net energy over a closed cycle. The assumed ratings below are not measured prototype performance.
Net output / machine
—After conversion, controls and cooling; before grid lossesInput reaching customers
—Assumed drive-to-customer efficiencyMachines required on paper
—To pass annual and peak screens, not prove 24/7 serviceThe Wegawomb assembly
Kinematic illustration only. The drawing does not solve magnetic forces, spring dynamics, torque, fatigue, or transducer behavior. Animation is slowed for visibility; it does not demonstrate self-sustaining rotation.
Open your preserved original 3D prototype ↗01Set one machine’s design point
These are hypotheses to test, not specifications the prototype has achieved. The transducer efficiency represents the entire proposed mechanical-to-electrical conversion stage.
Where the energy goes
01 · electricitySeparate drive
→02 · mechanical motionWegawomb assembly
→03 · electrical conversionTransducer + electronics
→04 · useful outputCustomer load
The model includes drive, conversion, electronics, cooling/control consumption, and network losses. It assumes no battery and no extra recovered energy source. If the drive is supplied from the same electrical system, this arrangement adds net demand rather than creating a new supply.
02Scale against East African country demand
Sizing changes only the machine count. It does not improve efficiency or establish that the external power, equipment, money, or sites exist. Annual operating fraction and peak availability are assumptions, not reliability results.
What this version can—and cannot—tell us
It shows how assumed unit performance scales, the drive supply required, and where energy is lost. It does not establish that the proposed magnetic geometry and transducer can achieve the assumed power, efficiency, lifetime, or cost.
Increasing RPM at fixed shaft power reduces the required torque; it does not create extra power. More or stronger magnets do not receive an automatic energy bonus. Useful reasons to test the assembly include conversion performance, force transmission, vibration recovery with a real energy source, durability, and cost—not energy creation.
Calculation rules and engineering limits
- Drive electrical input = shaft power / drive efficiency. Shaft power = torque × angular velocity.
- Gross output = shaft power × transducer efficiency × electronics efficiency. Net output = gross output − cooling/control consumption.
- Annual customer output = machine count × net kW × 8,760 × operating fraction × (1 − physical network loss), converted to TWh.
- Peak supply uses the assumed available fraction of the fleet. Customer-side peaks include network loss; a measured supply-side system peak is compared before another loss deduction.
- Required count is the larger of the rounded-up annual-energy and peak-plus-reserve requirements. This assumes the selected operating point scales linearly without site or source limits.
- Input equals delivered output plus drive, transducer, electronics, auxiliary and network losses. A balance residual near zero means the accounting closes—not that the device creates surplus energy.
- No economic gain is established here. A motor-driven round trip costs energy; a business case needs a independently demonstrated service or recovery advantage and full costs.
Country benchmark and sources
The conventional-grid reference is retained separately; it does not contribute any generation to this Wegawomb scenario. Changes last until reset/reload. Download a report to preserve assumptions.