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Can a electric motor with 100w and with the right torque

and rpm run a generator with a higher watt output?


No. The power input to the motor will ALWAYS be less than the output from the generator.
Detail: Yes, you could spin (let's say) a 200 watt generator with a motor pulling 100 watts.,. as long as you
don't put much of an electrical load on the generator. A generator with no load is very easy to turn. But
the mechanical resistance to turning the generator increases as the electrical load increases. You won't
be able to get 200 watts out of it. You won't even be able to get 100 watts.
"Conservation of energy" is the right answer. Let me elaborate:
The power input to the motor is all the power there is in the system. You can't get more power than that
out of the generator.
If I told you I had a piece of pipe, and that I could run 10 gallons/minute into the pipe, and that I would get
12 gallons/minute out... would you believe me? Of course not (unless there is a hidden storage tank
somewhere that is providing the extra, and of course that will run out in time). So, why would you believe
it of energy?
More:
A motor and generator work by exactly the same principle: Electromagnetic induction.

In the motor you have current in wires creating changing magnetic fields that impart force on the wires,
hence turning the rotor.

In the generator you have mechanical force turning the rotor, causing wires to move through magnetic
fields, resulting in current in the wires.

These are exactly symmetric phenomena. In fact they are the *same* phenomena, described in both
cases by Maxwell's equations, just "run differently."

So if there were no losses, we could expect that the motor turning the generator would result in the same
power output from the generator as is input to the motor.

But there are always losses. There is resistance in the wires. There is inductive reactance. There is good
old mechanical friction in the rotor bearings. etc., etc.

The very best motors and generators you can find will run at about 90% efficiency under ideal conditions.
Put one in series with the other and you get 81% net. 100 watts in will give you 81 watts out... ideally.
Practically speaking it will probably be more like 70 or even 60.

So the generator electric power output will always be less than the motor power input. ALWAYS.

There is nothing you can do to "fix" this. Not different-sized pulleys, not better generators, not anything.

It's like asking if the energy from a falling weight can be used to lift that same weight to a higher point than
its original starting point. Ideally (with no friction losses) it could be lifted to exactly the same point... But
no higher. Same idea.

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