Electromagnetic Rotor

The Electromagnetic Rotor is a device intended to create energy.

Overview
The device was created in the year 2095 in response to the worlds power problems. It did not stop it but it did postpone it. Fusionable materials ran out on earth and space travel was not developed enough to mine more on other planets at the time. This device filled in the power gap between these two times. It was a mixture of standard Cold Fusion Reactors and this that supported the world power demand for a long time. Both of these form of energy generation become obsolete when the Matter/Antimatter Reactor was invented in the year 3058.

Technical Overview
The unit was small, about the size of a standard family car. It used naturally occuring Zero-Point Energy to provide power to amplifiers that would artificially induce Zero-Point Eddy Current. As the eddy currents are rotating, a simple coil form count be suspended inside the event could be used to draw power. It created about the same amount of power as a standard fossil fuel power station. It was more the fact that it did not need any energy to run, very small, can be made any where and its cheap price that made the device a world changer.

Trivia

 * It was supposed to be James who invented this but had to be change to make timings more realistic
 * No physical part of this actually rotated. It was the invisible Eddy Currents that were rotating
 * The device is not seen in the series but is mentioned briefly

Current Status
Obsolete, never really used anymore, only on primitive worlds, colonies and as a back up energy supply.