Dont worry,I dont believe in any free energy pseudo science,as a physics noob I just dont see where the energy comes from in this scenario so it appears as free energy through I am sure it isnt since that is impossible.I was about to ask this on Stackexchange but that site sucks donkey balls,vast majority of my questions go completly ignored for eons,and if someone responds its useless answer... so decided to ask here.
Imagine a electret,wtf is electret you ask? Its just like magnet except instead of magnetic,its electric,and near this p electret is needle electrode connected to high voltage powersupply,the high voltage causes corona discharge,suddenly neutral air becomes charged ions.The ions will be pushed or pulled by the electret.
Now,my question is this,where the hell does that energy come from? The electret pushes/pulls and accelerates the ions,they gain kinetic energy,I dont understand where does this enery come from.
When I was learning about magnets,I read that the energy that magnet gives to object as it push it away is energy you gave when you forced that object to be close to magnet,its kind of like spring.But here,we arent pushing against repulsive force,the atoms just become suddenly ionized in one spot,if what we look for are ions,then its like they pop up into existance out of nowhere.
I am physics noob but I dont see how the electret can do work,its just piece of stationary charge,the high voltage powersupply certainly does work,but that only goes to ionisation,it doesnt explain kinetic energy gained by the ions by the presense of electret.