The Joy of Mendocino Motors

The only application I can see apart from entertainment value would be to generate alternating current (AC) instead of direct current (DC) and if it was powerful enough to power a flywheel, then that could make the output somewhat stable. I'd be very interested to know what kind of power you could get out of it if scaled up. But I imagine it would still be much more effective and efficient to just charge up batteries using the solar panels, and then use that stored up power directly. Interesting and fun as a concept and gadget, though.

Yes the audio is out of sync

When you talked about Australia it reminded me I'd seen a similar article about China's huge wind farms in their deserts not being a major success due to remoteness for any industry that might set up there for cheap power and the difficulties with losses in transmission power

Interesting video. Audio is ever so slightly out of sync