Can candles and magnets produce electricity?

Answer 1

I can think of two ways to do that:

1). Place a burning candle near a photovoltaic (solar) cell. The cell will convert
some of the heat and light energy from the candle flame to electrical energy.

2). This one is more complicated and takes more ancillary peripheral stuff.
-- Use the burning candle to heat and boil a container of water.
-- Guide the steam from the boiling water through the fan of a small turbine generator.

Answer 2

Candles cannot generate electricity directly.

Since candles can produce heat when they burn, they could serve as the heat source in a heat engine attached to a generator, which in turn could produce electricity. By another method, the light from a candle could be converted to electricity by a photocell.

The reason that a candle can produce energy is that when it burns it releases energy and that energy can be at least partly converted to another form of energy - for the purposes of this question, that different form could be electricity.

Answer 3

Candles could generate electricity by providing a heat source for a miniature steam engine attached to a generator, by providing air flow (from the convection of aircomingoff the flame) to turn a pinwheel attached to a generator, or by providing light that can be converted into electricity by aphoto-voltaiccell.

Answer 4

Check out this thread: http://spluch.blogspot.com/2007/02/using-candles-to-generate-electricity.html

In short, a hoax.

Answer 5

It's an ordinary incandescent bulb with the glass envelope made in the shape of a candle flame.