During the twentieth century, scientific and technological progress has
led to a sharp increase in energy consumption. Since the beginning of
the XXI century, hydrocarbon raw materials have become the basis of
energy generation. Scientists around the world are currently working on
the development and implementation of new alternative methods of energy
generation. The share of ecological generation is growing every year,
but such growth does not keep up with the increase in consumption. With
this in mind, the article conducted a study proposing a new approach to
electricity generation. The operation of the proposed devices is based
on the conversion of electric current by an anisotropic electrically
conductive medium characterized by different p- and n-types of
conductivity in selected crystallographic directions under ohmic
contact. It is shown that in the case of an external sinusoidal electric
current flowing through a device based on an anisotropic rectangular
plate, vortices of electric current occur in its volume. Such electric
vortices with turbulent flow are an effective mechanism that pumps
energy between the environment and in our case, the anisotropic plate.