Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Flywheels

["Karl Fuller" <fullerk@voyager.co.nz>]

Hi guys!,
I have a bit to say about flywheels.....

But first, you know that slightly nervous, slightly warm fuzzy feeling you
get when it is someone else's computer you hear about, that crashes, well it
happened to me.

I have some advice.
1) When you get that small glitch, that is a pain only, in Windows,
remember, IT COULD BE WORSE !
2) When a well intention friend/relative says they can fix it, even if you
ask them 3 times "are you sure?" DON'T believe them !
3) When they say afterwards "You learn by these things " LEAVE the room
before they get shot !
4) And of course, it isn't always ' the other guy it happens to,' so back
things up !

After reading 145 PSUB emails ! I'm catching up.

Flywheels,
In New Zealand a few years ago, at a work site in a paper mill I was working
at, I heard one of those too good to be true stories, I had to check out !
A guy was selling shares for what could the first "true" kinetic battery and
he had it patented ! (Inertialess technologies)
I found out where the research laboratory was, and booked in a visit. I was
given a guided tour, by a physicist. He showed me heaps of clippings, of
validations from NASA scientists, and leading scientists in kinetic
batteries. As well, there were clippings of theories, that have
ramifications for space travel, batteries for satellites for when they are
on the "dark side", and many more profound implications.....
The present state of their development which I saw for myself, was the
making of water driven power generators, for the third world. For this they
had backing from a Chinese company, that makes 'rare earth' magnets. First,
let me explain this flywheel. It is shaped like a ball, but has a mushroom
scallop out of it's circumference. The formulae for it's shape is extremely
critical apparently. So much so, that an engineering firm, that was making
the first trial balls, built one to the slightly wrong dimension, spun it up
with some air (as they do at the research place) and it went straight
through a brick wall ! (apparently)
Anyway, there is something unique about the correct one, when it is spun up,
and I was to be given a demo. On a low glass table before me, the demo was
set up. I must say, my face was very close to it and so was that of the
demonstrator. But he looked non-concerned and I looked for holes in walls
around me, could see none, and watched it being spun up before my eyes. As
it hummed away, the guy showed me what made it special. He had painted
colored dots on the ball and to my amazement, you could see that it didn't
spin like a flywheel, but actually spun in two directions ! That's how he
explained it and that is how it looked.
Anyway, they make them out of rare earth and generate a current from them as
they are spun in a chamber, by water. This I saw although I was not
convinced, that a 'Pelton wheel', would not be more efficient for that
application. They are selling them apparently.
Last thing I heard, scientists were coming from around the world, to put
together what they hoped would be the first true Kinetic Battery.
There is one thing I was told I need to tell you. This flywheel they say, no
matter how fast you spin it, doesn't fly apart......They even say, that it
draws energy in, the faster it goes. Like many of you (I'm sure are) I'm
skeptical.They also told me that they went to a bank for a loan to develop
it, and the next thing they new, Boeing Corp. was offering them millions to
sell the technology.
I really do have to follow this up, when I get back to NZ and keep you all
posted !

It's a long shot, but who knows the long term ramifications for PSUBS if it
is all not an elaborate hoax. But if what I saw was correct, there it was,
spinning in two planes, I walked out of that place a little stunned ......

Good to see all the good content lately. GMs, Fords, nothing is different,
even in NZ. Is there an acceptable position, to be impartial to either ? (In
NZ and Australia, GMs are called Holdens, and they look different, like
Fords, different models.

>From Down Under,(but still in Atlanta)
Kiwi Karl.