Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Flywheels

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

Back again.
I didn't realize the Inertialess Technologies Co. I mentioned had a Webb
page and it still looks like they are going.
http://www.inertialessdrive.co.nz/

Regards, Karl.
----- Original Message -----
From: Karl Fuller <fullerk@voyager.co.nz>
To: <personal_submersibles@psubs.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 10:57 PM
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Flywheels


> Hi guys!,
> I have a bit to say about flywheels.....
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> 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 !
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> After reading 145 PSUB emails ! I'm catching up.
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> 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.
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