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INTRO
Thus far it seems many of the designs of Bessler wheels seem to aim at creating an imbalance in the wheel such that one side is heavier than the other (overbalance).
There is an alternative approach that does not require this imbalance to spin the wheel and relies on angular momentum that can be stored in a gravity attracted weight.
This approach does not use levers , springs, or the opposition or attraction of magnets
The only moving parts are the weights and the outer wheel.
It may find just enough energy to reguage from an influence of the Aspden effect.
I have played with this design on paper since 2006, but have not built it. Been working on too many other ideas alongside it. I have seriously refined it to a new embodiment that bears no resemblance to the rough sketches I will be posting. They are being posted to get the idea out as a first cut.
I hope someone here can simulate it or actually build it. I hope to do this very soon.
Ever since playing with flywheels, gyros etc as a very young person, I was convinced that there was considerable energy stored in such devices. Of course, this is common knowledge. Eric Laithwaite and others were convinced there was more to this spin than appears in textbooks. DePalma claimed anomolous time and gravitational effects. Aspden made further interesting claims about rotating devices with and without magnets, and some rather amazing discoveries.
I was once lucky to procure a three phase electrically driven US Navy gyro with a 20 pound tungsten rotor that ran in a vacuum at dangerously high speed. Playing with this monster was scary and awe inspiring.
I began to consider that there may be a factor overlooked in the laws for falling objects, that if the gravitational energy were stored in rotational energy, the aether entrainment might slightly tip the balance in favor of a bit more energy and allow reguaging.
Allowing gravity to integrate it's energy over a longer time period than the normal acceleration of 32 feet/sec^2 for falling objects might give a slight gain. If this gain is continually integrated over time, we can have accumulation of torque.
I had been playing with the Bessler wheel for many years, trying to crack it. After many clever but unsuccessful builds, I was convinced it would require thinking way out of the box. So, rather than trying to shift weights around to provide an out of balance condition, I mused about this idea:
Imagine a set of planks or rails set so that the center area is open. The ramps are fixed at an approximate 45 degree angle. A flywheel is allowed to roll down the rails, it's axle resting on the rails and it's rotating mass occupies the space between the rails.
The large flat circular disc like weights (flywheels or gyros) are allowed to "spin up" due to the force of gravity as they roll down a the "fixed" inclined plane starting in the fourth quadrant at a tilt angle of 45 degrees.
Note well: The rails do not rotate with the casing wheel !!
The rails can remain fixed at 45 degrees, even though the outer casing wheel spins by bringing the rail supports out through axles concentric with the casing wheel through a hollow axle and on each side. In this manner the inclined angle can be adjusted externally.
The large spin up might be accomplished because the flywheel rolls on its axle by means of the pair of rails.
Considerable angular momentum is imparted to the flywheel in this manner , as opposed to having the flywheel roll on its outer edge toward center of the casing wheel. In the latter case the flywheel will roll more quickly but not gather much angular momentum.
In this way, gravity has converted falling energy into rotational energy as the flywheel is making it's way to the center of the wheel. At the center of the casing wheel it is suddenly stopped by a brake or wedge shaped chamber.
At this instant, it must transfer all of the accumulated angular momentum of the flywheel to the casing wheel. This is a large torque force or "kick".
After the flywheel has given up it's spin energy to the outer casing wheel, it is recycled to the starting position by the inertia of the casing wheel.There are many possibilities for this idea since we are storing gravitational energy in spin energy which can be used at any point in the cycle that we desire.
At any point that we decide to stop the flywheel rotation, and if the "brake" is the outer casing wheel, it's spin momentum will have to be transferred to the outer casing.
With this technique, we are integrating gravitational force over time.
I know, the laws of physics state that the accumulated rotational energy will be exactly equal to the objects falling energy, but now we have greater control over the timing and use of the gravitational energy and have not yet taken into account the "Aspden Effect". (see paper attached)
There are many embodiments of this approach that can be fashioned into a Bessler type wheel.
The next version is a variation of this approach.
A variation on the above idea with more detail:
Imagine a fixed set of rails or planks set at an approximate 45 degree angle within the casing wheel. The upper left of the rails is approximately at the 315 degree point (fourth quadrant), the lower right of the rails is at approximately 135 degrees in the second quadrant.
The rails are fixed to this angle and do not rotate with the casing wheel.
This is accomplished by a set of concentric axles that pass through the center of the casing wheel axle, which is hollow, such that the incline angle of the rails can be adjusted on the outside of the casing wheel.
The rails have a open center area along their length such that the width of the stone flywheel can find clearance while the much smaller axles of the flywheel rest on the rails.
Since the axles of the flywheels are much smaller than the outer diameter, the flywheel will roll on it's axles starting slowly and gathering momentum, storing all of the normal gravitational attraction energy into high speed rotation of the flywheel by the time it exits the rails.
At the start, one of the flywheels roll down this inclined plane on it's axle gaining considerable rotational momentum, spinning clockwise.
It now drops off the lower edge of the inclined rails and transfers all of it's clockwise gravitational spin momentum to the inner wall of the casing. It will actually try to climb the inner wall of the casing wheel until it transfers all of it's rotational energy to the casing. As it tries to climb the wall, it is in effect pulling the inner wall of the casing wheel down in the second quadrant at approximately 135 degrees causing clockwise rotation of the casing.
Rotational torque energy is multiplied based on the ratio of the flywheel outer diameter versus inner casing wall diameter. When it has given up it's rotational energy, "stops" carefully positioned on the inside wall of the casing rim catch or scoop the flywheel for recycling to the 315 degree point (fourth quadrant). Now imagine two of these flywheels circulating in this manner with perhaps an extra one rolling down the ramp .
How does the "Aspden Effect" play into this?
Enough for now, I'll address that next time.
« Last Edit: 2010-01-19, 13:24:02 by ION »
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