Yes, that is so about the fish having to move just a bit to maintain the
optimum least drag position....I love your screwdriver handle bet....I took
a 12VDC squirrel cage blower motor from a car..it had a nozzle about 2" in
diameter....when it was on, helluva lot of air...a ping ball thrown NEAR
the edge of the air column would cause the ball to be entrained and float
in the stream...it would bobble just a bit from the air currents....we put
it in a glass case of a restaurant and covered the motor...people would
freak seeing this ball hovering in the air....
I think this is the same thing with the NASA acoustic levitation where two
colliding high density sonic fields create a well that holds matter in
place...god, I love this stuff....
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> From: MARC OLHOEFT <seapower@alaska.net>
> To: KeelyNet-L@lists.kz
> Subject: Schauberger's Fish Fetish
> Date: Wednesday, March 25, 1998 6:49 PM
>
> Jerry, Interesting note About the Floating Egg I think the Aerodynes may
> be possible based on the Bernoulli's Principal: When energy is neither
> added or taken from a fluid in motion,the potential energy,or pressure
> will decrease when the kinetic energy,or velocity, is increaced.(the
> basis for the aerodynamic wing)basically airflow over a wing shape
> causes a differential in pressure generating lift however in the case of
> the fat end up egg the forces generated would be laterally not
> vertically also this process causes drag on the object requiring
> constant power input. The aerodyne would work if the airflow over the
> top of the aerodyne was faster than the airflow over the bottom.
> As an aircraft mechanic of many years I would bet new mechanics that I
> could make a screwdriver hover in mid air .The trick is to have a
> screwdriver with a round topped handle shoot comperssed air across the
> domed top and generating sufficent lift to hold the screwdriver in mid
> air. was always worth a Laugh and $10 bucks. BTW fish are not static
> while in a fast current they just have a very hydrodynamically efficent
> shape requiring MINIMAL effort to stay in the same location.