You have been dreaming about the Clem design and I have quietly been
gathering material to build it. I have two cars which I am wrecking and
will use the bearings, flywheel, brake piping etc to construct the thing.
*I can only make the cone 300 mm long and looked at the design as shown on
Jims page. The drawing is faulty as the pump is shown on one side and the
starter on the other side. It should be starter on the take off, pump with
a direct connection from the take off to the pump. The starter is to bring
it up to the critical speed after which the pump keeps creating the pressure
My only concern is that the fluid pipe diameter must be large enough to
provide sufficient space to suck in the oil while at the same time the
velocity of the drum helps to maintain momentum. I guess that the cone must
be of sufficient weight to act as a flywheel so in my case I will use a
solid 6" bar steel and connect a flywheel at the end with the nozzles
bolted to the flywheel after removing the gear teeth. It will need careful
balancing to 20000 revs to stop any vibration and the bearings need to be
oil fed and high speed.
The pump pressure I am uncertain about but if you use a swash plate
hydrolic pump, you have a non slip positive pressure. I have a gear pump 1"
in and out
and will have to experiment to see how much pressure it is able to generate.
A little 12 volt one goes up to 70 p.s.i but I would think that 600 p.si.
would be a minimum to get the speed required.
Very interested to see you think this way as I am sure the answer to 100 %
utilisation of mechanically generated heat is where the answer lies.
I tried it with mercury but found it too dicey (poisonous) Oil would be a
much better answer. Heat pumps are over unity. I had one in my office
delivering 10 kw. of heat with a 1.5 h.p. motor and the 7 day adventists
church in Palmerston North takes heat from 1 bore, takes the heat from the
water and pumps it back into the ground,
Total power usage 7.5 kw. and output in the region of 50 Kw in heat.
The whole complex is heated in under 2 hours from starting.
The only draw back for experimenters is the need to have a lathe and
tooling to get it off the ground.
I have now acquired most of it so that is also on my list of trials.
Next week my final on Joe's cell. It either works or bust.
After that the mercury spinning top and from there to Clem's design and if
the reports are accurate, I should be able to generate my own power shortly.
My computor expert friends tell me that y2k is going to create power
hickups etc and we have just had a speech from our prime minister that our
illustrious government has everything under control and citizens should no
longer need to worry.
When I hear politicians talk that way, I do begin to worry !!
Greetings from down under
REN