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The way of the world was altered for all time when the wheel was invented
thousands of years ago. Now a mushroom-shaped rotor that spins
simultaneously on two planes at 90 degrees is poised to have a similar
effect.
That's according to the inventor of the inertialess drive, which solves the
problem faced by engineers for hundreds of years: how to store and recover
mechanical energy, otherwise called kinetic mass.
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Following his discovery comes news from Britain scientists have developed a
power generation system named Pirouette, a cylinder no larger than a
spin-dryer rotating in a vacuum at very high speed attached to a fixed
armature to produce energy.
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The inertialess drive discovery came to inventor Ken Pedlar literally in a
flash.
He was a power board lineman 25 years ago working on switch gear when an air
brake was opened and jammed. Before his eyes he saw energy jump the gap and
form into a single ball.
It began spinning first on one and two planes at 90 degrees like a wave
passing through a wave. Then instead of earthing out, it imploded in a
thunderclap and disappeared.
"I wanted to know how to recreate a ball of energy using artificial means
and be able to control it for use," says Mr Pedlar.