Clem Engine Design
Norman Wootan ( normw@fastlane.net )
Fri, 11 Sep 1998 11:08:25 -0500
Hi! Don: Please don't take this wrong but, here in Texas we have an
old saying,
"He has to have instructions on the heel to pour pi-- out of the
boot." Please don't
go out looking for a tar sprayer. I'll save you the trouble by telling
you what Richard Clem observed while watching his road repair workers
spraying tar. First of all tar
has the same mass regardless of whether it is a solid or a liquid. When
it is slightly
melted and sprayed out through a curved pipe (about a 60 degree bend)
there is
very little thrust reaction (Newton's 2nd law, action reaction) to the
spray. Really
heat the tar to a low viscosity high velocity flow and you get a very
powerful thrust
reaction from the bent pipe. As Jerry has tried to point out in
previous post, there
is possibly a lurking heat energy phenomenon for the tar has the same
mass as
before but flowing at higher efficiency and velocity therefore the
thrust component has gone up drastically. Clem reasoned that if he had
a rotating unit with many thrusters
creating torque from hot oil flow this could possibly achieve O/U
operation for it is
an effective method of converting heat energy into useful torque or
horsepower.
The anomalous behavior here is the square of the radius relationship
pure and simple.
His task was to make the device efficient enough to take advantage of
this critical
relationship. Think it out and do the math. Norm