Re: Clem Engine Design

Norman Wootan ( normw@fastlane.net )
Fri, 11 Sep 1998 18:22:11 -0500

I don't think the Clem performance has anything to do with the Perkins Heating
Principle.
Keep in mind that Perkins got the patent on the heating effect that Griggs has
been
researching. There are amazingly at least 8 patents on shear heating in a
fluid such as the Griggs patent. Perkins got there first. Interesting is the
fact that both men live very close
to one another in Georgia. I still believe that the Clem is based on the
disproportionate
nozzle thrust vs. energy needed to accelerate the fluid out to the nozzles.
That is my
theory and I will stick to it. Others may have other explanations so let's
hear them. Norm

sno wrote:

> Just a thought, could this be another example of the
> "Griggs" effect ??......steve opelc
>
> Norman Wootan wrote:
> >
> > 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
> >
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