Re: Vortex / Venturi related to Countdown?

sno ( sno@GroupZ.net )
Tue, 15 Sep 1998 00:15:21 -0400

You can buy these at many pet shops, used to drain fish tanks....
I use one to empty my boats all the time...work great...

steve opelc

Jerry W. Decker wrote:
>
> Hi Folks!
>
> I recently received a Johnson Smith Catalog 941-747-6645 in Bradenton,
> Florida and on page 50 was this interesting line drawing advertising a
> venturi type water pump. It struck me as possibly being related to the
> zpe@pdq.net countdown claims so here is the text;
>
> New! Mini Pump drains over 200 gallons per hour - no electricity
> needed.
>
> Uses ordinary water pressure to drain swimming pools, basements,
> aquariums, hot tubs, boats & more. Simply attach tiny pump between two
> garden hoses. When tap is turned on, water pressure sucks up waste
> water and carries it away. Even if your power is out, you can still
> drain a flooded basement. Tough, lightweight polypropylene won't rust
> or corrode. No moving parts to break down or wear out. Made in US.
> Hoses not included.
>
> JV-20411 Mini Sump Pump - $10.98
> =======================
> The picture shows a plastic hourglass looking thing where water comes
> in on one side, goes through to the center of the hourglass and on exit,
> it has an additional suction tube which sucks up the water and carries
> it out from the venturi suction.
>
> Now, I know this isn't a big deal and some of us have either seen or
> worked with the venturi effect. Some industrial drum vacuums work with
> compressed air to lift fluids and dirt using such a venturi nozzle.
>
> However, I just thought it was neat that you could buy one of these
> little plastic thingies with water hose fittings molded into it if you
> wanted to experiment with it.
>
> Don't get me wrong, I'm not claiming any o/u or anything particularly
> anomalous with it, just that it might tie in with the zpe@pdq.net claim
> of being able to produce o/u from a vortex.
>
> Perhaps there is an optimum angle (as in Schaubergers KUDU antelope horn
> angle) that these guys have discovered and MODELLED in a dynamic fluid
> flow system.
>
> We have the Hilsch/Rankin vortex tubes which split air into hot and cold
> flows when fed IN through a center tube and OUT through either side of a
> dual spiral.
>
> We have the venturi which feeds IN from one side straight OUT through to
> the opposite side and pulling additional media IN (air, water, whatever)
> with it by the venturi suction.
>
> I did a search on venturi power, vortex power, vortex pump and didn't
> find much that fit except for these two odd ducks though they don't
> really shed any light on how power could be extracted.
>
> Superconducting & cryogenic rotor cooling system;
>
> http://www.patents.ibm.com/details?patent_number=4779017
>
> Vortex crop circle making machine...<g>...;
>
> http://www.patents.ibm.com/details?patent_number=3828531
>
> Like Norm, I too think there is something going on with vortexes, hot
> and cold and inertia of mass in motion. Perhaps you might like to buy
> one of those tubes for $10.98 to play with.
>
> Catalog request - 941-747-6645
> FAX orders - 941-746-7896
> Voice orders - 941-747-2356
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