You wrote;
> From what I recall, he used a modified bicycle wheel with 12
> copper(?) pipes in place of the spokes, with wire wound around
> them and the outer edges of the wheel.. he spin the wheel at
> several thousand RPM, and told me at one point he got a 6 foot
> spark off the device, which damaged his lab equipment.
How interesting!! Wouldn't the coils only inductively couple from spark
type discharges? So that means there must have been a separation having
a dielectric to let it build up then discharge. Quite an interesting
concept.
The early material I saw about Searl all claims to be using this
centrifugal electron thrust phenomenon. Strange how it ties in with
Tewari's homopolar generator that he says taps energy from the space
vacuum at the center of the magnetic field of the rotating magnetic
drum. Really have to get some of Tewaris work online unless someone
knows of some good URLs that have the information.
Thanks Steve for that description, it ain't much but if their is such an
electron thrust effect this might be a way to tap it....a 6 foot spark??
Geez, that would be nearly around one million volts because the Tesla
coil we had that DC Cox built would produce about 12-14 foot bolts and
we knew it was in the range of 2.3MV. It depending on how dry the air
was, the speed of our interrupter and the spacing of the tungsten
contactors.
I'd always figured any rotating device, especially if it was
self-running could have magnets placed on the rim and coils placed near
it to induce a current which could be sapped off to do work.
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