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> From: Jerry W. Decker <jdecker@keelynet.com>
> To: Steve <darklord@darknet.net>
> Cc: keelynet@DallasTexas.net
> Subject: Re: Power source
> Date: Tuesday, September 22, 1998 12:39 PM
>
> Hi Steve!
>
> 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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