Colin M....
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> From: Marinus Berghuis [mailto:renkahu@ihug.co.nz]
> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 7:17 AM
> To: chuck's corner
> Cc: interact@keelynet.com
> Subject: Re: vortex energy...
>
>
> At 18:29 4/11/1999 -0800, you wrote:
> > hi all,... so............... for my next attempt to stimulate
> >thought.... ever noticed how smoke goes up a chimney in a spiral or
> >vortice effect?
>
> Hi All,
>
> There is a man in New Zealand who in fact invented something working along
> this idea.
> He claims and I have not seen it working that to do this you have
> to make a
> ball 20 feet in diameter with small holes top and bottom.
> Your turbine is the size of the ball 20 feet diameter and he claims that
> the pressure differential of 20 feet is sufficient to drive an alternator.
> Now I, again in my life's wandering, have also once cleaned a
> chimney stack
> !!! 100 foot high and while in this stack never got sucked into
> the air!! I
> did have to climb the bloody thing but did find a continual draft flowing
> past us so indeed there is an airflow which can be calculated quite simply
> by taking barometric pressure readings top and bottom.
> This sound a bit like suspending a wire from the stratosphere.
> You would be
> able to use this for running your gadgets. But who is going to provide the
> skyhook ?
>
> Ren
>
>
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