I would like to subscribe.
As my first post, has anyone ever made that turbo compound rotary that
you describe on the webpage work, and do the results measure up to the
hype?
Brian E. McDaris, SFC USA
Welcome to the newsletter Brian. Thanks for being in Iraq Brian.
I don't know. Pratt & Whitney Canada has applied for a patent
so I would not be surprised if they built the hardware or are
building the hardware. You will probably see it on
a US Army helicopter first. Should double the range.
Perhaps on a smaller tilt rotor too.
http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/wo.jsp?wo=2004074655
We don't think they will get a patent or will not be able
to defend it as NASA proposed it back in the early 90's.
There is no doubt in my mind it will work if somebody does
the homework. The CW R3350 TC certainly worked as does the new
Detroit Diesel and Scania turbo compound truck engines.
The rotary has a HUGE advantage over all these engines as
there is no exhaust valve to waste kinetic energy.
See the attached chart from CW.
Here too is a tech paper on work done in Eastern Europe.
I can't wait until somebody builds a turbo compound rotary
engine and races it at Lemans or some other endurance race where
fuel consumption is a factor. As long as the rules are fair to the rotary
no other engine in the world would have a chance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5-5Autjr0w#GU5U2spHI_4
Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.
Paul,
They may get a patent in USA like you said but then the fight begins in
court. I've witnessed this with G.E. having a patent on a wind turbine
electrical control mechanism that was clearly in technical journals and
talked about for months before they filed their patent. Can they defend it?
You bet. They are, and unless the challenger can afford to pay for huge
lawyer fees, endless delays, feints, and other legal shenanigans, they will
run out of funds long before GE coffers has even the slightest dent. GE, the
late comer in large wind turbine has the deepest pockets. The amount
companies spend on idea protection always depends on the perceived market
value of the idea. Ditto for turbo-compound. Its value is huge.
But lately another wrench is poised to be thrown into the very idea of
hydro-carbon based fuels which may or may not slow down turbo compound
research.
Most of you have heard me mention hydrogen before as a good fuel additive.
Most assumed I was speaking about pure atomic hydrogen. I wasn't. Within
the last year a few researchers have found the proper pulse rate and
ultrasonic frequency to use in an electrolizer that pushes the gas output up
to 10X over what Faraday postulated was possible. This is done by not
reducing hydrogen and oxygen to its simple atomic state as in how a 'normal
electrolizer would work with a KOH catalizing solution, but rather taking
off both hydrogen and oxygen together in their natural stoimeteric ratio.
Pulsed generators electro-lizers making 'Brown's gas' or H-O-H from water
are starting to sprout up around the world since Stanley Meyers' patent
expired last July and a few guys in Britian, USA, and Austrailia were, by
sharing info, able to reverse engineer his work and I believe even improve
it. I had communicated with Stanley about the time I first moved to Japan
in the early 80s and found he was a little guarded and lacked the proper
scientific terminology to explain his work. In short very 'out there'
In hindsight I am amazed at what he actually did accomplished in the late
70s using analog circuits. Today with powerful MOSFETS and feedback
circuits that can be modulated automatically around water's natural
resonance frequency at 42.8 kHz strange things start to happens. It is not
just the energy of the gas but some researchers think something is happening
within the gas like microscopic ball lightening.
A few breakthroughs in the last few months, that have been freely shared on
the Internet, have enabled any home hobbyist, including everyone on this
newsletter to throw together a simple device and test the technology for
themselves. OK before you guys call in the UFOs check out these site and
devote a few hours to following the threads and a few more hours tinkering.
Now a few firms in Canada, Florida, Japan, Russia, England, and Taiwan are
already claiming they developed the technology. Pss shaw!!! Perhaps the
electrical circuit and the electrolyzer are slightly different but as for
patentable? We will see:) I am making one now so I'll let you know how it
goes.
How about rotary engines running on Brown gas? Why not? A few guys are
running ICE on 100% Brown's gas, with stainless steel valves and ceramic
coated parts. We can use stainless intakes and exhausts pipes and ceramic
coat the rotor and side walls as well. Like turbo compounding this idea
might be worth exploring and doing. I assume a certain amount of steam might
contact the combustion chamber and rust out the engine. Many people are
already supplementing their gasoline engines cars with a simple electrolyzer
making this gas and claiming 15% to 50% fuel mileage increases. BEWARE
though. Some of the designs look like Mickey Mouse designed them.
I only brought this topic up because I have seen a lot of discussion lately
on what are obvious to me different parts of the device. For example D.C.
PWM circuits, capacitors, and concentric tube fuel senders.
Start here and let me know what you think.
http://peswiki.com/energy/OS:Water_Fuel_Cell
Doug (back in Japan)
Haven't you heard? They found another 200 years supply of petroleum in the
Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, tar sands in addition to a 100 years supply
already being exploited in Alberta. As soon as crude goes over $120 a barrel
it will become economically feasible to extract the crude in the US.
No beating gasoline for miles per cubic foot.
BTW I was getting worried Doug. I tried to contact Tom Weber to get your
brothers phone number to see if he got your body back from the wilds of Himalayas.
Glad to see you made it out of there alive one more time :) Robin says; "Thank heavens!
Paul can stop worrying now". "Paul worries about you Doug." Robin.
Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.
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