Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] E-MHD NEWS!

["Richard Gordon" <lrrg@wantree.com.au>]

Dear Carsten,
                     I have admired your submarine construction for some
time. I hope that one day I can make my dreams become a reality as you have.
It has been a life-long dream of mine to construct a manned submarine of my
own design.

As for my E-MHD engine, I really can't tell you too much for fear of
violating any possible patentability the device may have. I can tell you
that it employs quite an unusual field geometry to produce propulsion, a
field geometry different to that of any E-MHD engine I have ever seen in the
time that I have been researching it. All my research indicates that it
should produce around the same amount of thrust as a 12 volt brushless DC
thruster for around the same power input. I would need a much larger budget
than I have to construct a life-sized engine that could propel even a small
vessel.

This does not mean that my engine would be extremely expensive to
mass-produce. Imagine having to build a highly efficient and precise
prototype of an electric motor that is quite common. It may cost you $4,000
to build the prototype, whereas the mass produced version would cost no more
than $200. In this way, a life-sized prototype of my engine would be
exremely expensive when manufactured to any level of precision. However, if
it was mass-produced it should be no more expensive (perhaps even cheaper)
than the equivalent electric motor. Engines of this type have many
advantages, as I'm sure you are aware. Very few total parts and no moving
parts means reliability and economy in the long-run. This makes it suitable
as a pump or an engine.

I am sorry that I can't answer any specific questions at this stage, or give
detailed descriptions. I would very much like to, but first I need to see
how patentable it is. I'm sure you can understand that. I would appreciate
any advice anyone could give me about either E-MHD or the path I should take
to market it. I would love to see an engine like this working quietly away
on every small submarine in the world.

Thanks for replying, Carsten! I hope we can keep in touch. I'm sure I will
be emailing you asking you some questions about sub technology pretty soon.
Cheers!

Rich



 ----- Original Message -----
From: Carsten Standfuß <MerlinSub@t-online.de>
To: <personal_submersibles@psubs.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2001 9:21 PM
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] E-MHD NEWS!


> Richard is there any discription, pictures, drawings, videos
> or something available witch shows how this works ?
>
> How many power in - how many thrust out ?
>
> Carsten
>
>
> > Richard Gordon schrieb:
> >
> > Hi guys!,
> >              I have been experimenting solidly for the last week with
> > my MHD engine and have this to report...  IT WORKS!!!!!  Not only did
> > it work, but it worked better than scaled recreations of the engine in
> > the YAMATO1 and MHD engines designed by MIT. The flow of sea water in
> > my design was quite violent in comparison to that produced by my
> > recreations of the other designs of the same input power and magnetic
> > field strength. It completely blew them away! I would say that with
> > the right materials you may get similar performance out of this to
> > that of an electric motor of the same input power.
> >
> > Again I would like to know if anyone out there could offer me, or even
> > point me towards some corporate or private sponsorship for this
> > project. Wherever in the world you are, I'll come and work with you
> > and develop this thing with you (and of course, share the earnings
> > with you!) if you can pick up the tab for the R+D. I know what
> > materials I will need to work with and how the research should take
> > place. I love submarines, especially the smaller ones, and I just
> > wanna make them as good as they can be. If you can help out, please
> > let me know!
> >
> > Cheers!
> > Richard Gordon
> >
> >
> >
>