Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] operational parametres...

[Carl Kem <dustyut@lasal.net>]

Cool Rich, I wish you the best of luck and Godspeed on your project.
And when you get one of the finished engines done, ship me a freebie,
will you please?
Carl


Richard Gordon wrote:

> Carsten,            having read your email I agree that this was
> probably the wrong venue to raise the matter of an idea about which I
> can say very little. Sorry for wetting everyone's appetites like that
> without giving anything solid. The engine that I have designed could
> be insulated and shielded with fairly light-weight materials which
> would mean that there would be no 'magnetic-leakage' to disrupt
> instrumentation, computers, hull-members or shipwrecks. It can be
> positioned internally or externally in the form of an engine pod. I
> would favour it as an engine pod as you could place them so that they
> would contribute to manueverability. I don't want to give any
> estimates for performance of a 40 kilowatt engine, because the
> materials I was working with were absolutely the weakest possible for
> such an engine. I may give you a figure, but the actual result may
> turn out to be 5 times as much. For instance, I used ferrite magnets -
> Neodymium magnets are a little over ten times as powerful, so they
> would give a much more dramatic result. Also, I used aluminium
> electrodes - the electrodes need to be made from a noble metal(gold,
> platinum, etc...) because some of the energy which would go into the
> propulsive effect goes into tearing apart the electrodes, this does
> not happen with noble metals. So I really can't say until a bigger
> model can be built and with the right materials. It should be pretty
> impressive though. As for patentability, it is actually an engine I
> would be patenting, not an idea or a principle. The principles behind
> this kind of propulsion are well documented in the public-domain. For
> this reason, it will actually be the engine that I patent. Before I do
> that, I need to be sure that the design of the engine that I patent is
> absolutely first-class, thus the necessity for prototyping. I don't
> want to patent something that can easily be improved upon. It needs to
> be perfect from the beginning. I hope I have added a little more
> credibility to my ideas and my motives for doing things the way I
> have. I really only wanted advice from the group regarding the idea
> and how it should be handled. Also to know if anyone knew more about
> the field than I do. Even the smallest pieces of info can often turn
> out to be priceless. Thanks guys. Rich

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