Category: Energy & Power

THEORY: That the efficiency of the fuel to kilometer ratio of ships and submarines could be greatly improved with better hull design. By reducing the friction along the boundary layer of the hull and by removing the ships rudder. Both of which increase the drag on the vessel.

DATE of ORIGIN: December, 2016.

DESCRIPTION: The boundary layer of the ship creates friction where the steel hull meets the water. By reducing the pressure of the water on the boundary layer the drag will be reduced, thereby improving fuel efficiency. The boundary layer is that layer of water that is next to the hull as the hull tries to move forward through the water. This layer is often only twelve centimeters thick but it creates drag on the length of the hull.

The concept here is to reduce friction. This could be done in a couple of ways. One is by reducing the area in contact with the water (pressure per square inch) but this limits the size of the hull and is not practical. Others have demonstrated that bubbles ejected under the hull reduces drag along the boundary layer.

Another way of reducing the pressure per square inch on the hull is by removing the boundary layer. This is achieved by inverting the propulsion system. Instead of pushing the hull forward it is better to suck the hull forward into a vacuum.

This vacuum is created by putting vertical vents along the length of the hull. The vents, similar to a shark gills but in reverse, they reach from the keel to the water line. Each gill like vent extends out into the water about ten centimeters. As the ship moves forward the gill vents scrape away the boundary layer reducing the friction.

Once the water is scraped away from the boundary layer it enters a horizontal exhaust tube running the length of the ship. The exhaust tube inside is twice as big as the surface area of the boundary layer on the outside, reducing the pressure by half. The exhaust tube starts at the bow of the ship looking like a crescent moon and ends at the stern of the ship looking like a circle.

Now instead of a rudder and single propeller at the stern. The single propeller and rudder are removed and there is installed two propellers, one in each exhaust tube. These propellers will create a vacuum in the exhaust tubes thus sucking the ship forward. The exhaust tubes would also be used to steer the ship with one going faster than the other or by reversing one of them. Thereby steering the ship without inducing drag.

The same system of propulsion can be used for submarines but instead of crescent-shaped vents they would be half round vents on either side of the sub.

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THEORY: By removing the tail wing of the aircraft and by making the rear ailerons “hingable”, and by adding four more flight controls, you can achieve three-dimensional flight.

DATE of ORIGIN: November, 2014.

DESCRIPTION: The tail wing of an aircraft adds lateral directional stability and control. Allowing the plane to turn left and right. It also induces a great deal of drag and limits the aircraft to two dimensions. So herein is the method required to remove the tail (wing) from the aircraft and still maintain lateral control.

1)Removing the tail rudder;

The difference between two and three-dimensional flight is in how long the aircraft takes to respond to the controls. For example in two-dimensional flight, an airplane is just that a plane, it flies in a plane, a horizontal plane. With the ability to pitch up, down, left and right.

In three-dimensional flight the airplane truly becomes an “air” craft as it will be able to pitch up, down, left and right, in its own length. It will not require a two-dimensional plane. Instead of taking one hundred meters to turn the aircraft around it could be done in the length of the aircraft.

2)The ability to swoop;

This new ability is call, “swooping”. With both rear wings in the up position and both rear flaps up, the airplane would pull an upward flip in the length of time it took to work the controls. Making it fly more like a bird. The pilot has the ability to work the two control functions, of each of the left and right aileron, independently from each other. In the drawing above the airplane would swoop up and to the right.

3)New control column;

The pilot works the controls by gripping the two control wheels with the left and right hand respectively. Then by pushing, pulling and twisting up and down the two halves of the control wheel, the pilot controls the ailerons and flaps at the rear of the plane.

The front wings (the lift wings) remain stationary but the flaps on the left and right sides are controlled by the foot pedals. These flaps become more workable with a wider range up and down. this requires the pilot to be able to push and pull at the pedals. To do this the pilot wears a clip on the bottom of his shoes similar to that of a bicycle pedal clip or that of a sky boot.

This configuration of flight controls will also end the problem of the unrecoverable tail spin. As a tail spin is a two-dimensional plane trying to fly in three dimensions. Stalls, dives and spins will all be recoverable with these added flight controls.

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THEORY: To create hydroelectricity by using the power of the rivers around the world. By reversing the formula of using—- small amounts of water at high pressure—-to large amounts of water at low pressure.

DATE of ORIGIN: October, 2012.

DESCRIPTION: Large horizontal turbines equipped with drag reducing vanes are attached to generators and fitted onto rail cars. The rail cars are then submerged in the river at a ninety degree angle to the flow of the water. With the rail cars resting at the bottom of the river, the turbines turn at ambient speed. The slow powerful turn of the turbine is then geared up to a higher speed, to turn a generator.

1. The wasted energy in rivers

With all the attention and money being spent on such projects as tidal generation and wave surge generation and other intermittent energy technologies like wind generation. It is difficult to understand why so much attention is being spent on energy sources that are inconsistent. When all around us is an energy source that is not only consistent, but powerful.

This type of hydro generation should stop all need to dam rivers in the future. No need to flood valleys or alter the course of the river. As well it could be applied all around the world, even when there are no valleys to flood. With different scales of track and turbines for different applications or sizes of rivers.

2. Pollution free power

The goal here was to come up with an idea that would not pollute the environment, obstruct the river or harm the fish. With the turbines turning at ambient speed fish would be able to swim much faster than the speed of the turbine and most fish will treat the turbine like rapids and just swim over them. As well screens or guards could be employed.

This is s simple narrow gauge railway running down the river bank and turning 90 degrees such that it runs down and under the water along the river bottom. The rail cars are equipped with turbines that are facing broadside to the current. To reduce the drag on the return stroke of the turbine blades, they are fitted with passive vanes that swing open with the back pressure of the return stroke. Then close under the pressure of the power stroke.

3. No harm to the environment

These passive vanes reduce the drag by up to 80% on the return stroke making this a very effective power to mechanical cost ratio. An engine that has an 80% effective ratio, is very hard to acquire.

With very low environmental impact and the ability to extract the turbines and generators when necessary or for repair makes this a good working design.

As can be seen above. The environmental impact is very low with three simple steps to install and all three can be reversed if necessary. First start by preparing the surface of the river bottom by removing the mud and debris. Then lay down a layer of gravel and finally lay down precast concrete sections installed with rail tracks.

4. Plenty of power for everyone

These power generation stations could be located every kilometer along the river. Generating power in places around the world where, never thought of before, for those who need it most.

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THEORY: That today’s solar panels are as efficient as old incandescent light bulbs. That all shiny and reflected light is wasted. That by design and shape the efficiency could be improved greatly.

DATE of ORIGIN: November, 2015.

DESCRIPTION: Solar cells, even those on the International Space Station, are only 60% efficient. Because they reflect up to 40% of the light. They are similar in design to a flat belt when they should look more like a V belt. Prisms and design changes would correct this problem.

Look how different nature does it.

Take note of this plant. It’s a Hen & Chick plant (Sempervivum Tectorum). This is nature’s way of building a photocell. Yes, this is photosynthesis, but the principles are the same.  It is structured and designed to capture sunlight. Notice there is little reflected light.

There are two quick design changes that could occur to make current photo cells more efficient.

First: light is reflected because of the smooth glassy finish of a typical panel. This is simple reflection but herein lies the problem because there is nothing to stop this reflection. It is nearly impossible to position the panel such that there is no reflection (which would be 90 degrees to the Sun) and if that was accomplished the Sun would quickly shift its position.

The way to fix this is by covering the solar panel with many small prisms. Laid out in a horizontal pattern. These prisms will reflect all light down into the solar panel and there will be no reflection. No wasted light and the panel will become more along the lines of 90% to 95% efficient. Producing more electricity for the same infrastructure.

As well, cutting vertical prisms fanning out from the bottom of the panel. These prisms would catch the sun as it tracked across the horizon. This could be accomplished by putting a plastic film over the panel or etched glass panels to overlay the photo panel.

Horizontal Prisms will track the Sun vertically and the Vertical Prisms will track the Sun horizontally. Making it possible for the solar panel to be stationary and still track the Sun across the sky.

Second: Solar panels are made as two-dimensional. If the solar panels were made in three-dimensional arrays they would be more efficient per square meter. Building three-dimensionally also makes it easier to capture more reflected light. As in the Hen & Chick plant. In this example any reflected light is caught by the underside photo panel. Achieving closer to 100% light utilization.

This array is very useful as it can be collapsed for shipment and expanded when delivered. Similar to an old metal kitchen strainer.

Another good example of how nature does sunlight capture is a mountain side. The conical shape of the conifer trees and their year round needles make them the perfect photo cells. Their conical shape packed in densely together is the same as cross cutting prisms on the surface of the photo panel. Nature has created a system so successful that no light escapes. In fact little light even reaches the forest floor.

This is an excellent way to improve efficiency in electrical production and would make the difference between whether a home could be effectively run on solar power.

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THEORY: To create a bike crank that would aid in providing a mechanical assist in peddling the bike.

DATE of ORIGIN: April, 2002

DESCRIPTION: This is a telescoping crank arm that chases in and out of a linear bearing. Lengthening the pedal arm to maximum length at the one o’clock position in the pedal stroke. Then tucking in before hitting the bottom of the stroke.

There was patent pending on this idea in June of 2004 in the US. Before the two-year patent pending ran out an application for a full patent was made. The Patent lawyer was working out of  NY. It’s standard practice for them to work for a fee as well as a percentage of the patent. But the lawyer sold or transferred his interest in the crank idea to a second lawyer who did the same to a third lawyer. All the delays and transfers took more than the year which allowed for the patent pending expired.

Now that should have been the end of it because once published (as in patent pending) the idea can not be patented under another name. Five years after filling for a full patent they finally answered the application and it was rejected from the US patent office. Some two years earlier the idea had been patented under another name.

1)Building a better crank;

This is still a very good money-making idea. This crank was on a full-scale bike that road around. It made a very impressive difference in the effort required to peddle the bike.

This bike crank reduces the effort to peddle by 20%. That is right! One fifth easier and it does it without you having to think about it.

There was an US. patent pending on this crank design but that did not protect the idea from lawyers.  They delayed until the patent pending expired then took out a full US patent under another name. The loss was $8,000.00 US. for the patent pending and another $8,000,00 US. to acquire a full US. patent.

New Bike Crank

2)These are the Patent drawings. This is a hydraulic version;

2)The Original Drawings;

You can see there are both mechanical and hydraulic examples. These were designed so that there would be only one cam on one side of the bike crank such that the cam will not interfere with the drive sprockets.

 3)These were the documents that were supposed to protect the idea;

4)This idea belongs to everyone now;

The concept here is in the telescoping crank arm. The idler on the inside of the arm pushes the crank arm back and forth through the linear bearing as it runs around the cam. The cam is off set from the center, forward and up from the center of the crankshaft.

This results in a crank arm that lengthens and shortens from 5 inches on the back stroke to 9 inches on the front stroke in an oval fashion. A typical crank stroke is 7 inches in a circular fashion.

5)Pedals like a regular bike;

The key here is that your foot still goes around in a 14 inch circle. (7+7 or 5+9) so the rider do not know the difference.  But the 2 inch advantage on the power stroke results in a 20% advantage. Now that is a good idea that should put 20% more people on bikes.

It was proposed that the cams would be designed in round or oval shapes to maximize the effect of the telescoping arms.

There are so many applications for this crank. From road racing, to mountain biking to all the pedal carts in the South East, China and India.

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Theory: To use microwaves to create a tankless hot water system.

Date of Origin: December, 1987.

Description: A tankless hot water system that uses electromagnetic energy waves to heat water to the required temperature. A single line system with heaters located in the wall behind the sink, tub or shower. With temperature controllers located on the wall behind a single tap.

Heating water up to a temperature that is too hot to use and then storing that overheated water, only to cool it down to use it. There is huge energy waste in a hot water tank. Heating water up to a high temperature only to store that water until use is an enormous waste of energy. Only to cool it down to a usable temperature. This type of waste is no longer affordable.

This system proposes that a single water line be installed to all water features in the home or office. With a temperature controller on the wall and a heating unit behind the wall. The temperature control units are connected to a magnetron in the furnace or utility room by wire cable. Turning on the water flow also turns on the magnetron, The temperature control on the wall regulates the amount or power of the magnetron which sends an electromagnetic force along a coaxial cable to the heater unit and heats the water through antenna in the heater unit to the desired temperature.

These water heater schematics were adapted the from a microwave oven. It is doubtful they would work. But it works for the purpose of getting the idea across.

This is the heater tube.

Now there are lots of microwave water heaters around since the middle of the last century but none of them worked. Mostly because they were trying to heat too much water to quickly. Many of them are patented.

What the different here is in the heating tub. The concept was to slow down the water flow by expanding the water line at the point of the heater. Then divide the water flow into three separate flows by putting in a triple baffle with an antenna in each flow compartment. This enables the electromagnetic energy to heat the water in the time required. This is where all other heaters failed By trying to heat too much water a once. In most cases the water only needs to be heated to around 100 to 110 degrees which is not that hot.

Putting in an agitator or aerator in the heater tube may also help the microwaves heat the water as per vibrating the water molecules.

The only unknown here is the required strength and frequency of the magnetron. There are plenty of commercial magnetrons available. There are lots of different manufactures that could make a magnetron to the specifications required. Remember this is an entirely closed system so there would be no danger to users.

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