Posted by ovyyus (203.26.14.3) on April 21, 2003 at 17:28:22:
In Reply to: Ovyyus posted by David Moses on April 21, 2003 at 15:41:05:
Hi David,
I don't know about 'gathering' heat. What I'm talking about is creating and/or harnessing a thermal gradient. All the heat in the World is absolutely useless if you have no gradient (if you have nowhere to dump it). Generating heat is naturally inefficient due to radiated losses whereas generating cold is exactly the opposite.
Bessler proved he did not require a large wheel - his first wheel was only about 3 feet diameter.
Just read Mr Tim's response - why do you think it would catch fire by rotating at 50 RPM? That doesn't make sense. If you build a 3 foot overbalanced wheel driven by moving weights (any means you like) you will find you can get it to rotate quite fast with miniscule input power.
The wheel at Gera was never reported as turning under load, a free running 3 foot wheel can turn quite fast with a surprisingly small input power. Just bearing and windage losses you know.
The question I have is how did he get his 9.3 foot diameter Drascwitz wheel to rotate at an incredible 50 RPM - certainly not with radially moving weights at the rim???
Regards, ovyyus
: On correcting my last true,true post. What it of course comes down to is, and I can see you feel the same way, by using a heat type mechanism within the wheel, one could gather heat from the enviroment, or one could gather heat from the wheel itself (axel-whatever) but it comes down to essentially dumping that heat so the process can continue. Which was my point in stating that maybe that's the reason his demonstrated wheel was 12 feet in diameter. Suppose area (the outer perimeter) was what was needed to establish this. He could have a gas gain a little heat from the axel, work upon a piston, and then that piston flip to the outer edge to completely cool it.
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