Roll on the 20th June

[OU-812]

Here's one example of my talent:
http://www.mediafire.com/?wuldel0syug
And here's another:
http://www.mediafire.com/?fnnuuwud0bc
And another:
http://www.mediafire.com/?kg1diqlmdim

Where are yours?

@TK

A bit off topic but have you ever done a cost breakdown on that wheel build and if it would be feasible/reasonable to build for others as a blank wheel?

Basically machine them in 'bulk' (10-20 units?) with out the extra magnet 'grooves' so just a blank wheel.

If they were reasonably priced, I bet a lot of tinker'ers would love to have one of those as a starting basis for research.  Then they can drill/attach whatever they want, but would have a great balanced wheel to start with.

just a thought

[mscoffman]

video two .. i left the magnetic array as it was for a couple of days untouched.

When i returned a few days later and started to play with it ...
i noticed the rotor could no longer climb the array and go over the top !
In fact the rotor had not even made it over the top . stopping at say the 1 or 1:30 position.. ( don't forget my rotors climb from 6 oclock was counter clockwise..

Yes; I think there is some energy stored in the misalignment of magnets in a array. Sort of like macroscopic array macro quantum
latice vibrational energy. When people build those geometric Geomag structures (see u-tube) I think the magnets spin because
of  it. So one could consider a Geomag structures to be another form of matter like a plasma but with magnetic coupling between
units rather than electrostatic coupling. When the array is left sitting, energy is lost to stacking via latent thermal vibrations, but
when the array is jostled some of that misalignment energy is restored. In general in the final designed devices will have much
tighter long term coupling, magnets will be unitary rather than stacked, balls will be stuck on with adhesives and runners bolted
together and the amount of change noticed will decrease. But it is a good question how much it is effecting demos. BTW, you
can search on the word "magnon" in google. 


:S:MarkSCoffman

[exxcomm0n]

@ Radiant Fairy (RadiantLarry)

Did you fart man?

Or was that blast of foul smelling hot air something else?



@ g4mac

Thanks man, but this still could end up being a wild goose chase.

I'll try to keep an open mind about that AND that it could be for real.

Tough, but it's more fun than not doing so.



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@ OU-812

Good idea if TK is into it!

[mscoffman]

bullsnbears;

What about a NASA satellite that passes near enough a planet to accelerate & then slingshots away.

I'm not trying to be a jerk, I'm really curious as to what happens there. That seems a little closer to what we're trying to do than the actual collision.

That is just standard two body stuff. The spacecraft and the planet still have a common center of gravity. It's is just that that
center of gravity is located a couple inches from the center of the planet due to the really massive differences in the weight
of the craft versus the weight of the planetary body. They've gotten very sophisticated with this, now spacecraft travel along equipotential
pathways between planets. Taking the proper path would probably let one zoom around the solar system not using any
fuel for changes in energy. I remember there was this one communications satellite that was having some kind of trouble
so they sent it around the moon and back to fix it's problem, even though it wasn't designed to do that. It had ion thrusters
that could run for a long time.

[Xaverius]

Stop bitching about Archer and answer my damn question!  It's bugging the hell out of me.   

The energy from the ball is dispersed as heat, thermal energy.  The temperature of the ball increases slightly.