Testing the TK Tar Baby

[TinselKoala]

A brief aside: Qualifications.

The issue of a person's "qualifications" has come up several times. Some people may have long educational histories with many years and many dollars spent grappling with difficult issues in situations where they are subject to critical evaluation all the time, and the outcomes of those critical evaluations have profound implications on things like future careers and lifetime earnings. In other words, in situations where real pressures and real consequences exist. Some of these histories result in those persons receiving paper (or vellum) "qualifications" and even professional licenses.
Others may be largely self-taught, and with an adequate natural intelligence and good luck, may even accrue some of the same kinds of qualifications that the heavily-educated can hold.
But these "qualifications" ultimately mean relatively _little_, especially in an anonymous internet discussion. (Yes, we are all of us anonymous. What proof do we have that "Rosemary Ainslie" is actually anybody's real name at all? Just who have we been talking with, anyhow?)
All that matters is that statements made do conform to facts, and analyses given are accurate and correct, considering the nature and quality of the input data. "Qualifications" allow a rough guess at whether a person's statements are likely to be of any use or not, but ultimately it is the statements themselves, not from whom they come, that must be the determining factor in our judgments and beliefs.

The history of Science is full of instances when fully, even extremely "qualified" individuals have made huge blunders, in individual statements (Lord Kelvin's howlers for example) or even throughout entire scientific careers (the HeLa story). It happens frequently. Some scientists even have the integrity to reverse themselves and revise their original blundering viewpoint in the light of experimental data or incontrovertibly reasoned arguments.

What happens much less frequently is for manifestly UN-qualified, undereducated, spottily autodidactic individuals to make hugely significant discoveries or perform and analyze significant experimental trials. In fact, cases of this happening are so vanishingly rare that I can't think of one right now. There are plenty of cases of non-degreed persons making great contributions to their areas of Science... but these people are fully qualified in other ways, through experience and hard work of their own. The garage or broomcloset experimenter who can't make a coherent explanation of a simple DC circuit nor perform basic algebra and arithmetic calculations ... is simply not going to be able to make a significant contribution to electronics, physics, or general Science, except perhaps as a cautionary example.

[markdansie]

@ Rosemary.
Thank you for your reply. What I speculated was suppose to add a little humor.
My many visits To South Africa over the years have always ended up in finding technologies that did not test or meet expectations. I always hold hope.
The last trip in particular was big waste of time and effort. That is why I regretted not thinking of visiting you.
I never speculate on outcomes but rely on highly qualified engineers and scientists  to test and evaluate when I get out of my depth.
More often than not we find methodology is flawed.
I am a seeker of truth and nothing else.
I look forward to you public demonstration.
PS I am also a Poet.

[TinselKoala]

Here's a video showing the scope traces from the wireless power transmitter and receiver, in normal and supernova mode. Note several interesting things: the brightness of the bulb remains constant over a changing distance in the SNM and clearly falls off over the same changing distance in normal mode; the input current increases with distance in SNM and decreases with distance in normal mode; and the SN transition involves both a frequency change and a 180 degree (plus a little) phase shift, to a slightly more than 180 degree Out Of Phase condition between the Tx and Rx.

And of course the Rx amplitude is higher than the Tx amplitude.... the point of insuring that the probes and channels were balanced in the first part of the demonstration.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6qKISIE0Og

[evolvingape]

Excellent series of essays there TK, enjoyed them immensely, thankyou. I have attempted to do a similar thing for fluid dynamics included within my work. Maybe it is worth the communities time to consider working together to create a treatise on the major disciplines. There is certainly enough knowledge and talent to draw upon within the community to create a peer reviewed sticky and may well be what is required to form a solid foundation for people who have not had the privilege of studying these subjects in depth.

I also like the Zen aspect, I myself in my younger days studied Bruce Lee's book, Tao of Jeet Kune Do, it became my mental and physical bible and allowed me to progress to a point where the one thumb press up was no longer a dream. Be like water, my friend.

As you do not mind the slightly off topic comments I decided a taster of what I am currently working on might be enjoyed by the guys here. I will be putting up a new post here soon:

http://www.energeticforum.com/renewable-energy/2781-wood-gasification.html

This thread is essential reading for understanding this:

http://www.overunity.com/10425/phoenix-turbine-builders-club-forum/#.UAcCkfV8T2k

I have attempted to design a phase change rotary engine operating on both mechanical and energetic principles, with a firm foundation in known technologies and theories, QED amongst them. Hopefully the Pulsometer steam pump will be recognised as a phase change linear oscillator capable of doing work.

The subject of the post to come is based around potential difference of mechanical and energetic systems, as always. This site here is very interesting for learning about the basics of physics in general:

http://www.physicstutorials.org/home/introduction

If you take the time to read every page you will get a very good basic overview of the foundational principles of the sciences. You will also notice many subjects that have been touched on over the last few years by the contributors to this thread.

In particular I will be focusing on quick exhaust valves (QEV) and forwarding a theoretical hypothesis for increasing valve opening times to increase power by attempting to approach Time = 0.

The basics of this will include Hooke's Law, governing stress and strain in compression springs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooke%27s_law

Which state that strain is directly proportional to stress in a direct variation relationship whose behaviour is linear:

http://www.regentsprep.org/Regents/math/algtrig/ATE7/Direct%20Variation.htm

And can be seen here as a rate expressed as a force applied (Newtons) over a given distance (mm) by a compression spring manufacturer:

http://www.leespring.com/uk_browse_catalog.asp?rbunitOfMeasure=Metric&springType=C&partnum=&UnitOfMeasure=Metric&specsCriteria=&subType=&pageNumber=1

And we will also examine permanent neodymium magnets, which act as perfect springs with 100% conservation of energy, whose behaviour is not governed by Hooke's Law but varies by the cube power of force (Newtons) over distance (mm) and is governed by aspects of QED:

https://www.hkcm.de/magnet.php/?dnx=8

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_field

Examine the two graphs and you have a visual intuitive perception of the potential difference to be exploited if both axis alignment and vector sign are taken into account during the design and construction of your mechanism. Here is a nice youtube video showing the magnetic spring principle using a ring and a cylinder:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0CL_5G4Aoo

Hopefully that is interesting, even if slightly off topic for some.

Rob.

[TinselKoala]

Hi evolvingape and thanks for your comment. That is a bunch of interesting stuff indeed. Right now, I'm too busy to give it the attention it deserves, but I've bookmarked the links for further study and contemplation.

I agree -- obviously -- that a solid grounding in some basics would help people to not waste their energy and resources chasing wild geese down dead end alleys.... all you wind up with is a honking mad goose in a tight spot.

That last video from gilbondfac (one of my favorite experimenters) is similar to some I've done. The gun is interesting, a Howard Johnson gate kind of thing. But I wonder if there might be an even more interesting application for the arrangement shown:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNaxoKkGTRM

(I see that I made this back in 2008... a blast from the past indeed!)

ETA: And, ultimately, we have to trace the origins of our ideas. This one was inspired by a drawing from a Russian book by Nikolayev, who was Stefan Marinov's mentor. Many mysterious things are in that book; I wish I could actually read it a bit better.