Ricks Pipe Dream

[rickoff]

jibbguy
A simple rule of this.  Just how much forces and energy input does the wheel need with out rotor to keep it going at say 5 rpm for one hour?? At 5 PRM I bet without keeping an input force and without the stator I can stop it with out any force. Let friction do its thing.

Were as I find this amusing, I do not see any way for it to happen without external input. Which at this point is MR HAND.
So far no sign of ou in what has been shown. I hope, but have realistic doubts that such will be shown with this set up.

A hand can come in very handy for magnetic experimentation.  When I performed the hand held stator demonstrations in my earlier videos, I did that because it clearly shows the different types of stator movements that can be used to achieve rotation.  You should try this yourself, and you would learn a great deal about the magnetic interactions that are occurring.  Holding the stator magnet in your hand gives you insight that would be otherwise impossible to obtain.  Likewise, moving the stator arm by hand, to produce rotation, also yields further significant insight.  This is an evolving process that takes what works well and constantly seeks ways to make it work even better.  If I were doing this all alone then it might take me the rest of my life to succeed, but I think you are missing the point.  The point is - I am not alone in this.  This is an open source project that is gaining world wide interest.  Every day I receive several new requests from people who want to join the project and help move this idea forward.  Several people have already completed a replication of the Pipe Dream apparatus, and are reporting their own test results to the other participants.  Since my main goal in all of this was to design a low cost, standardized test apparatus, and to put it into the hands of as many people as possible, I would have to say that I have already succeeded.  In going about this the way that I have, everyone who wants to knows exactly what I have done so far, what I am now doing, and what I plan to do next.  It takes a heck of a lot of time to fully document everything this way, but I feel this has to be done to do things right.  The builder's document is now at 100 pages and still growing, with step-by-step instructions and photos that even a third grader could understand and follow.  If I were not documenting everything in this manner then I would be much further along with my own build, so I do what I can with the time that I have, but hope that other replicators will move ahead even faster by using my hard work as a springboard.  I'd love to see someone beat me to the finish line, and you see - that's what this project is all about - helping people get there.  The only requirements for joining the project are a positive mindset and a will to succeed.

Rick            

[Cloxxki]

Where's your farm, and what's it worth to you? Does that offer include the tractor, the livestock, the feed, the house, the barn, and the entire property?  How many acres is that?  What state and county is that in?  I have a cousin looking for a free farm.

Best 2 U,

Rick   

Sounds like a fair trade. Free energy device for a farm. Some might offer more than a farm.

Industrial size device based off Rick's design:
I now see a big cilindrical drum, inside and outside stuffed with PM's. Let's imagine the drum with its axis along the grond.
Each "slice" of the drum gets alternating S/N facing magnets. The stators are mounted N/S-N/S-N/S etc or soemthing along 2 bars which can slide laterally, without friction of course. Inside and outside of the drum rim, to interact with all magnets. The stators could even be lightweight drums of their own, though all one piece.
A very heavy counterweight for the stator drum acts like short pendulum. Short, so it oscillates quickly. At the end of each swing though, the pendulum is held in place. Additionally, there is a track mechanism to gain any efficiency lost from the pendulum and lateral magnetic interaction. Key word: heavy :-) The pendulum does force the system to run at a fixed speed I suppose. Hmm.

[ramset]

Rick said

Quote;
  The point is - I am not alone in this.  This is an open source project that is gaining world wide interest.  Every day I receive several new requests from people who want to join the project and help move this idea forward.  Several people have already completed a replication of the Pipe Dream apparatus, and are reporting their own test results to the other participants.  Since my main goal in all of this was to design a low cost, standardized test apparatus, and to put it into the hands of as many people as possible, I would have to say that I have already succeeded.

And I say
Thanks Rick, I love how lite and portable it is
Easy to carry around and show folks !
You could make a board game from this [actually several types]
Better than playing scrable[which I stink at]or cards or Rubicks cube
THE SPINNER"S THE WINNER
Chet
PS
The winner gets the Farm [lost causes, if I win you can keep the farm]
PPS you could call the game !
      "HERESY do you dare"

[Lakes]

Rick (or someone) should start a Yahoo group for this...

[maw2432]

A hand can come in very handy for magnetic experimentation.  When I performed the hand held stator demonstrations in my earlier videos, I did that because it clearly shows the different types of stator movements that can be used to achieve rotation.  You should try this yourself, and you would learn a great deal about the magnetic interactions that are occurring.  Holding the stator magnet in your hand gives you insight that would be otherwise impossible to obtain.  Likewise, moving the stator arm by hand, to produce rotation, also yields further significant insight.  This is an evolving process that takes what works well and constantly seeks ways to make it work even better.  If I were doing this all alone then it might take me the rest of my life to succeed, but I think you are missing the point.  The point is - I am not alone in this.  This is an open source project that is gaining world wide interest.  Every day I receive several new requests from people who want to join the project and help move this idea forward.  Several people have already completed a replication of the Pipe Dream apparatus, and are reporting their own test results to the other participants.  Since my main goal in all of this was to design a low cost, standardized test apparatus, and to put it into the hands of as many people as possible, I would have to say that I have already succeeded.  In going about this the way that I have, everyone who wants to knows exactly what I have done so far, what I am now doing, and what I plan to do next.  It takes a heck of a lot of time to fully document everything this way, but I feel this has to be done to do things right.  The builder's document is now at 100 pages and still growing, with step-by-step instructions and photos that even a third grader could understand and follow.  If I were not documenting everything in this manner then I would be much further along with my own build, so I do what I can with the time that I have, but hope that other replicators will move ahead even faster by using my hard work as a springboard.  I'd love to see someone beat me to the finish line, and you see - that's what this project is all about - helping people get there.  The only requirements for joining the project are a positive mindset and a will to succeed.

Rick            

Rick,  I agree the hand expriements show us what is needed to be done.  "Move the stator"
I think the scientific question becomes "How do we move the stator with less work than that is produced?"
Also,  how to measure this to ensure we are getting more work done.

Bill