NEW ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES #13
1. Single-Wire And Wireless Electric Power Transmission. N.V. Kosinov and others (Ukraine)
2. The possibility of almost complete transformation of thermal energy into mechanical one. S.N.
Doonaevsky (Russia)
3. Inventor Club. Review. Vector Propulsion Engine (Electromagnetic Version). A. S. Tukanov (Russia)
4. Inertial Dynamic Generator. S.N. Schmidt (Russia)
5. Latent Potential Energy of Electrical Field. V.D. Dudyshev (Russia)
6. News
7. Energy from Air. M.P. Beshok (Russia)
8. A Parade of Gravitational Aircrafts. V.A. Chernobrov (Russia)
9. Energy from vacuum. Review
10. Meeting of Nobel Prize Laureates in Saint Petersburg
11. Perpetual Motor With Magnetic Control Elements. Review
12. Who Needs The Controlled Thermonuclear Fusion? I.B. Kalugin (Russia)
13. Fuel cells. Edwin Cartlidge (USA)
14. Free Energy. Thomas F. Valone (USA)
15. Secrets of Nicola Tesla’s Experiments. S.S. Makukhin (Russia)
16. Alternative Cold. Review
17. High-Efficiency Technology of Magnetic Cooling. E.N. Tishina (Russia)
18. News
19. Interference Disc Electric Generator. Alan L. Francoeur (anonce of the future article) (Canada)
20. Howard Johnson and his Motor. Review
21. Bogomolov's Centrifugal Generator. V.I. Bogomolov (Russia)
22. News
23. Magnetic Motor. A.V. Vydrin (Russia)
24. Anomalous Hydrogen Reactor “Omega”
25. Gravitational Shielding. Harald Chmela (Austria)
26. Conception of Magnetic Gas
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N.V. Kosinov, V.I. Garbaruk, Ukraine
E-mail: kosinov@unitron.com.ua
resistor (L) of 2~5 MOhm to the transmission line
does not cause any considerable changes in
operation of the circuit [1]. In the article [2] the
authors assume that the efficiency of the device
depends on the material which is used for the
windings of a generator (M). Therefore they
believe it is necessary to check expediency of
using nickel, iron, lead, etc. wires to make the
windings. At the same time, one of the authors of
the article [2] considers their line to be
superconducting [3, 4].
Our Experiments on Single-Wire
Electric Power Transmission
The authors of this article carried out a number
of experiments on power transmission using
single-wire lines. To that end we developed a new
single-wire power transmission circuit. In our
circuit there was no “Avramenko plug”. Instead
of an “Avramenko plug” we used an ordinary
bridge circuit. In our experiments the bridge
circuit turned out to be much more efficient than
“Avramenko plug”. Moreover, we made some
other changes into Abramenko’s circuit. Our
circuit is presented in Fig.2. The transmitting unit
consists of a generator and a transformer. The
circuit diagram of the transmitting unit is shown
in Fig.2 (to the right of the transformer).
Single-Wire Electric
Power Transmission
The idea of single-wire electric power transmission
has become especially attractive to many
researchers after a demonstration of single-wire AC
transmission made by S.V. Avramenko [1] at the
Moscow Scientific-Research Institute of Electrical
Engineering. Editor’s: We have already written
about similar investigations in our previous issues.
The story began more than 100 years ago with
Tesla’s experiments.
Fig. 1
Single-wire power transmission circuit
by Avramenko[1]
At the heart of the device there is “Avramenko plug”
representing two sequence semiconductor diodes
(Fig.1). If the plug is connected to a wire under AC
voltage, then after a time in a discharger P there is
observed a run of sparks. The time gap from
connection to discharging depends on the values
of capacity (C), voltage, frequency of pulsation and
the size of the air gap (P). The connection of a
Fig. 2
Single-wire power transmission by a new circuit
New Energy Technologies, Issue #4 July - August 2003 3
Figures in the circuit diagram (Fig.2) denote the
following: 1 – Generator, 2 – Extender of spectrum,
3 – “Antenna”. The general view of the device is
shown in Fig.3.
Fig. 3
General view of the device to demonstrate
single-wire power transmission
Electric energy is supplied to the device from a DC
power source B5-47 providing voltage of 0-30 V.
An incandescent lamp of 220 V, 25Wt serves as
load. The generator and transformer are enclosed
into a dielectric casing. The components of a power
receiver (diodes, capacitor, lamp, elements 2 and
3) are placed in a plastic casing under the lamp
(Fig.3). The power receiver is connected to the
transformer with one wire.
The intensity of glow of the lamp depends on the
generator power. The lamp of 220 V, 25Wt is almost
fully incandesced when high output voltage of the
power supply is within the range of 16~18 V (Fig.4).
Fig. 4
Glow of the lamp at high voltage of power supply B5-47
in the single-wire power transmission line
The key points in increasing the efficiency of our
circuit in comparison with Avramenko’s circuit are
that we used an entire standard bridge circuit and
not just a half of it. Besides there was used a
spectrum expander. The load does not impede full
charging of the capacitor since the spectrum
expander was used in the circuit. Neither
connection of a resistor to the transmission line nor
using a conductor of high specific resistance as a
transmission line can considerably affect the degree
of glow of the lamp. Our circuit of single-wire
power transmission has two independent lines
with different frequency spectra. The first line has
a narrow-band frequency spectrum and the second
line – a wideband one. In the first line the circuit
closes at the free end of the secondary winding of
the transformer through an antenna (3) (Fig.2). The
capacitor, spectrum expander and incandescent
lamp form the second line.
Experiments with Burnt-Out
Incandescent Lamps
Both good and burnt-out lamps glow in the abovedescribed
experiments on single-wire power
transmission. Results of the experiments with the
burnt-out lamps are presented below.
There is a break of a filament of the incandescent
lamp (Fig. 5). This photo was taken while the device
was switched off.
Fig. 5
A burnt-out lamp of 220 V, 60 Wt before the experiment
Fig. 6 is a photo taken during the experiment.
You can see a glowing filament and a bright
spark in the break point of the filament. Neither
connection of a resistor to the transmission line
nor using a conductor of high specific resistance
as the transmission line could considerably
reduce the incandescence of the filament. The
degree of incandescence of the filament
depends substantially on the size of a gap in the
break point of the filament. The experiments
revealed that there was an optimal size of the
burnt-out section when the incandescence of the
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residual filament was maximal
Fig. 6
Glow of a burnt-out incandescent lamp of 220 V, 60 Wt
Practically each of us meets the glow of burnt-out
lamps even without knowing it. For that it will be
enough just to examine a burned-out lamp closely.
Rather often you can notice that the internal
circuit of an incandescent lamp burns out in more
than one point. It is obvious that probability of
burnout of the filament of a lamp in several points
at a time is negligible. It means that on losing the
integrity of the filament the lamp had been
glowing on before the circuit broke in one more
point. This phenomenon occurs in most cases
when incandescent lamps burn out in the circuit
of 220V and 50Hz.
For one of the experiments we connected
standard incandescent lamps of 220V, 60Wt to
the secondary winding of a step-up transformer.
At idle running voltage of the transformer was
about 300V. In the experiment there were used
20 incandescent lamps. It turned out that the
incandescent lamps burn out mostly in two or
more points. Moreover, not only the filament, but
also the conductive wires inside of the lamp were
burnt out. In addition, after the first break in
circuit the lamps went on glowing for a long time
and even more intensively than before the
burnout. A lamp had been glowing on up to the
moment when one more subcircuit burnt out. The
internal circuit of one of the lamps in our
experiment was broken in four points! Moreover,
the filament burnt out in two points and, in
addition to the filament, the both electrodes
inside the lamps were burnt out as well. Results of
the experiment are presented in Table 1.
Experiments on Wireless Electric
Power Transmission
Many scientists all over the world work at solution of
the problem of wireless power transmission. Mostly
there are studied microwave fields used for the
purpose of wireless power transmission. However,
the applied microwave systems are not harmless to
the man [5]. We present the information on our
experiments on realization of wireless power
transmission without using the microwave field. We
studied probability to transmit power to an electric
motor without use of wires.
The system, which consisted of a power supply B5-47,
a generator and a transformer, was used in our
experiments as a transmitter. A special receiving unit
for wireless power transmission served as a power
receiver and contained an electronic unit and a DC
electric motor IDR-6. In Fig. 7 you can see the general
view of our wireless power transmission device.
Fig. 7
General view of the device for demonstration of wireless
power transmission
Table 1
Quantity of
lamps used
in the
experiment
20
Quantity of
lamps with
one burnedout
point
8
Quantity of
lamps with
two burnedout
points
8
Quantity of
lamps with
three burnedout
points
3
Quantity of
lamps with
four burnedout
points
1
Quantity of
lamps with
five burnedout
points
0
New Energy Technologies, Issue #4 July - August 2003 5
The electric motor is mounted onto a conductive
platform, which in its turn stands on a casing made
of insulating material (Fig. 8). There is an electronic
unit inside the casing.
Fig. 8
Receiver for demonstration of wireless
power transmission
The electronic unit fills little space inside the casing
of the receiver and it is made on a printed board.
In Fig. 9 there is presented the interior part of the
receiver. It is designed for wireless power
transmission.
Fig. 9
Interior part of the receiver for demonstration of
wireless power transmission
When the transmitter switched on there was
observed rotation of the electric motor, which
the experimenter held in his hands. Neither the
electric motor nor platform was connected to
the transmitter. And there were no power
supplies inside the casing where the platform and
motor were enclosed. When the distance
between the receiver and transmitter diminished
the speed of rotation of the electric motor
increased. In Fig.10 you can see a fragment of the
experiment when the frequency of rotation of
the motor was sharply rising, if the electric motor
was in hands of two experimenters.
Fig. 10
Acceleration of rotation of the motor
Experiments that demonstrate
how an incandescence lamp can
glowin the experimenter’s hand
It is a common phenomenon when a gasdischarge
lamp glows in the researcher’s hand at
using of alternating electromagnetic field. It is
unusual that an incandescent lamp can glow in
the investigator’s hand when only one wire is
connected to the lamp. Undoubtedly, a glowing
filament of the lamp, which an experimenter
holds in hands, can excite interest only in the case
when there are no two wires connected to the
lamp. It is known that Nicola Tesla demonstrated
a glowing lamp that he was holding in his hand.
We have not managed to find a description of
that experiment, so we have developed our own
designs. We have carried out experiments that
show how an incandescence lamp can glow in
the experimenter’s hand. The results of these
experiments are presented below. In Fig.11a and
Fig.11b you can see variants of the device for
demonstration of glow of a 220V incandescent
lamp.
Fig. 11 a
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Fig. 11 b
In the experiments demonstrating how an
incandescent lamp glows in the researcher’s hand
we used neither “Avramenko plug” nor receiving
units for demonstration of single-wire and wireless
power transmission. The lamp in the
experimenter’s hand glows due to applying
electronic units and due to design philosophy of
the devices.
Fig. 12 and 13 represent close-up photographs
where you can see glowing of the lamps of 220V,
15Wt and of 220V, 25Wt that the experimenter
holds in his hands. At that the lamps are not
connected to the closed circuit. The higher voltage
supplied to the generator, the more intensive was
the glow. For the sake of the experiment’s safety
we supplied to the generator voltage that made
lamps glow at about their half incandescence.
Fig. 12
Glow of an incandescence lamp of 220V, 15Wt
Fig. 13
Glow of an incandescence lamp of 220V, 25Wt
In the lower part of the photos (Fig. 12 and
Fig. 13) you can see a conductor, which is
connected to the generator with one wire. Only one
contact of the lamp cap touches the conductor. The
other contact remains non-connected. Thus the
lamp and the generator are connected with a single
wire.
Fig. 14
Authors while making ready their experiment
on single-wire power transmission
Fig. 15
Authors while making ready their experiment on
wireless power transmission
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Perhaps experiments on power transmission by
Nicola Tesla were somehow similar to the
experiments carried out by us. At any rate the
experiments prove that single-wire and wireless
power transmission has real perspectives.
In Fig. 14 you can see a photograph of the authors
while making ready the experiment on single-wire
power transmission.
In Fig. 15 you can see a photograph of the authors
while making ready the experiment on wireless
power transmission.
Samuil N. Doonaevsky, Russia
Email: sn_doonaevsky@mail.ru
References
1. “Avramenko Resonance”
http://www.skif.biz/energy/arhiv1-3.shtml
2. N.E. Zaev, S.V. Avramnko, V.N. Lisin,
“Conduction Current Test, Activated by
Polarization Current”. Magazine of Russian
Physical Thought #2,1991.
3. IR (“Inventor and Rationalizer” Magazine) #10,
1994, pp. 8-9.
4. http://ufo.knet.ru/proekt/00500/00100.htm
5. N.V. Kosinov. “Vacuum Energy”.
“Future Century Energy” Magazine #1, 1998,
pp. 28-31
There is a description of thermodynamic cycle of a heat motor with heterogeneous working body. This cycle
allows completely transforming a thermal energy into mechanical one. The proof of existence of the cycle
and its characteristics is a logic consequence of the first law of thermodynamics. By means of realizing of
the cycle it will be possible to create new types of heat motors, which have qualitative advantages in
comparison with the known ones. The said advantages are possibilities either to almost completely transform
high-temperature heat, which appears as a result of combustion of fuel, to the useful work or to do such
work by transforming free heat, which is taken off the matter of environment.
Introduction
The main method to transform thermal energy
into energy of other types is using of heat motors
(engines), which implement any of closed
thermodynamic processes (cycles). For
functioning of such devices the presence of two
thermal vessels with different temperatures of the
heater and the cooler of a working body of a heat
motor is required.
In all known heat motors ambient matter is used
as a cooler. Therefore the doing of a useful work
by known methods is possible only as a result of
transformation of high-temperature heat which
is created by combustion of fuel.
The main features of known thermodynamic
processes, used for the transformation of heat into
other types of energy are as follows:
• efficiency of these processes is less than that
of Carno cycle for a used temperature interval;
• these processes can not be applied for
transformation of free heat, which is contained
in the ambient matter.
Use of the invention under the Russian Federation
patent [1] will allow to implement the process of
transformation of heat, which is free from
specified restriction. Federal Institute of the
industrial property (FIIP) has included the
invention in the list of prospective Russian
projects [2].
There is offered the method to do useful work by
means of realization of the closed thermodynamic
cycle, wherein at some stages matter of the
working body changes its aggregative state
creating heterogeneous system, consisting of
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equilibrium of liquid phases and saturated
vapor.
In the offered method the working body does
useful work in the process of adiabatic
expansion from initial state in the cycle at
temperature of the heater up to achieving the
state with minimum temperature of the cycle (at
this temperature density of the liquid phase of a
working body is equal to initial one). The
processes of return of some parts of the working
body into an initial thermodynamic state are
various for matter of each phase:
• The matter of liquid phase has to be
returned in an initial state in the process of
isochoric heating, by transferring heat from
the heater to the matter;
• The matter of vapor phase has to be
returned in an initial state by the adiabatic
compression up to achievement an initial
temperature, by restitution the heat exchange
between compressed matter and the heater,
by the isothermal compression up to an
initial density at transferring of heat from the
matter to the heater.
Such realization of the cycle excludes any contact
of working body with the cooler (with
environment) as well as transferring heat from
the working body to it. Due to that, the complete
quantity of heat, received in the described cycle
by working body from the heater, equals the done
work and is non-zero. Thus realization of this
cycle will ensure transformation of heat into
mechanical work with some output which is
theoretically equals 1.
The offered cycle can be realized in a
temperature interval, which upper bound will
be in the region of temperatures, which are
lower than temperature of matter of the
environment. It will take place, if some matter
of low critical temperature is used as a working
body. In this case matter of environment can
serve as heater and be a source of thermal
energy, which will be conversed into useful
mechanical work.
Thus there are qualitatively new results which
will be got by using this invention. Among these
results we can mention possibility to converse
thermal energy into mechanical work with high
efficiency as well as possibility to use thermal
energy taken off the matter of environment for
doing useful mechanical work. The proof of
these possibilities is a consequence of the first
law of thermodynamics.
Let us note that this proof reveals the
contradiction which exists between the first
law of thermodynamics and some known
formulations of the second law. At that there is
revealed the logical incompatibility between
both laws and necessity to explain this
incompatibility. As the first law of
thermodynamics, being the law of conservation
of energy, should not be called in question (as
well as all its consequences), then there is a
conclusion on the necessity to improve some
formulations of the second law and to accept
the fact that these formulations have the
restricted domain of applicability. The
question how to resolve the contradiction
remains unclosed and does not concern the
essence of the invention (the offered method).
Realization of the possibility to make the device
which can do useful work by using
(conversion) heat energy taken off the matter
of environment will allow to create new kind
of sources of free mechanical energy which are
the most economical and ecologically safe.
The advantages of such devices before other
known sources of free energy (hydraulic, wind,
solar, geothermal etc.) are as follows:
• greater specific power (per unit of volume);
• working capacity does not depend on
external conditions (geographical, weather,
time etc.).
The obtained estimations of achievable useful
power give the reason to consider it
appropriate to use the offered devices in
different fields of engineering. Each user by
using these devices to satisfy demand for
energy or heat will get the possibility either to
reduce consumption of energy carriers in 2-3
times or totally remove such consumption.
Mass application of the invented devices can
several times reduce requirements of
economics in natural energy carriers and
therefore to create the possibilities for radical
solving of problems which appear because of
scantiness of fuel-energy resources and
nonecology of the general used heat sources.
The construction diagram of the simplest
pattern of the said engine is shown in Fig.1.
The parts of the drawing present: 1 and 2 working
New Energy Technologies, Issue #4 July - August 2003 9
cylinders wherein movable pistons 14 are placed.
The pistons are connected by the crank shaft 3 with
the fly-wheel 4. 5, 6, 7 are reservoirs filled with
matter of the working body. 8 is the reservoir filled
with matter of the heater. 9 is the heat conductor
transferring heat from the heater to the matter of
the working body, which is placed in the reservoir
6. 10 is the pump, which is set in motion by the shaft
3 and is used for swapping of matter of the liquid
phase of the working body from reservoir 5 to the
reservoir 6. 11 are pipelines. 12 are the valves (they
are marked on the figure by letters), which provide
one direction movement of matter of the working
body along the pipelines. 13 is the valve, which
regulates the size of heat flow through the heat
conductor 9.
The reservoir 5 contains heterogeneous matter of
the working body at the chosen minimum
temperature of the realized thermodynamic cycle.
The reservoir 6 contains a homogeneous matter of
the working body with initial values of
thermodynamic characteristics. The reservoir 7
contains a homogeneous matter of the working
Fig. 1
body. This matter has temperature of the heater and
intermediate density.
The matter in housing 2 is in the state of thermal
equilibrium with matter of the heater which is in
the reservoir 8. All details of the device have
adiabatic heat insulation which provides keeping
of required temperature conditions.
The thermodynamic cycle begins when piston of
the housing 1 is in the uppermost point. The valve
A is opening in this moment and matter of the
working body from the reservoir 6 begins to fill the
working volume of the cylinder.
Some time later the valve A closes and after this in
the cylinder there takes place the process of
adiabatic expansion of the working body from the
initial thermodynamic state. The process results in
separating of the expanding matter into
equilibrium phases of liquid and saturated vapour.
The process continues until the piston reaches the
lowermost point. The valve B opens in this moment
and the heterogeneous matter with minimal
10 New Energy Technologies, Issue #4 July - August 2003
temperature in the cycle is displaced in the
reservoir 5 while the piston moves back. The
displacement continues until the piston reaches
the uppermost position and valve B closes. At the
repeated motion of the piston from the
uppermost point the saturated vapour is absorbed
into the working volume of the cylinder from the
reservoir 5 through the valve C. When the piston
reaches the uppermost point the valve C closes
and when the piston moves back there is the
process of adiabatic compression of the matter of
vapor phase.
When the temperature of the compressed matter
becomes equal to that of the heater, the valve D
opens and compressed matter is displaced in the
reservoir 7. The displacement is over when the
piston is in the uppermost position. At that valve
D closes and the cycle of working processes
repeats in the housing 1.
The processes in housing 2 are organized in a like
manner: the working volume is filled through the
valve E when the piston of the cylinder is in the
uppermost point. While the piston moves the
matter is absorbed into the working volume from
the reservoir 7. The absorption is over when the
piston is in the lowermost position, then the valve
E closes. At that the backward movement of the
piston is accompanied by isothermal compression
of the matter in the working volume. When
density of the compressed matter is equal to the
initial one the valve E opens and compressed
matter is displaced into the reservoir 6. The
displacement continues until the piston reaches
the uppermost point. After that the valve F closes
and the cycle of the processes repeats in the
cylinder 2.
Stability of the device is provided by swapping the
matter of the liquid phase of the working body
from the reservoir 5 into reservoir 6 by means of
the pump 10 and valves G and H. By means of
movement of the pump piston from the
uppermost point the working volume is filled with
liquid from the reservoir 5 through the valve G. At
the backward movement of the piston the liquid
is displaced through the valve H into the reservoir
6.
The initial temperature of the working body in
the working cycle of the described device can be
chosen either greater or less than temperature of
the environment. If we choose the first variant
then it is necessary to hold temperature of the
matter of the heater at rather high level. It can be
achieved by use of high-temperature heat, which
is produced as a result of fuel combustion and is
transferred to the heater by means of some
known heating apparatus.
Fig.2
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The main qualitative advantage of the device is its
greater efficiency (achievable output), which can
not be achieved in the processes of functioning of
known heat engines.
The realization of the second case, wherein the
initial temperature of the working body is less (or
equal) than that of the environment, will allow to
use the matter of environment as a heater and to
convert the heat, which is partaken from it, into
useful work. In that case the described device will
represent a new kind of early unknown sources of
free mechanical energy. The possible variant of
such source is represented in the Fig. 2.
The heater 8 is made as heat exchanger, which is
connected with the end of the heat conductor 9.
The ambient matter is pumped through the heat
exchanger by means of propeller 12. The cylinder
2 and the reservoir 7 can be in the state of thermal
equilibrium with the environment.
Below there are some estimates of parameters of
the concrete variant of proposed thermodynamic
cycle to illustrate technical capabilities of the
described heat engine:
• nitrogen (N2) is chosen as a matter of the
working body;
• the minimum and the initial temperatures of
the working body are taken equal;
• 73 oC and -123oC (100 and 150oK);
• the initial pressure of the working body is
taken equal to ~ 500 bar;
• the temperature of the heater is supposed to
be ~7 oC (the value is close to average
temperature of environment);
• the specific quantity of heat (which the
working body gets from environment matter in
the cycle and which is converted into useful
work) is equal to ~ 63 cal/mole;
• if the working volume of the cylinder 1 and
duration of the cycle are taken equal to
V ~1 litre and t ~0.02 sec, then achievable power
capacity of the device is ~130 kWt.
The achievable power capacity of the device
represented in Fig. 2 is defined by two
parameters:
• by cross-sectional area S of the heat exchanger,
through which environment matter is pumped;
• by temperature difference in a flow of
environment matter at the inlet and outlet of the
heat exchanger.
Let us accept the values equal to S = 0.25 m2 and “T
= 10î C for these parameters, then we get an
estimation of power capacity equal to ~ 107 kWt.
Conclusions
1. There are received the estimations of an
achievable useful power capacity of the devices
which are designed for effective conversion of heat
into work. These estimations allow to suppose wide
use of these devices in different fields of technique
as possible and expedient.
2. Each user by using these devices to satisfy
demand for energy or heat will get the possibility
either to reduce consumption of energy carriers in
2-3 times or totally remove such consumption.
3. The economy, which can be achieved as a result
of reduction of systematic coasts on purchasing of
fuel, will quickly cover a cost of the invented
devices.
4. The qualities of the devices (high efficiency,
autonomy, ecological compatibility) will ensure
high and stable income to those businessmen who
will organize sufficiently considerable production
and realization of these devices.
The investors are invited to participate in
realization and commercial use of the invention.
References
1. The Russian Federation patent N 2101521
(Int. Clas. 6F02B 75/02). The official journal of
Russian patent and trade mark agency, M., 1998,
#1, p. 337 (in Russian)
2. “The prospective inventions” #1, Ì., 2000,
IEC of Rospatent (in Russian)
3. Z.B. Shumilin “Inventor and rationalizer”
magazine (Izobretatel I ratcionalizator) #1, 2001,
p. 10 (in Russian)
4. A.I. Veinic “Thermodynamics of real
processes” Minsk, Nauka I Tehnika, 1991 (in
Russian)
5. N.E. Zaev “New energy technologies” #
2(5), 2002, p.6.
6. E.G. Oparin “Physical foundations of fuelless
energetics. Limitation of the second law of
thermodynamics”, M. 2003, Urss (in Russian).
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Review by our correspondent Alla Pashova
Inventors are interesting people. This opinion is
shared by common people as well as by journalists,
for whom modern “Kulibins” are a reliable source
of sensational information. And the inventors
themselves will also say: “Our creations are of no
analogues and we themselves are noteworthy”.
However, as Mark Twain said: “The man with a new
idea is a crank until the idea succeeds”. But the
success of ideas of Russian innovators or, in other
words, practical application of these ideas requires
investments. It has turned out that attracting
investors’ attention is much easier when the
creators are united and promote their ideas to the
market by common effort.
One of such unions is “Inventor’s Club of
Russia” situated in Kronshtadt (Russia)
(http://zavclub.chat.ru/zcp.html). Information
from all over Russia as well as from neighbouring
countries (Byelorussia and Moldova) concentrates
in this quiet town near St. Petersburg, right in the
home computer of Alexander S. Tukanov (Head of
the Club).
In his time Alexander S. Tukanov graduated from
Machine-Building Institute of Kurgan, but he
worked little by his profession. As early as in Soviet
times, instead of attending to tractors and trucks,
he took a great interest in computer technologies.
In 1996 Tukanov moved from Naberzhnye Chelny
to Kronshtadt. Naturally, being engaged in
invention for all his life, he wanted concerned
people to get to know about his achievements. For
that purpose in the end of 1998 Tukanov created
his own web site in the Internet and invited
interested people to join the project. Y.A. Nechaev,
specialist in electronics, became the first member
of the Club. Then he and Tukanov evolved the idea
of connecting the telephone and Internet lines to
the common power grid of 220V. Tukanov still
considers the idea to be promising, but at that time
it was not realized: there were nor material
resources no investors.
Bit by bit new people joined the Club. They had
interesting inventions, but no opportunities to
apply them. The Club’s “Intellectual Property
Online Shop” is of much use for the inventors in
this case. “Russian online market of intellectual
property does not practically exist,” – Tukanov
claims. – Extreme imperfection of Internet in Russia
is a drag of its development. The Americans tried
to cooperate, but failed. In Moscow, for instance,
the Internet does function at a decent speed, but
to download a web page created somewhere in
Irkutsk will take about twenty minutes. That is why
we may say our Shop is quite unique. The offers
presented at the web site spark great interest. For
example, about fifty people have responded to the
offer to build a magnetic motor-generator. Among
them there is even a clergyman, Father Sergiy”.
The following system to apply inventions, available
in the USA, seems to be reasonable to Alexander S.
Tukanov: “Have you heard about “Arthur de Little”,
an American company that applied the penicillin?
It has over 200 branches in different countries.
“Arthur de Little” uses the following scheme. First
of all it signs a one-year contract with the inventor
and gets a detailed description of the invented
device. After that the patent searching follows and
the invention is patented. Then they find a
company that makes a prototype model and carries
out practical research work. Eight of one hundred
inventions applied in such a way make profit and
two of them make excess profit that covers all the
expenses. In addition “Arthur de Little” has full
insurance against all the financial risks that it takes
while applying every innovation. Such a business is
regarded to be so much profitable that State
Pension Fund of the USA places its capital in
innovations.”
“There is only one confusing point in this system,
– says Tukanov in addition, – there is no
prepayment”. However, Russian investors promise
to prepay neither. “Every investor in our country
considers himself to be an expert and insists on
detailed explanation of the invention, as if he were
a patent attorney. Many investors in Russia have
criminal past in business. Such people want to get
their surplus profit served an apple on a silver
New Energy Technologies, Issue #4 July - August 2003 13
Vector Propulsion Engine
(Electromagnetic Version)
Alexander S. Tukanov, Russia
Email: sandr@mail.spbnit.ru
http://zavclub.chat.ru/zcp.html
platter. However nothing venture, nothing have!
It takes from 5 to 8 years to grow the tree before
the apple ripens. An apple tree gives only 4-6
apples of its every hundred flowers and the rest
are barren flowers. But these barren flowers are
not useless and the tree spends its energy for them
too. There are no useless actions in nature. The
idea of skimming the cream off is of no new and
ends up with failure or crisis. According to Marx,
any profit over 25 % is a criminal profit. And in
Russia even a profit of 250% attracts no investors!
They demand multiplying this figure by 10. And
the myth of unlimited intellectual potential of
Russia will be destroyed soon. It is impossible to
make someone invent: money cannot buy
creation”.
Editor’s: Below we publish a description of an
experimental device designed by Alexander S.
Tukanov, and an article by Sergey N. Schmidt, one
of the permanent members of the Club.
The device is designed to generate unidirectional force which influences the whole
construction. The design is based on the principle of unbalancing within the circular
path of movement of mass of the weight. This path is limited by a sector located
between two poles of an electromagnet (EM). Two electrical motors rotating in
different directions generate centrifugal force. There is a weight (G) made of mmetal.
It is mounted between two friction disks. The weight (G) is in oscillatory
motion. It moves from one pole of the magnet to the other by the circular path.
The generated centrifugal force is cyclic in nature and imparts propulsive force to
the whole device. We can control it by increasing the number of rotations of the
motor. We can change the direction of movement by turning the electromagnet
together with the weight relatively to the entire device.
Fig. 1
The centrifugal force changes from zero to maximum and back to zero. Its direction is invariable
notwithstanding that the direction of movement of the weight does change.
We can both increase and decrease the propulsive force by specifying mass of the weight, number of
rotations of the motor and magnetomotive force of the magnet.
14 New Energy Technologies, Issue #4 July - August 2003
Sergey N. Schmidt, Russia
http://invent.by.ru
Email: mehanik@kmtn.ru
Working model of the IDG
The device is the simplest prototype of the
inertial dynamic generator. It consists of a motor
and a DC generator, which has no exciting coils.
The motor and generator are mounted coaxially.
On the shaft of the “motor-generator” system
there is an unbalanced flywheel, which is
mounted to convert the energy of rotation of the
Earth. The generated excess torque sets in
rotation the system consisting of rotors of
electric machines and the flywheel.
The motor of the device is connected to a stabilized
power supply of 14 V. In order to provide fail-safe
operation there is a ballast resistance, which is
connected in series to the motor. The generator is
connected with a load of lamps in series.
When the device operates with one lamp in the
circuit of the generator there have been registered
the following data:
Power in circuit of the generator:
Wg0 = 0.34 x 2.51 = 0.85 W
Power of the motor: Wd0 = 1.55 x 7.69 = 11.92 W
Power consumed from the power supply:
W0 = 1.55 x 14 = 21.7 W.
Then we are connecting lamps to the
generator. For this design the maximum
quantity of lamps is seven. Under such
conditions the resistance in the circuit of the
generator rises and it results in decreasing the
current and the moment of resistance.
The motor starts accelerating that, in its turn,
leads to raising the voltage on the generator
terminals and increasing the current and the
generated power.
At the moment of connection of all the seven
lamps the rate of input voltage will be equal to
14 V (as well as in the first case). In this mode
of operation there have been registered the
following data:
Power in circuit of the generator:
Wg1 = 0.17 x 11.66 = 1.98 W
Power of the motor: Wd1 = 1.21 x 9.81 = 11.87 W
Power consumed from the power supply: W1
= 1.21 x 14 = 16.94 W.
As is obvious, the increase in power generation
has caused the decrease in power consumption.
Power of the generator and power consumed
from the power supply have not risen, but they
have been even considerably reduced. The
energy balance has been upset. We can
unambiguously state that the system receives
excess energy.
Certain pessimists will try to consider the
process taking into account the redistribution
At the heart of a new experimental device called “Karusel” (carrousel) there is a “motor - unbalanced
flywheel – generator” system. Sergey N. Schmidt has carried out an experiment that shows the generation
of excess power or excess torque, which accelerates the rotor and the flywheel of electric machines. Moreover,
during the experiment it has been observed that the generated power is increasing and power consumption
of the motor is decreasing. “Karusel” is just a reduction of a prospective industrial inertial dynamic generator
(IDG). The IDG enables to convert the kinetic energy of the Earth’s movement and to apply it for doing
useful work.
New Energy Technologies, Issue #4 July - August 2003 15
of energy loss in the power source. However the
author has carried out experiments with many
different power sources including chemical
ones and in all the cases there has been
observed acceleration of the unbalanced
flywheel.
Prospect application of
“unbalanced pulse”: from
prototype to industrial generator
If we irrefutably prove that behaviour of
elements in a loop system is tightly connected
with parameters of movement of the system we
will be able to control such processes. It clears
the way to creation of motors and generators
of a new type, independent systems of
navigation and to many other applications.
I assert that in all these cases the “unbalanced
pulse” does arise in a mechanical loop system
and it does cause changes in the speed of
rotation of the unbalanced flywheel, which
moves with steady speed relatively to a
gravitational object (the Earth, the Mars etc).
The idea of using the “unbalanced pulse” for
converting kinetic energy of the Earth first
came on carrying out the first experiments and
it was “provoked” by mass breakdowns and cutoffs
of electric energy in the Far East. It is
impossible to remain indifferent watching
entire cities freeze out. As a result the problem
of developing of a fundamentally new source
of energy becomes the most urgent.To study
these processes I have developed an
experimental device named “Karusel”, which
is able to demonstrate all the possibilities of
using the “unbalanced pulse”, including the
motor and generator modes of operation,
navigation and registration of geotectonic
processes.
In Fig.1 you can see a mathematical model of
the device. It consists of flywheels (M1, M2 and
M3) that are driven by motors (D1, D2 and D3).
On the flywheels M1 and M2 there are
pendulum arms (MR) with springing elements
(Ue). The motors (D1 and D2) are mounted on
arms (Pk1 and Pk2), which are hingedly
connected with the flywheel (M3) and have
springing elements (Ue).
At the initial moment the pendulum arms are
motionless and their oscillating around the
hinges is limited by the springing elements
(springs). The prototype is a system of forced
oscillations that is able to “resonate” at a certain
combination of speeds of rotations of the
flywheels.
The effect of resonance is quite undesirable for
our investigation of the “unbalanced pulse”,
but we have to take it into consideration.
Fig. 1
If we impart alternating torque to one of the
motors (e.g. the motor D1) then the arms Pk1
and Pk2 of the “carrousel” will start oscillating.
The system is very sensitive to changes in the
parameters, so the registration of the
“unbalanced pulse is based on this feature.
The flywheels of the physical model are driven
by the motors at steady speed of their rotation.
Appropriate gauges control the process.
Magnetic clutches make the flywheels rotate at
“real” speed resulting from the influence of the
“unbalanced pulse”.
In addition the pendulum arms will start moving
and we will be able to register the movement with
measuring devices. The arms of the “carrousel”
will begin oscillatory movements and the gauges
will register them as well.
At a certain combination of the parameters of
rotation, moments of inertia and rigidity of the
springing elements we can observe “selfacceleration”
of the flywheels, which will
indicate that the installation has switched to a
generator mode.
At that time it will be enough just to register
decreasing in the current power that is
consumed by the electric motors. Switching to
the full generator mode presupposes some
problems of technical nature. The most
16 New Energy Technologies, Issue #4 July - August 2003
important of them is the reducing of the
coefficient of friction in the supports – it should
be less than 0.001.
Preliminary calculations demonstrate a higher
coefficient of friction, but “unforeseeable
consequences” should be taken into account as
well. For instance, let us take a device, which
provides the generator mode, and consider the
dependence of its mechanical output from the
width of the area, which is represented by linear
speed of motion of points of the earth surface.
High-precision bearings create the necessary
conditions, but we should also take into account
certain peculiarities of operation of the device.
The “unbalanced pulse” produces alternating
loads to the bearing units. As a result of it the
coefficient of friction increases. It is necessary to
mount magnetic supports that would be able to
take both radial and axial loads. In that case we
could considerably decrease the coefficient of
friction in many times.
We can register operation of the device in the
motor mode by the degree of deviation of the
arms of the “carrousel”. We will learn the value
of “propulsive” force by means of piezoelectric
dynamometers, which are mounted between the
arms and stationary construction of the
“carrousel”.
Operation in the generator mode is based on
oscillating of the pendulum arms in the hinged
joints (bearings). The idea of converting
mechanic energy of oscillation of the pendulum
arms directly into electric energy using
piezoelectric cells seems to be very promising.
The “touchy” point of converting mechanical
energy of the pendulum arms is the use of rather
low efficient ordinary electric generators. We can
use a “looped” mode of power takeoff of the
generator to overcome this impediment.
At first the flywheel is accelerated with an
“unbalanced pulse” up to critical speed of rotation
(the maximum permissible speed, which depends
on structural features of the materials). Then it is
connected to an electrodynamic generator and
braked down to the minimal speed in the “selfacceleration”
mode.
After that the electrodynamic generator switches
off and the flywheel spins up to the maximal speed
again.
Most probably, the device of an industrial
generator should integrate several flywheels,
which rotate on the same shaft and have
controllable linkage with it (clutches). The
clutches will regulate the top speed of
acceleration of the flywheels and the takeoff
power. It is necessary to work up a circuit of
automatic regulation that depends on the load.
So the device starts resembling a computer hard
disk. But, unlike the later, the generator disks are
unbalanced. If the disks rotate at the same speed
and we manage to design an appropriate bearing
unit, then power density of the generator per a
mass unit can be very high!
There is an interesting question: is it possible
to create a generator of 5 kWt/kg, i.e. of the
size of a common hard disk? (Only the
accelerating unit is meant here.) For that one
should swing a pendulum (weight is 1 kg,
length is 0.1 m) up to the speed of 10000 rpm
and make it brake within 1 second:
E=V2/2=(2p·0.1·10000/60)2/2= 4.93 [kJ/kg]
Editor’s: The author also offers a device, which
combines unbalanced disks with non-linear
dynamics and an electric machine.
Physical model of the inertial
dynamic generator
The “carrousel” and flywheel are driven with
DC motors (capacity is 20-30 Wt, voltage is
12 V). The speed of rotation should be
continuously regulated within the range
from 0 to 1500 rpm. The shafts of the
flywheel and electric motor are connected
with a dirigible electromagnetic clutch (or
with permanent magnets).
The shafts of the “carrousel” and the electric
motor are connected by a drive-down with an
electromagnetic clutch (or drive belting). All
the parameters of operation of the motors
(current, voltage, power consumption, speed
of rotation) should be monitored with high
accuracy.
The idea of converting mechanic
energy of oscillation of the
pendulum arms directly into
electric energy using piezoelectric
cells seems to be very promising.
New Energy Technologies, Issue #4 July - August 2003 17
Fig. 2
The carrousel consists of a two-armed rocker, on the ends of
which there are mounted flywheels with drives. The arms of
the rocker are connected hingedly with the driven disk of the
“carrousel”. The reach of the arms is 0.2-0.4 m.
The radial stress inside the hinge must be controlled, as well
as the tangential forces of each arm (moment of action) to
the driven disk of the carrousel. The control is realized with
piezoelectric transducers in the mode of current time taking
into account spatial orientation of the arm in relation to the
supporting platform of the “carrousel” (See Fig. 2, Fig. 3 and
colour cover pictures).
Fig. 3
There are 6 oscillating arms mounted on each flywheel.
Controlled springing elements (springs) with piezoelectric
stress control are mounted between the arms. Angular
displacement of the arms in
relation to the radial direction
must be also controlled with high
accuracy. Methods to control the
angular displacement are not
regulated. It may be an optical or
a contact electric system with
resistance control. In the later case
it is necessary to take into account
the changes in temperature
occurring on the contact surface
during long-term operation.
At the same time the contact
electric system is much simpler and
enables to bias resistance range at
controlling the position of every
arm. So we may display all the
graphs of oscillations of the arms
simultaneously. We can also easily
output tabular data in a discrete
time interval.
The required control interval is to
be 1-100 microseconds. We are to
get tabular data of control of
displacement of the arms in
relation to the radial direction at
the current moment of time. In
addition there must be made
marks of orientation of the
flywheel in relation to the arm and
the support platform.
The power unit contains
separated power channels to
supply the electric motors and the
electronics. The motors may have
one common neutral. The neutral
of electronics is isolated as an
independent line. Supply voltage
of motors of the flywheels is 12 V,
one of the electronics – 5-6 V. The
voltage of electric motor of the
carrousel is not regulated.
For each arm of the flywheel in
the control unit there is a
channel leading from the
variable brush resistor and a
double channel from the
piezoelectric transducers. Each
flywheel requires a twentywire
line. Meanwhile the
piezoelectric transducers may be
not used, so there will be only an
eight-wire line (Fig. 4).
18 New Energy Technologies, Issue #4 July - August 2003
Fig. 4
Energy and safety
How safe are the present methods of power
generation? Let us consider and compare all the
known devices and technologies that provide the
humanity with electric power:
1. Wind energy conversion devices: wind motor
integrated with the electric generator
2. Devices made to convert energy of falling
water: hydroelectric power stations, tidal power
stations
3. Devices made to convert heat energy, which is
generated in combustion process: heat power
stations
4. Photocells
5. Nuclear energy sources: atomic power stations,
isotopic cells
6. Water-hydrogen energy converters
7. Non-linear dynamic generators.
Their comparative appraisal can be based on the
following parameters:
1. Environmental impact
2. Safety
3. Service life
4. Efficiency
5. Probability of disastrous effects
Device
Comparative parameters
1 2 3 4 5
1. Wind None Medium Medium Low None
2. Hydro High (-) High High High Extremely high
3. Heat High (-) Medium Medium Medium Medium
4. Solar None Low Low Low None
5. Nuclear High (-) Medium Low Low Maximal
6. Hydrogen Low Medium Medium High Medium
7. Non-linear Dynamic (+) High Medium High None
New Energy Technologies, Issue #4 July - August 2003 19
As for the general level of safety the non-linear
dynamic generators rank the first place. The
wind and solar devices follow them. The
nuclear power stations and hydroelectric
stations are the most hazardous. Potential
disastrous effects of nuclear explosions,
earthquakes or dam breakdowns bring to
naught all the assurances in their safety. The
humanity has already faced such catastrophes.
The disastrous impacts of the hydroelectric
power stations include not only possible
destruction of dams, but also excitement of
geotectonic processes as a result of operation
of hydroelectric generators in the infrared
mode of oscillations.
The non-linear dynamic generators can exert
positive influence over the environment by
creating oscillations of certain frequency. This
makes possible to turn radioactive isotopes into
a stable state without upsetting the energy
balance. Furthermore, the non-linear
oscillations are able to reduce geotectonic
stresses and to prevent catastrophic
earthquakes.
Of course, the non-linear oscillations can be
used for destruction as well, but it is not easy to
find an algorithm to control such processes and
it is even more difficult to make an appropriate
device for it. That is why we can say for sure that
it is really practicable to exercise an effective
control over such attempts. Moreover, mass
application of low-powered non-linear
generators will practically eliminate the
possibility of careless use of this technology.
The system will start working in autosafety
mode and neutralizes dangerous impacts.
New technologies and employment
Application of the inertial dynamic generators
will not lead to mass unemployment in the
domain of production and processing of
natural energy resources. It is essential to
understand that the inertial dynamic
generators cannot yet solve the problem of
usage of mineral oil at transport. Neither the
heat power plants will be shut down at once.
The process of changing over the inertial
dynamic generator will take no less than 10
years and it will give rise to competition, which
will force owners of the heat stations to reduce
prices as well as pay attention to the safety and
ecological compatibility of their heat power
plants. One may say that the inertial dynamic
generators merely optimize the production
and consumption of energy resources. It will
be possible to shut down the most hazardous
objects of power engineering and to turn
down building new “doubtful” objects.
The advent of personal computers has not
caused mass dismissals of technicians-andengineers.
Neither the application of inertial
dynamic generators will entail mass
unemployment. On the contrary, many
enterprises and hundred thousands of people
will be engaged in the field of the production
and maintenance of inertial dynamic
generators. Cheap energy will let many
industries develop and thereby millions of
people will get jobs.
It is important to notice that the new
technology will help science and engineering
to get out of a “depression” and thus, naturally,
will entail creation of new working places.
Fig. 5
Fig. 6
20 New Energy Technologies, Issue #4 July
August 2003
Valery D. Dudyshev, Russia
Email: ecolog@samaramail.ru
http://www.dud
epd.narod.ru
The present article makes
an attempt to solve many of
the most critical problems in
Power Engineering and
Mechanics. The author
presents and thoroughly
substantiates a new
prospective trend in Energy
Science, namely Electrical
Field Power Engineering
and Mechanics. The author’s particular
inventions illustrate a new efficient technology
that generates kinetic and electrical energy of the
potential energy of electrical field. The scientist
hopes that the article will arouse keen interest
of wide circles of readers and will contribute to
the progress of power engineering and ecology.
SOCIAL AND ENERGY PARADOXES
The process of evolution in the world power
engineering has resulted in a rather paradoxical
and contradictory situation: on the one hand,
the modern civilization has a dire need for
clean and cheap energy, on the other hand,
nature and civilization themselves are under
the threat of dying
out due to increasing
energy and ecology crises. That is why it is time
to break this energy deadlock. Many far
seeing
and enlightened people fully appreciate it.
But do we try hard enough? Scientists and
specialists know well that much valuable
information on new energy technologies and
energy saving has already been accumulated in
the world, however, in fact, this information is
hardly ever applied. The reason is that a drastic
and fast progress in power engineering and
energy consumption technologies may be
unfavourable for many of the world
monopolies. Their profit depends directly on
imperfections of this system. The less efficient
the power engineering is, the more expensive
energy is. And the less perfect technical devices
are, the more power they consume.
Civilization needs clean and inexhaustible
energy very much, because, as a matter of fact,
mankind has already come into a global energy
and ecology crisis. Scientists and engineers do
not yet know exactly what Energy is and for the
moment determine it just as the capacity of a
matter for doing work. At present the science
operates with laws of conservation of only
known kinds of energy.
On this vague theoretical basis official science
often rejects any concepts of devices that use
the latent energy of matter with high efficiency
(with an output over 100%). At the same time
science is tolerant towards the heat pump with
its extremely high energy datum. It is of
common knowledge that a heat pump uses and
converts low
grade ambient heat with an
efficiency of 200
300 % [8].
Is there a way out of this psychological and
energy deadlock of the civilization and where
exactly does it lie? The simplest answer is the
following: for that we should go back to the
beginnings and revise our basic knowledge and
fundamental principles of power engineering
and technology. But first of all we will have to
answer several seemingly easy questions.
What is energy?
Energy is determined as the capacity of forms
of matter to do work and as the general
measure of motion of the matter [10]. However
Energy is much wider and yet unknown notion
and phenomenon, because science is yet far
from being fully aware what Matter is.
Experimental data form the basis of scientific
knowledge. However imperfect past
experiments go out of date and new unusual
and sensational experiments of modern
New Energy Technologies, Issue #4 July
August 2003 21
scientist take their place [1, 3, 7, 8, 9]. Thus all
the known laws of energy conservation,
formulated on the base of out
dated
experimental data, are of rather limited use and
require correction. Moreover, many of the
latest experiments break the existent laws of
energy conservation, so it is time to widen the
notion of Energy and the formula of its
conservation laws.
Under the impression of incontestable results
of a number of tests and experiments (such as
experiments on cold thermonuclear fusion,
vortex heat generation in water and others
[8, 9]) more and more serious and objective
scientists become supporters of the Aether
Theory. In particular, the experiments by
N. Tesla and his followers show that Aether
(being more subtle a matter than the known
material world) is also full of energy and ready
to supply it to us [10].
But are we ready to take it and in what way will
it be easier to do? In view of these new
experimental data, to my mind, we have
reached the point where it is necessary to revise
the fundamental notions of modern science,
namely the notion of Energy and the law of
conservation of Energy. The first attempt to
amend these basic concepts of physics is
presented below.
Energy is the reciprocal motion of all the
known particles of matter one relatively to
another, as well as the motion represented by
transmutation of these particles (elementary
‘bricks’ of matter) from one form of matter to
another, as well as the rotation of elementary
particles of matter.
Universal Law of Conservation of Energy
(ULCE) should be interpreted as a constant of
this total momentum. There is a possibility to
use and convert latent energy of electrical fields
into real useful Energy and this is an important
practical consequence of the ULCE. But how
can it be put into practice? Let us tell about it
below.
Why do we need energy carriers at all?
This question seems to be simple only at first
sight
“to generate other kinds of useful energy:
kinetic energy, electrical energy, as well as heat,
cold and light” – you will answer. That is right.
But then the next question follows: is it possible
to get all these secondary kinds of energy
without burning fuel at all? This will remind you
of the energy of the Sun, wind, rivers and seas.
And then you will reply nevertheless: “No, all
these nonconventional energy technologies
are not yet perfect and they are far from
covering the shortage of required power”. But
in this case, is there an effective and easy way
out of Energy deadlock at all?! It does exist and
lies in the following:
• at first it is necessary to radically improve
all the energy converters and thereby steeply
decrease fuel and energy consumption for
doing useful work;
• we need to learn how to generate, convert
and use the latent energy of matter and the
renewable Energy of ambient space in an
efficient and easy way.
Where is the generated energy spent nowadays
and why are all the energy consumers
so imperfect?
The simple answer is the following: at present
over a half of all chemical energy of
nonrenewable energy carriers (e.g. different
kinds of fuel) is spent on heat loss and toxic
emission. It happens because the energy
converters and consumers have yet extremely
low output for they use and consume primary
fuel and (or) electrical power to convert it into
work (e.g. in motor transport) and into other
kinds of useful energy (e.g. for lighting) in a
quite inefficient way.
Let us consider output of an electric power
device as the ratio of the useful work to the
expended primary energy (the chemical
energy of fuel and of energy carriers) it
becomes obvious that the existent power
engineering is extremely inefficient indeed.
For instance, the real output of modern heat
machines (including internal
combustion
engines) does not exceed 30%.
The output of heat power plants during power
generation is no more than 40%. The output of
electrical light devices is quite low as well, e.g. one
of an incandescent lamp is just 5
7%! The output
of urban systems of heat generation, transmission
and distribution is no more than 50% and they are
utterly unsafe, etc.
That is why we must urgently and efficiently
improve the energy converters and carries in
order to alleviate the energy crisis of the
civilization. But how can we do it? There can
help my inventions in the sphere of energy
22 New Energy Technologies, Issue #4 July
August 2003
conversion as well as new methods of
application of the latent energy of matter, in
particular, new technology of using the
potential energy of electrical field.
BASICS OF ELECTROPOTENTIAL
POWER ENGINEERING
Doing useful work requires energy and force.
As for the definition of energy it has become
more or less clear. And what is force? Force is
the measure of action of a field (e.g. of
mechanic, electrical and other fields). In this
particular case it is essential that any force is
able to do work.
The notions of field and force are not yet clearly
determined in science at all. However
everybody knows how to generate an electrical
field and Coulomb forces. All we have to do is
figure out how to use this force for common
benefit.
Mysterious Coulomb force and useful work
of electrical field
Free electrical charges and powerful electrical
forces of their interaction (e.g. thunderstorm
phenomenon) exist in Nature regardless of
whether we want it or not. The electrical forces
generate electrical charges and electrical fields
and these forces are enormous. As everybody
knows from high school, Coulomb’s law (one
of the fundamental laws of physics) states that
the force between two electrical charges
depends only on the amount of the charges and
the distance between them, but does not
depend on weight of a body.
The potential Energy of electrical field as well
as huge Coulomb forces can be used for doing
work without fuel and at minimal energy
consumption. For doing work in this case we
can use just a single electrical potential. So the
proposed method may be regarded as a new
method of Electropotential Power
Engineering.
Physical substantiation of realizability and
efficiency of new Electropotential
Power Engineering
One coulomb is defined as the quantity of
electricity transmitted by a conductor (e.g. by
a filament of an incandescent lamp) in one
second at a current of one ampere. Even in
the electrical supply network of an apartment
those coulombs of electricity can be found in
abundance. And what will be the amount of
the repulsive force of two electrical charges
(1 coulomb each)?
Two identical bodies, which have a charge of
1 coulomb and are initially set apart at a distance
of 1 meter, repulse one another with the force
of 1010 N (one can find the formula of Coulomb’s
Law in any physics textbook). The paradox is in
the following fact: it is common knowledge that
Coulomb forces are incredibly immense, but in
fact they have not been used in power
engineering till present times.
These forces are the most powerful forces in
Nature, second only to nuclear forces. Coulomb
forces arise everywhere, where there are
electrical charges and the task is to extract such
forces from bodies and make them work for the
mankind.
Power input to generate potent Coulomb forces
can be minimal. It is amazing that the generation
of such huge forces requires neither high charges
nor high power consumption. Hence to
generate electrical charges of necessary amount
we will need practically no electrical energy and,
of course, no high currents. In this case we deal
with electrostatics and that is the explanation
why the use of Coulomb forces seems to be so
advantageous in practice.
We can vary Coulomb forces by adjusting the
amount of the electrical charges.The ability of
like charges to repulse one another using
Coulomb force is the most promising and
valuable for the new electropotential power
engineering. It means that the effect of electrical
breakdown between two charged bodies is
excluded and the charge will not drain from
their surface.
Mechanical motion and mechanical work
created by Coulomb forces of repulsion
As everybody knows from high school, works
is calculated by multiplying the length of the
path by the component of the force acting
along the path and like charges attract one
another.
The mentioned Coulomb’s Law traditionally
determines the effect of force interaction of
electrical charges. These facts are well known to
everyone, however few people surmise that
Coulomb forces can be immense at certain
conditions.
New Energy Technologies, Issue #4 July
August 2003 23
These forces are quite able to do useful work
at minimal electrical power consumption for
they can make charged bodies move.
Let us explain it by the following example. It
is plainly understood that if a high electrical
potential is supplied instantaneously through
a single conductor to two bodies, which are
initially in contact, the bodies will immediately
be charged with electricity and start repulsing
one another.
These powerful forces of electrical repulsion
make the charged bodies move in the opposite
directions.Consequently, Coulomb forces (for
example, repulsive forces) of like charged
bodies are able to do useful work at practically
zero power consumption by converting the
energy of electrical field of a single potential
into the kinetic energy of motion of the bodies.
Let us once again emphasize that for such
conversion of the potential energy of electrical
field and charges into the kinetic work of the
bodies we will need only one electrical
potential. That is why this type of energy is
called Electropotential Energy.
EXAMPLES OF CONVERTION OF
THE POTENTIAL ENERGY OF
ELECTRICAL FIELD INTO
KINETIC ENERGY
It is traditionally accepted that doing useful work
requires much energy. In particular, all the
modern engines (both heat and electric) still have
high energy expenditure (they consume much
heat and electrical energy while their output is at
most 30%).
The development of energy storage devices is
one of the key open problems of the day. It has
to do, for example, with making efficient
electrical vehicles that could run long distances
without frequent recharge of their storage
batteries. But there is another possible solution
for the engines, which consists in using the
potential energy of electrical field and powerful
Coulomb forces.
The author of this article presents new methods
to convert the potential energy of electrical field
into other forms of energy and uses them to
design ordinary electropotential motors, which
output is over 90% [1].
The design of the motors contains an electrical
field source (e.g. a high
voltage changer or a no

current source of electrical field – an electret, an
oscillatory circuit (of various types) and at least
one energy storage device) [1].
In Fig. 1 you can see the simplest model of an
electropotential motor of oscillatory type with
opposing springs. This device demonstrates the
principle of converting the potential energy of
electrical field into work by means of Coulomb
forces of repulsion.
We supply a high electrical potential (roughly
20kV) from an electrical field source (1) to two
tightly fastened plates (3, 4) (Fig.1). Practically
immediately the plates 3 and 4 get like charges
and then Coulomb forces make them repulse
one from another. After that the plates start
moving apart rapidly till they touch charge

collecting pins (9).
At the same time springs (5, 6) contract and
thereby acquire the potential energy of
contraction. Coulomb forces vanish at the
moment when the plates are discharging to the
charge
collecting pins (9) that are mounted on
an earthing platform (10). The contracted
springs push the plates back from the reversal
points (3
1 and 4
1) to the initial position till
the moment of their contact. Then we repeat the
procedure. Let us mention that to actuate this
reciprocating electrical motor with low energy
expenditure we will need just one electrical
potential. The electrical charge of the plates (3,
4) needs constant renewing, though Coulomb
forces in the motor are rather high even at
minimal electrical charging rate of the plates.
However, it is possible to make the design even
more economical. For that we can either
recuperate the given total charge back to the
plates (3, 4) or to shield the charges while they
return to the plates. For example, the plates (3,
4) made of electrets can be shielded at their
return motion.
So while the plates are moving back to their
initial position, for example, under the action of
the contracted spring, such shielded charges will
not impede their return. As the given bodies
(plates) come together, the shield must be taken
off one more time and the like charged bodies
will repulse each other again.
...there is another possible solution
for the engines, which consists in
using the potential energy of
electrical field and powerful
Coulomb forces.
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August 2003
Fig. 1
The simplest electropotential motor with return springs
1 – high voltage source; 2 – conducting current
collector (spike); 3 – conducting plate (3
1 –
return point); 4 – conducting plate (4
1 – return
point); 5 – spring (insulated from the plate);
6 – spring (insulated from the plate); 7 – left stop
of the spring; 8 – right stop of the spring;
9 – charge
collecting devices (pins); 10 – earth.
Once induced electrical charges of the bodies can
be repeatedly used to set them in return motion.
That is why the electropotential mechanics is very
economical.
Totally no
current “perpetual” electrical
motor of electret
mechanical type
with blinds
Fig. 2
Perpetual mobile using the potential energy
of electrical field
The electrical motor (Fig.2) consists of a case (1)
with two stationary stator electrets (2, 4), which
are fixed on the ends of the case, as well as of a
moving electret rotor (3), which is supplied with
lifting mechanisms (8
10) and two shielding
blinds (5, 6). The electret rotor (3) oscillates
between the stationary electrets (2) and (4).
In Fig.2 you can see that the electret (3), being
under the action of electrical repulsive forces,
moves from the electret (2) to the stationary
electret (4), which is shielded by a blind. At the
same time the blind (5) starts going down with a
rocker (7) driven by gears (8, 9, 10) and thereby
shields the electret (2). The shielding blind (6), on
the contrary, goes up and open the second
stationary electret (4). The electret rotor (3) stops
and, in consequence of the electrical repulsive
forces of the electrets (3) and (4), starts its return
motion to the electret (2). Then the cycle of
movement of the rotor is automatically repeated.
As a matter of fact, the given device is a “perpetual”
oscillatory electrical motor that uses the potential
energy of the electrical field of the electrets (2),
(3) and (4) and the electrical forces of repulsion
of like charges, i.e. Coulomb forces.
“Perpetual” reciprocal electret motor with
self
oscillating electromagnetic circuit
Fig. 3
Design of the electrical motor
Fig. 3 shows design of such a motor. It includes
a free
running piston
rotor, which is made of
a charged monoelectret. Inside of a hollow
chamber there are disks of an electrical
New Energy Technologies, Issue #4 July
August 2003 25
condenser. The chamber has the form of a hollow cylinder. The disks of the electrical air
condenser are mounted on the inner butt
ends of the cylinder (Fig.3). These conductive disks
are connected electrically to the terminals of a high
voltage changer with adjustable amplitude
and frequency (a voltage inverter). An electrical inductance is connected in parallel to the
terminals of the disks (Fig.4). The electrical condenser (capacitance) inside the motor and the
mentioned inductance form an electromagnetic oscillatory circuit. Generative inductance can be
coiled onto the given cylindrical chamber that is permeable to the magnetic field.
Fig. 4
As a matter of fact the proposed design is an
original electromechanical oscillatory system that
combines a resonance electromagnetic oscillatory
circuit and an electret mechanical oscillatory
circuit. The principle of operation of this
reciprocating (oscillatory) motor consists in cycle
polarity changing of the electrical charge on the
disks of this inner condenser.
As a result of the action of powerful Coulomb
forces the electret rotor accelerates and starts
moving inside the chamber towards an unlike
charged disk.
When voltage sign and the charge of the disks
change, it starts moving with acceleration to the
opposite electrode. Let us note that as the electret
accelerates in the chamber, an emf arises inside
the inductance coil.This emf automatically
changes the polarity on the condenser disks.
Consequently, when the electret rotor approaches
an unlike charged electrode, at first it decelerates.
Then, at the moment when the charge of the
electrode changes its polarity to the opposite one,
the rotor starts moving to the opposite electrode
inside the chamber. The repulsive force
(acceleration) of the electret rotor and the
frequency of its oscillations between the
condenser disks depends on the charge of the
electret rotor and on value of the high voltage
initially supplied to the disks, as well as on the
parameters of the oscillatory circuit. Since the
electrical currents in the circuit are low and as the
condenser and the inductance interchange their
energy, then the energy loss is also very low and
the performance index of this device that converts
energy of electrical field into propulsion and
electrical power is close to 1.
The output can be even more than 1 if only the
power line supply but not the energy of electrical
field is regarded as the electrical power input.
Hybrid electrostatic motor
generators
(Fig. 5, 6)
It is astonishing, but using the potential energy
of electrical field we can generate both kinds of
energy at the same time (both kinetic energy of
motion, e.g. energy of rotation, and concurrently
electrical energy). The amount of the kinetic
energy and electrical energy, which are
generated in the load from the potential energy
26 New Energy Technologies, Issue #4 July
August 2003
of electrical field, is regulated by changing the
intensity of initial or induced electrical field and
the amount of charge. Let us consider some
devices of the kind.
Electret motor
generator of rotary type
Fig. 5
In Fig. 5 you can see even more original variant
of the “perpetual” rotational electret motor

generator created by the author. The design of
such an unusual generator comprises two (or
more) paired segmental electret disks of free
rotation (1), (2) and two (or more) charge

collecting plates (3) that are positioned parallel
to these disks at a minimal gap. To start the
generator it will suffice to begin rotating the disks
in the opposite directions.
For the sake of simplicity the second charge

collecting plate with electrical load is not shown
in the picture. An analogous device has been
already functioning in France and there is an
article describing it [6]. Unlike its analogue [6], this
electrostatic generator is made of more advanced
high
performance electret materials and has a
considerably improved design. Thanks to high
electrical intensity and charge density of the
electret, the capacity of this generator increases
in many times comparing to the device [6] with
similar speed of rotation and dimensions.
After forced spinup of the disks (1) and (2) to
the opposite directions, these segmental electret
disks go on rotating spontaneously. It results
from power interaction of electrical charges of
the electrets between the disks. The electrical
field induces an emf onto a stationary flat
electrode (3). The speed of rotation is determined
by the proportion of the design factors of the
device and the parameters of the electrets. The
emf of generated voltage is proportionate to the
speed of rotation of the disks and to the number
of segments of the electrets. As a result of rotation
of the disks and changes in the electrical field
intensity, unlike electrical charges are cyclically
induced on the electrode (3) and AC electrical
power is generated in the load (4). Fig. 5 shows
the electrical load that has the form of a glowing
bulb (4) and is connected into the circuit
“electrode (3) – electrical load – earth”
Motor
generator set of linear
rotary type
Fig. 6
In Fig.6 you can see a simplest multifunctional
“perpetual” motor generator. It consists of a
rotating segmental electret disk (8, 10) and two
electrets (3, 4), which are mounted in a vertical
shaft (1). When the stationary electret (4)
repulses the moving electret (3), the latest starts
moving back and forth. Thereby it provides
continuous rotation of the segmental electret
disk (8, 10) using a transmission gear (9) that
reminds a children’s toy – whirligig. Rotation
of the electret disk results in an emf of electrical
induction and electrical energy generation.
The generator circuit is similar to the circuit in
Fig. 5, therefore it is not shown here. By
changing parameters of the device and
parameters of the initial electrical field we can
regulate the parameters of moving electrets,
New Energy Technologies, Issue #4 July
August 2003 27
which are generated by the electrical field, as
well as the amount of kinetic energy of motion
of these bodies. The devices (Fig.5, 6) have been
tested in working models and have proved
their efficiency.
In Fig.7 you can see a variant of the design of low
expenditure electrofield motors as applied to
electric vehicles. A crank gear converts the kinetic
energy of back
and
forth motion of the electrical
(or electret) rotor of this unusual low
expenditure electrofield motor into ordinary
rotation of a distribution crankshaft of an electric
vehicle.
Fig.7
Electrofield engine
The work chamber and contacting parts of the
mechanism (e.g. its rod) are insulated with
special metal
ceramics. In order to prevent
draining of electrical charges from working
plates of the electrical condenser we should
regulate the propulsion, torque of the shaft and
rpm of this electromotor not by increasing
electrical current (like in ordinary electrical
motors), but by changing voltage of the power
source and, as a consequence, by changing the
amount of electrical charge on the plates of the
electrical condenser with constant polarity. In
order to increase the dielectric rigidity of the
work chamber of this low expenditure
electropotential motor, we fill the chamber with
insulating gas, which has extremely low
viscosity.
At the website http://www.dud
epd.narod.ru
you can see an animation film that demonstrates
the operation of this original low expenditure
electromotor (Fig. 7).
EXAMPLES OF OTHER EFFICIENT
DEVICES OF LOW EXPENDITURE
ELECTROFIELD POWER
ENGINEERING
In his previous articles [3
5] the author proposed
and described new technologies of application
of potential energy of electrical field, in
particular, the technology for pollution
free
combustion devices, fuelless orbit cosmonautics
and the low expenditure technology of
hydrogen generation from water.
Above in this article we have already mentioned
a number of efficient methods and devices for
generation of kinetic energy of motion and
electrical energy.
Let us cite some other examples of the simplest
efficient devices of this new electrofield
mechanics. Potent Coulomb forces of repulsion
of like charged bodies can be successfully
applied in the nearest future, e.g. to bearings.
Perpetual contactless electret bearings
Bearings are a base and a movable support of all
moving and rotating devices. However
mechanical bearings are wearing parts and not
reliable enough in service, for they require
regular control and maintenance (lubrication),
besides, their service life is limited.
Levitation of bodies in electrostatic field
Coulomb forces of repulsion of like charges can
be applied to bearings of new a generation. The
author presents a new type of contactless
bearings. It is made on the base of electrostatic
(electret) suspension of the inner and outer
rings of a bearing.
There can be many variants of such contactless
levitation (suspension) using Coulomb forces.
The simplest way to realize it is either to use
triboelectric effect or to apply new polymeric
28 New Energy Technologies, Issue #4 July
August 2003
materials i.e. monoelectrets [3]. Electrets have
been serially produced since long ago. Electrets
are manufactured in the form of a thin
polymeric film with an electrical charge of
certain density “trapped” into it. The charge can
be stored in the film for arbitrary long time.
Currently electret film is widely used in
microphones and telephones. But it can be used
for electrostatic suspension of bodies as well. In
particular, it will be expedient to apply this film
to our new type of “perpetual” contactless
electrostatic bearings.
Electrical repulsion force in such a bearing
is millions of times more potent than magnetic
repulsive force in a magnet bearing of the
same dimensions and same masses of charge
carriers. These contactless electret bearings are
the future.
In Fig.8 you can see a contactless support
electrodynamic suspension of bodies. It is based
on the principle of repulsion of two no
current
sources of electrical field (electrets) that are
tightly connected with levitated bodies.
Fig.8
Fig.9 shows a “perpetual” contactless electret
bearing of rotary type. The work surfaces of
grooves (3, 5) and balls (4) have electret
covering. The electret bearings are highly
resistant to dynamic stress thanks to their special
sulcate design and small gaps.
The design of this rotary bearing is rather simple:
in order to provide such electrostatic levitation
of the rings one inside another it is enough to
cover its work surfaces with an electret film.
As a result a contactless rotary bearing (CLRB)
with such electret films is able to bear dynamical
stress up to 2
3 tons.
These films are sprayed onto the inner surface
of the groove of the outer bearing ring and onto
outer surface of the inner ring with just a
1 mm gap. The author has carried out
electromechanical simulator study of the CLRB
using special PC program and test operation.
It has been proved that the application of
modern electret materials for CLRBs provides
their safe performance at much higher dynamic
stresses comparing to ordinary mechanical
bearings of the same dimensions.
Fig.9
Contactless electret bearing
Electrostatic accelerators
of solids and liquids
Potent Coulomb forces can efficiently
accelerate solids and liquids in one direction.
The author has already tested in practice such
physical effects of this low expenditure
New Energy Technologies, Issue #4 July
August 2003 29
process of electrical acceleration of bodies in
electrical field.
In Fig.10 you can see a simple experimental
device that is used to generate an electrically
charged jet of potential energy of electrical field.
Power inputs for generation of such an electrical
jet are just 5
10 W at the speed 50
100 m/c. The
experiment is described below.
Fig.10
Electrical water jet
1 – positive electrode; 2 – glass tube; 3 – rubber
plug; 4 – glass vessel; 5 – air; 6 – water or other
liquid; 7 – negative electrode; 8 – high voltage
changer; 9 – storage battery.
Experiments on electrical acceleration of
liquids in capillaries by means of a pulse
The author of this article revealed and
experimentally studied the effect of high
acceleration (ejection) of dielectric liquids in
capillaries under the action of Coulomb forces
in a strong electrical field (about 10
20 kW). The
technical realization of the method is rather
simple and can be as follows: a dielectric liquid
(e.g. diesel oil) is poured to a tube of small
diameter (about 1
3 mm) and a strong electrical
field is supplied to it instantaneously.
The liquid ejects from the tube with
acceleration. Two electrodes of a low
power
voltage changer generate an electric filed in the
column of initially motionless liquid. The
electrical field arises in a certain direction
depending on the polarity of an electrical
potential inside the liquid.
The effect of acceleration of the liquid is most
pronounced (evident) when one of electrical
potentials is supplied into the liquid itself that
is poured in a bent tube and another potential
is located at a certain distance from the cut of a
tube. The nature and principle of operation of
such an electrical liquid accelerator are clear
enough. Under the action of even one electrical
field potential in dielectric liquid, all the liquid
gets an electrical charge of a certain polarity.
Molecules and clusters of the liquid become
polarized and long chains of interconnected
and polarized molecules are formed. When the
second potential is supplied to the cut of the
tube, there arises potent electrostatic energy of
the attraction between these molecular chains
and an outer electrical potential (ring
electrode).
In order to raise the pressure in the tube electrical
field should be supplied to the liquid
instantaneously at the moment of ejection. To
increase the intensity of acceleration of the liquid
jet it is expedient to take off field potentials right
at the moment of ejection.
Pressure measurement of the liquid shows that
when the electric filed is supplied
instantaneously to the liquid, the pressure on the
cut of the tube rises (roughly 10
50
atmospheres) at the moment of jet detachment
and the speed is about 100 m/c depending on
applied high voltage (10
35 kW). When this
occurs the energy inputs for polarization and
acceleration are insignificant. It could be
explained by the fact that in this case there is no
current circuit of discharge of voltage supply.
(To our mind, the mentioned method can be
successfully applied to ordinary contactless fuel
electrostatic high
pressure pumps, e.g. in
automobile injection motors).
We could continue citing examples of efficient
electrofield devices that could be built on the
base of the author’s inventions, if we were not
limited by the frames of this article.
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August 2003
Fuel energy companies invest money in alternative power engineering
http://www.eco.com.ua/cgi
bin/index.cgi?id=1577
http://www.shell.com/home/Framework?siteId=hydrogen
en
Constructive responses to this publication will
be greatly appreciated. The author is also
interested in comprehensive creative
discussion of his article and in mutually
beneficial cooperation with companies that
would put his numerous new technologies and
devices into practice.
The giant British
Dutch oil company Royal Dutch/Shell Group has announced its intention to put
annually from 500 million to one milliard US dollars into alternative power engineering. Shell Group
has already founded an independent company that specializes in hydrogen technologies. As a number
of other oil giants, Shell is getting ready in advance for hard times when exploitation and extraction of
hydrocarbon raw materials will make no commercial profit. One of the latest projects of Shell in the
field of hydrogen power engineering is the first hydrogen refuelling station in Tokyo that provides
special transport with liquid hydrogen. The practical realization of the project belongs to Showa Shell
Seikyu KK (Show Shell), which is a Japanese company 50 per cent owned by the Royal Dutch/Shell
Group of Companies (Shell).
The concern British Petroleum, London competitor of Shell, is also interested in problems of alternative
power engineering as well. As soon as by 2007 BP expects to get no less than 1 milliard dollars from
selling electrical energy generated by solar cells. Companies engaged in motorcar industry have their
developments in this sphere as well. In 2003 the Japanese company Honda Motor starts line production
of FCX
V4, a hydrogen cell
powered vehicle. However the company prefers not to enter into a
partnership with other companies that have a concern in industrial application of hydrogen fuel and
plans to begin mass production of pollution
free motor vehicles no sooner than in 2015 for the new
technology is still very expensive.
It is evident that transnational corporations do not want to lose their control over the world economy.
Foreseeing a collapse of the traditional system of energy carriers and a changeover to alternative
energy sources, fuel and motorcar industries appropriate promising developments, attract necessary
specialists into their laboratories and form packages of patents for key technologies ahead of time.
One may expect that the development of alternative power engineering will accelerate thanks to
efforts of large manufacturers.
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Mikhail P. Beshok, Russia
338-110 Lunacharsky Str., Saint Petersburg, 195265
Tel.: +7-812-532-3803, +7-812-311-3931
E-mail: beshok@rambler.ru
Air is considered to be one of the alternative
sources of energy. As a rule, the energy of air flows
is meant here. Meanwhile as everybody knows
from the molecular-kinetic theory of gases the
molecules of air move at speed 500 m/sec (no
matter what the speed of an air flow is). The
weight of one cubic meter of air is over 1 kg. It is
easy to calculate that the Earth’s atmosphere
contains huge amount of energy. Usually methods
of using this energy are not discussed. Molecules
move in the air absolutely chaotically and, as is the
convention, in such a medium the energy can be
only absorbed or dissipated and this process is
irreversible. Indeed, within the usual frames of
space and time the molecules move quite
chaotically, their quantity is tremendous and the
process that is accompanied by the increase of
entropy is most possible. Nevertheless, the motion
of a molecule in the interval between collisions
seems to be ordered and predictable. The average
distance that a molecule passes within this time is
dozens of nanometers. Lately appeared
nanotechnologies enable to manipulate the
matter at this level. Let us try to take advantage of
it.
Let us take a plate both surfaces of which are
absolutely smooth and have surface areas S1 and S2
(Fig.1a). Both sides of the plate are under the action
of forces. The forces are normally directed to the
plate and numerically equal to total pulses. These
pulses are imparted to the each side by the colliding
molecules of air. As the total pulses are in
proportion to the surface areas of the sides and
S1=S2, then F1=F2.
Let us assume that side 1 of the plate is not
absolutely smooth surface. Let it be somehow relief
(e.g. riffled, see Fig.1b). The contact area of the plate
with air from side 1 enlarges. Correspondingly, the
number of collisions against side 1 increases.
However the balance of forces F1 and F2 is not upset.
In order to explain this phenomenon let us divide
the plate into a great number of equal elements and
consider one of them (Fig.1c). For the sake of
simplicity hereinafter we will use some of the terms,
which are accepted in geodesy.
Fig. 1a
Fig. 1b
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Let us designate the following: slope angle is a,
distance between the peaks is d, surface area of the
slopes is S’1 and S”1 (side 1) and surface area of the
element is S2 (side 2). The picture and the given
proportions show that as the surface area of the
plate from the side 1 extends and as the number of
collisions against this side increases, so the absolute
sum value of the forces acting from side 1 grows as
well. However the vector sum remains normally
directed to the plate (later on to the ‘background’
surface) and equal to the force which acts from side
2.
Fig. 1c
If the collisions of the molecules and the plate were
absolutely inelastic, then the given balance would
be invariable for all shapes and sizes of the relief,
because any of the elementary surfaces of relief
(being oriented at some angle to the background
surface) in direction, which is normal to the
background surface, is under the action of a force,
which is equal to the force that acts on the
background surface. However the collisions of the
molecules and the plate are elastic. Therefore if the
relief of the surface is small enough (in this
particular case, when d is less than the average
length of one free path of the molecule l) then there
is arises a factor, which upsets the mentioned
balance of the forces (Fig.1d).
When d >l of free path, on colliding with the plate
each of the molecules goes back to its original
medium. But when d £ l of free path some of the
molecules will hit the plate more than once before
they return to their medium.
Thereby the plate gets additional pulses. The
resolution of their sum vector will give a non-zero
component that is normal to the background
surface. Hence on side 1 there appears an
additional force and the balance of forces is upset.
The effect shows up on the elements of surface
where the relief has the profile of a cavity and the
distance between the slopes is £ l of free path in
any of the directions. The effect is a maximum
where the surface profile has similar parameters in
all the directions, i.e. where it has the shape of a
funnel or a crater.
A plate one side of which is “sown” with such
craters can be used in energy generation devices.
Normal air pressure is 105 N/m2 and pressure
difference of 1 % is already quite considerable.
Preliminary and very rough calculations show that
the pressure difference can be dozens of percents
though.
Fig. 1d
New Energy Technologies, Issue #4 July - August 2003 33
Vadim A. Chernobrov, Russia
“Kosmopoisk”, Nagatinskaya str. 19-a, Moscow, 115533
E-mail: chernobrov@kosmopoisk.org
Gravitational Aircrafts are aircrafts that use
gravitation forces for movement in space and
consist of two interattracting masses. This
definition reflects a fixed scientific notion for that
type of apparatus. But in different publications the
term “gravitational aircraft” is usually regarded in
general, namely as a device that controls gravitation
by any manner.
There are two complementary, but not quite
interchangeable common explanations of
gravitation, plus a multitude of alternative and
little-known interpretations that are not in
question here. Isaac Newton, the first physicist,
described gravitation as attraction between two
masses. The principle of relativity of Einstein
General Theory presumes that in fact a mass causes
space-time deformation around it. The both
theories explain why material bodies fall to the
Earth.
Scientists regard Einstein Theory as being more
comprehensive, since it also explains why the light
(which is weightless) deviates in strong
gravitational fields. Such a view on gravitation
makes of it something more than just a
characteristic of the Universe. For that reason many
scientists consider the idea of creation of any
antigravitational devices as nonsense. Many of
them, but not all!
Gravitational propulsion devices
If the densities of two attracting bodies differ
significantly one from another, then the entire
system of two mechanically connected masses will
start moving towards the body with higher density.
G.R. Uspensky (Central Scientific-Research
Institute of Engineering, Cosmonautics Faculty of
Moscow Aeronautical Institute) succeeded in
making the most accurate calculations of the
effects arising from this phenomenon.
The scientist published results of his calculations
and they rouse no censure of the specialists. G.R.
Uspensky created his own theory and designed
his own gravitational aircraft.
During the flight of a solar probe near the Sun
the researcher planned to define more
precisely some aspects of the gravitation
theory in order to test the efficiency of
gravitational propulsion devices. According
to him, in the end of 2001 there were
obtained most encouraging results!..
Valeriy Akinin, mechanical engineer and
Member of the Academy of Inventors, Men of
Arts and Science, proposes to develop a so-called
“dumbbell” gravitational aircraft. Let us assume
that there is a system of two equal weights with
a horizontally oriented rigid connection
between them.
If the weights are moved apart to a larger
distance than the initial one, the whole
construction will… lose its weight! This fact has
been already known before.
Akinin offered not to set the weights apart, but
to rotate the construction around a horizontal
axis mounted transversely to the connection. So
the projections of separate gravitational forces
to the axis of the system will change in a proper
way, just as it is required in fact. Theoretically,
as the weights we can imagine atomic nuclei,
electrons and so on.
However, apart from the classic “two-mass”
gravitational aircraft there is a great number of
other projects, starting from devices that
“generate gravitational waves using heat flow”
(A. Scheglov) up to black holes harnessed with
a special torus-shaped bridle (Kazykin (Kaluga),
I. Ivanchenko).
34 New Energy Technologies, Issue #4 July - August 2003
Magnetic gravitational aircrafts
Magnetic gravitational aircrafts are apparatus in
which, according to the authors, propulsion or
gravitation control is achieved due to peculiar
manipulations with magnetic field.
For example, such projects have been proposed
by G. Bowhon, G. Johnson (USA) and by Robert
Adams together with G. Aspden (Great Britain).
V.V. Mironov, Director General of “New
Civilisation” Co Ltd, has been working at creation
of a gravitational engine made of heterogeneous
metals with a “Veinik ring” at its heart.
The aim is to find a way of controlling
gravitational field near the Earth and other
cosmic bodies.
The American researcher Benneth suggested to
get propulsion by means of interaction of
electromagnetic and gravitational fields. Though
at first sight the idea seems to be unrealisable,
nevertheless the author obtained two patents for
this project at once.
As successful experiments of the kind we can cite
experiments on “reveal of abnormal weight loss
of the falling magnets” by a physicist Kelly.
Electric gravitational aircrafts
Electric gravitational aircrafts are devices in which,
according to the authors, propulsion or
gravitation control results from peculiar
manipulations with electromagnetic field.
Physicists V.V. Vasilyev and V.Y. Vasilyev (Obninsk
Nuclear Power Institute) suppose that gravitation
can be controled by means of resonant interaction
of millimetric electromagnetic waves. Dr. Robert
Hatchings Goddard, one of the founders of
cosmonautics, projected electric gravitational
engines as well and in 1920 he was even given a
priority for one of the engines.
Among successful experiments there are known
ones on “abnormal deweighing of
electromagnetic coils” by Japanese physicist
Yonomata.
Several trustworthy experiments, at which the
author of this review assisted, were made by E.D.
Pronin (ex-employee of “Energia” Research-and-
Production Co) and by physicists S.M. Polyakov
and O.S. Polyakov (Fryazino, Moscow Region).
There was obtained a small level of propulsion in
these experiments. The author of the present
review participated in the experiments, took
appropriate measurements and a video record and
drew up his own report on physical nature of the
propulsion.
I.M. Shakhparonov (ex-employee of Kurchatov
Institute) has been also preparing similar
experiments. The scientist has already created a
generator of Kozyrev-Dirak Radiation. Moreover,
he has analysed consequences of the influence
of the generator on the matter as well as its
capability to generate gravitational waves.
Shielding gravitational aircraft
A protection shield that transmits gravitational
waves completely or partially, to some physicists’
mind, could facilitate reaching an
uncompensated moment and making
propulsion for flight.
The Corpuscular Theory of Matter and some
other theories presume the possibility of finding
methods of gravitation shielding or changing its
character (repulsion instead of attraction).
It is beyond question that in case of complete
gravitation shielding in one direction the
attraction of even very distant stars will inevitably
make a spaceship fly in the opposite direction.
The following research works can be marked out
among the projects of the kind.
In 1996 engineers A.V. Murlykin and
S.A. Mikhalev (MAI, “Amur” Co) proposed an idea,
which supposedly provided partial shielding of
the weight of a device. It was expected that a
material of a certain density could partially shield
the weight of another material of a different
density.
To prove this effect mechanical engineer
N. Sorokin (MAI) made two metal samples, each
of them had high density and weighed 1 gram.
The samples were shaped as a shell with welladjusted
walls and there was a ball enclosed
inside.
At Zigel Scientific Conference in Moscow
S. Mikhalev announced that he would
demonstrate “a proof of flight of the flying
saucer”. He made a report and only then he
demonstrated two balls and promised that two
of his tests (the first one – exact weighing of the
separate balls, the second – exact weighing of
New Energy Technologies, Issue #4 July - August 2003 35
the balls when one was inserted into the other)
would reveal the difference in weight… However
the experiment showed no impressive effect.
What is especially popular among theoreticians
of the gravitational aircrafts, it is not Newtonian
Law of Attraction, but the Law of Repulsion,
according to which material bodies are pressed
to the planets under influence of the total
repulsive force coming from that part of the
Universe which is not screened by a planet or
another shield.
Antigravitational aircrafts
In 1991 R. Forward (USA, “Nullor” Project)
presented the best description of the mode of
functioning of gravitational aircrafts. Imagine
two huge massive rings (from 97 to 970 m
across diameter) and between them in open
space there is cargo bay of useful load.
The upper ring is made of ordinary superdense
material and attracts both the cargo bay and the
lower ring, while the lower ring repulses both
the cargo bay and the upper ring.
At the same time the entire system is to
accelerate in one direction and the acceleration
is controlled by a simple change of the distance
between the rings.However there is an
impediment – the lower ring is to be made of
hypothetical antimatter. It is not clear how
such a giant ring can be produced of antimatter.
Another big problem is the hazard of contact
of the two rings. It may result in a very powerful
explosion or (if the annihilation of the solid
bodies is far from being so catastrophic as, for
instance, in case of gas clouds)
microexplosions on the contact area. The
explosions will destroy the rings and push them
apart.
There are less hazardous projects, which in fact
sound even more hypothetical. In the early 90s
E. Linevich, inventor and ex-employee of an
aircraft repair and overhaul plant, applied for
about 50 patents, including an application for
a gravitational inertial engine.
All his projects were rejected “because of violation
of the known laws of Nature”. In 1991 in his work
“Antigravitational phenomenon of physical bodies”
Linevich proposed a project of a magnetoelectrical
propulsion system for spacecrafts that is able to run
on nuclear industry wastes.
He designed “an experimental device for studying
antigravitational phenomena” and in 1991-1993
it was being built at “Askold” plant in Arsenyev. E.
Linevich did not open any details of his invention.
Unfortunately production of the device was not
completed for in 1999 the author emigrated to the
USA.
Engineer Evgeny D. Pronin, former designer of
radio systems for “Energia” Research-and-
Production Corp. who has become a violinmaker,
has been working at designing an antigravitational
radiator since the beginning of the 90s. Evgeny D.
Pronin has the richest experience in designing
most sophisticated radio systems.
It was him who made one of the first TV sets in
Moscow, but since the 80s he turned into an
ideological antagonist of using the radio waves “for
the reason of ecology” and that was why he took
up working in the field of gravitation.
According to Pronin, he succeeded to create his
own project of a gravitational motor-radiator, a
certain “gun” that is able to remotely reduce the
weight of bodies.
A. Dobrogaev, one of the experts of Kosmopoisk,
assisted at testing the antigravitational radiator and
confirmed that the irradiated bodies did lose their
weight, though he doubted that it was a fair
experiment.
In 1993 a member of French Entomological Society
V.S. Grebennikov (Krasnoobsk, Novosibirsk
Region) announced successful testing of his
antigravitational propulsor. According to a number
of publications, he made several piloted flights
aboard a levitating platform. (Editor’s: We also wrote
about the investigation of this scientist more than
once).
The entomologist studied the bodies of insects and
discovered the effect of cavity structures. Since
1988 he had been working at disclosure of the
principle of flight of a maybug and noticed that
many of the chitin shells of the insect had rhythmic
microstructures and volumetric microtraceries. To
Grebennikov’s mind, the effect of their structures
provided levitation ability of the insect’s body.
Later he put forward an idea of making a
gravitational propulsor on the base of the
discovered maybug secrets. He built a wooden
platform of about 0.5 x 0.5 m in size with a
substrate of the “maybug material”, a control panel
and a handle.
36 New Energy Technologies, Issue #4 July - August 2003
According to Grebennikov, on the night of
March 18, 1990 he successfully tested his
antigravitational platform with the mentioned
propulsor and realized an independent piloted
flight aboard the levitating platform from
Krasnoobsk to Academgorodok, then he went to
Severo-Chemskoy district and - across Zatulinka
district - to Tolmachevo Airport and finely went
back to Krasnoobsk.
Afterwards his article “Night Flight Aboard a
Gravitational Aircraft” was reprinted from the
local newspaper by “Technology to the Youth”
magazine and then some other periodicals cited
the article many times.
However when the author of this review got in
touch with the inventor, the later could not
confirm that information. Since the moment of
the publication in 1993 V. Grebennikov had been
extremely suspicious towards everybody who
took an interest in his inventions.
The scientist did not want to cooperate with
manufacturers nor sponsors under the pretence
that only one threatened species of insects
showed that discovered antigravitational ability.
In this connection Grebennikov was worried
about the destiny of those insects in case if their
secret would be disclosed. As a whole the
invention of Grebennikov makes the impression
of a low-grade disinformation.
Meanwhile engineer M. Holverda and Japanese
physicists T. Hashida and H. Tanaka together with
H. Hayasaku are trying to prove the antigravitation
phenomenon in laboratory environment.
Gravitorepulsive shields
One more type of the aircrafts gets propulsion by
means of shielding pressure forces in some
directions. A.K. Titarenko (Moscow Institute of
Aviation) worked at this problem in the early 90s.
But the work remained uncompleted for in 1993
A.K. Titarenko was killed.
In the 80-90s B.P. Dodonov, physicist and
inventor, carried out experiments on the creation
of heliciform stators and he managed to build
several devices with helical and direct shields.
They were up to 6 m across diameter and made
of wood or metal. Dodonov even got a patent
for creation of such a propulsor (patent
#2005505, 1991 for “a propulsor that uses space
power”).
After the inventor’s death in 1998 his successors
and colleagues began using Dodonov’s devices
named “Corbio” for medical purposes and did
rather successfully.
Many times the author of this review participated
in person in preparing B. Dodonov’s experiments
and he made certain that the suspended rotors
inside Dodonov’s stators though slowly, but did
begin rotating.
As for the explanation of this effect (Dodonov
expected his experiments with a heliciform
shield–stator to demonstrate “Newtonian
repulsion”) yet the real reason is not quite
understood.
So far only one possible application of the effect
is more or less obvious. The phenomenon is of
little use for providing propulsion for aircrafts
because the stator is too heavy (light-weighted
stators are inefficient), but it can be used in power
plants (in view of the heavy weight of the stator
such plants could be stationary).
It should be noticed that the projects mentioned
above use repulsive forces (for instance, repulsive
forces of aether wind), but not the forces of
antigravitation.
New Energy Technologies, Issue #4 July - August 2003 37
An experiment by Roman E. Solomyanny
Review is prepared by Editor Olga Leontyeva
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1- silver plates
2- crystal – resonator
3- glass chamber, 3 cm thick
4- seal point of the crystal
5- output to the vacuum-pump
6- contacts of energy input/output
Editor’s: You can get in touch with Roman E.
Solomyanny by e-mail: evantarian@fct.ru.
The invention is based on a theory saying that all the
ambient space is filled with virtual particles, which
come in to being and vanish instantly. As is well known,
it requires certain energy to generate a couple of
particles (particle-antiparticle). According to the
above-stated theory, all the ambient space is filled with
energy. And the following phenomena can evidence
it: relic radiation and practical impossibility of reaching
the absolute zero temperature.
The idea to create such a device came to the author
as early as in 2000, but its realization took some
time since he had no necessary materials. That was
the reason why the experiment was executed only
in summer 2002.
The device consists of two silver plates (silvered
copper can be used as well). They supply power to
a resonator and take off excess of generated energy.
Between the silver plates there is a quartz plate that
forms active body of the resonator. This plate is
made of natural crystal (it has more ordered
structure) or rock crystal. In order to provide purer
vacuum there is used a cylinder vacuum chamber
with a vacuum-pump nipple. The device also
comprises two permanent Fe-Nb-B magnets (in
order to polarise a little the active body) and bracing
for the active body of the resonator. An experiment
with one quartz plate has turned out to be successful
(see the figure). The explanation is that making a
device with several plates requires high preseason
adjustment of the parts and it is rather difficult to
fix them.
The device starts up by means of a simplest high
frequency pulse generator and a power amplifier.
Load in the circuit is a mandatory requirement for
operation of the device. The mode of building-up
oscillations was the initial one (second to the
calibration mode). The output capacity of the
device after the mode of building up oscillations
was about 20Wt ±2-3Wt.
Within 3 months the device was showing fail-free
operation in the initial mode (at that power was not
totally taken off). The device was running at high
power during several minutes and then the crystal
collapsed. It happened because we had used gypsum
to make the crystal (the use of more advanced
materials such as natural rock crystal or highly refined
gypsum gives higher power output). The active body
collapsed because its mechanical oscillations
exceeded the ultimate stress.
During the operation of the device there were
observed the following side effects: self-cooling (as a
result of it, the active body became brittle) and very
intensive high-frequency radiation (neon lamps,
which were at about one meter from the device,
lighted up).
At building the device we had difficulties in making
the plates. It was necessary to adjust them with high
precision so the cost of the project rose. Bad
adjustment leads to excessive harmonics. Therefore if
we want to reproduce the experiment and improve
the device then its components should be custombuilt
and appropriate materials should be used to make
crystals.
38 New Energy Technologies, Issue #4 July - August 2003
Report by our correspondent Alla Pashova
The meeting of laureates of the Nobel Prize
“Science and Progress of the Mankind” was held in
St. Petersburg from 16 through 22 of June 2003.
Well-known scientists from Belgium, Great Britain,
Germany, the USA, Italy, China, Switzerland and
Japan took part in the meeting. During this week
ceremonies alternated with scientific conferences,
round-table discussions and public lectures. All that
gave occasion to remind once again of the great
contribution of Russian scientists into the world
science and to read out an impressive list of the
names starting from Mikhailo Lomonosov to Pyotr
Leonidovich Kapitza.
Jores I. Alferov
There is no doubt that the fundamental science
requires equally fundamental PR, which would
attract necessary investments to this sphere.
However we must not forget that even the most
brilliant services of the past years cannot be an
“indulgence” that grants absolution of scientific
dogmatism.
The authorities (the federal ones!) try to place the
emphasis right on the newness and innovations.
However they do not want to lose possible
economic benefits because of conformism of the
traditional science. The “dormant” thought must
be awakened. Therefore in his speech at the
opening ceremony Jores I. Alferov (Nobel laureate
and Vice President of the Russian Academy of
Science) expressed regret that good international
scientific competition did not exist any more, as it
had been provoked by the Cold War between the
USSR and the USA.
Vice Prime Minister Valentina Matveenko hopes
that Russia will offer to the world market not its oil
and gas, but its ideas, innovations and technologies.
Moreover, Matveenko appealed to the candidates
and academicians, engineers and designers to “join
the efforts aimed to make Petersburg an innovative
capital of Russia”. “Petersburg is open for new
progressive ideas” – Valentina Stepanovna said in
conclusion.
On June 17 within the framework of the meeting
there was held a round-table discussion “Problems
of Power Engineering”. It was dedicated to new
methods of energy commutation, transformation
and generation. The first report reminded of the
recent presentation of “Global Energy Prize” that
had been covered in the previous issue of our
magazine. One of the prizewinners, G.A. Mesyatz,
who specializes in the field of powerful pulse
energy, told how Russian scientists had managed
to solve the problem of high currents.
Academician V.E. Fortov presented an interesting
way of electromagnetic energy accumulation. It
has turned out that if we surround xenon or
hydrogen with a strong electromagnetic field and
compress them to a solid state it will be possible
to accumulate huge amount of energy. On this
principle there was made a magnetic explosiongenerator,
which enables to reproduce a stroke of
lighting in the power transmission lines, to
stimulate production of minerals and to check the
protection of high-end control systems against
electromagnetic terrorism.
Professor F.G. Ruthenberg (Institute of Problems
in Electrical Physics, Russian Academy of Science)
described a technology of energy generation by
means of burning high-toxic wastes (including
pharmaceutical industry wastes) that was worked
out by specialists of the Institute. The developed
New Energy Technologies, Issue #4 July - August 2003 39
device enables to generate 5 kWt/h by burning
1 kg of wastes.
The report of Jores I. Alferov was about prospects
of the application of renewable sources of
energy. The Nobel laureate sees the future of the
world power engineering exclusively in the
accumulation of solar energy. The reserves of
minerals – coal, oil and gas – will be over in
couple hundred years.
The nuclear power engineering produces too
many harmful wastes, besides the reserves of
uranium in the Earth’s interior will last no more
than a hundred years. Alferov proposes not to
wait till the next energy crisis but to start
realization of a Russian analogue of the German
project “1000 Roofs” (1990-1995). Let us remind
that according to this program photovoltaic
power systems were installed on the roofs of
private houses in Germany.
At present times, as Alferov pointed out, the
application multi-gap solar cells (MGSC)
enables to create solar batteries with the
efficiency that is roughly equal to 78%. And if
we locate them not in the overcast Petersburg,
but in sunny south it will provide Russia with
great amount of cheap electrical energy. Then
the solar energy technology will probably turn
from a hobby of senescent academicians into
one of the major branches of the modern power
engineering.
We asked A.I. Egorov, leading specialist of
Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute (PNPI) to
comment the situation. The scientist considers
ideas of J.I. Alferov rather skeptically, alluding
to the opinion of B.P. Konstantinov (the founder
of PNPI):
Anton I. Egorov
“Solar energy is very scattered. Concentrators
(at least parabolic mirrors) are required to
collect such energy. Besides, there is a need in
a device that turns the mirrors to follow the Sun
as well as an accumulating device that stores
the energy during the day and distributes it at
night and when the weather is nasty. It would
be reasonable to locate solar power plants in
deserts but that would require enormous
depreciation reserves. Moreover, we should
remember that the world mineral resources are
limited. The extractive industry will not be able
to provide photocells production facilities with
sufficient supply of gallium and arsenic for the
synthesis of gallium arsenide.
There is an opinion that if we install a wind
turbine on every house and solar batteries on
every roof (with a storage battery in the
basement), and if we consume electrical energy
with German economy, then in 2030 it will be
possible to consider the issue of further
licensing of German atomic power-stations.
However the German APPs will go on
functioning. Germany spends annually 505
tons of single-crystalline silicon, buying it up
from all the world producers. In 25 years they
are going to generate one third of the necessary
energy from the renewable sources. Despite of
all the efforts, most of the energy will be
generated by heat power plants with CO2
emissions to the atmosphere. To my mind, the
application of such renewable sources of
energy as solar light or wind will not be able to
solve the energy problem of the mankind”.
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Review is prepared according to the Patent #2830575, France
autonomous supplying of separate
dwellings and settlements with light and
heat to complete supplying of factories
and plants with energy). There is also a
possibility to supply back lands with
electrical energy (in such regions distant
power supply is hampered and isolated
generating plants should be used). Besides
among other advantages of these motors
we can also consider the possibility to
improve them and easily assembling
design.
Motion in the device is realized due to the
difference of buoyancy forces which acts
on the opposite arms of the moving
elements. The difference is achieved by
means of purposefully controlled or
forcedly organized change of volumes of
working body of float mechanisms.
This mechanism demonstrates the
possibility to get energy using buoyancy
forces (the Archimedes force) which act
on a body immersed in liquid. This
invention relates to a device allowing the
mechanical production of energy, using
the variable-volumes elements by the
gravitation and the Archimedes force for
its operation. Variable-volumes elements
will change their volumes according to
position of the masses, in their inner parts.
The device is made up of two wheels (1)
and (2) and of the variable-volumes
elements (see Fig.1), which are immersed
and fixed with the links of a chain (8),
producing the difference (DF) between the
Archimedes forces (F 1) and (F 2) of the
two dimensions of the device, which will
draw the chain in the direction indicated
on the diagram by arrows (9) and cause the
rotation of the wheels (1) and (2). The
Class F03Â-017/04,
Number of the publication 2 830 575,
Appl. No.: 01 11357
Filed 03 September, 2001
Author: M. Smeretchanski
Fig. 1
There is a description and principles of operation of the device, which was created and patented by
Mikhail Smeretchanski (France). The principle of operation of such gravitational motors allows to get
considerable useful power (for example, in the form of electrical energy) without use of fuel. The main
advantages of such energy sources are their environmental safety and wide application (from
New Energy Technologies, Issue #4 July - August 2003 41
whole device is immersed vertically.
The change of volumes of the elements will take
place according to the position of the masses
inside. Under the action of gravitation masses will
change the volume of the elements, and the
Archimedes force will produce the rotation of the
wheels (1) and (2), according to the positions of
the elements in relation to the axes of the wheels
(see Fig.1). Additional drawings of sectional view
of float elements are represented in Fig. 2-5.
Fig. 2
Fig. 3
Fig. 4
Fig. 5
At turning of a magnetic float the position of the
control magnetic element changes relatively to the
stator (stator turns over 180°). The working volume
changes under the influence of the opposite
direction of forces. Movable magnetic rotor is kept
in a definite permanent position by means of outer
floats.
Method for calculation
of motor and masses
Gas springs (gas cylinders, which under pressure
are filled with nitrogen) are used in the device.
By the principle of operation these springs are
identical to the components, which are used in
automobiles to open and support a back door.
Let us assume that lower axle of the wheel is at a
depth of 5.5 m (it is meant the distance between
axles of the upper and lower wheel because the
depth where the upper axle is mounted and the
whole motor do not have vital importance). Gas
springs should be selected according to the
difference between the depths of axles of the
wheels.
Let us assume that axle of the upper wheel is at the
depth of 3 m. Water pressure at this depth comes
to about 0.3 kg/cm2
. If weight of the
mass is equal to 100 kg then piston area is
100 kg õ 8 (coefficient)=800 cm2. Let us add 10 kg
of weight to overcome friction. Thus working
weight of the mass comes to 110 kg. Area of the
piston of the float is 800 cm2.
At the depth of 3 m the pressure to the piston is
800 õ 0.3=240 kg. The piston presses the arm
transmitting to its end the force equal to 240:2=120
kg. Thus at the end of the arm, i.e. at gas springs, we
have 120 kg (see Fig. 1, point B). Let us add 110 kg
(weight of the mass), then 120+110=230 kg, which
are directed vertically downward. Thus it is
necessary to use gas springs (there are two of them
42 New Energy Technologies, Issue #4 July - August 2003
in the example), which have force of 115 kg
each. Mass, which is displaced downward under
the action of weight (gravitational force) and
pressure produced by the piston, will “contract”
gas springs. At that, potential energy will be
accumulated in contracted springs in the form
of propulsive force.
Travel of mass equals to 50 cm, therefore
piston stroke is 25 cm, whence area of the
piston is 800 cm2 õ 25 cm = 20 000 cm/cubical,
which is equal to 20 liters. This work will be
made between points A and B (Fig. 1). The
volume of the element will be decreased by 20
liters.
When the element, which we mentioned in
the beginning of the example, in the process
of displacement (immersion) will be at the
level (or almost at the level) of the axel of
the lower wheel on the left side (Fig. 1 point
D) at the depth of 8.5 m (5.5 m + 3 m=8.5 m) then
water pressure (of about 0.85 kg/cm2) will
act upon the piston. Thus water pressure
will come to 680 kg (piston area 800 cm2 õ
0.85=680 kg).
At that, traveling over the lower wheel, the float
will turn over 180°. To resist this pressure there
is 110 kg of mass in each spring +
115 kg, whence 115 õ 2 + 110 = 340 kg, which
are directed vertically downward. Taking into
account that the middle of the arm pushes the
piston then it will be influenced by the force
of 340 õ 2 = 680 kg.
Thus equal forces act from two sides. In this
case at upper right the piston will be put down
a little lower than 3 m (water pressure will
increase). At the left below it will be put down
a little higher (water pressure will decrease).
If mass below will increase by 5 or 10 kg
(between points C and D, Fig. 1) then under
the action of mass weight and force of the
springs the piston will move downward
increasing element volume by the same 20
liters.
Certainly to liberate energy it is necessary to
reduce speed of rotation of the device in
order to decrease friction losses in water (it
is known that friction losses at transference
in water is proportional to the traverse
speed).
Test of the motor model
To check this principle of perpetual motion the
inventor made the model of the motor. Fig. 6
represents the model of the perpetual motor with
magnetic control elements. Working model was
made according to more simple scheme.
Model test demonstrated principal possibility to
produce perpetual motion. In spite of rather
primitive design of the device there was
observed stable rotation of the motor.
According to M. Smeretchanski, he made sure
that law of conservation of energy does not
“work” in the case if there is no clear idea on
the nature and interaction of outer
electromagnetic, gravitational or other
possible fields and fluxes of particles with
existing matter or operating environment.
Thus the law should be “closed”, at least, in its
modern broad understanding as getting of
energy. It is possible to offer another
formulation: “Any force (or forces) can be
used to produce energy”, or in other words,
“To do useful work it is possible to use any
forces including forces of potential fields.”
Please visit:
http://ingenrw.narod.ru/Andv1/Opi2_1.html
for more information about the invention.
Fig. 6
Model of the device
New Energy Technologies, Issue #4 July - August 2003 43
Ivan B. Kalugin, Russia
Email: zainullin@fromru.com, slon105@pisem.net
The problem of energy generation was of interest
to mankind since time immemorial. Nowadays it
becomes more and more critical and pressing
because power requirement increases while
available fuel reserves are limited within 100-300
years (depending on the sort of fuel we use).
All the energy problems of mankind can be solved
if we succeed in developing CTF (controlled
thermonuclear fusion) of hydrogen isotopes.
The history of CTF goes back to 1945 when a nightschool
student from Sakhalin, known to nobody
in the scientific world, Oleg Andreevich Lavrentyev
(at that time he served as a sergeant) proposed to
use electrical field to provide thermal insulation of
fully ionised gases for the purpose of industrial
neutralisation of thermonuclear reactions. Later in
1952 similar ideas were also put forward in the USA
(L. Spitzer). Since then the leading countries of the
world have been carrying out a great number of
experiments using devices of different design.
Though within this period they have spent on
research work over 30 milliard dollars in total, the
target terms of the industrial application of CTF are
constantly postponed and the ultimate aim of CTF,
i.e. energy generation at least by an experimental
device, has not been achieved. If we presume that
by now CTF is ready for industrial application, even
in this case there are a number of impediments:
1. The weight of a copper solenoid of
commercial nuclear reactors can reach 100
thousand tons. And how many reactors of the kind
will we need? Very likely, because of “copper
famine” we will have to reject magnetic
thermonuclear fusion at all.
2. A classical CTF requires tritium and deuterium.
Deuterium is generated of plain water by means of
electrolysis (6 litres of water per 1 gram of
deuterium). Tritium is a very expensive isotope (so
expensive that we can just ignore the cost of
deuterium).
3. The winding of an industrial CTF will store the
amount of magnetic energy that is equal to 15-20
tons of trotyl. If the magnetic winding breaks down
it may result in an explosion!Despite of all these
technical difficulties CTF is regarded as a
prospective trend because one litre of water
contains so great quantity of deuterium that it can
substitute for 300 tons of gasoline. That is why
different countries still go on investigating in this
field, in different aspects and basing on various
principles.
There is a new method of CTF being developed on
recent days, which enables the following
1. To generate so much energy from 1 litre of
water to substitute for 30,000 tons of gasoline, i.e.
100 times more than by means of a classical CTF
reactor.
2. Fuel for this device is produced several times
easier, faster and cheaper. It is fed to the reaction
zone continuously and in safe doses.
3. The required quantity of copper is no more than
5-10 kg (instead of 100,000 tons).
4. Gradual fuel heating up to any preset
temperature and heat maintenance within any
varied period of time (at present no more than 100
million °C and 0.01sec).
5. Over 7 levels of control over the process of
reaction (in the classical process – at most two
levels).
6. The device can be of any dimensions and weight
according to customer’s wish and applied
productive capacity.
7. The cost of this experimental device, which is
already being built according to finished working
drawings, does not exceed 10 thousand dollars. Let
us notice that a cheapest CTF device will cost from
10 to 100 million dollars (The international project
of application of an experimental CTF device will
cost roughly 9 milliard dollars).
8. The industrial variant of the device will be built
of ordinary and cheap materials and its cost will be
3-4 times less than the price of an experimental
device of the equal capacity (roughly 100 kW).
44 New Energy Technologies, Issue #4 July - August 2003
Comparative analysis of two future CTF devices
Academician Velikhov’s device (Russian weekly “Itogi”, February 2003, Thermonuclear ITER national)
is compared to I.B. Kalugin’s device (Naberezhnye Chelny, Russia)
Velikhov’s CTF device
The realization of the project requires 5 milliard dollars
(first cost – 9 milliard dollars).
To start the project it is necessary to get a permission of
the heads of “Big Eight”.
Since the moment of signing a contract it will take 108
months (9 years) to generate plasma. 5 more years –
for experimenting and 10 years – for designing and
construction.
A coalition of several leading countries is required.
Capital outlays are great. Atomic power plants are
considerably simpler than the CTF devices. Sharing in
energy costs:
Heat power plants: 25% - capital outlays, 75% -fuel
APP: 80% - capital outlays, 20% - fuel
CTF: 98% - capital outlays, 2% - fuel.
The cost of electrical energy is comparable to the APP
product.
Can CTF replace nuclear reactors for ships and
submarines? The dimensions of a CTF reactor depend
on the features of present-day materials.
Cyclic mode of operation: start-stop, etc.
Conventionally, from one litre of water it is possible to
generate the same amount of energy as from 300 tons
of petrol.
If superconductive magnetic windings of a CTF break
down, it will explode. The explosion is equal to an
explosion of 10-15 tons of trotyl.
The thermonuclear energy era will come (at best) in 24-
30 years.
Fuel for CTF (deuterium) is generated by means of water
electrolysis. In order to get 1 litre of deuterium it is
necessary to decompose 6,000 litres of water.
There are two parameters of control.
At present nobody offers a thermonuclear automobile.
The systems for heating megapolises with CTF are
located in the outskirts.
Kalugin’s CTF device
The cost of the project is 100-200 dollars.
Five of the seven units of the future device have already
been built and the work goes on.
Production terms:
May 30, 2003 – making of 2 remaining units;
by June 15, 2003 – assemblage and adjustment;
by June 30, 2003 – test operation.
A working device can be built by the authors’ own
strength.
Outlays are negligibly small:
1% - capital outlays and 0.001% - fuel.
The cost of electrical energy will be dozens and hundreds
times lower.
Dimensions and capacity can be any varied. Materials –
the cheapest and the most available.
Any desirable mode of operation.
From one litre of water we can generate the same
amount of energy as from 30,000 tons of petrol.
The risk of explosion is absolutely excluded. If the device
breaks down, it is roughly no different from the
breakdown of an electric motor.
As early as in 2003 it will be possible to start mass
production of cheap CTF reactors of any capacity and
dimensions.
Primary fuel production cost is practically equal to zero.
There are two or more parameters of control. That is why
the CTF process can be fully automated in any stages and
any modes.
It is offered to work out a CTF design using deuteriumtritium
cycle with electrical energy output 80% and heat
output 20%. (Electrical energy output of classical heat
power plants and APP is 25%). The technology in
question will enable to apply electrical motors to
automobiles instead of internal-combustion engines.
It is possible to heat any freestanding building. There is
an absolute independence from central heating systems.
New Energy Technologies, Issue #4 July - August 2003 45
Edwin Cartlidge, USA
(Editor: This article was published by Physics
World Magazine and it first appeared on
http://physicsweb.org/article/news/7/6/10).
Hydrogen fuel cells have been widely
touted as an environmentally-friendly
alternative to conventional fossil fuels. By
oxidising molecular hydrogen, the only
direct by-product of their energy
generation is water, which means they
could significantly reduce pollution and
man-made greenhouse gases. But a group
of researchers in the US believes that fuel
cells could themselves have a detrimental
effect on the environment.
Tracey Tromp and colleagues at the
California Institute of Technology have
used models of the atmosphere to show
that the inevitable emissions produced by
fuel cell technology could substantially
damage the ozone layer (T. Tromp et al.
2003 Science 300 1740).
A completely efficient system of producing,
storing and transporting hydrogen should,
in principle, lead to no unwanted
emissions of the gas.
But the Caltech researchers point out that
such a system would be expensive, and that
in reality around 10-20% of the hydrogen
would escape into the atmosphere. They
say that if hydrogen fuel cells replaced all
of today’s oil and gas-based combustion
technologies, such losses would double or
even triple the total hydrogen deposited
into the atmosphere at the Earth’s surface.
“More or less dramatic scenarios are equally
imaginable, but clearly the potential impact on
the hydrogen cycle is great,” say the researchers.
Tromp and colleagues say that the hydrogen
would be oxidised when it reaches the
stratosphere, which would cool the stratosphere
and create more clouds.
This would delay the break up of the polar vortex
at the north and south poles, making the holes
in the ozone layer larger and longer lasting. They
estimate that the extra hydrogen will lead to a
5-8% rise in ozone depletion at the north pole
and between 3 and 7% at the south pole.
The exact scale of this additional ozone
depletion, however, depends on a number of
unknown quantities. In addition to uncertainty
over the extent of hydrogen emissions in the
future, little is understood about how soil
absorbs hydrogen from the atmosphere. The
researchers say it is conceivable that this process
could compensate for all new anthropogenic
emissions.
Tough TCF is such a cheap heat and electrical
energy source it will not compete with gas, oil and
coal, which significance will even rise. As a result
of growing needs of mankind, they will be used as
sources of raw materials for chemical industry.
Editor’s: Currently the authors have been
working at elimination of some imperfections
of their experimental CTF device. After that they
are going to apply for a patent on the invention.
Institute of Physics Publishing, Dirac House,
Temple Back, Bristol BS1 6BE, UK
Tel. +44 117 930 1002, Fax +44 117 925 1942
http://physicsweb.org
46 New Energy Technologies, Issue #4 July
August 2003
Overview
The Wardenclyffe Tower Centennial (1903

2003) is an opportunity to celebrate a
monument to Nikola Tesla’s visionary genius.
Recently, a resurgence of interest from
prominent physicists has focused on the
unusual method of pulsing a broadband Tesla
coil at a repetition rate of 8 Hz to resonate with
the Earth’s Schumann cavity [1]. Nikola Tesla,
the father of AC electricity, is responsible for
recognizing that an atmospheric and a
terrestrial storage battery already exists
everywhere on earth, for the benefit of
mankind. This is perhaps the “wheelwork of
nature” that Tesla was referring to (“... it is a
mere question of time when men will
succeed in attaching their machinery to the
very wheelwork of nature.” – Tesla
addressing the Amer. Inst. of Elec. Eng.,
1891). A century later, only a handful of
visionary scientists recognize the untapped
renewable reservoir of terawatts of electrical
power (3000 gigawatts) that sits dormant
above us, waiting to be utilized.
Background
In 2001, the Bush
mandated National
Transmission Grid Study (NTGS 2001) was
designed to identify the major transmission
bottlenecks across the U.S. and identify technical
and economic issues resulting from these
transmission constraints. With deregulation of
U.S. utilities and the lack of jurisdiction for the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC),
the U.S. is fighting an electrical energy crisis
which right now, costs consumers hundreds of
millions of dollars annually due to interregional
transmission congestion. There is no longer any
economic incentive nor any FERC eminent
domain for states to provide rights
of
way,
besides the lack of Federal compensation to
utilities to build new transmission lines.
Fig. 1
The 187
foot Wardenclyffe Tower in 1903 which
stood unfinished for the next 14 years
From Tesla’s Wireless Ionospheric Electricity
Thomas F. Valone, USA
Integrity Research Institute
1220 L St. NW, Suite 100
232, Washington DC 20005
Email: iri@erols.com
New Energy Technologies, Issue #4 July
August 2003 47
Historically, the creation of electrical
utilities was beset with scandal, such as
the six years of Congressional hearings
starting in 1928 in which “thousands of
pages of testimony revealed a systematic,
covert attempt to shape opinion in favor
of private utilities, in which half truths
and at times outright lies presented
municipal systems in a consistently bad
light [2].”
Today, US AID funds the U.S. Energy
Association to train utility representatives
from the former Russian states on how to
reliably monitor electricity usage and collect
money from customers in their respective
countries, while those economically
challenged people struggle for sufficient
wages.
At a Washington DC conference which this
author attended, called “Implementing a
National Energy Strategy: Breaking Down
the Barriers” also sponsored by the US
Energy Association (12/01), only the
depressing news about unresolved US
electricity headaches were discussed.
Editor of Energy Daily, Llewelyn King
finally concluded, “We are using 19th
century technology for electrical
transmission.” He then called for a paradigm
shift toward new technology and cited the
“monster infrastructure problems” within
the U.S. as compared to the developing
countries. A year later (June, 2003) the US
DOE held an emergency meeting with utility
heads as a natural gas crisis looms from the
lack of diversification of new electrical power
generation facilities. “Innovation in new
technology and renewable sources are
needed in the long term to improve the
environment and meet rising demand,”
summarized an Investors Business Daily
editor about the crisis [3].
In November, 2002, the American Council
for the United Nations University called for
wireless energy transmission to circumvent
the need for transmission lines as part of
their “Millennium Project.” In cooperation
with the National Science Foundation (NSF),
NASA, and the Electrical Power Research
Institute (EPRI), the beaming of microwave
energy and the creation of a world energy
organization was seen to actively address the
2020 challenges to global electricity supply,
especially in areas of massive urban
concentrations [4].
In 1940, “the United States prided itself on
using half the world’s electricity [5].”Since
1980, the U.S. has also doubled its
dependence on foreign oil and doubled its
electrical transmission grid inefficiency.
From 31 Quads (quadrillion BTUs)
generated, a full 2/3 is totally wasted in
“conversion losses” with only about 11
Quads (3.7 trillion kWh) delivered to the
end
user [6]. Instead of trying to build 2
power plants per week (at 300 MW each) for
the next 20 years (only to have a total of
additional 6 trillion kWh available by 2020),
as the Bush
Cheney Administration wants to
do, we simply need to eliminate the 7 trillion
kWh of conversion losses in our present
electricity generation modality.
History of Tesla’s Wireless
Energy
The fateful decision in 1905 by J. P. Morgan
to abandon Tesla’s Wardenclyffe Tower
project on Long Island (after investing
$150,000), was a result of learning that it
would be designed mainly for wireless
transmission of electrical power, rather than
telegraphy. No more money was forthcoming
for the project that Morgan initiated, even
when the equipment cost alone cost about
$200,000. Morgan believed that he would
“have nothing to sell except antennas (and
refused) to contribute to that charity [7].”
Tesla tried and tried for years until in 1917
the U.S. government blew up the abandoned
Wardenclyffe tower because suspected
German spies were seen “lurking” around it.
With Edison as his willing ally, Morgan even
publicly discredited Tesla’s name, so that all
of the five school textbook publishers of the
time removed any reference to him. Any
wonder why even today, 100 years later,
hardly anyone knows who Tesla is?
The rest of this article will present a physics and
electrical engineering argument for a
subsequently forgotten engineering alternative
for energy generation and transmission.
I n v i e w o f o u r p r e s e n t f o s s i l

f u e l
c a u s e d g l o b a l w a r m i n g ,
T e s l a s e e m s v e r y p r o p h e t i c
f r o m h i s v a n t a g e p o i n t o f a
c e n t u r y a g o .
48 New Energy Technologies, Issue #4 July
August 2003
Fig. 2
As Tesla experimented with a 1.5 MW
system in 1899 at Colorado Springs, he was
amazed to find that pulses of electricity he
sent out passed across the entire globe
r e t u r n e d w i t h “ u n d i m i n i s h e d s t r e n g t h .”
He said, “It was a result so unbelievable that
the revelation at first almost stunned me
[8].” This verified the tremendous efficiency
of his peculiar method of pumping current
into a spherical ball to charge it up before
discharging it as a pulse of electrical energy,
a “longitudinal” acoustic
type of
compression wave, rather than an
electromagnetic Hertzian
type of
transverse wave. It was therefore, more akin
to electrostatic discharge than wave
mechanics.
Tesla also planned to include a s t a t i o n a r y
r e s o n a n t w a v e creation globally, within
the earth
ionosphere cavity, as part of the
wireless transmission of power. Examining
the pair of 1900 patents #645,576 and
#649,621 each using the same figure on
the first page, we find in the first patent
that Tesla has designed a quarter
wave
antenna (50 miles of secondary coil wire
for a 200 mile long wavelength). More
importantly is the sphere on the top which
is supposed to be a conductive surface ona
balloon raised high enough to be radiating
in “rarefied air (International patents, as well as
US patents, are now available online from
http://gb.espacenet.com/espacenet/).”
As Tesla states, “That communication
without wires to any point of the globe is
practical with such apparatus would need
no demonstration, but through a discovery
which I made I obtained absolute certainty.
Popularly explained it is exactly this: When
we raise the voice and hear an echo in reply,
we know that the sound of the voice must
have reached a distant wall, or boundary,
and must have been reflected from the
same. Exactly as the sound, so an electrical
wave is reflected, and the same evidence
which is afforded by an echo is offered by
an electrical phenomena known as a
‘stationary’ wave – that is, a wave with fixed
nodal and ventral regions. Instead of
sending sound vibrations toward a distant
wall, I have sent electrical vibrations toward
the remote boundaries of the earth, and
instead of the wall, the earth has replied. In
place of an echo, I have obtained a
stationary electrical wave, a wave reflected
from afar [9].”
Nikola Tesla’s discovery of pulsed
propagation of energy does not resemble
the standard transverse electromagnetic
waves so familiar to electrical engineers
everywhere. Many engineers and physicists
have dismissed Tesla’s wireless energy
transmission as unscientific without
examining the unusual characteristics and
benefits of longitudinal waves, which are
the z
component solutions of Maxwell
equations.
Tesla wrote, “That electrical energy can be
economically transmitted without wires to
any terrestrial distance, I have unmistakably
established in numerous observations,
experiments and measurements, qualitative
and quantitative. These have demonstrated
that it is practicable to distribute power from
a central plant in unlimited amounts, with a
loss not exceeding a small fraction of one per
cent in the transmission, even to the greatest
distance, twelve thousand miles – to the
opposite end of the globe [10].”
Tesla was an electrical genius who
revolutionized our world with AC power in
a way that DC power could never have
accomplished, since the resistance of any
transmission lines, (except perhaps,
New Energy Technologies, Issue #4 July
August 2003 49
superconductive ones), is p r o h i b i t i v e for
direct current. He deserved much better
treatment from the tycoons of his age, than
to spend the last 40 years of his life in abject
poverty. However, he was too much of a
gentleman to hold a grudge.
Instead, regarding the magnifying
transmitter, Tesla wrote in his
autobiography, “I am unwilling to accord to
some small
minded and jealous individuals
the satisfaction of having thwarted my
efforts. These men are to me nothing more
than microbes of a nasty disease. My project
was retarded by laws of nature. The world
w a s n o t p r e p a r e d f o r i t . I t w a s t o o f a r
a h e a d o f t i m e . B u t t h e s a m e l a w s w i l l
prevail in the end and make it a
triumphal success [11].”
Tesla’s World System
Tesla’s “World System” was conceptually
based on three inventions of his:
1 . The Tesla Transformer (Tesla coil)
2 . The Magnifying Transmitter (transformer
adapted to excite the earth)
3. The Wireless System (efficient transmission
of electrical energy without wires).
Tesla states, “The first World System power
plant can be put in operation in nine
months. With this power plant it will be
practicable to attain electrical activities up
to 10 million horsepower (7.5 billion
watts), and it is designed to serve for as
many technical achievements as are
possible without due expense [12].” Tesla’s
calculated power levels are conservatively
estimated and recently updated with
contemporary physics calculations by Dr.
Elizabeth Rauscher. For example, Professor
Rauscher shows that the earth’s ionosphere
and magnetosphere contains sufficient
potential energy, at least 3 billion
k i l o w a t t s ( 3 t e r a w a t t s ) r e s p e c t i v e l y , so
that the resonant excitation of the earth

ionosphere cavity can reasonably be
expected to increase the amplitude of
natural “Schumann” frequencies,
facilitating the capture of useful electrical
power. Tesla knew that the earth could be
treated as one big spherical conductor and
the ionosphere as another bigger spherical
conductor, so that together they have
parallel plates and thus, comprise a
“spherical capacitor [13].” Rauscher
calculates the capacitance to be about
15,000 microfarads for the complete earth

ionosphere cavity capacitor. In 1952, W.O.
Schumann predicted the “self
oscillations”
of the conducting sphere of the earth,
surrounded by an air layer and ionosphere,
without knowing that Tesla had found the
earth’s fundamental frequency fifty years
earlier [14].
“All that is necessary,” says Dr. James Corum,
is that Tesla’s transmitter power and carrier
frequency be capable of round
the
world
propagation.” In fact, Tesla (in the L . A .
Times , Dec. 1904) stated, “With my
transmitter I actually sent electrical
vibrations around the world and received
them again, and I then went on to develop
my machinery.” Dr. Corum notes in an
article on the ELF (extremely low
frequency) oscillator of Tesla’s that the
tuned circuit of Tesla’s magnifying
transmitter was the whole earth

ionosphere cavity [15].
Corum explains that a mechanical analog of
the lumped circuit Tesla coil is an easier
model for engineers to understand [16].
From a mechanical engineering viewpoint,
the “magnifying factor” can be successfully
applied to such a circuit. “The circuit is
limited only by the circuit resistance. At
resonance, the current through the circuit
rises until the voltage across the resistance
is equal to the source voltage. This circuit
50 New Energy Technologies, Issue #4 July
August 2003
was a source of deep frustration to Edison
because voltmeter readings taken around
the loop did not obey Kirchoff’s laws!” As a
result, Edison claimed such a circuit was
only good for electrocution chairs.
Earth’s Renewable Energy
Tesla’s world system activates the earth’s
renewable electrical storage battery which
normally sits dormant except during
lightning strikes. Regarding simply the
electrostatic energy storage capacity of the
ionosphere, Dr. Oleg Jefimenko, author of
E l e c t r o s t a t i c M o t o r s , explains that during
one electric storm, the atmospheric electric
field dissipates at least 0.2 terawatts
(billion kilowatts), indicating that the
entire earth must have even more total
available energy [17].
Furthermore, the power loss experienced
by Tesla’s pulsed, electrostatic discharge
mode of propagation was less than 5%
over 25,000 miles. Dr. Van Voorhies states,
“...path losses are 0.25 dB/Mm at 10 Hz,”
which often is difficult for engineers to
believe, who are used to transverse waves,
a resistive medium, and line
of
sight
propagation modes that can dissipate
10 dB/km at 5 MHz [18].
The c a p a c i t i v e d o m e of the Wardenclyffe
Tower, like the conductive balloon of
Tesla’s ‘576 patent, is a key to the
understanding of the longitudinal waves.
Dr. Rauscher quotes Tesla, “Later he
compared it to a Van de Graaff generator.
He also explained the purpose of
Wardenclyffe...’o n e d o e s n o t n e e d t o b e
a n e x p e r t t o u n d e r s t a n d t h a t a d e v i c e
o f t h i s k i n d i s n o t a p r o d u c e r o f
e l e c t r i c i t y l i k e a d y n a m o , b u t m e r e l y a
r e c e i v e r o r c o l l e c t o r w i t h a m p l i f y i n g
q u a l i t i e s [19].”
Only a few great physicists like
Drs. Elizabeth Rauscher, James Corum,
and Konstantin Meyl have realized that
Tesla was very practical when he proposed
the resonant generation and wireless
transmission of useful electrical power.
( P r o f e s s o r K o n s t a n t i n M e y l s e l l s a
“ D e m o S e t ” t h a t i s a m i n i a t u r e
d u a l d o m e l i k e T e s l a p a t e n t ‘ 5 7 6 , a
wireless longitudinal wave
d e m o n s t r a t i o n k i t , a v a i l a b l e a t
h t t p : / / w w w . k
m e y l . d e / D e m o
S e t /
b o d y _ d e m o
s e t . h t m l . E n t e r t h i s l i n k a t
w w w . f r e e t r a n s l a t i o n . c o m f o r E n g l i s h ) .
Tesla’s knowledge of atmospheric
electricity transduction was so extensive
and reliable that Jim Corum, who has been
funded to continue Tesla’s work, recently
told me, “You just have to do exactly what
Telsa did and you will consistently get the
same results he did [20].”
After returning from his experiments at
Colorado Springs in 1900, Nikola Tesla
stated, “I f w e u s e f u e l t o g e t o u r p o w e r ,
w e a r e l i v i n g o n o u r c a p i t a l a n d
e x h a u s t i n g i t r a p i d l y . T h i s m e t h o d i s
b a r b a r o u s a n d w a n t o n l y w a s t e f u l a n d
w i l l h a v e t o b e s t o p p e d i n t h e i n t e r e s t
o f c o m i n g g e n e r a t i o n s [21].” In view of
our present fossil
fuel
caused global
warming, Tesla seems very prophetic from
his vantage point of a century ago.
High Transmission Integrity
and Low Loss
Tesla states, “As to the transmission of
power through space, that is a project
which I considered absolutely certain of
success long since. Years ago I was in the
position to transmit wireless power to any
distance without limit other than that
imposed by the physical dimensions of the
globe. In my system it makes no difference
what the distance is. The efficiency of the
transmission can be as high as 96 or 97 per
cent, and there are practically no losses
except such as are inevitable in the
running of the machinery. W h e n t h e r e i s
no receiver there is no energy
consumption anywhere. When the
r e c e i v e r i s p u t o n , i t d r a w s p o w e r . T h a t
i s t h e e x a c t o p p o s i t e o f t h e H e r t z
w a v e
system. In that case, if you have a plant of
1,000 horsepower (750 kW), it is radiating
all the time whether the energy is received
T e s l a ’ s w o r l d s y s t e m a c t i v a t e s
t h e e a r t h ’ s r e n e w a b l e e l e c t r i c a l
s t o r a g e b a t t e r y w h i c h n o r m a l l y
sits dormant except during
l i g h t n i n g s t r i k e s .
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August 2003 51
or not; but in my system no power is lost.
When there are no receivers, the plant
consumes only a few horsepower
necessary to maintain the vibration; it
runs idle, as the Edison plant when the
lamps and motors are shut off [22].”
These amazing facts are explained by
Corum(s) and Spainol, “…the distinction
between Tesla’s system and ‘Hertzian’
waves is to be clearly understood. Tes l a ,
and others of his day, used the term
‘Hertzian waves’ to describe what we call
today, energy transfer by wireless
transverse electromagnetic (TEM)
radiation…no one wants to stand in front
of a high power radar antenna. For these,
E and H are in phase, the power flow is a
‘real’ quantity (as opposed to reactive
power), and the surface integral of E x H
(Poynting vector) is nonzero.
The case is not so simple in an unloaded
power system, an RF transformer with a
tuned secondary, or with a cavity resonator.
In these situations, the fields are in phase
quadrature, the circulating power is
reactive and the average Poynting flux is
zero – u n l e s s a l o a d i s a p p l i e d . They
deliver no power without a resistive load.
These are clearly the power systems which
Tesla created. The polyphase power
distribution system was created by him in
the 1880s and inaugurated at Niagara Falls
in 1895. The RF transformer was invented
and patented by him in the 1890s.
Terrestrial resonances he experimentally
discovered at the turn of the century. And,
for the next 40 years he tried to bring
through to commercial reality this global
power system. Today, millions of us have
working scale models of it in our kitchens,
while the larger version sits idle [23].” Note
for a spherical, electrostatic pulse
discharge, E is radial and H is helical since
J i s r a d i a l (longitudinal or irrotational
current) [24].
Biological and Economic Impact
Another common criticism of the Tesla
wireless power system is regarding its
possible biological effects. Calculating the
circulating reactive power, Corum(s) and
Spainol find a density of a microVAR per
c u b i c m e t e r at 7.8 Hz, which is quite
small, while it is well
known that such a
frequency is very biologically compatible
[25]. The authors also look at the present
100 V/m earth
ionosphere field and again
find that raising it by a factor of 4 to 10
will pose no ill effects. (Thunderstorms do
it all of the time around the world.)
In terms of economic theory, many
countries will benefit from this service.
Only private, dispersed receiving stations
will be needed. Just like television and
radio, a single resonant energy receiver is
required, which may eventually be built
into appliances, so no power cord will be
necessary! Just think: monthly electric
utility bills from old
fashioned, fossil

fueled, lossy electrified wire
grid delivery
services will be optional, much like “cable
TV” is today. In the 21st century, “Direct
TV” is the rage, which is an exact parallel
of Tesla’s “Direct Electricity.”
Let us fulfill this prophesy of Tesla, making
i t a t r i u m p h a l s u c c e s s , by supporting a
philanthropic, international wireless
power station installed on a remote island
to electrify the whole world. The benefits,
immediately making direct electricity
available everywhere, are too numerous to
count. (Coincidentally, in Te s l a ’ s
homeland, the Electric Power Company of
Serbia raised their monthly rates by 50%
on the day Harnessing the Wheelwork of
N a t u r e was sent to the publisher, while
California is now up to 15 cents per kWh,
double the US average.)
Become educated about Te s l a ’ s w i r e l e s s
energy transmission discovery at
http://users.erols.com/iri/tesla.htm and
help celebrate the Wardenclyffe Tower
Centennial at the Tesla Energy Science
Conference, November 8
9, 2003
(www.IntegrityResearchInstitute.org).
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52 New Energy Technologies, Issue #4 July
August 2003
About the Author
Thomas Valone received his Master’s
in Physics from the State University of
NY at Buffalo (1984) and his
Ph.D. in General Engineering
from Kennedy
Western University
(2003). He taught physics, AC
electricity, microprocessors, digital
logic and environmental science at
Erie Community College in NYS (1982

1987), and is the author of several
books and about 100 articles and
reports. Presently, Dr. Valone is
President of Integrity Research
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25. Ibid., p. 3
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54 New Energy Technologies, Issue #4 July - August 2003
Sergey S. Makukhin, Russia
Email: makss59@mail.ru
At the close of the 19th
century the great
scientist Nicola Tesla
gave to the whole
world a demonstration
of electrical power
transmission using
a single incomplete
and unearthed wire.
Nevertheless, the nature
of this phenomenon
remains obscure till nowadays. It is also known
that Engineer Stanislav Avramenko succeeded to
repeat the famous experiment. But as far as we
know, mention of the physical nature of this
phenomenon has been never made. The present
article makes an attempt to explain how “it”
works.
At the dawn of electrical science there occurred
the idea of existence of a certain electrical liquid,
which is able under certain conditions to flow
from one body to another and to be both in
abundance and in shortage. B. Franklin
introduced at his time the notion of positive and
negative electricity. J.C. Maxwell used in his
theoretical investigations the direct analogy
between water movement and electricity
movement.
It is common knowledge that the electrical
current is any movement of electrons (in this
particular case – their movement in a metal),
which happens when there is the potential
difference. Is there an explanation of the
movement of electrons in a single conductor?
As an example let us take an ordinary garden hose
with some water inside it. Both ends of the hose
are closed with plugs. How to make the liquid
move? The only way is to start rotation of the
liquid from one end so that to transmit its rotation
to the other end of the hose. To make the liquid
“move” it is necessary to establish an alternating
current in the hose by moving the liquid
alternatively from one end to another. But even
in this case the water in the hose will not be
moving the way we need. So, having pulled the
plugs out, let us try to attach a vessel to each end
of the hose (let the vessels have the form of a
cylinder).
If we mount a plunger in one of the vessels and
keep pushing it down we will make water in the
hose move from the first vessel to the farther one
(communicating vessels). Then if we pull the
plunger up, as a consequence of wetting the
plunger (water adheres to the plunger), water
from the second vessel will flow through the hose
back to the pump vessel.
If we continue the described manipulation then
a water current of alternating direction will arise
in the hose. In case if we manage to mount a screw
with vanes (a propeller) inside the hose (in any
of its point), it will rotate alternatively to both
directions thereby proving the fact that moving
liquid carries energy in it. A similar process takes
place when we use a single wire.
As you know, the electroscope is an elementary
device for detecting the presence of an electric
charge. The simplest model of it consists of a
glass jar with a plastic cap (an insulator). A metal
stick is inserted into the jar through a hole in
the middle of the cap. Over the cap there is a
ball made of the same material as the stick itself.
There are lightweight strips of foil attached onto
the lower end of the stick inside the jar and
hanging one opposite to another. The strips can
easily move attracting or repulsing each other.
Let us remember that if we rub an ebony stick
with a patch of wool, the stick will get charged.
Then if we approach it to the upper part of the
electroscope (to the ball) the foil strips in the
jar will immediately move apart forming a
certain angle and thereby proving that the
electroscope has got charged.
New Energy Technologies, Issue #4 July - August 2003 55
When this procedure is finished, let us place
another uncharged (with drooping strips)
electroscope within the distance of three meters
from the first one. Let us connect both
electroscopes with a bared wire, holding its
insulated middle part with our fingers. At the
moment when the wire touches the upper balls
of the both electroscopes we will see that the
second (initially uncharged) electroscope will
immediately “come alive” – its strips will set apart
(forming a smaller angle than it was initially in
the first electroscope) and the strips of the first
electroscope will go a little down. Now the both
electroscopes show the presence of charges that
have been transmitted from the ball-capacity of
the first electroscope to the ball-capacity of the
second one.
The charges of the both electroscopes have
equalized. It is clear that in this case electrons
have flown from one electroscope to another
and instantaneous current has arisen in the wire.
If we obtain first charging and then discharging
of the first electroscope from one end in constant
duty, it will be evident that an electrical current
of alternating direction will run in the wire
between the electroscopes. Let us mention that
the first electroscope is to be charged with one
sign and discharged with the opposite one.
You can find a description of this process in any
of full-length physics textbooks. But they never
mention that it is possible to make the process
constant or how it can be applied either. It seems
to be strange enough that such a problem can
bring many investigators to a nonplus.
To develop the subject, let us note that we can
obtain the same continuos process (i.e. single
wire excitation of alternating current) using the
well-know method of electrostatic induction
(field effect). For that it is enough to excite a near
ball or sphere with a charged body, e.g. with a
rubbed ebony stick. This effect must be
alternating: sometimes by approaching,
sometimes by taking the stick aside without
touching the ball.
Theoretically nothing will change if we rotate
(e.g. using a small motor) two electret balls of
unlike charges located diametrically at the near
sphere or ball. A current will run in the conductor
from the near ball-capacity to the father one and
back. It is viable to use an electrostatic machine
(that will divide and accumulate charges of the
opposite sign) or an electrostatic generator with
line supply that will play the same part. In case if
we supply alternately plus and minus charges
from the electrostatic generator to the near
sphere (we may obtain such alternation by using
two relays or semiconductor switches), then
electrons in the wire will run from the distant
ball-capacity at supplying a plus charge and they
will run back at a minus charge. We should
mention that when potential difference arises in
the wire then the strength of electrical field in
our process becomes constant. Now when
electrons have a place where they can flow to (to
the balls-capacities) we may excite alternating
current by applying the method of
electromagnetic induction. In other words if a
part of the conductor is coiled then forcing it
dynamically with a magnet will entail the same
result. Thus for this purpose one might use a
transformer as well. The current can also result
from exciting opposite ball-capacities in turns,
i.e. from the both sides. In order to obtain a big
potential of the ball-capacities (by their direct
charging or using the method of electrostatic
induction) we may apply a well-known principle
of Van der Waals generator. By means of such a
generator it is possible to obtain a potential of
millions of volts and, consequently, rather high
voltage.
Fig. 1
56 New Energy Technologies, Issue #4 July - August 2003
Fig. 2
Fig. 3
In addition let us remind that lighting strikes
sometimes from clouds (from above), sometimes
upward from the earth and sometimes between
thunderstorm clouds. This is one more indirect
proof of the fact that it viable to transfer AC using
a conductor. Besides it is also worth mentioning
that alternating current can be transformed into
direct current.
So if we install appropriate (new) generators to
electrical power plants then old electrical power
transmission lines will be able to transmit higher
wattages than they transmit today because
transmission of the same amount of power will
require less quantity of wires (the rest of the wires
will be released).
Using the abovementioned method it is possible
to transmit electrical energy in the form of
excitation of an electrical field from “this” side
to any distant point of the planet. It is related
with that the Earth is a large conductive globe
(and a charged one), besides charges can be
divided – polarized to opposite ones.
On the whole by receiving an initial signal by
means of an appropriate receiver of the antipodal
point we have obtained not only a way of power
transfer, but also a way of information
transmission. As we modulate a signal in one
point, in the other point it is demodulated.
Besides, the principle of modulationdemodulation
can be applied to single-wire
transmission as well. It should be noted that
energy and information transmission is viable in
case if we induce the magnetic field of the planet
from “this” point”.
We will not dwell on the “torsion” principle of
single wire transmission of electrical energy (in
this case both the electrical field and,
correspondingly, electrons rotate from one end
to another transmitting this rotation in a wire to
its opposite end). Maximal length of the wire
depends on the amount of a potential on the
ball-capacity. The capacity itself depends on its
own radius.
Let us consider some questions that N. Tesla
probably never investigated. A hypothesis that
may be working – that is to say a viable one – is
presented below. The author carried out the
following experiment. A cylindrical permanent
magnet was suspended on a thread. When the
magnet set still, another analogous magnet was
carried to it at a certain distance. The second
magnet was oriented towards the first one with
its opposite pole.
At that there was observed a certain deviation of
the first magnet. The first suspended magnet was
fixed from both sides. So the magnet could move
New Energy Technologies, Issue #4 July - August 2003 57
only in one plane, strictly within the arch that
depended on the radius of the suspension. Then
the experimenter struck the field of the second
intermediate stationary magnet (all the magnets
were oriented one to another with opposite
poles) abruptly with the field of a third magnet.
As a result of it the first magnet, which was
located on the other side of the intermediate
stationary magnet, also bounced abruptly aside.
Most probably, there was a pulse transmitted in
the magnetic fields of these interacting magnets.
It reminds another well-known effect: if we
place ten contacting balls in one line on a
horizontal flat surface and hit the outermost
ball, then nine balls stand still and the last ball
on the opposite end rebounds.
If it is possible in case with the balls, then why
should it be impossible with a row of magnets
that are oriented with opposite poles one to
another and are rigidly fixed to a flexible tube?
If we run energy through this new “wire” by
preliminarily exciting one of its ends with an
abrupt pulse of the magnetic field, this energy
may be received on the other end of the
conductor with a magnetic field receiver. If we
take a solid metal wire and magnetize it so that
the field lines are oriented parallel to the field
axe, in this case we will also obtain a new
conductor able to play the mentioned role, that
is to transmit a pulse through the magnetic field
of the “wire” from its one end to another.
We can apply the same principle to like charged
balls or more precisely to electret (like) balls or
to an electret (solid) wire. But in this case we will
have to “strike” with an electrical field from one
side so that to transmit a pulse to the other end.
The author believes that realization of the idea
described above will entail creation of a new
generation of technical devices and that single
wire transmission of non-mechanical energy is
viable.
58 New Energy Technologies, Issue #4 July - August 2003
Review by our correspondent Alla Pashova
Refrigeration is part and parcel of power
engineering. It always presupposes that driving
refrigerating machines require some energy. The
power consumption of modern refrigerating
machines ranges within several dozens of watts to
thousands of kilowatts. The refrigerating capability
of large refrigerating plants varies from hundred
thousands to several millions of kJ per hour. That
means their electrical energy inputs are great. But
what will you say about a refrigerator that does not
require electrical power supply? Is it science fiction?
No, it is a reality!
Achievement of foreign
investigators
A magnetic refrigerator has been designed and
built by common efforts of scientists
from Astronautics Corporation of America
(http://www.astronautics.com) and Ames
Laboratory (http://www.ameslab.gov). This
refrigerator has a rotary configuration that
consists of a wheel containing segments of
gadolinium powder and a high-powered
permanent magnet (Fig.1)
Fig. 1
The wheel is arranged to pass through a gap in the
magnet where the magnetic field is concentrated.
As the segment passes through this field, the
gadolinium in the wheel exhibits a large
magnetocaloric effect and as a result the segment
heats up. After the gadolinium enters the field,
water is circulated to draw the heat out of the
metal. As gadolinium leaves the magnetic field, the
material cools further as a result of the
magnetocaloric effect of the opposite sign.
A second stream of water is then cooled by the
gadolinium. This water is then circulated through
cooling coils of the refrigerator. The overall result
is a compact unit that runs virtually silent and
nearly vibration free, without the use of ozonedepleting
gases, a dramatic change from the
vapor-compression-style refrigeration
technology in use today.
“The permanent magnets and the gadolinium
working medium do not require any energy inputs
to make them work,” – states Professor Karl
Gschneidner, Ames Laboratory leading
investigator, “so the only energy it takes is the
electricity for the motors to spin the wheel and
drive the water pumps.”
Magnetocaloric effect (MCE) that lies in the heart
of the magnetic refrigerator was disclosed as early
as 1881. Its essence is in the ability of matters to
heat and cool under the action of magnetic field.
Changes in temperature are caused by energy
redistribution between a system of magnetic
moments of atoms and a system of magnetic
moments of the crystal lattice.
Solid working medium of magnetic refrigerators
serves as a refrigerant (freon or carbon dioxide).
Magnetization and demagnetization are
analogous to cycles of compression and
expansion. A change in entropy per a unit of
volume is seven times higher than in gases.
Theoretically magnetic refrigerators are to be the
same times more compact. But their realization
requires peculiar materials: high-powered
New Energy Technologies, Issue #4 July - August 2003 59
magnets and sensitive working media. Ames
Laboratory scientists have been working at their
creation. Two of their recent developments could
lead to even greater advances on the magnetic
refrigeration frontier.
Gschneidner and fellow Ames Laboratory
researchers Sasha Pecharsky and Vitalij Pecharsky
have developed a process for producing kilogram
quantities of Gd5(Si2Ge2) alloy using commercialgrade
gadolinium. Gd5(Si2Ge2) exhibits a giant
magnetocaloric effect which offers the promise
to outperform the gadolinium powders used in
the current rotary refrigerator.
When the alloy was first discovered in 1996, the
process used high-purity gadolinium and resulted
in small quantities (less than 50 grams). However,
when lower-quality commercial-grade
gadolinium was used, the magnetocaloric effect
was only a fraction, due mainly to interstitial
impurities, especially carbon. The new process
overcomes the deleterious effect of these
impurities, making it viable to use less expensive
commercial-grade gadolinium to achieve roughly
the same magnetocaloric effect as the original
discovery.
At the same time, Ames Lab researchers David Jiles
and Seong-Jae Lee, along with Vitalij Pecharsky
and Gschneidner, have designed a permanent
magnet configuration capable of producing a
stronger magnetic field.
The new magnet can produce a magnetic field
nearly twice as high as that produced by the
magnet used in the initial refrigerator, an
important advance since the output and efficiency
of the refrigerator is generally proportional to the
strength of the magnetic field. The group has filed
patent applications on both the gadolinium alloy
process and the permanent magnet.
“These are important advances, but it will require
additional testing to see how much they will
enhance refrigeration capabilities,” Gschneidner
said. “Progress (in this field) is measured in small
steps and this is just another of those steps.
However, we have come a long way since first
announcing the giant magnetocaloric alloy five
years ago.”
To celebrate another step forward Ames
Laboratory scientists used their magnetic
refrigerator to demonstrate cooling of a bottle of
Champagne to the audience at Big Eight
Conference in Detroit.
According to eyewitnesses, the demonstrated
refrigerator did not look like having been finished
by industrial designers. It had the form of a box about
50 cm high and 50 cm wide with tubes and wires
connected to a 6V battery. The sides of the box were
transparent so the audience could watch the device
rotating. There was an electronic thermometer
connected to the prototype that monitored
refrigeration speed: roughly 2 degrees per minute.
The Ministry of Power Engineering of the USA and
NASA have been financing research work in the field
of magnetic refrigeration for 20 years. The
demonstrated domestic magnetic refrigerator has
been already called “the most dramatic advance in
today’s power engineering of the USA”.
Russian projects
Russia does not look like joining these engineering
races. The Russian Minister of Power Engineering is
far from being enthusiastic about the competition
“Who is the First to Built a Magnetic Fridge?» (His
American colleague, conversely, was impressed by the
mentioned working prototype). However Russian
tardiness is not as great as it may seem. The fact is that
our specialists took active part in developing
magnetic fridges.
They investigated concurrently with Ames Laboratory
by means of the same scientific grants. Moscow State
University (Faculty of Physics) still holds the lead in
fundamental investigations in this field. Specialists of
the faculty worked out efficient alloys for working
media of magnetic refrigerators much earlier than
their American confreres.
Moreover, several free-lance experimenters
have been carrying out their own research.
G.M. Kuznetzov (Honoured Inventor) and
A.N. Zagnetov (Candidate of Technical Sciences)
have been cooperating about eight years.
They have offered a number of technical projects in
the field of power engineering, transport, raw
materials extraction and processing. At the website
http://re-energy-tran.narod.ru they try to bring
attention of investors to their engineering solutions:
“While many countries of the world are spending
dozens of years and dozens of milliards of dollars
on developing technologies of the kind, using
technical equipment and highly qualified
personnel of hundreds and thousands of research
institutes, the authors have succeeded to create
these practically “homemade” devices without
federal, regional or sponsor financing». One of their
developments is an “alternative” refrigerating plant
60 New Energy Technologies, Issue #4 July - August 2003
with output > 100%, that does not require electrical
energy supply.
«Today we have all prerequisites at both
theoretical and practical levels that make it viable
to solve the problem of converting lowtemperature
scattered heat into electrical energy”
– the authors state. The Table given below
presents comparative analysis of the refrigerator
“ZIL” and the new model according to some of
their specification figures:
As it is evident from the Table, the alternative
refrigerator is rather lightweight and requires
practically no power supply to make it
work. The only energy it takes is the electricity
to make it start. The authors promise: if someone
invests a million dollars in their development,
the project will be realized within a year
and the expenses will be covered within
eight months. As for magnetocaloric
effect, the Russian leader in its studying is the
company “Advanced magnetic technologies
and consulting” (http://www.ndfeb.ru).
Alexander Tishin, Doctor of Physics and
Mathematics and chief of the laboratory of
Faculty of Physic (Moscow State University),
heads the company. Researchers of the company
are co-authors of over 70 scientific works in this
field and holders of five certificates of recognition
and patents. (Editor’s: Read the article by E.N.
Tishina for more detailed information on the
projects of “Advanced magnetic technologies and
consulting” Co).
Concurrent investigations or
original projects?
If Russian physicists do not succeed either in
the application of magnetocaloric effect at the
international level or in developing Russian
analogue of the magnetic refrigerator, perhaps,
it is expedient to recollect well-forgotten old
projects of Soviet times? It is viable to totally
eliminate energy inputs of standard
refrigerating machines (that use refrigerants)
in case if we do certain technical upgrades
(incidentally, such upgrades are invented ages
ago). So the machines will turn into freerunning
refrigerators, or alternative magnetic
refrigerators that require neither expensive nor
exotic materials.
Doctor of Technical Sciences V.A. Zysin got his
certificate of recognition # 591667 as early as
in 1978. It was a description of his non-drive
refrigerator that worked using the heat of
cooled bodies. Zysin’s refrigerators operated by
means of “triangle cycles” invented by him.
Since 1962 they were manufactured in small
lots. Their operation did not need any energy
inputs.
Standard refrigerating cycles comprise
expansion of refrigerating liquid and
compression of product vapours followed by
their condensation. Operation cycles of the
kind do require energy inputs. In the upshot
both consumed energy and internal energy of
the working medium are released outside. This
disadvantage is partially neutralized when the
working medium is cooled using an advanced
cycle that integrates the following processes:
• expansion of refrigerating liquid and doing
work of the expansion,
• compression of product vapours followed
by their condensation,
• rising the pressure of the residuary liquid
phase up to its condensation pressure,
• the liquid phase takes off the heat of the
cooled medium and heats immediately up to its
condensation temperature,
• the liquid phase is mixed with the liquid
¹
1.
2.
3.
Specification
Refrigeration output
Power Consumption, W
Weight of the refrigeration unit, kg
Model
ZIL New model
1.0 100.0 and more
150.0 6.0
18.0 26.0
New Energy Technologies, Issue #4 July - August 2003 61
generated as a result of the condensation of
vapours.
V.A. Zysin offered to improve this rather an
uneconomical method. For that it was necessary
to provide more effective use of the heat of
cooled media for doing work. Before cooling in
a refrigerating cycle, the temperature of
working medium dropped down to a
temperature exceeding the temperature of
ambient air.
The released heat was engaged in an auxiliary
expanding cycle with doing work. At the same
time the lowest and the highest temperatures of
the auxiliary expanding cycle were kept at a
certain level (so that the sum of output works
in the both cycles of operation would exceed
the sum of input works in the same cycles).
V.À. Zysin’s refrigerating machine consists of
two circuits: a refrigerating cycle and an
expansion one. The expanding circuit
comprises an expander (1), which outlet is
connected to a separator (2). The vapour line
of the separator (2) is connected to the inlet of
a condenser (3). The liquid line is connected to
the outlet of the condenser (3) and to a transfer
pump (4). The outlet of the pump (4) is
connected to a heat exchanger (5). The
refrigerating cycle contains an expander (6)
connected to a separator (7). The vapour line
of the separator (7) is connected to a condenser
(9) through a compressor (8). The liquid line of
the separator (7) is connected to a heat
exchanger (11) through a transfer pump (10).
Fig. 2
The device operates as follows: in the expanding
cycle refrigerating liquid is expanded using the
expander (1) up to a temperature exceeding the
temperature of ambient air. The separator (2)
separates a vapour phase out of the generated
liquid-vapour mixture. The vapour phase is
condensed in the condenser (3). Then it is mixed
up with residuary liquid phase, transferred by
means of the pump (4) and heated in the heat
exchanger (5) without changing its aggregative
state.
In the refrigerating cycle the refrigerant is
expanded using the expander (6). The generated
liquid-vapour mixture is separated with the
separator (7). The separated vapour phase is
compressed in the compressor (8) and condensed
in the condenser (9). The liquid phase is transferred
by means of the pump (10) and heated in the heat
exchanger (11) without changing its aggregative
state until its temperature exceeds the temperature
of ambient air. The heated liquid phase is mixed
with condensed vapours and the refrigerating cycle
is repeated once again.
Cooling is effected in the heat exchangers (5, 11)
by means of refrigerants. Energy for driving all the
pressure machines of the cycle (pumps 4, 10 and
compressor 8) is generated with the expanders (1,
6). To simplify the device we can replace the
expander (6) with a throttle.
Refrigeration of working medium without energy
inputs is viable under the following conditions. In
the expanding cycle output of the expander is 0.65,
output of the pump is 0.80 and the output of the
compressor is 0.85. The expander of the
refrigerating cycle is replaced with a throttle. The
temperature of outer working medium drops from
363° Ê down to 283° Ê (while the temperature of
ambient air is 293° Ê). If the lower temperature of
the expanding cycle and the higher temperature
of the refrigerating cycle are kept at the level of 301°
Ê, then output work of the expanding cycle will
exceed the sum of input works of the both cycles.
Hence, it was possible to build refrigerating plants
requiring no energy inputs on the basis of the
scheme offered by V.A. Zysin and his colleagues
from Polytechnic Institute as early as in 1978. If
today’s manufacturers of refrigerating devices do
not dare to finance the application of magnetic
refrigerators, why not they start series production
of free-running refrigerators designed by V.A.
Zysin? It will result in dramatic reducing the
amount of power consumption for domestic and
industrial refrigeration.
62 New Energy Technologies, Issue #4 July - August 2003
Ekaterina N. Tishina, Russia
keeps in touch with scientists working in this field
in a number of universities and national laboratories
of the USA, Europe and China. At present the
company holds one of the largest collections of
works on the magnetocaloric effect (about 500
copies of articles, reports, etc). Researchers of the
company are co-authors of over 70 scientific works
in this field and holders of five inventor certificates
and Russian Federation patents in this field. A
number of fundamental reviews on the
magnetocaloric effect and magnetic refrigeration
have been published abroad in various books and
encyclopedias. In 2003 the Institute of Physics
(Oxford, UK) is going to publish the following book
by leading scientists of the company: A.M. Tishin,
Yu.I. Spichkin, The Magnetocaloric Effect and Its
Applications.The company is also engaged in
development and manufacture of experimental
equipment for measuring magnetocaloric
characteristics within the temperature range from
5 to 500 Ê and more. AMT&C employees have
recently applied for 8 Russian Federation patents.
In December 2001 the company got a Russian
Federation patent for the invention of “Working
body for magnetic refrigerators made on the basis
of magnetic polynuclear complexes”.
The invention has to do with refrigerating equipment
and can be applied to magnetic refrigerating
machines operating at temperatures below 20 - 50
K. The inventors offer to use a superparamagnetic
material based on magnetic polynuclear complexes
of transition metals as a working body in magnetic
refrigerators. This material is characterized by a high
capacity to change the magnetic part of entropy
under the action of a magnetic field. It is essential for
increasing the efficiency of operation of magnetic
refrigerators at temperatures below 20 - 50 Ê. The
working body is a magnetic powder material. Its
originality consists in using superparamagnetic
polynuclear complexes of transition metals as a
Up to the present day the problem of magnetic
refrigeration is solved in our country only at a level
of research laboratories. Though in the beginning
of 90s Russian scientists carried out the first
investigations on the theory and practice of
application of the magnetocaloric effect (MCE) to
magnetic refrigerating machines. In particular, the
Faculty of Physics under the direction of A.M. Tishin,
Doctor of Physics and Mathematics (Moscow State
University) for many years has been searching
optimal materials for magnetic refrigeration within
various temperature ranges. The investigators have
fulfilled serious analysis of numerous combinations
of rare earth and magnetic metals and other
substances. It has been found that the alloy of
rhodium and iron Fe49Rh51 has the maximal known
specific MCE several times exceeding the MCE of the
materials that are usually used in the investigations
on magnetic refrigeration.
Fig. 1
Principle of operation of a magnetic refrigerator
http://www.ndfeb.ru
One of the major research and development
activities of Advanced Magnetic Technologies and
Consulting Co Ltd (AMT&C) is creation of new
magnetic materials suitable for using as working
bodies in magnetic regenerators. The company
“Advanced Magnetic Technologies and Consulting” Co Ltd.
Suite 303, 7/1 Debrenevskaya Emb., 115114, Moscow
Tel.: (095)799-56-14, Fax: (095)787-81-78
New Energy Technologies, Issue #4 July - August 2003 63
Energy generation by using of atmospheric oxygen and
solution of table salt
http://www.regnum.ru/expnews/95069.html,
http://www.cktvvc.ru/start_ielm.asp
Chemical electric power supply of a new kind was
created in the “Uralelement” factory (Russia). It is
metal-air current sources (MACS). The main advantage
of the novelty is that there are no electrodes with
oxidants in it, which define electric capacity of the
most of batteries. Oxygen of a common air is used as
oxidant and solution of table salt is used as electrolyte
that provides environmental safety of the invention.
These current sources do not require to be recharged
from the electrical supply network and their operation
life comes to 5 thousand hours. According to the
estimations of specialists, this invention clears new way
for autonomous power engineering and is very
promising.
Fig. 1
As compared with nonreusable galvanic elements
and different accumulators, which require to be
recharged from the electrical supply network,
MACS-batteries are fundamentally new pollutionfree
current sources, which do not require to be
recharged from the electrical supply network. Their
recharging is realized by mechanical changing of
anodic plates and simultaneous replacement of the
salt electrolyte, which at discharging consumes
water and is densified by reaction products (they
are derived at consumption of anodes). Water
solution of table salt serves as electrolyte.
Concentration of salt comes to 120-170 g/liter. It
is possible to use water from any reservoir as well
as seawater.
Positive electrode is gas-diffusion one. It is
nonconsumable and allows using atmospheric
oxygen as oxidant. Negative electrode represents
a plate made of magnesium or special-property
aluminum alloy.
At present, Moscow “Center for commercialization
of technologies” offers different electro-batteries
consisting of MACS to its customers. Such electrobatteries
could be used in private life as home
electric power stations or autonomous power
sources.
magnetic material for the sake of higher
effectiveness. The polynuclear complexes contain
3d transition metals (such as Fe, Ni, Mn, Cr) and 4f
transition metals (such as the rare-earth metals Nd,
Gd, Tb, Tm or their alloys). The mentioned
polynuclear metal complexes are used in a free form
and applied onto a non-magnetic high-porous
supporter such as Al2O3 or SiO2. Creators of the
abovementioned working prototype of a magnetic
refrigerator have been cooperating with researchers
from Advanced Magnetic Technologies and
Consulting Co Ltd and the Faculty of Physics
(Moscow State University) for many years. To our
regret, Russian scientists have not enough funds for
carrying out development work of the kind. Beyond
any doubt, if federal or commercial structures
provide their appropriate financial support it will
be possible to develop such a technology and start
manufacturing magnetic refrigerators in Russia. To
our mind, in the nearest future all the interested
parties should be engaged in investigations on
magnetic refrigeration.
64 New Energy Technologies, Issue #4 July - August 2003
Alan L. Francoeur, Canada
Email: al.f@shaw.ca
http://www.fortunecity.com/greenfield/bp/16/interference.htm
Editor: Read more on the device and experiments by Alan L. Francoeur in the next issue of our magazine.
Interference disc electric generator is an improved version of the Ecklin generators. It seemed logical
that to produce electricity more efficiently the design of the generator had to be altered to rotate less
internal mass with a balanced rotor disc. At the same time it has to allow for a collapsing magnetic field
within the coils without rotating the magnets or the coils.
Using more powerful neodymium magnets and amorphous coils, the system was designed in such
a way as to allow the flux to circulate in a magnetic loop while incorporating magnetic shielding.
Some simple experiments with magnetic shielding were performed. At that iron strips, ceramic
magnets and small transformers were used. The magnets and the transformer were positioned
stationary opposite of each other with an air gap between the magnet and the transformer.
Once the apparatus was assembled the author proceeded to move the metal strips in and out of
the air gap between the magnet and the transformer which has produced an AC pulse in the
stationary coil. Using this principal and refining the design there was built a mechanical device
incorporating magnetic shielding into the design. It was named the Interference Disc Generator
being that the metallic thin iron disc interrupted the magnetic field in the air gap (neutral zone)
between the coils and magnets.
This method is unique in that it produces electricity with greater efficiency due to both the magnets
and coils being stationary, brushes and a commutator in this design are not needed and it requires
very little startup torque.
New Energy Technologies, Issue #4 July
August 2003 65
Howard Johnson Motor
Review prepared by our correspondent Alla Pashova
In April 1979 Howard Johnson patented a motor,
which operates on permanent magnets
(# 4,151,431). It is an object of the invention to
utilize the magnetic spinning phenomenon of
unpaired electrons occurring in ferromagnetic
material to produce the movement of a mass in a
unidirectional manner as to permit a motor to be
driven solely by magnetic forces as occurring
within permanent magnets. In the practice of the
inventive concepts, motors of either linear or
rotative types may be produced. It is an object of
the invention to provide the proper combination
of materials, geometry and magnetic
concentration to utilize the force generated by
unpaired electron spins existing in permanent
magnets to power a motor.
Whether the motor constitutes a linear
embodiment or a rotary embodiment, in each
instance the “stator” may consist of a plurality of
permanent magnets fixed relative to each other
in space relationship to define a track, linear in
form in the linear embodiment, and circular in
form in the rotary embodiment. An armature
magnet is located in spaced relationship to such
track defined by the stator magnets wherein an
air gap exists therebetween. The length of the
armature magnet is defined by poles of opposite
polarity, and the length of the armature magnet is
disposed relative to the track defined by the stator
magnets in the direction of the path of movement
of the armature magnet as displaced by the
magnetic forces.
The stator magnets are so mounted that poles of
like polarity are disposed toward the armature
magnet and as the armature magnet has poles
which are both attracted to and repelled by the
adjacent pole of the stator magnets, both
attraction and repulsion forces act upon the
armature magnet to produce the relative
displacement between the armature and stator
magnets.
The continuing motive force producing
displacement between the armature and stator
magnets results from the relationship of the length
of the armature magnet in the direction of its path
of movement as related to the dimension of the
stator magnets, and the spacing therebetween, in
the direction of the path of armature magnet
movement.
This ratio of magnet and magnet spacings, and
with an acceptable air gap spacing between the
stator and armature magnets, will produce a
resultant force upon the armature magnet which
displaces the armature magnet across the stator
magnet along its path of movement.
In the practice of the invention movement of the
armature magnet relative to the stator magnets
results from a combination of attraction and
repulsion forces existing between the stator and
armature magnets. By concentrating the magnetic
fields of the stator and armature magnets the
motive force imposed upon the armature magnet
is intensified, and in the disclosed embodiments
such magnetic field concentration means are
disclosed.
The disclosed magnetic concentrating means
comprise a plate of high magnetic field
permeability disposed adjacent one side of the
stator magnets in substantial engagement
therewith. This high permeability material is thus
disposed adjacent poles of like polarity of the
stator magnets. The magnetic field of the armature
magnet may be concentrated and directionally
oriented by bowing the armature magnet, and the
magnetic field may further be concentrated by
shaping the pole ends of the armature magnet to
concentrate the magnet field at a relatively limited
surface at the armature magnet pole ends.
Preferably, a plurality of armature magnets are
used which are staggered with respect to each
other in the direction of armature magnet
movement. Such an offsetting or staggering of the
armature magnets distributes the impulses of
force imposed upon the armature magnets and
results in a smoother application of forces to the
66 New Energy Technologies, Issue #4 July
August 2003
armature magnet producing a smoother and
more uniform movement of the armature
component.
In the rotary embodiment of the permanent
magnet motor of the invention the stator magnets
are arranged in a circle and the armature magnets
rotate about the stator magnets. Means are
disclosed for producing relative axial
displacement between the stator and armature
magnets to adjust the axial alignment thereof, and
thereby regulate the magnitude of the magnetic
forces being imposed upon the armature magnets.
In this manner the speed of rotation of the rotary
embodiment may be regulated.
Special magnets of curved shape are used in the
device (see Fig. 1). Force vectors of each magnet are
directed in such a way as to create constant torque.
Power of the working prototype comes to 5 kWt.
Fig. 1
In Howard Johnson patents there is a detailed
description of his devices:
• U.S. patent number 4,151,431 “Permanent
magnet motor” (April 24, 1979)
• U.S. patent number 4,877,983 “Magnetic
force generating method and apparatus”
(October 31, 1989)
• U.S. patent number 5,402,021 “Magnetic
propulsion system” (March 28, 1995).
Nowadays there are may be found many
publications by authors who tell about their
attempts to reproduce Howard Johnson motor.
For example, Steven Walker made a device,
which was working within two months.
An American engineer (unfortunately, only his
name – Richard is known) gathered a group of
like
minded people in order to reproduce the
device using standard units. More detailed
information is presented at the webpage
devoted to the researches by Tom Berden:
h t t p : / / w w w. g r e a t e r t h i n g s . c o m / N e w s /
FreeEnergy/Directory/Howard_Johnson_Motor/
TomBearden/index.html.
Not long ago a researcher Douglas Mann
published original drawings of the motor
( h t t p : / / w w w. g r e a t e r t h i n g s . c o m / N e w s /
FreeEnergy/Directory/Howard_Johnson_Motor/
Douglas_Mann/index.html):
Fig. 2
This figure of the motor was published in Science
& Mechanics magazine (USA) in 1980 along with
a brief article about this amazing motor, which
generates energy only by means of permanent
magnets.
Editors of New Energy Technologies magazine will
be glad to receive comments to this publication
from the authors who try or already have
reproduced Howard Johnson motor.
U.S. Patent April 24, 1979 4,151,431
New Energy Technologies, Issue #4 July - August 2003 67
Vyacheslav I. Bogomolov, Russia
Design of the device is presented in Fig. 1. Watt
centrifugal governor is mounted at a shaft of a
reversible electrical machine (motor-generator).
The centrifugal force of inertia Fcen=mw1
2R1
appears when there is reached a definite angular
speed w1 of the loads, which rotate at the shaft and
have total weight m. This force of inertia allows the
work of centrifugal forces Acen=FR1, i.e. it moves
apart weighted levers at a maximal radius of
curvature of rotational trajectory R1. At that a spring
is contracted. The electrical machine works in a
mode of “motor” and, consuming some power
from batteries, it converts electrical energy into
kinetic one. It is clear that real motors always
require some input to generate rotation but
amount of energy input can be very small as to be
compared with a result (contraction of the spring).
Fig. 1
At the second stage of the device operation, the
machine works as a generator. Decreasing of speed
of rotation of the loads w1 causes stretching of the
spring and return of the stored energy Ek, which is
converted to the torque of the shaft of a generator.
Let us explain it by an example. By analogy with
the rotary acceleration made by a figure skater
whose arms are clasped to
the body and by virtue of law of conservation
of angular momentum (angular momentum
L=mR2w1=const) the work of the spring, which
was cocked at the first stage, will cause increase of
kinetic energy and increase of angular speed of
these loads. This work is made to transfer masses
of the loads m at the radius of curvature R1-R2
against the centrifugal forces Fcen.
W=1/2mR1
2w1
2-1/2mR2
2w2
2 (1)
w2=mR1
2/mR2
2 (2)
This is the very energy, which a consumer gets “free
of charge”. At that some losses are also possible,
according to the parameters of the really applied
electrical machine.
As a result of operation of the device for two stages,
at the end of the second stage we will get an
increment to the returned energy, which was
consumed at the first stage. In other words there is
an increment of power of the device by means of
free energy of the medium of physical vacuum
(aether).
Theoretically, according to the hypothesis by an
author [2], an artificial system of rotation of loads
creates a subsystem in the structure of elements
of the medium of physical vacuum. This
subsystem is named “potential field of centrifugal
forces of inertia” PCFI (or organizational form
of matter OFM by B.P. Ivanov [1]). Nature of this
artificial field is similar to the nature of
gravitational, electrostatic and magnetic fields. In
other words PCFI is a potential well for energy.
The loads “fall” in it “free of charge” like a man
falls in a well. And to get out of this “well” it is
necessary to make some work. Source of energy
increment of the device is a spring, which was
“cocked” at the first stage during “falling” of the
loads in the potential well of energy of PCFI.
In the article by V.I. Bogomolov there is considered a physical principle to generate excess mechanical energy.
Details of construction allow accelerating the rotor of the generator with no use of external power source.
We are working at realization of this idea. Please, send your comments to the following address: Faraday
Lab Ltd, Lev Tolstoy Str. 7-601, 197376, Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
68 New Energy Technologies, Issue #4 July - August 2003
If the reversible electrical machine gives us back
(less the losses) input energy for two stages of the
action, then where the force and power budget of
the artificial OFM for the “cocked” spring comes
from?
By the inertia of the system of mass of the loads,
kinetic energy of rotation is accumulated (turns
from electrical one). It is possible since elastic
forces of the levers make some work to change
linear tangent vectors of impulse (instantaneous
orbital speed) of masses of the loads at the radius
of their inertial motion.
Source of power of the action of Coulomb and Van
der Waals forces (i.e. forces of structural integrity
of a matter of the levers) is in the same perpetually
moving material substance, which surrounds us, i.e.
in the medium of physical vacuum. As shown in [1],
every material particle is a subsystem of the physical
vacuum. It represents a vortex of the organizational
form of matter of locally concentrated elements of
aether substance (one might say a “stored energy
of medium structure”). This energy causes
additional deformation of the structure of physical
vacuum and generation of the power budget of the
artificial field of inertia of centrifugal forces around
matter of the loads.
References
1. B.P. Ivanov. Physical model of the Universe.
Saint-Petersburg: Politehnika, 2000
2. V.I. Bogomolov. Paradigm of the physical
vision of the world (“matreshka”). Principle
scheme of utilization of energy of conservative
fields, Collection of articles of the
International Academy “Information,
communication, management in engineering,
nature, society”) “Problems of space safety”
Saint-Petersburg, 2002.
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories
have shown that filaments fabricated of
tungsten lattices emit remarkably more energy
than solid tungsten filaments in certain bands
of near-infrared wavelengths when heated.
This greater useful output offers the possibility
of a superior energy source to supercharge
hybrid electric cars, electric equipment on
boats, and industrial waste-heat-driven
electrical generators. The lattices’ energy
emissions put more energy into wavelengths
used by photovoltaic cells that change light into
electricity to run engines.
Because near-infrared is the wavelength region
closest to visible light, the day may not be distant
when tungsten lattice emissions realized at
visible wavelengths provide a foundation for
more efficient lighting — the first significant
change in Edison’s light bulb since he invented
it.
Revolutionary tungsten photonic crystal could provide
more power for electrical devices
http://www.sandia.gov/news-center/news-releases/2003/other/planck-lin.html
Sensational discovery by American scientists
New Energy Technologies, Issue #4 July - August 2003 69
Alexey I. Vydrin, Russia
Ipatov Str., 31-3, 355008, Stavropol
Tel.: +7(8652)269470
A motor (MÏÊ F03 G, 7/00)
converts energy of
permanent magnets into
mechanical work, at that
direct propulsion force
is created. This force
causes not rotational but
progressive motion. The
motor is assembled of
permanent magnets
placed in the housing
made of diamagnetic or
paramagnetic materials. These materials have no
impact on the forces of interaction of magnetic
poles, since they are not magnetized and magnetic
fields run through them almost as easily as air does.
Magnets are arranged in stages in such a way as to
face each other with unlike poles in each stage. By
means of mutual attraction of magnets in the
stages, the device is in neutral position. Then
magnetic inserts are placed in the stages next
nearest. The magnetic inserts face main magnets
with unlike poles. The stages with inserts interlace
the stages with no inserts. To produce propulsion
force the magnetic inserts are simultaneously
displaced to the adjoined stages where they face
the main magnets with like poles. At that mutual
attraction of the magnets in these stages is
discontinued. Each magnetic pole of this stage is
between like and unlike poles of the adjoined
stages, which due to mutual attraction of the
magnetic fields represent balanced power circuits.
On colliding each other, the like magnetic fields of
the main magnet and of the insert repel from the
like and attract to the unlike pole of the balanced
stages.
At mutual repulsion and attraction of the magnetic
fields of the stages with inserts and balanced stages,
different directions of vectors determine the
difference of forces with which they act in opposite
directions. The sum difference of forces acting in
opposite directions of all the stages of the device is
equal to the total direct propulsion force. Since
magnetic stages are immovable, the whole rigidly
fastened device (i.e. magnetic motor) is turned in
the direction of action of their forces.
Another version of the motor is a device in
which magnets are placed in circular stages (Fig.
1). At that the shape and size of the device are
changed and the construction has a shape of a
cylinder. However the general way of operation
of the motor is the same.Technical and
economic efficiency of the magnetic motor is
determined by its general characteristics. It is
easy in operation, safe and durable. At
producing of permanent magnets certain
energy consumption will be required, but
resources of the motor will be worked out until
the hard magnetic material is demagnetized that
will take several tens of years.
Fig. 1
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August 2003
Releasing Water Energy: Method and Device
Editor’s: The author asked not to mention his name
in the publication. You can get in touch with him by
this e
mail: energy
omega@mail.
The invention has to do with energy generation,
in particular, with releasing thermal energy out
of water (e.g. out of dissociated electrolyte or
heavy water). This type of energy Σ is virtual to
the energy of atom bonds of a liquid in case of
inertial (thermoionic) explosion of the later.
Technically, the present invention makes it
viable to generate energy (in the form of kinetic
energy of explosion products) by means of
inertial (thermoionic) explosions of a prepared
liquid. The amount of energy Σ, generated as a
result of application of the offered invention,
exceeds electrical power inputs w many times.
The released energy can be easily converted into
useful kinds of energy (electrical and rotary
ones).
The essence of the invention is in releasing
internal energy of water by means of making it
ready to detonate under the action of artificially
evoked anomalous physical phenomena followed
by an explosion.
According to the quantum theory, if we manage
to regulate somehow a cloud of electrons,
kinetic energy of these electrons will increase.
In other words, we only need to group at least a
part of free electrons by bunching them, for
example, into a directed flow and like ions will
immediately leave points of the lattice, repulsing
one another.
That is why lattices are always ready to explode.
We may use one of the three forces – electrical,
quantum or mechanical one – to explode a lattice
of liquids by acting just upon its free electrons.
Observations and experiments by V.Yavorsky,
Doctor of Technical Sciences and Academician of
Russian Academy of Missile and Artillery Sciences,
prove that released thermal energy exceeds
kinetic energy of primer explosive. Thus the effect
depends on kinetic energy of a matter (primer
explosive).
One of the earlier known analogues (“Method of
releasing bond energy out of electroconductive
materials” by M. Marakhtanov and A. Marakhtanov
(Rospatent, Abstract #2145147) patented in
2000) has served as a prototype. However this
method is applicable only to the materials with
hard lattices.
In the investigation in question there have been
also used the following known methods and
effects: Method of obtaining high and ultrahigh
pressures in liquids (L.A. Yutkin, inventor
certificate # 105011, priority starting from April
15, 1950); Generation of plastic bodies by means
of a high energy hydraulic impact (USA patent
#3566447), according to which the speed of
a jet directed to crude products is from
100 to 10000 m/sec; Photohydraulic impact
(A.M. Prokhorov, G.A. Askaryan and G.P. Shapiro,
invention #65); Method of hydrogen generation
(Rospatent, Abstract #97116916), and
“Electrohydrogen Generator (EHG)”
(international patent application RU98/00190
dated on October 7, 1997, Russian patent
#2174162 dated on September 27, 2001).
The method of energy generation out of water
without intermediates lies in forming of a directed
flow of liquid in order to bunch free electrons in
this flow. The method has the following
particularities:
1. When flow of a liquid accelerate up to the
speed of partial bunching of free electrons and
stop instantaneously, they release gases. That
means they also release some energy followed by
an explosion;
The method of energy generation out
of water without intermediates lies
in forming of a directed flow of liquid
in order to bunch free electrons in
this flow...
New Energy Technologies, Issue #4 July
August 2003 71
2. Contradirectional liquid flows, after being
accelerated up to the speed of partial bunching
of free electrons and before colliding one with
another, pass through contact nozzles. A high

voltage electrical potential is imparted to the
contact nozzles. As a result of it, when the flows
collide in the jet there arises an electrical charge,
accompanied by plasma generation and an energy
release (an explosion);
3. A jet of the liquid forms in the flow and it
accelerates up to the speed of bunching of the part
of free electrons. The jet is in motion (it is virtual
to a part of a conductor that is ready to explode
at any moment). Detonation pulses act
periodically upon the jet and cause its explosion;
4. It is possible to accelerate flows of liquids up
to the speed of bunching of the part of free
electrons using either a mechanical method or an
explosive, or electrohydraulic impact, or a
quantum pulse;
5. The detonation force that acts upon the jet
can be evoked by means of either an explosive or
an electrical charge, a quantum or a magnetic
pulse;
6. Hydrogen and oxygen are released when an
electrical current runs through the formed jet or
there is a load resistance connected to the circuit;
7. A hydroturbine and/or a hydropump and/or
a reactive drive can create the flow of circulating
liquid where the jet is formed.
The anomalous water
hydrogen reactor “Omega”
contains a round reservoir with unlike current
conductive elements contacting with the circles
of a rotating torus of a liquid. The device has the
following particularities:
1. The liquid accelerates and rotates by means
of a reactive drive that uses energy, which is
generated in an omega
shaped device. The effect
arises due to acceleration of the liquid up to the
speed of bunching of the part of free electrons.
When the electrons collide they release some
energy followed by an explosion;
2. The liquid accelerates and rotates by means of
a reactive drive that uses energy, which is generated
when the main flow makes a peripheral one
accelerate. The peripheral flow forms a jet, which
is accelerated to the speed of bunching of the part
of free electrons and is in spatial motion (a part of
a conductor is formed). Denotation forces act
periodically upon the jet and cause its explosion;
3. Electrical discharges arise under the action of electrical
power of a capacitor. The energy results from potential
difference of the circles of the torus of liquid;
4. The acceleration and rotation of the liquid as well as
an extra detonation of the formed jet result from exploding
a bled fuel mixture, generated in the device;
5. The exterior ring of “Omega” can operate as an
independent energy generator. Thanks to concurrent
effects the device can be used as a hydrogen and electrical
power generator.
Fig.1 (simplified circuit diagram of the device) illustrates
the method. The device consists of a static toroid or a
plate filled with a liquid (its rotating sense is marked by
an arrow), e.g. with a solution of disassociated electrolyte.
Rotating sides of the circles of liquid contact with unlike
current conductive elements (e.g. with the fins of a turbine
(13) and internal periphery of the reservoir).
Fig. 1
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August 2003
When the electrical circuit is closed, an electrical current
runs in the liquid through an accumulator (5) or an external
power source. At the same time it releases detonating gases
that pass through an inertial valve (1) in channel (6)
towards a chamber (2) of “Omega”. The gases start
burning when high voltage is supplied from the
accumulator to an electrode (3) through a discharge
gap (4) (or any other commutator). The expanding
gases pass through a nozzle (11) and make the liquid in
the circle accelerate.
At reaching the required centrifugal moment the liquid
start flowing into the chamber (2) (while valves (7) are
set at maximal centrifugal pressure). Due to the action of
a minimal rated charge in the liquid, contradirectional
flows pass through the channels of “Omega” and eject
from the chamber (2), “flying” one towards another at
extremely high speed.
When the liquid (with already weakened
molecular bonds) joins in the chamber (8) passing
through the jet contactors (9) of a previously
charged capacitor (10) there runs a high
voltage
discharge (the discharge can also run through a
port of a “mixing” electrode (21)).
The instantaneous collision of the liquids,
electrical discharging and plasma effects,
ultrasonic and cavity processes cause a complete
or partial explosion of the liquid (depending on
its acceleration and the power of discharging)
and its disintegration into hydrogen and
oxygen.
Then the liquid oxidizes (burns down). In both
cases there is a large amount of energy generated
(i.e. practically all the modern technologies are
engaged in such a hydrogen release
within a microsecond period). To intensify the
effect we can fill both chambers (8 and 17) with
detonating gas (before an explosion).
While entering into a circle, the torus of liquid
accelerates up to ultrasonic speeds and the second
ring of “Omega” joins to the operation.
The rotating liquid makes the liquid in the radial
peripheral ring rotate as well using a slot
(excluding the chamber (17)) or any other way. It
results in formation of a jet in the chamber (17)
(that operates like a jet pump).
The jet is in spatial motion and passes through
the jet contactors (14) (like a part of a
conductor). The fuel mixture is supplied to the
same chamber through the channel (15). An
electric discharge acts up on the jet from the capacitor
(that have collected a charge of the current accumulator
(16) or any other source) passing through the discharge
gap (20) and the jet contactors (14). As a result of it the
jet explodes and inflames together with the supplied fuel
mixture in the chamber and, passing through the nozzles
(18) and (15), imparts energy of the rotation to the
torus of liquid. The liquid in the device can be driven
either by both rings of “Omega” or by one of them.
Moreover, the external ring of “Omega” can operate as an
independent power generator (e.g. as a stream
and
gas
mixture generator in combustion chambers of various
engines or as a power generator applied to heat turbines
instead of a superheated steam generator, etc).
The described device can be applied as a hydrogen and
electrical power generator (in this case if the channel (15)
is not used or equipped with an extinguishing gate valve).
You can find a detailed description of the process in the
patented inventions “Method of hydrogen generation”
(Rospatent, Abstract #97116916), and “Electrohydrogen
Generator (EHG)” (international patent application
RU98/00190 dated October 7, 1997, Russian patent
#2174162 dated September 27, 2001).
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Harald Chmela, Austria
www.hcrs.at/liquidn2.htm
At the 9th Sept. 1992 in the University of Tampere,
Finland an experiment of gravitation shielding by
superconductors was set up by Eugene
Podkletnov. A superconductor floats over a
magnet and is additional taken to a rotation. The
gravity over the superconductor was lowered by
several percents, depending on the rotation or
acceleration of the superconductor.
Since that time I read some reports in the Internet,
according to which several people have
succeeded in proving this effect with small
superconductors, which are available for
demonstration in physic.
Most of these setups I hold for insufficient, since
both the nitrogen and the superconductor are
weighed together and so differences in the
evaporation are measured, or others are hanging
coil and superconductor into the nitrogen,
whereby it comes to lift features by the boiling
nitrogen if the coil is warmed up by the current.
Fig. 1
Experimental setup
For a secured statement I developed this
experimental setup. It is essentially a modified
tare balance, whose weight on the left side is
replaced by a steel cylinder with 2.5 cm diameter.
I selected this form, since the change of
gravitation is to arise only directly over the
superconductor, which diameter is already
2.54 cm. The mass of the cylinder is balanced by
various other weights on the right scale
pan, so that the bar stands horizontally.
Exactly underneath the steel cylinder the
superconductor (class 2) and a magnetic disk is
placed. The superconductor is brought in the
nitrogen over the magnet to float. I tested the
sensitivity of the balance. It is sufficient, in order
to indicate 0.5 % of weight change. In order to
exclude effects by the magnetic attraction, thick
steel plates were inserted in the soil of the
balance to act as a screen for the magnetic field.
It must be considered, that it comes to a field
distortion, as the superconductivity is set up and
this could cause an excursion also with balanced
magnetic field strengths.
Results
The expected results did not take place under
all possible test conditions. If the balance is in
the equilibrium, and then the nitrogen is
poured into the container, there is no
excursion to be seen. The superconductivity
was examined after each attempt
(superconductor is floating over the magnet),
and was always present. Also moving or
rotating the superconductor could not
produce an excursion on the balance.
Of course the superconductor could not be
brought into a very fast rotation by hand, as it
is perhaps necessary for the effect.
It is in any case not as easy to prove this effect,
as some experimenters want makes us to
believe. Exaggerated euphoria is not
appropriate here.
74 New Energy Technologies, Issue #4 July - August 2003
Conception of Magnetic Gas
Prepared by our correspondent Alla Pashova
— In the 60th of the last century reading “Technology
to the Youth” magazine I came upon the article
“Pulsating ball from the broken plug socket” – Viktor
N. Dubchak tells. – The method to generate a ball
lightning was described in the article. I believed that
it was possible to reproduce the process by myself.
After nine months of experimenting I managed to
achieve beneficial effects. By dampening a carbolite
plug with sulphuric acid I finally obtained not a flame
but a reddish ball, which immediately came back into
the plug. I tried to tell about my experiments in press
but my letters to “Technology to the Youth” were not
noticed. The documents which were applied for
inventor’s certificate were sent back. Nobody showed
interest in it.
— In what way the experiments on generation of the ball
lightning are related to the magnetic gas conception?
— Thanks to milk-white magnetic gas the lightning
becomes ball-shaped. MG serves as cerment to join
matters together since at electromagnetic excitation
its molecules easily create “dipoles”. In a strong
electromagnetic field these dipoles are put in order
and joined to create one giant molecule.
I dare to suppose what exactly causes ball lightning
in natural conditions. At electrical charge oxygen and
nitrogen are combined with water. In such a way
nitric acid is produced. As a result of combustion the
particles of a solid which are wetted in the nitric acid
(e.g. wood or minerals) obtain special properties. I
have got to know about it in the course of several
simple experiments.
I wound cotton and synthetical wool, which was
wetted in nitric acid, around a ceramic stick and then
place it in the lower part of a torch flame. (It is also
possible to use newsprint). The ash, produced as a
result of the process, began attracting to the magnet.
The evolved milk-white MG was attracted to
the magnet and slowly rotated at its plane.
Non-metallic magnetics will also become apparent if
we burn glass wool wetted with acid and then carry
an electrified stick to the obtained brown lump. The
lump begins to bounce from the floor.
— What application of the MG conception could be found
in power engineering?
— MG can be effectively used for modernization of
TOKAMAKs. Along with indifferent gas, which is now
used in such set-ups, MG can be injected in the
“furnace”. It will serve as an astringent and plasma
“roll”, whose stability is the aim of many researches,
will exist much longer.
— Is it possible to generate energy directly from the ball
lightning? What is necessary for that?
Editor: We publish an interview about fantastical statements made
by the inventor Viktor N. Dubchak. It is unlikely that somebody of our
readers will seriously take these statements. The methods applied for
experimenting seem especially queer. The reason for the publication
is direct analogies revealed between the inventor’s statements on
successful obtaining of non-metal matters with magnetic properties
and well-known works by Valerian Sobolev. If Dubchak’s experiments
on rotation of matter in a magnetic field without supplying outer
energy represent the facts, then possibly many of our readers will be
interested to reproduce his dangerous experiments with nitric acid
and glass wool. Many years have passed since Russian researcher V.N.
Dubchak had experimentally discovered the phenomenon of nonmetallic
magnetics and worked out a magnetic gas (MG) conception.
However representatives of the official science have never given
attention to the discovery made by the inventor in spite of the fact
that results of the researches could be a valuable contribution to the
development of high-energy physics.
New Energy Technologies, Issue #4 July - August 2003 75
— Most likely we will need a spherical cavity and
indifferent gas, which does not allow the ball
lightning to touch the walls of the cavity. However it
is not necessary looking for the ways to use the ball
lightning since TOKAMAKs have already existed.
Much efforts and money have already put into their
development.
— Is the MG conception somehow related to the so called
“magnetic monofield”?
— No, it does not: “Magnetic monofield” is just a
hypothesis, a guess-work by scientists. Actually it does
not exist. The incapability to explain natural
phenomena causes rising of such nonsense ideas. For
example, in an article published by “Lomonosov”
magazine the “magnetic monofield” was considered
as a cause of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster.
— Have you ever gained the recognition of your
achievements?
— I wrote about one of my experiments in Academy
of Sciences. They answered: “Do not write any more”.
Later it was turned out that this seeming indifference
was a complete dissimulation. The researches had
been already carried out in Russian Academy of
Sciences and they did not need a surplus man for that.
— Do you go on your experiments?
— No, at present I just do not have access to necessary
documents. Besides, I believe that a beneficial effect
has been already achieved by me. Proper application
of the present MG conception will allow to improve
operating power plants (such as TOKAMAK) within
24 hours. Hence we will not need to increase
TOKAMAK dimensions and spend money and
materials. Even a small plant will allow producing
required amount of the stable plasma.
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