Michel Jullian wrote:
That's good, keep us tuned if that supply doesn't get you ;-) Regarding 3 and 4, why would you expect to see air moving outside of the bag? The device and Newton should be happy with air moving only inside (in the direction opposite the rotor) shouldn't they?
Actually, I think you are right. That hadn't even occurred to me, but you are right, as long as there is uninterrupted circuitous motion of the air inside, it would be like suspending a motor from its wires: the armature (or in this case, the Borbas device) goes one way, and the stator (or in this case, air) goes the other.
It would seem then, that to test something like this with a dielectric shield (bag, in this case) conclusively, one would need two separate bags, one over each ball/emitter pair. Or, simply use one ball/emitter pair, enclosed, and hanging like a linear pendulum.
Well...we have proved conservation of angular momentum, anyways. I will do the tests with the smoke in any case, and with AC as Horace suggests, just to see what happens, but I feel now that the chances of finding much with this device are very very low. But, it has been rather fun I think.
--Kyle
