Frank,
> I can think of two places where
[Coil-[coil-[coil-...[coil]...]]]
> structure are important. One is in DNA and the other is in
rope
> manufacture.
Yes. And mother nature got us to DNA basically by trial and
error, so can the super-dimensional jounce-like benefits of
layered helicity be magnified by applying intelligent
engineering? BTW the "static" benefit of extraordinary
strength (rope) and the "dynamic" benefit of OU efficiency
(negative resistance) may not be as fundamentally different
as they seem on the surface. Both could ultimately be issues
of material design.
In this coming era (hopefully, the next few years) we should
see easy access to
1) very low-loss glassy metal cores (in wire form)
2) very low loss high frequency semi-conductors,
3) perhaps ultraconductor wires ot RTSCs, if not then lots
of dry ice...
...it is just a matter of time before some creative kid
takes this idea to the extreme - probably a high school geek
"science-fair" type with lots of manual dexterity and few
friends... and, of course, a pushy mom and a broken X-box...
I am looking forward to see what will happen when you get
about 6 layers deep in helcity - and not just
[Coil-[coil-[coil-...[coil]...]]] but the double inductance
variation which is
[CBFCoil-[CBFcoil-[CBFcoil-...[CBFcoil]...]]]
... where, of course, CBF stands for "concentric bifilar"
and you basic "wire" might consists of... well, why not a
four-ply compound construction which is designed to maximize
both electrical and magnetic cross-inductance... perhaps
consisting of:
1) low loss axial core wire (linear glassy metal) surrounded
by
2) CW wound primary winding, wound as near to orthogonal as
practical to the core
3) CCW wound, secondary concentric bifilar winding, wound as
near to orthogonal as possible to the underlying primary
winding
(some kind of weave is the OK also)
4) low loss external core or diamagnetic isulator
This is the basic unit or "wire" which can then be coiled in
many overlapping layers of compound helicies and
toroids...using supermagnets, resonance, magic numbers and a
lot of imagination... etc. just to give the perpmo skeptics
some fuel for derision ... ;-)
If one can engineer nearly lossless 'reactance' in a glassy
metal so that ZPE gives you "free" realignment of domains
for a "Casimir-spring-effect," in essence ... and why
not?... well, time will tell if ZPE can be cohered in this
or similar fashion.
And as alluded in a previous post ("rule of 70"), one only
needs to get a transformer up to 102%-103% efficiency to
make things interesting for commercial implementation....
Jones
