This is an interesting idea but I'm afraid that, as described, there is a problem with it: It's really just a very complicated electric motor which runs on the energy stored in the battery.
It seems unlikely that such a rig could approach an ordinary magnet-and-coil-based electric motor in efficiency. Additional comments below... (snipped heavily to keep message length down) Frederick Sparber wrote: > > [ snip ] > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pat Pelletier) > > Newsgroups: sci.engr > > Subject: PUBLIC DISCLOSURE - NEW INVENTION > > Date: Mon, 28 Aug 95 10:54:05 - 0700 > > Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada > > > > I am posting the following for a friend who does NOT have access > > to Internet. Comments welcomed. > > > > NOTICE [ snip ] > > *This *engine* was first tested in 1992. I am however unable to > > invest the required capital to produce a more sophisticated model > > and therefore unable to patent it. This is not patentable, no matter how sophisticated the model, because it's a perpetual motion machine of the first kind, and the patent office rejects them automatically. See below. [ snip ] > > 1. The *magnetron* fits into the spark plug hole. > > > > 2. The distributor points are modified so that the contact is > > closed when the piston is at the top dead center and this contact > > is used to activate the aircraft strobe mechanism. > > > > 3. The high voltage from the strobe is connected to! directly > > fire the *magnetron* which in turn produces steam which moves the > > piston. > > > > 4. The *engine* turns the alternator which keeps the battery > > charged, which supplies the electrical power for the *magnetron. This describes perpetual motion. The energy to vaporize the water comes from the alternator, and the energy to drive the alternator comes from the vaporization of the water. What's more, it's a pure Carnot cycle engine, which has been studied to death and is very unlikely to have a hidden cubbyhole in which ZPE energy or hydrinos or some such may come in and save its bacon. > >* CAUTION AND TIPS: > > > > WARNING!!! DANGER!!!! > > > > 1. Be careful around the *magnetron.* KEEP IT SHIELDED WITH > > METAL. IT CAN CAUSE SEVERE BURNS THAT MAY NOT BE READILY VISIBLE > > WHEN THEY FIRST OCCUR. Fun and games with a bare magnetron... yike. [ snip ] > > 5. Start with a fully charged battery or your alternator won't > > work. > > > > 6. The energy produced is in excess of the power required to run > > the alternator but until you get the RPM up, and the parts wrking > > in harmony, it may be best to use a battery charger instead of an > > alternator. Indeed. [ snip ]
