The trade winds are driven primarily from the convection currents that
take their energy from solar heating. The corriolis force means that
the convection currents do not just go in a north-south direction but
swing to the east or west. Given all this, at least some of the energy
that drives a windmill sitting in the trade wind comes from solar
energy. I suspect that trying to work out what proportion (if at all)
comes from the spin of the earth is an interesting
maths/physics/engineering question.
I shall pass it to my son to look at.
Nigel
On 09/02/2014 06:41, Bob Cook wrote:
A better scheme to extract energy from the Coriolis force is the
spinning earth creates is to erect a windmill or your sailboat in the
trade winds which are caused by this effect.
Bob
----- Original Message -----
*From:* Blaze Spinnaker <mailto:blazespinna...@gmail.com>
*To:* vortex-l@eskimo.com <mailto:vortex-l@eskimo.com>
*Sent:* Saturday, February 08, 2014 4:14 PM
*Subject:* Re: [Vo]:: RAR gravity engine
Yes, some combination of that and tidal forces from the moon, perhaps.
On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 5:18 AM, Hoyt A. Stearns Jr.
<hoyt-stea...@cox.net <mailto:hoyt-stea...@cox.net>> wrote:
Perhaps the energy is coming from the rotational energy of the
earth, i.e.
Coriolis effect <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis_effect>
( which as I look at it, is a fudge factor needed to account
for anomalies when you assume you're
in an inertial frame of reference, but really aren't due to
the rotation of the earth.).
One could extract energy from the earth by raising a weight
vertically, then letting it fall
whilst letting it's east-west tendency generate force X
distance. For example if the
surface of the earth is moving at 1000 km/hour and you raise a
weight such that the speed is
now 1001 km/hour, as you let it fall you could extract 1
km/hour of kinetic energy from it.
I think that'd be a pretty small effect, hence the huge
machine to get anything useful.
It would be interesting to see if it's orientation was
north-south along its rotational axis.
Hoyt Stearns
Scottsdale, Arizona US
-----Original Message-----
From: Terry Blanton [mailto:hohlr...@gmail.com
<mailto:hohlr...@gmail.com>]
Sent: Saturday, February 8, 2014 12:25 AM
To: vortex-l@eskimo.com <mailto:vortex-l@eskimo.com>
Subject: Re: [Vo]:: RAR gravity engine
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 9:59 PM, Jed Rothwell
<jedrothw...@gmail.com <mailto:jedrothw...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> Actually, the person you want to convince is Terry Blanton.
He is our
> resident expert in magnetic motors. He says he looked at
some of them
> closely and found they did not work.
Skeptical by experience. We tested spirals, pulsed, shielded
. . .
every configuration we could imagine and found them conservative.
But, I'm still open if someone has a new idea.
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