In my book THE MADHOUSE PROJECTS I wrote about a flying car that uses my injection reator, a compression-field jet engine, and a double-field motive system to help it levitate and displace the electromagnetic fields of the earth. It is shown on the cover. When the car reached 500 mph on the Autobaun, the aircraft controls came out and the jet engine came to life. Little wings were extended to help the car fly. The main character flew the car around Europe and his workplace had to tell the air traffic control system that a UFO was on their radar screens and not a terrestrial craft. As "punishment," the man had to shut down a terrorist operation in Leipzig which was plotting to cause a meltdown at a nuclear power plant. Only someone driving and flying the car could eliminate the ones in the city and still reach the power plant before the terrorists out there could cause damage in the spent rod pool at the nuclear facilities. In the future, if my double-field motive system works in which the motive field ionizes the air and surfaces and circulates in the direction and at the desired speed while displacing the electromagnetic fields of the earth with the repulsion field levitating the car, flying cars may become as common as Hummers and Jeeps. They would be the ultimate off-road vehicle since they don't require a road or even soild ground since they will be able to glide above the water like a hovercraft. Either my reactor or stacked flywheels may be required to generate the fields.
Not to be outdone by GM's Chevy Volt hoopla last week, Chrysler today revealed three prototypes from its own electric-car program earlier today on CNBC. Who knew Chrysler had an electric-car program? Practically no one. But the company calls it ENVI, pronounced "envy," and the first consumer product from the program could appear as early as 2010.
In 1974 I suggested to Chrysler to use flywheel storage units to kinetically store energy. The flywheel would spin a generator to produce electricity for thedrive motor. it was rejected. Today, I have been advocating the use of stacked flywheel units that would have a flywheel canister atop and below the motor/generator with the system being sealed to prevent leakage of the vacuum from the flywheel canisters. Either a liquid coolant or forced air would indirectly cool the armature of the motor/generator. I would use either rock quartz or an ultra-stressed crystalline molecular solid material for the flywheels with possible a magentic band around them facing a magnetic band inside the walls of the canisters. This may produce a linear induction effect. My goal is to kinetically store at least 100 watt-hours per cubic inch of material. If I had a sports sedan I would use two primary stacked units and two or four secondary stacked units for the systems of the car. The primary flywheels would be able to store at least 1000 KW of energy to power the twin 500 horse motors. If I traveled at highway speed, I could go from New York City to Chicago nonstop. If I were driving the car at LeMans, the 1000 horses might push the car to over 300 mph. The range might be over 300 miles. With the removable flywheel rack in the rear, a pitstop may take less than half a minute. The car would jack itself up, release the rack, and another rack could be wheeled into place and would be attatched to the connections to power the motors. The car might be the first one to exceed 4000 miles in 24 hours at LeMans. If Chrysler was serious about building an electric sportscar, I would have it build stacked flywheel powered electric cars which would have a greater range than conventional vehicles and with it taking no more than 15 minutes to respin the flywheels, a driver could eat a meal in a restaurant or truck stop while the flywheels are being respun up to speed. Also, since the total flywheel power storage might be around 1500 kilowatts, if the electricity costs 3 cents per kilowatt, the driver would pay $45. With gas prices being so high, you could spend that much and travel only half as far as the electric car. It's been 34 years since Chrysler rejected flywheels. If it rejects stacked flywheels and another company uses them and builds millions of vehicles people want and need, Chrysler will once again be in trouble for rejecting what it needed.
Here we have a clip from the excellent movie adaptation of Tom Stoppard's play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. In addition to engaging and nuanced performances by Gary Oldman, Tim Roth, Richard Dreyfus, and Iain Glen, the script is full of thought-provoking metaphysical introspection, and some delightful physics introspection as well. It's well worth renting.
Heavier objects should fall faster than lighter objects through the air due to both air resistence and atomic interaction between the air molecules and the molecules of the object. An object with more mass has more potential energy and will be effected by the gravitational pull of the air molecules less than if a lighter object were to fall since there is less atomic interaction by the lighter object. A heavier object would displace more air than a lighter object and the only way it could stay in the air is if it is traveling fast enough to repel against the air molecules it travels over. That is one reason why a 747 which is ten times heavier than a bus can fly while a bus normally stays on the ground. The surface area of the plane is greater thus displacing the molecules of the plane better as it travels through the air and displaces the air molecules. In a vacuum, with no air resistence, objects should also fall faster the heavier thay are due to gravity. It's just that the difference in speed is nearly undetectable. An object should fall faster on earth in a vacuum than on the moon since the interactive gravity of the moon and the objects is less. With dark energy possibly existing in a vacuum out in space, there could be some atomic interaction between the objects and the energy in the vacuum. A way to overcome gravity might be by using repulsive energy fields around the objects that are falling. If an object with a circulating electromagnetic displacement field is generated that is equal to or greater than the repulsive mass of the air and electromagnetic fields of the earth or body that the object is passing over, the object should be levitated at least or traveling through the air in the same fashion a UFO travels. If gravity can become repulsive in nature, a circulating repulsion field that is generated by an object will allow the object to repel gravity. One of the easiest ways to repel off of gravity in order to travel out into space is to use a tubular electromagnetic field that is projected into space. An object placed inside the field that would generate a repulsive electromagnetic field similar to a linear induction field should be able to fly out into space and bring down the cost of placing objects into orbit and even on the moon to pennies on the dollar. If air can be ionized and made to produce a linear induction effect, an object with a repulsive field circulating around it should fly at whatever speed the field is circulating and travel in the direction the field is flowing. That is why I believe flying cars and other similar vehicles should be possible in the future. A double field motive system which uses a circulating repulsion field and an internal levitation field that repels against the motive field should allow a vehicle to glide nearly effortlessly above the ground and through the air. So when you see flying cars in movies or on TV, it could be that a double field motive system will make it possible.
Today marked the public debut of the Martin Jetpack, a ducted-fan-equipped personal flying vehicle that could keep pilots aloft for 30 minutes or more. Inventor Glenn Martin has been working on the jetpack—which isn't technically a "jet" pack, given the fans—for 27 years, but he has kept it secret until now. Even his son, Harrison, the 16-year-old test pilot, wasn't allowed to tell his friends that he'd been cruising around the yard back home in Christchurch, New Zealand in a revolutionary flying vehicle.
I would rather wait until they have a flying suit. I would use either stacked flywheels or a small injection reactor to supply the power for either a jet engine or an electromagentic field engine. The jet engine would either be a motor-driven turbine shaft jet or a compression-field engine that would have no moving parts. The electromagnetic field engine would circulate a displacement field that would displace the electromagnetic fields of the earth like a UFO is supposed to do. The direction of the circulation and the speed would determine the direction and speed of the flyer. The range with flywheels might be over 500 miles and it would take less than ten minutes to respin the flywheels back up to speed. With a reactor it would have virtually unlimited range. If a particle field is placed around the suit, it could fly at supersonic speed without the suit melting from air friction since the field would take the friction.
It doesn’t take a stellar imagination to figure out the main downside of solar power. For years, the question of how to store the energy generated when the sun is shining for use at night has prevented solar power from becoming a viable alternative energy source. However, a new breakthrough may have overcome that storage problem, opening the door for solar energy on a grand scale.
I have been interested in flywheel storage systems for nearly 40 years. My latest system I have been writing about uses a totally sealed motor/generator sandwiched between two flywheels that are in vacuum chambers. The motor/generator would use either liquid coolant or forced air to cool the armature and prevent leakage of the vacuum. The flywheels would be made either from rock quartz or one of my ultra-stressed crystalline molecular solid materials with a magnetic band around the circumference facing another magnetic band inside the vacuum chambers to produce a linear induction effect. It may be possible to store kinetically over 100 watt-hours of energy per cubic inch. If that is the case, flywheels may be what we need to store the excess electricity instead of turning water into hydrogen and oxygen which would be burned by a steam generator. Then again, I might go with my solar stacks; both solar voltaic and steam, to produce more electricity than flat displays.
I have designed electric cars that should be able to exceed 300 mph on the road and maybe Mach 5 on the salt flats. If stacked flywheel storage systems are used and work as well as hoped, it should be possible to build a car that is less than a meter high that has twin 1000 horse motors that can exceed 300 mph. If my injection reactor works, the speed may increase to over 350 mph. The loudest sound you may hear will be the wind coming off of the car and the high-pitched sound of the turbo-compressor that will cool the motors. For the land speed record, I would use either flywheels or my reactor and a compression-field jet engine. The driver may have to be lying on his back and suspended in an electromagnetic artificial gravity field because the car should be able to go from 0 to 1500 mph in less than 2 seconds since the engine has no moving parts and uses a linear induction system to shove the compressed air and fields through the engine. When it reaches a mile per second, it should be in the speed trap. It will reverse the field direction and stop the car in less than 10 seconds. That means the car would be faster than the fastest jets that fly today. A car being faster than a plane hasn't happened in nearly a century. In 1899, the fastest car in the world was an electric car that topped out at over 60 mph. My fastest car may be able to do 60 times that speed.
I do a cable TV program that deals with the future and future technology. I wrote that 150 years in the future, Shea Stadium will have a dome that will be low enough to allow planes to safely fly over it because the majority of the stadium will be underground. The Yankee Stadium of that time could have cremation cemetery plots in a wall where Yankee fans and former players could be interred. Stadium complexes will become small cities where people could go in the morning to for breakfast at one of the restaurants, go shopping later, experience baseball games in the Experiencable Program Gallery, eat dinner before the game, watch the game, and maybe stay the night in the stadium hotel. The domed stadiums may come in three basic types; permanent dome, retractable dome, and ventilated dome. The domes would have light tubes in them so that a night game may not need regular lights because the lighted dome will be bright enough. The ventilated dome will be one in which the air can pass inside, but rain and snow will be blocked. If it is too hot or cold outside, the dome will close until after the game when it will open again so that natural grass can be grown. The dome would catch water and send it to a reservoir to be used to keep the grass alive. Ventilated domes would be used elsewhere like outdoor skating rinks, tennis courts, and building complexes so that people won't need to shovel snow in the winter. Once we perfect teleportation, teams could play in two stadiums simultaneously. A transporter frame will divide the field so that the away team could remain at home and travel to the other stadium via teleportation. That means both stadiums could be used simultaneously to double the number in attendance. If there is no game going on, extended 3-D games could be played on the fields. We could have the 1927 Yankees playing the 1972 Cincinnati Reds to see which team is the best if they had played in the World Series. That series might have more people watch it than the regular series. With EPUs, people could experience games. In the future, once Experiencable Program Units are perfected, a team like the Yankees might have over a million people experiencing each game. If the cast is $20 per game and the season is 180 games long, that would be an extra $3.6 billion. If the Yankees went to the World Series and played maybe the Tokyo Giants, there might be a billion people experiencing each game at $100 a game. Seven games would bring in $700 billion. A pitcher might receive more money per pitch than some people make working a month or year make. And for more money, people could experience being at the plate or elsewhere on the field. EPUs will keep ticket prices down because more people will want to experience the games than attend the ballparks. But with all the added features stadiums will have in the future, people will still want to attend the games in person.
In 1972 I wrote about Olympic athletes using nerve stimulation wiring to give them faster reflexes and enhance the actions of muscles. In the future, that might be done first to help paralyzed people to function normally and later to help athletes cheat. No scars may be left if cellular fusion of the skin can be done. Other ways they might cheat would be by using biosynthetic brain implants that may not be easily detected by tests. Athletes could program their bodies to perform better. In the future, athletes may have to have their DNA registered before they can compete so that if their performance improves too much, judges can check their DNA to see if there have been any changes. Biosynthetic muscles might be implanted to enhance their performance. But they may appear so "natural" that tests may not detect much of a difference. Some of the most dangerous enhancements could be roving chemical stimulation nanobots that could be programmed to detect what is needed to enhance a performance and then cause increased production of such substances as adrenaline and endorphins. If a marathon runner were to finish a race in less than two hours, once the nanobots go back into ready or dormant mode, the body will have to try and perform without assistance which may kill the athlete. So if we hear of athletes finishing a race and then dropping dead, they may have to be checked for bioenhancements to see if cheating caught up with them and killed them.
For as long as humans have looked to the night sky to divine meaning and a place in the universe, we have let our minds wander to thoughts of distant worlds populated by beings unlike ourselves. The ancient Greeks were the first Western thinkers to consider formally the possibility of an infinite universe housing an infinite number of civilizations.
In my ACE Series I will write about alien technology that goes far beyond what people claim is alien technology. One of the items is the nuclear battery that will use a super-dense transuranic element that will cause the battery to tap the electromagnetic field of the earth and use it for power which means the battery will have an energy output greater than the energy it stores. If too many batteries are used they will draw so much energy from earth's fields that they could tear open a huge hole in our atmosphere and allow radiation from space to hit us. Another item is a portable interdimensional portal device that can fold up into a device no larger than a pen so that it can be carried in your pocket. The controller will be a projector that appears when the portal is unfolded into a door-size device that is self-standing. Once you walk through it, the portal will also shift to the dimension you have entered. It will be the way humans and aliens shift between dimensions. A third item will be the hyperlight speed element synthesizer. The way we make transuranic elements is wrong. That is why they last such a short while. The correct way to create a superdense transuranic element is by blending the particles with the element you want to build onto. With the particles being blended at hyperlight speed, they can be "set" better so that the new element becomes stable. Instead of just bombarding one element with another element and hoping a more massive element is produced, the entire element will be blended together with the particles to produced the desired element. It may require particle expansion similar to a nuclear explosion. But the blending and the field containment of the synthesizer will prevent the controlled explosion from going out of control. It will all happen in a split second. But the results will be massive transuranic elements that could double or triple the number of elements on the periodic table of elements. I could go on. But I need to wirte the books first to see what is going to happen and to see what marvels are going to be revealed thanks the the ACE Program.
Among his other unusual hobbies (he also builds sculptures featuring fire-spewing robots), 32-year-old Justin Gray makes custom electric motorcycles. To create his latest drag racer, the R144, Gray tore the motor and gasoline systems out of a 1999 Yamaha R1, a bike with a frame large enough to hold the extra parts he needed for the conversion. Since the gas engine had been an important structural element in the original bike, he built his own aluminum motor bracket to hold the modified bike together.
Over 35 years ago I read about flywheel storage systems and was hooked on that idea for power vehicles; even the future spaceplane. To maintain the vacuum of the flywheel canisters, I would use a flywheel atop two motor/generators and one below them that would all be sealed. Either forced air or a liquid coolant would cool the motors without releasing the vacuum. If either rock quartz or one of my ultra-stressed materials is used for the flywheels and magnetic bands are used around the circumference of the flywheels and facing the bands inside the canisters, there might be a linear induction effect which may increase the storage potential. I might use a hub-mounted motor in the center of the back wheel for instant power and maybe one for the front wheel for extra traction. If they are 100-horse pulsed injection motors, they may only require 70,000 watts each. If my flywheels can store 100 watt-hours of energy per cubic inch and I had a large stacked unit for the drive and a smaller stacked unit for the systems and the large unit contained 1500 cubic inches of flywheel material, the range for the bike might be 200 miles. For long-distant touring, I would use a "power trailer" that would have at least 5000 cubic inches of flywheel material and trunk space for luggage and other things. If the bike could cruise the highway at 70 mph and required only 60 horses from the motors, the range could be over 1000 miles. Since the bike would be an electric, it would be quiet enough for the rider to easily listen to a radio or CD player without having them blast away. With a canopy that could be attached to the bke, the vehicle could be ridden in all weather. Also, with the speed-activated roller kickstand, the rider won't have to put his feet on the ground until he wants to get off. The kickstand will extend automatically when the bike is traveling 5 mph or less and retract when the bike is traveling over 5 mph. .
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