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remanufactured cars

mon, 06 dec 2010 11:20:54 +0000

why do we have to have new car models, and lots of them every year? a lot of energy is consumed in the process of redesign, new tooling and the manufacturing of steel and new castings. my idea is to manufacture is to standardize annual models and construct them out of materials that will be efficient, such as stainless steel. cars should be viewed as an appliance that is reliable, fuel efficient, people friendly and gets you from point a to point b. all controls should be standardized….there is nothing worse than being caught in a rain storm in a rental car trying to figure out how to turn the lights and wipers on. replacement parts for cars are remanufactured, so why not remanufacture the whole car?? we don’t find the airlines throwing their planes away after 5 years. so when your car is worn out, you just take it back to the dealer and buy a remanufactured car for a fraction of the cost of a new one. not only would a lot of energy be saved, we would also eliminate those unsightly junk yards.

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a hybrid electric vehicle for under $1400!!!

tue, 09 nov 2010 10:51:28 +0000

i have always been an above average do-it-yourselfer….i even built an electric motorcycle way back in ’73. so over the years i needed to buy a lot of tools and i bought a few from northern tool + equipment, web site northerntool.com i now see that they offer a 3 wheel electric bike in their catalogue! its item #131415-1101 and the cost is $1000. maximum speed is 15 mph, the range is 30 miles and it has a wire basket on the back to put things in…..so how do we convert this thing into a hybrid? its quite simple, just order item #166500-1101 the 2000 watt portable generator for $350. when the stuff arrives at your home, you just put the generator in the wire basket on the bike, plug in the bike charger and add some gas. now your ready for the road! now i wouldn’t advise taking this thing out on the interstate highway, but there is no reason why it couldn’t be scaled up into a 3 wheel hybrid electric motorcyle. another thought, this could be used as a low cost hybrid electric vehicle for evaluation as a school project…..i bet it gets over 200 mpg.

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rethinking daylight savings time by 30 minutes, energy saver?

tue, 02 nov 2010 14:52:10 +0000

its getting near that time of the year that we have to return the clocks to standard time. there are lots of arguments about the impact that daylight savings time has on energy. the night people say that daylight savings time conserves energy and the morning people argue the it wastes energy. i even heard a housewife say that daylight savings time gives too much light to the plants during an interview on a radio talk show……so my idea is to just turn the time back by a half hour and stop screwing with it. this should keep everybody happy, including the dizzy housewives.

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new motor technology for electric cars – magnetic motor

tue, 02 nov 2010 09:44:02 +0000

to make electric cars practical, all we seem to hear about is the advancement of battery technology. no one seems to have any concern for motor technology, since its 100 years old and you can’t exceed 100% efficiency. so being in electric motor design most of my career, i have now developed what i call a magnetic motor utilizing permanent magnets. its not perpetual motion, but it does rotate about 90% of one revolution! to keep the motor turning, i have to pulse it with a small amount of electricity. the good news is that the motor actually produces more power than it uses, which means the electric car can be driven for unlimited miles!..the bad news is the motor won’t start on its own. so i’m looking for ideas to overcome this problem.

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energy storage in high speed flywheels

wed, 27 oct 2010 09:55:03 +0000

years ago i read an article about storing energy in high speed flywheels to power city buses. the flywheels would be reved up in the morning utilizing electric motors and the buses would then run all day using a clutch and gearbox system. this system is the mechanical version of the electric vehicle. please don’t ask me where i found this article, i forgot…so back to the subject. a lot of power would be required to accelerate the flywheel inertia to maximum speed and less power would be used to run the buses all day. this is do to a thing called system efficiency….so here is my idea, what if we accelerate a hollow vertical flywheel to maximum speed (a fraction of the power), then give it its mass by filling it with water through a hole in the center of the shaft. would the buses run on less energy from the main power source? just looking for some comments on this one, thank you.

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new technology for sailboats

tue, 26 oct 2010 17:05:01 +0000

sailboats have been around forever, even when man thought the earth was flat…so its time to update this old technology. my idea is to replace the sails with a vertical wind generator. not only would you eliminate all the work fooling with the sails, but you would also have a level boat! i would mount the blades up high so you don’t get hit in the head and use the generator to charge a battery bank. the battery bank would also serve as the ballast. as for power, i would utilize a dc motor with an electronic drive system. i designed a high efficient dc motor for a small tour boat builder years ago and they were very pleased with the smooth, quiet operation. i know some of you are thinking that the boat would have a tendency to steer to one side, so this problem can be corrected with a side thruster. two additional benefits would be, the boat would always be ready to go and the sea gulls wouldn’t go near it. if we expand my idea to the large tour boats that cruise the oceans, just think of the energy savings….

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high efficiency, low cost ac motors

mon, 25 oct 2010 20:00:34 +0000

motor technology has been around for 100 plus years and seems to be frozen in time! so now is the time to bring about some new technologies. ac motors use to be built utilizing copper bars and steel laminations in their rotors. this was very labor intensive, so the industry went to cast aluminum rotors to reduce the cost.

the copper rotors were more efficient, but couldnt be cast into the steel laminations. the steel laminations were used to reduce the eddy current losses…….so my idea is to replace the steel laminations with a special blend of powder metal pieces in both the stator and the rotor. powdered metal is about 1/4 the cost of laminations and can be cast with copper. it also is better at reducing eddy current losses. the result would be higher efficient/lower cost ac motors. i have used powder metal piecs with sucess in dc motors, ref: us patent #7,700,722

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saay goodbye to the electric co.

sun, 24 oct 2010 14:39:10 +0000

electric motor technology has been around for 100 plus years…not much has changed and it seems to be a technology frozen in time. about the only new technology that has emerged has been the brushless dc servo motor. the brushless dc motor is basically the same old synchronous ac motor with a feedback device mounted on the back of the motor and connected to some electronics to make it run….so now the time has come to develop some new motor technology. i’ve been busy developing what i call a magnetic motor….and no its not a perpetual motion machine, its actually one step above that! the motor is a hybrid, it utilizes both electricity and magnetic motion. its what i call a 10/90 system, 10% of the the work developed by the motor comes from electricity and 90% comes for motion generated from permanent magnets. since 90% of the motor action is now free power, this mean that some of that power can now be returned back to the motor to make it run continuous! so utilizing this setup, the motor now has approx. 80% of its output power available to produce some work. if you couple this motor to a generator and place it in your backyard, you can now say goodbye to the electric co….

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