ALTERNATIVE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH ORGANISATION Adelaide Branch

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Welcome to the December newsletter. In this edition there is less electrical stuff and more general information so that should keep the other half of the readers happy after last month! So read on and I hope you enjoy this month’s news.

Running late as usual, the meeting began at 8.15 PM with about 35 people listening to Ashley’s introductory comments, followed by the secretaries report (ASTRO Vic news-sheet) and the treasurers report. (We’ve got money in the bank but we still have to pay the Ex. Science bill!)

Andrew began the general part of the meeting with some flyers for the Psychic Expo, while Anton was close behind with information on some 300 and 600 Watt inverters which are for sale for $10 - $20 each. Gary spoke about a low resistance, stainless steel core, spiral wound ignition lead that is available through Outlaw Speed Shop (wholesale prices to ASTRO members) and Ashley mentioned Exposure magazine, which woke Dino up as he thought someone mentioned naked women, but it was only an article on suppressed F/E inventions. Cedric presented his letter on the Bedini generator (see elsewhere in this newsletter), Steve brought along an Electromagnetic Radiation Report and Andrew gave a book on the Solex carby to the library. Terry mentioned a report on the ABC about turning fluids into solids by charging them with a voltage. The initial experiment used corn starch and olive oil with commercial applications being aimed at the shock absorber industry. Ashley and Roger spoke about creating light from sound in water while Allan said he has a web page on EM radiation shields. Ian spoke of an item on ABC radio about using solar cells in space collecting radiation 24 hours per day and transmitting it back to earth via microwaves. The collector would be 10,000 sq. metres and would give 5 times more power than if installed in the outback. The down side is that it would take 1,000 Shuttle trips to get it all up there! Lindsay showed us all his hydrogen generator which is similar to the Carl Cella design featured in the latest Nexus magazine. With 24 volts and 150 amps fed into the unit, it produced 4 litres every 20 seconds - not enough to run a car, so the message is don’t waste your time or money on this one!

Finally I gave a talk on the trials and tribulations of trying to make a car go further on less. Comments afterwards were favourable so it could not have been too bad. Andrew followed on with an update on the steam project and then it was on to the good ole tea and bickies!!

This month’s phrase is for the more mathematically minded.

This is your only clue, so turn to the back pge for the answer!!

Cedric has submitted this letter for the newsletter in order to get some feedback on Bedini’s Generator. If anyone has any experience with this generator, Cedric will be pleased to here from you.

“John Bedini’s Free Energy Generator, running by Nikola Tesla’s discoveries circa 1900 at Colorado Springs using resonance.

Having read Astro’s book about the device it appears possible it may work. I have played around with the Robert Adams Pulsed Motor Generator and have found that it partially works, but it still runs the battery down.

John Bedini has a similar pulsed motor set up but the method seems an improvement from the Adam’s generator and it may be worthwhile making a test. The model to try out, a Permag 12V DC motor of 1/2 HP seem hard to get and I thought $115 for a new one that might be suitable was a bit hot. Then I thought about car electrical systems and came up with a wiper motor permag stator being quite efficient for about $15 from a car wrecker. I noticed in the October newsletter that George Wiseman in his experiments used a windscreen washer motor - I wonder if it is permag?

Has anybody tried out Bedini’s generator as it may help to have other peoples thoughts before I finish building Test Model No. 2 which has cut out all electronics and is based on motor, controller, flywheel, energiser, coupling shaft and bearings.”

Advertising has changed just a little bit since the 50’s when this advert appeared in Popular Mechanics.

Takahashi is still in the news with a test report and diagrams relating to his battery powered scooter appearing on the Internet. Look for it at http:/www.overunity. The report states that the scooter has a small (about 6 inches diameter) electric motor which is fed from four 12 volt, lead - acid gel type traction batteries. Takahashi claims that the magnets used in this motor have a surface field of three Tesla, which is 30.000 gauss!! (Keep them away from Dino!) The only unusual thing about the set-up on the scooter were large electrolytic capacitors fitted under the seat of it. The unit was tested at 50 mph up a hill and 70 mph on the flat, while after 25 minutes of hard acceleration and braking, the battery voltage was measured and found to be 12.85 volts! A test was done which showed there was regenerative braking as the volts rose to 13 volts under this condition.

The whole thing gets more interesting when you look at the accompanying chart on the next page which shows the energy flow under different conditions. At start up, the battery feeds the motor via the controller, while under acceleration, a generator coil begins to feed some power back to the battery. At normal travelling the whole of the generator output is fed back to the motor to make the unit self sustaining! Even more amazing is that at constant speed, there is excess power fed back to the battery while on overrun all the power is used for charging. The other interesting thing is that the motor ran cold during the test run - it all smacks of over-unity, however when Takahashi was queried about this being the case he said (with a smile on his face) that the magnets lose 3% of their strength per year and that is where the extra power comes from so it is not over-unity. When questioned if his scooter would sustain itself indefinitely, he said that it probably could do so on level ground at a steady and reasonable speed, but that it couldn’t under any road and traffic conditions because the motor was not good enough.

As a follow up to my talk at the last meeting, this article summarises the principle of the operation of the fuel cut-off device that I have been successfully using.

When a vehicle is coasting, either downhill, up to traffic lights, or to a stop, the manifold vacuum is extremely high and so although the drivers foot is off the accelerator, this high vacuum is still sucking fuel into the engine. The principle behind the operation of this device is that under this condition, the fuel is “cut off” and so stopped from being sucked into the engine. This fuel is replaced by feeding in air, thus the engine purely becomes an air pump with a consequent saving in fuel. This idea is not new, with EFI engines doing exactly this already so all I have done is devised a simple way to implement this on carburettored engines. The fuel is cut off by removing the supply to the anti-dieseling solenoid fitted to the carburettor of most vehicles while the extra air is injected directly into the manifold via another solenoid.

The heart of the system is an electronic control box which detects the engine RPM, the position of accelerator pedal and whether the brakes have been applied. From the table below we can see that the only condition which allows the fuel to be switched off is when the accelerator pedal is not pressed, ie. coasting, the brakes are not applied and when the RPM is above 1200. In effect what happens is that when the vehicle is coasting, the fuel is turned off until the RPM drops to below 1200 or if the brakes are applied. This allows the fuel to come back on and gives the engine time to recover and not stall. When driving the vehicle there is no indication that anything different is actually happening as the whole process is automatic.

In conjunction with the electronics, the only other modification required is to fit a carburettor enhancer as per George Wiseman. For those not familiar with this process, what George does is to feed back a small portion of the manifold vacuum into the space above the fuel in the float bowl of the carby. This allows a slight vaporisation effect to occur and also tends to hold the fuel back on overrun. Also, if your vehicle does not have an anti-dieseling solenoid, the fuel can be cut off by using an another carburettor enhancer circuit to provide extra vacuum on the float bowl to stop the fuel coming from it on overrun. This is shown in the drawing on the following page.

One of the advantages of this system is it’s simplicity with the vehicle being able to be put back to standard operation in about 30 seconds! All that is required is to turn off a tap, unplug one lead and plug it back into another one. The tests I have done on my 1980 Lancer (1600 engine) have shown a fuel improvement with this basic system from an original 28 MPG to 38 MPG - quite a significant improvement. The bonus is that the most gain comes from city driving because of the stop and start nature of the traffic. Next month I shall continue this article with details of the “advanced” and more expensive version of this device with which I have managed to stretch the economy out even further. If you feel like trying this system for yourself, the basic electronic control units, with complete fitting instructions are available from me for $70, while cleaned and tested second-hand solenoid valves are $15 - Ph. (08) 8388-9675.

A PROTOTYPE solar device that produces enough hot air from the Sun's rays to drive the turbines of a 50 kilowatt power station has brought the prospect of cheap, solar-generated electricity a step closer. The solar energy collector has been successfully tested by Israeli researchers at the Wiseman Institute of Science. Many modern power stations use hot gas to drive the turbines that produce electricity. The gas must be between 1200C and 1350C and must reach pressures of between 10 and 30 bar. Existing solar collectors, which focus the Sun's rays on tubes of air, cannot do this. The best they can achieve is about 700C at normal atmospheric pressure.

The new device focuses the Sun's rays through a quartz window to heat ceramic pins around which air flows. The array of pins--which researchers Jacob Karni, Abraham Kribus and Rahamim Rubin have nicknamed the "porcupine"--absorbs solar energy and transfers it to the air. Because the ceramic pins have a large surface area they transfer heat to the surrounding air very efficiently. A funnel-shaped device concentrates the energy using internal mirrors that channel the rays. This can concentrate the energy to 10,000 kilowatts a square metre. "That makes it the hottest thing in the solar system other than the Sun," says Karni. This concentration of solar rays then passes through the quartz window. Quartz is used because it is transparent and is strong enough to withstand the pressure of the gas inside. The pins absorb the Sun's energy and reach 1800C. Air flow around the pins is carefully controlled to prevent them overheating.

In principle, this technology could be used in any size of power station, from small industrial generators to large stations feeding a national grid. Karni estimates that Isra peak-hour electricity demand of 6000 megawatts could be provided by solar power stations collecting sunlight from an area of 2000 hectares. This is considerably less than the area currently taken up by Israel's fossil-fuel power stations.

However, Fischer says the researchers still have to show that a full-scale version can run efficiently. Ormat is continuing to support the research. Fischer says there is a market for small industrial uses of the technology. He believes that industrial-sized solar power generators should be on the market in three or four years.

This report comes from an Indian newspaper, the Indian Express, and was published on the 6th of September 1996. The report stated that thirty year old Ramar Pillai can turn water into a petrol like fuel by mixing it with a herb that he discovered in nearby hills. He realised the value of the plant during a picnic when a spark from a cooking stove set a leaf of the nearby plant on fire. To produce petrol, leaves and bark of this plant are cooked for about ten minutes in hot water. The mixture is cooled and stirred after adding a little salt, citric acid and a trace of a few unknown chemicals. Once allowed to settle, the liquid fuel, which is lighter than water, floats to the top and is separated by filtering. The entire process takes less than 30 minutes.

Scientists at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)have witnessed a demonstration of this process and tested the resultant fuel. The product burnt with a sooty flame, smelled like kerosene and on distillation yielded a pure hydrocarbon fraction with a boiling point of 170 C. The Department of Science and Technology (DST) are patenting the process and are erecting a 300 litre per day pilot plant at Rajapalayam, Ramar’s home village. According to DST, laboratory tests have conclusively shown that the herbal fuel is a pure hydrocarbon similar to kerosene and diesel. Engineers at IIT in Mafras who conducted static tests in two stroke engines concluded that the herbal fuel offered better economy than petrol, and that it “will have good potential in a four stroke petrol as well as diesel engines.”

Scientists say that while there is no doubt about the generation of liquid fuel, they are not able to explain the source of carbon necessary to make the hydrocarbon. They are also surprised at the extreme speed of the process. One possible source of carbon is atmospheric carbon dioxide that is probably sucked in during the reaction, combining with hydrogen liberated from the water, it can form the hydrocarbon fuel.

Those who have been around the Free Energy scene for more than a couple of years would remember TUNING IN magazine which was put together by Ian Hacon and considered the “Bible” of new technology information in Australia. Ian has now been joined by Ray Stark, another long time F\E supporter, to get this newsletter back up and running. Ray tells me that the emphasis will be on projects and the more practical stuff with the first edition out soon. Hopefully I will have some more details on availability and subscription rates in the next ASTRO newsletter.

A gross insult!!!

The next meeting will be held on the second Friday of the month once again, this time being:

The guest speaker will be Ian Hobbs who will explain the principles of FENG SHUI and how it relates to your health, happiness and finances in your home and business. Ian will also include the subjects of dowsing, round towers, electromagnetic radiation, underground streams and how to pick next weeks X-LOTTO numbers. (only joking!) I am sure this will be an interesting night, so be there!!

As this night is a bit of a milestone in that it is the 50th meeting of the group,(has anyone besides me been in attendance at every one??) we thought that it would be good to keep the more formal part of the evening short and have a bit of a celebration combined with a Christmas party. So bring along a few drinks, some supper and lets celebrate the coming age of no fossil fuels!!!