The simple answer is yes, but why? First of all it has investment potential and therefore it could be profitable. Today there are thousands of investment companies looking to invest in new technology, but imagine that, 300 years ago, in Bessler's time, a group of investors had sought something to put their money into, they would have been advised to put it in coal because the steam age was fast approaching; but that would only have happened after the arrival of Thomas Newcomen and his coal-burning water-pumping engine, and later, James Watt with the first steam engine that produced continuous rotary motion, which led to the railways and steam ships. They would also have attracted investors first..
150 years later, they would have been looking at oil as an investment, thanks to the efforts of James Young, who invented a process to distil kerosene from petroleum and also produced a heavier oil for lubrication.In 1848 Young set up a small business refining the crude oil. This led, through a tortuous path and a number of experiments, to the invention of the internal combustion engine which burned a derivative of Young's crude oil refinement - gasoline. Where would today's cars, ships and planes be without gas?
During the 19th and 20th centuries it was and is still oil, but electricity was a burgeoning industry and the means to produce it has become so diverse that the multiple investments have spread across a number of differing methods. Solar panels, photovoltaic cells, wind farms, tidal and wave generators, geothermal units, hydroelectricity, and of course the fossil fuel as in coal and oil. In addition the U.S. Department of Energy evaluated the Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program on May 13–17, 2013, in Arlington, Virginia. Unfortunately, Hydrogen-powered vehicles are not as green as they are portrayed and although they might be an alternative to gas-powered vehicles, one problem with this is that the hydrogen is typically produced from a fossil fuel—natural gas—in a process that releases a lot of carbon dioxide. Obviously there are more technologies than I can cover in a brief blog, but the picture is clear, there are many competing technologies but they all have one or more negative aspects which have so far precluded complete global investment. Any other problems? Here's three.
Pollution, the peak of available oil production has passed, and global warming is affecting the climate.
The search is on, like never before, to find the ultimate solution to the three problems identified above. Clean energy to combat pollution, and yet which is capable of replacing most of the oil-based (and coal etc.) electricity generators. What ever reason you subscribe to, carbon dioxide and the greenhouse effect - or the changing output from the sun - the climate is changing and even though driving a smaller car won't make the slightest difference to the global output of carbon dioxide, reducing pollution anyway has to be a good idea.
Bessler's wheel has no negatives - except for one, and it's a biggy! It's believed to be impossible - against the established laws of physics etc. But I intend to challenge this view with my working model and call to account all those so-called experts who taught us so well, that we all believed them. One of the curious things I intend to comment on in a later blog, is the number of questions I and others asked to which no one ever gave a sensible answer, they just repeated parrot-fashion the old cliches. I don't want to present any of the questions without the reasoning that lies behind each, so I'll leave that aside for now.
So given the industries I mentioned briefly above and how they started so small, each as an idea in one man's mind, and yet were able to colonise the globe with the ramifications which followed their development, what path would Bessler's wheel take?
I can't list all the possible future developments ahead but the first thing to do would be to attach it to electricity generator. Now some say it wouldn't be powerful enough. I don't know why they say that. Bessler said they could be much bigger and obviously if several wheel were placed in series on one axle the power might be sufficient for a whole street let alone an individual house.
Miniature device could be developed so small they could might power tablet computers for instance; or they may become large enough to power cars, ships and trains.
My point is, as it always has been, we must produce the evidence in the form of one working wheel ....and give it away and the entrepreneurs will run with it. Who knows what uses they will find for it, but I know for sure that when it does appear the world will go crazy for it.
JC
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