When Bessler's wheel finally materialises and the accompanying furore has died down, the world will be looking for ways to use it. We have discussed many times the potential for energy generation and there are as many doubters as proponents of the potential for useful electricity generation. For me it's simply a matter of scale; if you can produde a tiny amount of electricty from a small machine then a bigger one will produce more. How much bigger the wheel would have to be remains to be seen, but as I have often said, several wheels on one axle obviously has a much larger capacity to produce multiple amounts of power than a single wheel could.
I'm interested in other possibilities for its use. In third world dry climates there is the potential to pump water from wells, irrigation of crops, greening of deserts, air-conditioning and refrigeration units. In cold climates I suspect a way may be found to produce low level warmth into suitably insulated buildings. But what of the actual mechanical design, might it be adaptable for other mechanisms?
I mentioned many years ago that as a device for changing linear motion into rotary motion there could be potential for using the Bessler mechanism in a similar but alternative way. I'm thinking of an inertial thruster but not a reactionless drive. It has to be open, not a closed system. So the mechanism is driven in reverse by, say, a small electric motor which rotates it, creating a linear force on one side of the rotating mechanism. Such a device mounted on wheels should cause it to move in the direction of the force. It might even offer a space drive. Who knows if it would work, but logically if Bessler's wheel worked then so should this.
Once the technique Bessler invented is known, better ways of achieving the same thing may well be invented and his design relegated to the history books, but that is progress and highly desirable. I'm working on an idea I've had for some time which I believe could be the solution to Bessler's wheel; it's what somone called 'a workaround'. It doesn't conflict with the usual well-known problems and if I'm right then there are probably other ways to achieve the same result.
Curiously just such a thought was posted on my previous blog, and such coincidences can make your hair stand on end (those of you who have hair!). Is someone reading my mind? I hope not! I've wondered if there were alternative ways of making a gravity-enabled wheel for some time, because although I have tried to follow Bessler's clues in my design, fitting it in with my own thoughts, perhaps I've misunderstood the clues and I'm trying to achieve the same result as he did but in a different way, and not deciphering his clues correctly. In the final analysis the path doesn't matter as long as the desired end is reached.
JC
Curiously just such a thought was posted on my previous blog, and such coincidences can make your hair stand on end (those of you who have hair!). Is someone reading my mind? I hope not! I've wondered if there were alternative ways of making a gravity-enabled wheel for some time, because although I have tried to follow Bessler's clues in my design, fitting it in with my own thoughts, perhaps I've misunderstood the clues and I'm trying to achieve the same result as he did but in a different way, and not deciphering his clues correctly. In the final analysis the path doesn't matter as long as the desired end is reached.
JC
