Returned from a few days in Spain where I went for some warmer weather, just as the UK weather finally improved! 90 degrees in both countries at the same time! Now I'm back and the weather here has returned to its normal grey skies etc. Ah well, Spain was wonderful as usual so no regrets.
I've put two black boards in my new workshop which I'm using for drawing ideas, calculations and notes. I know it's an old fashioned method, these days it's white boards, but I made my black boards for pennies and I'm too tight to pay for a piece of plastic for which they charge pounds!
I'm still working on finishing documenting all the clues I've used to accomplish the reconstruction of Bessler's wheel. On that subject I can say that when the wheel works it will be identical in concept and design to Bessler's. Many people have argued that we can never know if it is the same as Bessler's, but in fact Bessler stated that the information was there for those who were prepared to look, well I have looked and I have found it.
Elsewhere I read that it is estimated that nearly 1.3 billion people do not have access to electricity, in addition, around 3 billion people cook and heat their homes using open fires and simple stoves burning biomass (wood, animal dung and crop waste) and coal. Plus, over 4 million people die prematurely every year as a result of illnesses attributable to household air pollution from cooking with solid fuels.
In the past I've talked of irrigation schemes as a useful Bessler wheel application but I think these alarming figures above seem to me to provide a much better argument for the development of Bessler's wheel as a cheap/free source of energy for all those who do not have access to electricity or cannot afford it.
JC
