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Tuesday, 22 December 2015
Monday, 14 December 2015
Bessler's Wheel and Climate Change
A deal to attempt to limit the rise in global temperatures to less than 2C has been agreed at the climate change summit in Paris after two weeks of intense negotiations. The pact is the first to commit all countries to cut carbon emissions, and nearly 200 countries took part, and it would come into being in 2020.
On the face of it exciting and encouraging news, but of course it's full of holes and let outs. I don't need to go into these nor list the major states which were, understandably, reluctant to sign up to a condition that they feel could hamper economic growth and development.
Although I remain unconvinced that this is a man-made problem and not a natural turn of events, I accept that the pollution caused by the current fossil fuel consumption is undoubtedly a cause for concern. So the search is intensified to find an alternative source of energy and one that could be applied anywhere on or in the planet earth.
Below, smog in Beijing caused by industrial pollution.
Below, smog in Beijing caused by industrial pollution.
On my way to Rome a couple of years ago, I had to change planes at Amsterdam and a plane came in from Beijing. The passengers queued to catch an onward flight and everyone of them wore the smog masks as you see above. I asked one of them why and he simply said, "we must". I told him he was OK here in Europe and didn't need to keep them on and he just smiled and shook his head.
I saw an interview with Anote Tong this week, who is the President of Kiribati, an island republic in the Central Pacific, comprising 33 coral atolls stretching along the equator. It is one of the first countries in danger of becoming uninhabitable owing to climate change. Because atolls are naturally low-lying, and have a high ratio of
coastline to land area, they are especially vulnerable to sea-level rise
and storm surges.
President Tong's message was that we should not be thinking of this is a problem for the future, his country is feeling the first effects of global warming now. With most of its land only a few feet above sea level, Kiribati has already seen growing damage from storms and flooding. Some of the nation's uninhabited islets have even vanished beneath the Pacific. Global warming threatens to render Kiribati unliveable well before it is completely submerged. If global warming continues at today's rates, rising ocean waters may shrink Kiribati's land area, increase storm damage, and threaten its freshwater reserves. He asks that everyone should be concerned and seek any kind of alternative energy source. Solar panels and wind turbines are all very well but they cannot hope to replace fossil fuels as an energy source, we need something more basic, more universally usable and available in the very, very near future.
I know that we still have an enormous vertical cliff to climb to convince the world at large that Bessler's wheel did work and perhaps it might ultimately hold the key to reducing industrial pollution.... and maybe not, but surely it's worth trying. The wheel must be proven to work first, then it's up to the design-engineers to find ways of upscaling the basic model. Bessler said bigger and more powerful wheels could be made and we have no evidence that he would have misled us about that, nor can I think of why he would have done that. We must take him at his word.
How utterly amazing would it be to successfully reconstruct Bessler's wheel and then find that the entire world had taken the technology and developed it and found that this 300 year old machine had solved the problems of the 21st century!
How utterly amazing would it be to successfully reconstruct Bessler's wheel and then find that the entire world had taken the technology and developed it and found that this 300 year old machine had solved the problems of the 21st century!
JC
Tuesday, 8 December 2015
Gravity - Ultimate Source of Energy for a GravityWheel.
It's a curious thing, that energy cannot be drawn from gravity; it feels instinctively wrong. Yes, I know, gravity is not an energy source but intuitively it seems plausible. Sir Isaac Newton's view of gravity provided the same basic model that we accept today; that gravity is a force
which tries to pull two objects toward each other. Anything which has
mass also has a gravitational pull. The more massive an object is, the
stronger its gravitational pull is. Earth's gravity is what keeps you on
the ground and what causes objects to fall.
A force can push or a pull, and is capable of moving objects of mass, but does that mean it's consuming energy? Sometimes, provided there is potential energy to consume. For instance, holding a rope taut is using force. Pulling something towards you with a rope is
using energy. If you're standing on the surface of the Earth, energy is not being spent to keep you from falling
to the ground, even though a force is pressing upon you. It's only when the
force moves an object of mass that energy is consumed. So force is
independent of work because it's possible to have forces that do no
work.
Note - when I say that energy is consumed I do not, of course suggest that it has gone, but merely changed to another form of energy, as we all know, energy cannot be created nor destroyed.
Note - when I say that energy is consumed I do not, of course suggest that it has gone, but merely changed to another form of energy, as we all know, energy cannot be created nor destroyed.
So force does consume energy when it makes something move. But that energy has to be there first before the force can use it. There is a law of conservation of energy but there is no law of conservation of force. The force is always with you - on earth anyway! In gravity's case without any potential energy there can be no energy expenditure, so how do we get potential energy? We do some work against gravity, and that energy is stored as potential energy. Lift a weight and you have the potential energy to drop it.
But...in the case of Bessler's wheel, in order to continually
rotate, it would require a continual supply of energy from falling weights.
Conventional thinking dictates that a gravity wheel will never have a
continual supply of energy
because any energy gained by the falling weight on the one side of the
wheel is cancelled out by returning the weight to its original height on
the other side of the wheel.
That is more or less where we have
been for the last three hundred years - how to get the weights back up
again without extra energy being required? Despite their assurances
that we are all ignorant of the basic laws of physics or crazy
lunatics - we
continue to believe in Bessler. For me, it's a gut feeling, an instinct coupled with strong circumstantial; I know
Bessler's wheel is possible. But 'knowing' is not enough, it must be proved and the only way is with a physical proof of principle wheel.
There is a source of continuous power - and on earth that source is gravity. Now I know it isn't the actual energy source but it is so close to being just that that I'm going to say it is. And I'll tell you why? It is really a matter of semantics.
Semantics - the branch of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning. It includes interpretation and common usage and accepted norms. So... the application of gravity to the weights drives the rotation of the wheel.
To put it another way, without the force of gravity the weights would just float where ever you placed them. You need the driving force of gravity to move the weights, without which you've got nothing! In my opinion therefore gravity ultimately provides the energy, even though there is no apparent depletion of energy levels. I say 'apparent', because gravity obtains its force from the universe and all the objects of mass within it, interacting with each other. We have no precise information about gravity so we must simply accept that for us it is a permanent feature of our world.
We know that gravity attracts mass. We also know that the mass has to be free to move in the direction of the force of gravity rather than against it and is not fixed in position. In other words it can fall. If it can fall it has potential energy which is changed into kinetic energy.
We know that gravity attracts mass. We also know that the mass has to be free to move in the direction of the force of gravity rather than against it and is not fixed in position. In other words it can fall. If it can fall it has potential energy which is changed into kinetic energy.
1) We know that Bessler's wheel used weights;
2) We know that the wheel required the repeated 'loading' of potential energy by repeated lifting and returning of the weights to their pre-fall position;
3) We know that gravity used that potential energy to make the weights fall
4) We know that Bessler's wheel worked
4) We know that Bessler's wheel worked
5) Thus the wheel was driven by gravity.
Consider this. Bessler's first two wheels began to turn spontaneously as soon as the brake was released. This suggests that the weight which was about to fall, was ready to do so, or indeed had already fallen. This would lead to the immediate commencement of rotation. The next weight would then begin its own action, falling and continuing the motion of the turning wheel. According to conventional thinking at this point or near it, any energy gained by the falling weight on the one side of the wheel is cancelled out by returning the weight to its original height on the other side of the wheel. But this only applies if you cannot engineer a reduced effect on the ascending side - something everyone of us knows and believes Bessler achieved.
Since it is so obvious to all of us that reducing the effect of the weights on the ascending side of the wheel will lead to continuing rotation, why do the experts continue to deny its possibility? We know Bessler did it, ergo it is possible, and all those teachers who believed what they were taught..... are wrong.
Consider this. Bessler's first two wheels began to turn spontaneously as soon as the brake was released. This suggests that the weight which was about to fall, was ready to do so, or indeed had already fallen. This would lead to the immediate commencement of rotation. The next weight would then begin its own action, falling and continuing the motion of the turning wheel. According to conventional thinking at this point or near it, any energy gained by the falling weight on the one side of the wheel is cancelled out by returning the weight to its original height on the other side of the wheel. But this only applies if you cannot engineer a reduced effect on the ascending side - something everyone of us knows and believes Bessler achieved.
Since it is so obvious to all of us that reducing the effect of the weights on the ascending side of the wheel will lead to continuing rotation, why do the experts continue to deny its possibility? We know Bessler did it, ergo it is possible, and all those teachers who believed what they were taught..... are wrong.
Now all we have to do is discover how Bessler was able to lift the weights back to their former position without requiring extra energy from outside the wheel. Simple.
JC
Tuesday, 1 December 2015
Johann Bessler, the Freemasons and Religion.
Some people have suggested that Bessler was a member of the Freemasons, but I doubt it.
John Theophilus Desaguliers (12 March 1683 – 29 February 1744) was a French-born British natural philosopher, clergyman, engineer and freemason who was elected to the Royal Society in 1714 as experimental assistant to Isaac Newton. He is familiar to us as the recipient of Fischer von Erlach's letter describing Bessler's wheel, and for his public lectures decrying the possibility of a perpetual motion machine as constructed by Johann Bessler.
As a Freemason, Desaguliers was responsible for the establishment of the first Grand Lodge formed in London in 1717 and served as their third Grand Master in 1719 and was later three times Deputy Grand Master. He helped James Anderson draw up the rules in the "Constitutions of the Freemasons", published in 1723, and he was active in the establishment of a Masonic charity.
During a lecture trip to the Netherlands in 1731 Desaguliers initiated into Freemasonry Francis, Duke of Lorraine (1708 – 65) who later became Holy Roman Emperor. Desaguliers also presided when Frederick, Prince of Wales, became a Freemason in 1737, and he additionally became a chaplain to the Prince. But there is no record of him approaching Karl the Landgrave, with the intention of initiating him into the brotherhood, and anyway the dates do not support such a conjecture.
Obviously Karl the Landgrave was not involved in Free-masonry, although his grandson Prince Karl, the brother of Wilhelm I of Hessen-Kassel was a Grand Master. Both were the sons of Frederick II of Hessen-Kassel, from his wife, Mary of Hanover, Princess of Great Britain, daughter of George II King of England. His grandson, also named Karl, was the Freemason, not Karl the Landgrave; this has led to the confusion over the Landgrave's alleged membership of this organisation. This was in the 1780s, some forty years after Bessler's death.
The point is that neither Bessler nor his patron, Karl the Landgrave were concerned in any way with the Freemasons.
However Bessler did spend time with a Jesuit priest and a Jewish Rabbi in the ancient city of Prague. There he learned something about Egyptian hieroglyphics, the Book of Nature and the Language of Angels. These subjects have been difficult to identify, but John Dee and his sidekick, Edward Kelley wrote a book supposedly in the language of angels, Enochian, which appears to be a coded document, but it has proved impossible to decipher, that is if it was intended to be. Kelley met an untimely end in Prague when his promise to turn straw into gold failed and he was imprisoned and died a prisoner in late 1597/early 1598 of injuries received while attempting to escape.
What might Bessler have learned in Prague? My personal belief is that he learned something of the religious beliefs of both the Rabbi and the Jesuit priest. He also learned about encoding messages which the Rabbi and the priest used in their communications with each other. The chronogram was a common feature on building and epitaphs in Germany of that period and popular also among the Jews and Romans in both times past and during the early 18th century. Clearly this subject must have been explored during his stay in Prague because it seems as though Bessler became obsessed with the chronogram.
Bessler visited Prague in about 1700, in 1696 Prague’s Jewish community was shaken by the show trial of the alleged murderers of 12-year-old Shim‘on Abeles, which marked the culmination of Jesuit efforts to Christianize Prague’s Jews. Bessler, writing about the Rabbi, relates how "the Jew was a good Christian! He was a great exponent of the teachings of Nicodemus, and all in all I learned more with him in a short time than most people learn in many years." This curious description of the Jew being a good Christian may relate to the comment above which describes the culmination of the Jesuit efforts to Christianize Prague's Jews at roughly the time Bessler was there.
Earlier Bessler describes how "a Jesuit came to see me - perhaps the most learned priest I'd ever met - and soon we were great friends". It is possible that the Jesuit and the Rabbi had been discussing the Christianization of the Jews in Prague and from what Bessler said, perhaps the Rabbi was open-minded about the situation. Their discussions may have influenced Bessler and later led to the publication of his ideas about uniting the Christian religions.
The above comments seem to indicate that Bessler was more than just an inventor hoping for get-rich-quick success. He was a thinker, open-minded about religion, but still a committed Christian. In his list of 141 Bible quotations in Apologia Poetica, many of the references do not come from the Protestant bible either of that time nor currently. Othes refer to books only in the Roman Catholic version and some from the Hebrew bible, which seems to support the idea that he was an interdenominational Christian.
JC
What might Bessler have learned in Prague? My personal belief is that he learned something of the religious beliefs of both the Rabbi and the Jesuit priest. He also learned about encoding messages which the Rabbi and the priest used in their communications with each other. The chronogram was a common feature on building and epitaphs in Germany of that period and popular also among the Jews and Romans in both times past and during the early 18th century. Clearly this subject must have been explored during his stay in Prague because it seems as though Bessler became obsessed with the chronogram.
Bessler visited Prague in about 1700, in 1696 Prague’s Jewish community was shaken by the show trial of the alleged murderers of 12-year-old Shim‘on Abeles, which marked the culmination of Jesuit efforts to Christianize Prague’s Jews. Bessler, writing about the Rabbi, relates how "the Jew was a good Christian! He was a great exponent of the teachings of Nicodemus, and all in all I learned more with him in a short time than most people learn in many years." This curious description of the Jew being a good Christian may relate to the comment above which describes the culmination of the Jesuit efforts to Christianize Prague's Jews at roughly the time Bessler was there.
Earlier Bessler describes how "a Jesuit came to see me - perhaps the most learned priest I'd ever met - and soon we were great friends". It is possible that the Jesuit and the Rabbi had been discussing the Christianization of the Jews in Prague and from what Bessler said, perhaps the Rabbi was open-minded about the situation. Their discussions may have influenced Bessler and later led to the publication of his ideas about uniting the Christian religions.
The above comments seem to indicate that Bessler was more than just an inventor hoping for get-rich-quick success. He was a thinker, open-minded about religion, but still a committed Christian. In his list of 141 Bible quotations in Apologia Poetica, many of the references do not come from the Protestant bible either of that time nor currently. Othes refer to books only in the Roman Catholic version and some from the Hebrew bible, which seems to support the idea that he was an interdenominational Christian.
JC
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