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Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 11:29:17 -0700
From: "Di"
Wendy deserves to be heard by the majority on this list. Her latest
post to the Debate group in rebuttal to Jim's theory that we are all nuts
and/or out to ruin our lives preparing for PX is a good one. When PX
does not show up in 2003 I would hate to see a bunch of people stop
preparing for any kind of disaster. Sometimes I feel like we are all on a
freight train with no brakes. To not prepare for the inevitable sudden
stop would be pure folly.
Thanks, Wendy.
Di
From: "wendyjensen1116"
--- In PX2003_Debate@y..., "jtr_iv" You don't feel that preparing for global earthquakes, global 200
mph
plus winds, global flooding and living without sunlight for years
is
one of the more extreme cases of survivalism, ranking up there with
nuclear war?
*sigh* I don't know why I have to explain this to a person who is
obviously as intelligent and articulate as you are.
No, I don't feel it is especially extreme, and here's why:
(We'll take it one scenario at a time, shall we?)
1) Global Earthquakes
The difference between preparing for global earthquakes and local
earthquakes is exactly what?
For local earthquakes you:
a) Don't live in known active seismic zones
b) Build in a manner to weather earthquakes as well as possible
c) Maintain an "earthquake kit" of extra food, bottled water, medical
supplies and an alternate power source, in case of extended
disruptions to services
The only difference for global earthquakes is that the disruptions
would last longer, so your "earthquake kit" should be bigger.
2) Global 200 mph plus winds
The difference between preparing for such global winds and local ones
(hurricanes and tornadoes) is exactly what?
For local ones you:
a) Have a tornado or hurricane shelter
b) Store supplies in the shelter, in case of extended disruptions to
services
The only difference for the global ones is that you need more
supplies, since the disruptions will last longer.
3) Global Flooding
The difference between preparing for global flooding and local
flooding is exactly what?
For local floods you:
a) Build on high ground
b) Maintain supplies in case of extended disruptions to services
The only difference between preparing for global vs. local flooding
is that you would need more supplies, since the disruptions would
last longer.
4) Living without sunlight for years
For that you would:
a) Maintain a few years' supply of food
and/or
b) Have your own electricity source and grow food hydroponically
So essentially the way you would prepare differently for PX than for
local disasters is to store more supplies, namely food.
Are you aware that the Mormon Church encourages its members to keep 2
years worth of food on hand at all times? I imagine they base that on
such "bs" as Armaggedon per the Book of Revelation. So are you going
to frequent Mormon lists and inform them that, although they can
store 2 years of food if they choose, they should really look at the
alternative (i.e., that there is no evidence Armageddon will occur)??
I doubt it. For some reason you have an obsession with people
preparing for PX.
I think people should prepare any way they want, I just feel it
should be an informed decision.
This is where the "talking out of both sides of your mouth" comes in,
Jim. Your comment that started this line of discussion was (message
6122):
"I feel preparation is good, for whatever may come, but preparation
for Planet X is way beyond normal preparation, with the predicted
floods, earthquakes, winds, no sunlight for years, etc."
Now, how do you reconcile the two statements? How can you state
preparation for PX is way beyond normal preparation, but also state
that people "should prepare any way they want"? Or this comment, from
the message I'm replying to:
> And as I've stated before, anyone who follows Nancy and Mark's
advice
> on preparation based solely on their lies will have regrets.
or this comment:
> And who is criticizing? If someone wants to do this, more power to
> them. I'm just trying to encourage people not to go there.
They can prepare any way they want, it's their choice, but you sure
try very hard to tell them (whoever "them" is, you still haven't
produced any such people) that they are wrong.
And as I've stated before, anyone who follows Nancy and Mark's
advice
on preparation based solely on their lies will have regrets.
This is the problem with you, Jim. You lump "preparing for PX"
and "following Nancy and Mark's advice on preparation" into one
entity. They are not necessarily one and the same. Plenty of us are
preparing (for PX and/or any other disaster) without following Nancy
and Mark's advice -- whatever that is.
I asked you before what what so damaging about their advice. As I
recall, the best you could come up with something about Mark
recommending people run up huge debts or something.
Instead of warning people, you want me to wait and find people who
have done this and tell them they have made a bad decision? That
wouldn't be very nice.
No, Jim. You don't have to wait.
You skeptics say that at this late date there should be visible
evidence of PX, and ask believers to produce it.
I say that at this late date there should be evidence of PX idiots
who have (or are in the process of) ruining their lives preparing for
PX, and I ask you to produce the evidence.
So what is your position, Wendy? You don't believe Nancy and Mark
and
> the PX in 2003 thing, is that correct?
I seriously doubt PX in 2003. But I do believe we will have some type
of widespread disaster. I've stated that before. And I am preparing.
And you don't feel anyone should spend time pointing out the wrong
information they put out? Is that correct?
Jim, I don't care if you offer evidence contrary to PX. You already
do that. You have a well-constructed website offering rebuttals of
PX, and you list the URL in your sig. You offer much of the same info
here on this list.
No problem.
But stop saying preparing for PX is a bad idea and people will regret
it. You've already presented (and will continue to present) the
evidence against PX in 2003. Pretty good bet everyone here has heard
it at least once. If we choose to prepare anyway, it's our choice.
And you have no evidence other than your own opinion that it will be
detrimental.
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 18:58:19 -0700
From: "Di"
I'm passing this along so you are all aware of the information that
Mark has recently posted to his read-only list. This is NOT credible and
NOT confirmed and I wonder how many folks are freaking out right now
because they believe what Mark has written? He touts this as FACT.
IMO, this is fear-mongering at its worst.
Di
From: "jeremysfogg"
Mark H's full posting is on his read-only Yahoo group and also get's
emailed to members as part of the service.
The sighting extract goes as follows:
"I just spoke with a triple Doctorate that thanked me for writing my
book. He said if it wasn't for me he would have not found out about
Planet X. This past Thursday 5-23-02 right outside of Boston he went
to the Museum of Science. They had a large scope with filters. There
were 24 people there including several government officials. He
personally had a look at 2001 KX76 and Planet X. He was told not to
tell anyone this but because of my efforts he phoned my son down in
Florida first and told him that he saw Planet X....
I then phoned the Doctor back from up here in Toronto and had a 12
minute conversation with him before he had to take a patient. He said
right away that he saw Planet X and it is 100% confirmed. He ended
the phone call saying 100% confirmed twice. He said the government is
very worried about what PX will do when it passes. They said to him
that last time PX passed the majority of the objects from the
asteroid belt cratered the moon and went into our oceans. That this
was the time (every 3600 years during PX's passing) when most of the
cratering gets formed on our moon. The additional worry was that some
of these asteroid type objects might get deflected this time and
would not land in the ocean. He said the whole meeting was very hush
hush.
He said they said at it's present speed that it would arrive in 3.5
years but said that could be disinformation and may not take into
account that it could be increasing in speed. [From my understanding
PX is increasing in speed exponentially and there's nothing but basic
Newtonian physics that is causing this and nothing preventing it from
reaching ANY speed and will be here between early June to early July
2003.]"
I agree 100% that this particular posting lacks credible content and
is hence wide open to ridicule. Hence my original comment about
sighting claims. But my question is valid about whether any members
do have access to the right type of gear to make their own
observations and to report back.
Jeremy
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This abstract, written in 1999, was found on the Harvard site. It
studies the possible consequences of our Sun's galactic climate changes
which could spark climate changes here on Earth. This author also
confirmed the observation of Dr Dimitriev regarding the heliosphere in an
abstract written in 1998.
There is geographical evidence that climate change can happen quickly.
This is only one of several sites discussing sudden climate change
found in the bookmark section of the read-only group in the Earthchanges
folder.
Di
A Forest From the Past - Trees did Not reflect gradual changes...
Consequences of a Change in the Galactic Environment of the Sun
Change
The interaction of the heliosphere with interstellar clouds has
attracted interest since the late 1920s, with a view to explaining apparent
both quasi-periodic climate ``catastrophes'' as well as periodic mass
extinctions. Until recently, however, models describing the solar
wind-local interstellar medium (LISM) interaction self-consistently had not
been developed. Here we describe the results of a two-dimensional
simulation of the interaction between the heliosphere and an interstellar cloud
with the same properties as currently, except that the H^0 density is
increased from the present value of n(H^0)~0.2 cm^-3 to 10 cm^-3. The
mutual interaction of interstellar neutral hydrogen and plasma is
included. The heliospheric cavity is reduced considerably in size
(approximately 10-14 AU to the termination shock in the upstream direction) and is
highly dynamical. The interplanetary environment at the orbit of the
Earth changes markedly, with the density of interstellar H^0 increasing
to ~2 cm^-3. The termination shock itself experiences periods where it
disappears, reforms, and disappears again. Considerable mixing of the
shocked solar wind and LISM occurs because of Rayleigh-Taylor-like
instabilities at the nose, driven by ion-neutral friction. Implications of
two anomalously high concentrations of ^10Be found in Antarctic ice
cores, corresponding to 33,000 and 60,000 yr ago, and the absence of prior
similar events are discussed in terms of density enhancements in the
surrounding interstellar cloud. The calculation presented here supports
past speculation that the Galactic environment of the Sun moderates the
interplanetary environment at the orbit of the Earth and possibly also
the terrestrial climate.
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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 23:53:02 -0700
From: "Di"
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Message: 5
Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 00:27:19 -0700
From: "Di"
Pole-Shift Survival
By The Old Man of Green Mountain
Here is an accumulation of seven decades of living in the
country and in the heart of industry and hi-tech along with
a large dose of natural health. I hope it will help those
who have never scrounged at the dump.
Health is the foremost necessity in life. Without it,
everything else matters little. At 50 years old, in answer
to fervent prayer when my wife returned from a short stay in
a mental hospital, (the next day) a book was placed in my
hands that gave the answers to health: Carlton Frederick's
Low Blood Sugar and You. It is still in print in a revised
edition. All the basics are explained.
Diseases cannot start in the body (except radiation,
poisonings, etc) as long as blood sugar remains in the
"normal range". It is when blood sugar goes below that range
that diseases are able to start, and then gain momentum with
each "dip" in blood sugar. One can write hundreds of pages
about it; but the word RAW covers all bases. Mother Nature
(God if you wish) designs her sugars with bulk. It is
impossible to eat too much raw sugar so that the body gets
into trouble (impossible for blood sugar to dip or
over-store). Somewhere, somehow, man must have engineered
the date palm, because it is the only source of concentrated
sugar in nature - you have to limit yourself to ONE date per
day!
I have been eating nearly 100% raw for over 15 years, and am
able to work at par with men half my age, so - I am a living
advertisement for RAW. It is my opinion that those who
practice vegetarianism get into trouble because they omit
the "RAW". The body has a 10 year's supply of some
B-vitamins, when the vegetarian runs out of that, they are
puzzled (10 years of success and then problems?). Yes meat
can be eaten raw! Guy Claude Burger discovered that when
smell and taste are combined (smells OK or good AND tastes
OK or good) that we need it. When the body has what it needs
(elements etc.) it will no longer smell or taste good. The
system is called ANOPSOLOGY; DuRocher published in France as
"Instinctothrapie - Manger Vrais" (obviously in French); it
has been translated into English. The Manger Vrais
translates into Eating True or Eating Correctly. Here is the
information I have. If the reader cannot find a copy contact
me for condensed information garnered from the internet
years ago by a friend. About 40 Xerox pages. (Sorry I can't
play Santa-Clause, cover my costs please. Philip Ledoux,
P.O.Box 765, Claremont, N.H. 03743)
Book Review: Instinctive Eating: The Lost Knowledge of
Optimum
Nutrition, by Zephyr
1996 Pan Piper Press.
Contact Pan Piper Press
RR2 #3950
Pahoa, HI 96778
or
Pan Piper Press
PO Box 426
Summerland, CA 93067
price: $15
FIRST AID
Of all the things I've learned about first-aid, including
Red Cross courses as a teenager and adult, U.S. Navy and
correspondence courses; the most outstanding and easily
found thing is CAYENNE PEPPER. Either as a dry pepper or as
a tincture, it will stop bleeding almost instantly. And, in
survival, severe bleeding can be a fatal problem. If you
carry some Cayenne with you and you can self-administer
Cayenne, you will never bleed to death; and it will promote
healing almost "over-night". Little instructions other than
"pack the wound" with cayenne pepper, are needed.
Contrary to popular opinion, Cayenne will not "burn"
anything. You will swear that the treated body part is on
fire, but it will never truly burn anything. If gotten in
the eyes (mace), after the burning sensation ceases, the
victim actually sees better!
If someone is faint or in shock, administer several drops of
Cayenne tincture under the tongue. They will perk right up.
Dr. Schulze tells of a patient who drove to his clinic.
After 10 minutes he was discovered ashen white slumped over
the steering wheel. Schulze administered several
droppers-full of Cayenne tincture in the mouth; the man had
recovered by the time the ambulance arrived. Dr. Schulze
comments: "Nobody can die with a mouthful of cayenne."
KOMBUCHA
Information about Kombucha is easy to find on the internet.
I bought mine from Walther Frank who operates in Germany.
Said briefly:
Kombucha drink has the ability to bind heavy-metals and
toxins to itself which are then eliminated via the urine. We
live in a highly toxic world and pick up toxins up
everyday. Most do not realize that we self-generate toxins
from the typical American diet, which is equally dangerous
to overall health. I understand that after the Pole-Shift
one of our greater problems will be lead-poisoning from
contaminated water that we will not be able to avoid.
Kombucha can scour the body of these "badies". I think that
Kombucha is a survival "Must-ONE". Not only learn all you
can about it, get some; it takes time to learn how to grow
it.
BOOKS
At least a small library of essential subjects is necessary.
Include some Basic Electricity, Basic Mechanics, How Things
Work, a Machinist's Manual, a book on the basics and
principles of gear cutting, Herbal Medicine Basics, Basic &
Advanced Carpentry, Survival soldering, brazing, welding,
etc. and as complete a series of math and chemistry books as
possible. And don't forget a variety of books of humor, they
will be precious, mental relief. You may not understand what
is in all of the books, but almost any subject can be
self-taught; keep in mind the future generations. I reminded
all my students that I could only supply the learning
environment and encouragement, in truth all students
self-teach themselves.
The greatest problem is keeping books dry. My suggestion is
to use several layers of differing kinds of waterproofing.
Wrap and seal each book individually using one of those
handy, inexpensive "food saver" sealing machines. Lacking
that, wrap in cling type wrapping material, alternate
directions should help seal. Then place that into a large
zip-lock bag. Take several of these and place in heavy
plastic trash bags, roll and fold and seal; layer it with
three bags rolled in various directions. The basic idea is
to make as many "boundaries" against water penetration as
possible. Logic dictates to distribute subject matter among
all the packages, rather than all one subject matter in one
container; if one package is lost, not all of one subject is
lost. If you can find some of those blue, top opening
plastic or steel barrels, put books into them; but be
certain to check them as soon as possible after the Pole
Shift. Is the barrel still sound or has it become a water
trap?
All is not lost if books become wet. "Hang" them out to dry
undercover. As they start to dry, carefully separate the
pages several times during the drying process or the book
becomes a solid lump. The pages are wavy, the book gains
considerable bulk but it is readable. (This is archived from
the "been there" file.)
ABOUT SURVIVAL
In my mind, the most useful invention of mankind is the
harnessing of electricity. (I was an electronics and nuclear
engineer). The electric motor can be harnessed to many uses,
as we are so well aware, in the appliances and household
gadgets we employ everyday. There are many we can live
without. Think through what would survive a 100 foot fall.
In general, those items are what would make it to the top of
a survival list discounting a more damaging force.
Electric motor based equipment is useless without "free
energy" or a generator. I live in an area that was built on
water-power, and most of the following relates directly and
indirectly to water-power to generate electricity.
On my list a 15 KW (15,000 watt) generator is a must. An
ordinary household operating necessary equipment plus a
handyman's tools will use that much electricity. From a
standpoint of longevity it is better to operate a piece of
equipment at 50% than to load it 100% constantly. Longevity
seems to relate exponentially increasing with decreasing
"load". Although I do realize that "something" is better
than "nothing".
My casual cruising of the internet reveals that information
seems to slant towards "buy this" or "buy that", most of it
indirect. "Me thinks" that pre-built equipment will be
destroyed during the Pole-Shift, thus the solution is to
have all the parts and pieces stored as safely as possible
and then start working like a beaver after the Pole-Shift.
Some parts and pieces can be pre-fabricated and stored,
things that would survive a fall from an airplane. One could
not expect a typical water wheel to survive (the work to
straighten it would involve more than the original building)
but the main shaft with bearings and basic attachment points
can be pre-fabricated and stored.
A shift to "junk-yard mentality" is helpful in planning for
and building after the Pole-Shift. Many have written that
automobile generators will be easy to scavenge from
abandoned vehicles, and automotive headlights, being
designed well, should go through the Pole-Shift. I think
that the old Navy principle of installed spares is needed to
survive. In submarines we operated pump #1 for a week and
then shifted to pump #2, alternating every week, which would
give extended life. A pump #3 was operated for a day once a
month, and was the emergency back-up should #1 and #2 become
non-operational. All survival equipment should be designed
similarly, with extra "on the shelf" spares.
I have thought much about how to get lighting equipment
through the jolts to come. I doubt if standard light bulbs
and fluorescents can be packed adequately to survive.
Hopefully someone can prove me wrong on this one! The
tougher auto head-lights can be wrapped individually in foam
mattress trimmings or equivalent (foam peanuts?) placed in a
plastic jar which is placed within a pile of sand. One could
get fancy and add an automotive air-bag to the design.
Designing something to get the human body through the
tremendous jolts could use the basic principles just
described (without the jar) - mattresses above and below in
a bunk with an air-bag below, in a sturdy housing, set on
angled stilts with sand fill. The stilts to break and absorb
the shock, angled to vector the forces and move the housing
horizontally to further absorb forces. [Remember the girdle
operating the engine pump on the submarine in "Operation
Petticoat"?] Basic ideas expanded to practical absurdities.
It would be so nice to buy a Pelton water-turbine! For most
of us it is merely a dream. Until the economic collapse, we
have to come up with genuine cash to get one. An old
fashioned water wheel can be made by a carpenter or a
welder.
My father and grandfather were blacksmiths who helped me as
a boy when I tried to make a roto-tiller. I needed bearings
and they were out of reach of my (and my parent's) budget.
My father taught me how to use hard-wood for bearings. They
work, and in the old days they were standard equipment on
farm equipment. The farmer could easily bore a block of
wood, shape it to size and voila - instant bearings. You use
a small cross-bored hole to supply lubricant.
Along this same idea of using wood where we normally think
metal: The Amoskeeg Mills in Manchester New Hampshire (known
historically as the longest continuous mill building in the
world [one mile]) used wooden gears to transmit power
throughout the mill! The source of power was a water wheel
whose rotary motion was transferred to the top floor of the
mill. Down the center run were something like open truck
rear-end differentials. Power came in at the center, out at
left and right, and continued on ahead. The right and left
power shaft ended in a 90 degree gear that transferred power
downward to all floors, with similar set-ups re-distributing
power on each floor.
On the top floor, the gear teeth were cleverly designed so
that each tooth was an individual piece of wood. If a tooth
broke or wore, it was hammered out, and a replacement was
hammered in. In all likelihood the "base" was probably made
of cast-milled iron. With knowledge of the proper shape of
meshing gears, lots of sweat with saw and hand-plane,
survivors could build powerful gear transfers will little
metal. Obviously HARD-wood in needed. We had a tree called
"Lever-Wood" that was used for the job. Because of the
industrial demand way back when, no sizable trees of that
kind exist today. Today's demand for the wood is in the
packing gland of a main screw in ships and submarines. Yes,
believe it or not, in the days of nuclear steam turbines, a
wooden bearing is used on the main shaft!
Reference was made about truck rear-ends. If you are in
desperate need of a 90 degree power transfer (before or
after the Pole-Shift) use a truck rear-end or equivalent.
Lock one wheel and there is your directional transfer. I do
not go into details because mechanical skills are needed and
most who have those don't need details. The quickest method
of gaining the needed skills is hiring yourself out to a
junker.
Another basic to keep in mind is designed RPMs (Revolutions
Per Minute). An automotive generator probably operates
around 2,000 RMP. A water wheel turning at 5 RPM presents a
problem. Pulleys or gears or chains-and-sprockets are the
standard solution. The sizing is really easy. Forget 2-Pi-R;
it is merely the ratio of the diameters. If the drive pulley
is 10 inches in diameter and the driven pulley is 2 inches
in diameter, you have multiplied the drive RPMs by 5. So, to
harness an automotive generator with a 3 inch pulley
directly to a 5 RPM water wheel would require a 50 foot
drive pulley! "Jack-shafts" are the solution. This is
nothing more than a shaft with a large pulley on one end and
a small pulley on the other end. With our water wheel, power
is supplied to the small pulley and the large pulley
connects to the generator. Obviously more than one
"jack-shaft" will be needed, one connected to the other.
Let's apply some "junk yard" solutions. Depending on the
amount of power being generated and/or used, an automotive
or truck transmission is used. Remember, in "junk yard math"
you do not consider designed application! Either end of a
standard transmission can be the "power in" end, depending
on whether one needs to speed things up or slow things down.
The shift-stick gives quite a latitude of speed changes.
In general, the slower the RMPs, the longer lasting the
associated support bearings. Flat belts are long lasting,
repairable with simple tools, and are replaceable if one can
find (leather) hide on the hoof and you can tan it.
V-belts have become a standard because of their low power
losses, but in survival situations could be a problem when
replacement time arrives. Contrary to popular opinion you
can operate one end of a V-belt in a V-pulley and the other
end on a flat pulley. Incidentally, a "flat pulley" is not
really flat; it has a crown in the center to keep the belt
from creeping off the pulley. Aligning flat belts and
pulleys is a lost art today, but with a lot of sweat and
frustration it can be learned by applying bushels of
patience. It works best to use a dual V-pulley when opposed
to a flat pulley (because of the crown).
Chains and sprockets of various types are usually applied
where high power output is transferred. It entails
high-maintenance as any motorcyclist will attest. Enclosing
the devices within a water/oil tight enclosure was the
solution, with the larger sprocket immersed in oil. Thus the
entire device was lubricated; which nearly ended the
maintenance problems. Gears are the best solution and
likewise are oil immersed. Gears have to be aligned nearly
perfect; if misaligned, each gear will wear into shape to
fit the other (workable but not recommended). In such a
case, if one gear breaks, both have to be replaced - not
one.
When trying to generate electricity remember that old, a
used electric motor can be used as a generator. A commonly
employed poor-man's phase inverter involves nothing more
than a single phase drive motor, direct coupled or belt
coupled, to an old three phase motor which now acts like a
generator. The old electrical inputs to the 3 phase motor
now become the generator output to an industrial mill, lathe
or other 3 phase machine. "You can't get out more than you
put in." In other words, you can't power the device with a
one horse power single phase motor and expect to power a
twenty horse power hydraulic press. The poor-man's inverter
must have components larger in horse power than the using
machine's.
In existing electrical distribution systems, the grid is so
large that starting of multiple HP motors is absorbed
without a hiccup, but when generating electricity via an old
electric motor (survival system), the inductive load that is
added, will unbalance the system so badly that a
refrigerator compressor cannot start! And such a system
requires the application of load-run capacitance formulas
and estimation. Do-able but hardly within the confines of a
rushed education to survival electricity. Keep the loads
"resistive", which means lighting, heating and light-load
(start) motors like fans. In this kind of system you try to
balance the loads, which an amateur electrician can do. If
5,000 Watts of heating is removed, another 5,000 Watts of
heating (somewhere else, possibly in a designed "cooling
tower", is added simultaneously. With a restricted budget,
that means a primitive hand-operated system rather than the
full automation we are accustomed to. But something is a
lots better than nothing.
A FEW THOUGHTS ON WATER WHEELS:
Don't forget to design an adjustable water diverting device
in the water feed system. Changing loads require more or
less water, and becomes critical when generating
electricity, or when repairs are necessary.
If you are fortunate enough to be a welder or one is
available, remember that "buckets" or blades of steel will
wear out quickly. Doesn't sound plausible does it? Consider
the "Taylor Horizontal Water wheel" (I live in the town
where it was invented). The horizontal wheel is used where
low heads of water are involved. Nearby, a large sawmill
operated on a SIX-FOOT head using a Taylor Wheel. It is
similar to an overhead open fan, with water falling
vertically on the blades. In a practical design the blades
overlap about 1/3rd. Diameters can be from 3' to 10'.
Years ago I read an article about making one out of a stump
of wood. A lot of planning, boring and chiseling, and voilā
a working wheel. The output shaft runs through the center of
the wheel with a coarse, dual spline with some kind of
supporting collar beneath and ran to the floor above
operating a grist-mill-wheel without directional transfer.
The main bearing was clever! The drive shaft was bluntly
pointed, using a pine knot as the bearing.
The author laughed about a friend who was a welder, and was
going to show him up. Within a few years the welder's wheel
was worn away as though a grinder had been used. The key was
that the original wheel was made of pine or some kind of
soft wood. The fine sand and grit in the stream was thus
able to imbed itself in the pores of the wood surface. The
blades now were rock hard. What became the wearing surface
on the wooden wheel, wore out the metal blades of the welded
wheel. The moral to the story is: you can build of steel,
but remember to surface the blades or buckets with a soft
wood that will hold the grit of the stream to become the
nearly permanent wearing surface.
If you have a good source of water to generate electricity,
do not worry about the efficiency of your equipment (other
than overloading the generator). I live in a severe winter
location, and it is predeicted I will continue to be after
the Pole-Shift. Electric heat was popular until special
rates were ended. It is rare today to find homes
electrically heated, with bargains galore in used heaters
which should survive jolts well. With "free energy" (via
water) I plan to use inefficient electrical heat. And from
Naval experience I plan to have at least a couple of water
wheels to be able to alternate equipment usage and
flexibility.
ENGINES, FUEL, ETC.
If there are only 10% of us left after the Pole-Shift, it is
dubious that we will be able to find an ongoing source of
fuel for our engines. Steam engines would be the exception.
I know much about steam but nothing about steam engines.
John Worrel Keely knew about the internal workings of the
atom in the mid to late 1800s. Most of his research was
lost, although KeelyNet.com has amassed much about him and
associated fields of research. With little time left before
the Pole-Shift solving free energy and anti-gravity becomes
a pipe-dream.
One of Keely's discoveries merits investigation by those in
the automotive field. Purarich rediscovered it by accident
but never applied it. Purarich was trying to automatically
precipitate liquids via frequencies. The liquid (water
based) was in a quartz test-tube with immersed electrodes;
the equipment was automatically stepping up in frequency,
when all of a sudden - pow - the test tube emptied, a hole
was made in the ceiling and through the roof! He estimates
that it was at 40,000 cycles per second. Keely was able to
dissociate water (break it into oxygen and hydrogen) at
42,800 cycles per second. Purarich was not certain about the
exact frequency, and it could easily have been 42,800.
Keely originally would store the forces of dissociation in a
two ton metal sphere and use that as a power source. With
time he was able to dissociate on demand within the
apparatus he was working with. For years he labored on an
"engine"; it would work well for (hours?) and then suddenly
it would reverse direction destroying the engine. He never
did solve the problem. Keely said that he could operate a
train coast to coast with a small glass of water. This
engine (with the unsolved problem) was probably what he was
referring to.
I make the educated guess that Keely probably understood the
principles of steam prime movers. The gasoline engine was
being tinkered with around the time of his death. Which
leads me to further speculate that he wasn't familiar with
the term "Top Dead Center" which all auto mechanics are
familiar with. Most gasoline powered engines fire the spark
plug several degrees before TDC because it takes time for
the flame to travel across the piston head and create
maximum force. Thus, by firing Before TDC the full potential
of burning fuel is realized.
What would happen if an oscillator were operated at 42,800
CPS (Hz), fed to a capacitive discharge device which in turn
is hooked up to the distributor in the 12 VDC supply line to
the distributor? I would imagine that a small variable
device in the oscillator would be needed to "fine tune" the
device. Dissociation of water is instantaneous and powerful!
If it occurred prior to TDC one could destroy the engine.
But, What IF . . . I estimate that on an 8 cylinder engine,
if the wire to plug #1 at the distributor were moved to
position #3, It would delay the "explosion" somewhere in the
30 to 180 degree position AFTER TDC. One wouldn't need to be
very efficient in the timing because the forces involved are
enormous and could be harnessed by firing just before Bottom
Dead Center.
And lastly, only water vapor would be needed, because of the
potential force involved. Atomized water would contain so
much potential force that it could destroy an engine along
with the experimenter. In the "fine tuning" of the
oscillator, take the output of the device, attach the ground
to a metal tube and suspend the negative as a small bare tip
on an insulated wire in the tube of water. "Aim" it so you
don't punch a hole in the roof, or whatever, and when it
repeatedly goes "Pow", you've hit the frequency. Lock
everything in place and double check. Then connect the
application to an engine.