| Subject: RE: MEG flywheel
power regulation & storage Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 21:48:13 -0600
Dear Sigurd,
Yes, we considered it,
and have not yet ruled out anything.
Our main objective is
to do a year of very intensive phenomenology necessary to produce an
acceptable engineering model in higher group symmetry electrodynamics
(one cannot use electrical engineering to model the vacuum and its
exchange). Something like O(3) electrodynamics is necessary, or EM
immersed in quaternion algebra. Since geometric phase (Aharonov-Bohm
effect, Berry phase) is involved, we also have to do many experiments
along that line, for the phenomenology. There are of course a great
number of papers in the literature on the latter, but none of them have
dealt with use of geometric phase for power applications. Further,
since the unit is very highly nonlinear, nonlinear oscillation theory is
also involved, not the usual linear stuff. So to do the job right, we
have to put together a team of specialists, with special instrumentation
as well, and do a very hard year of phenomenology and model development
research.
When that is
completed, one will then be able to do scale-up design and engineering,
fairly quickly, and go directly into production engineering for the
first products.
All this is quite
doable, but also quite expensive. It cannot be done by an electrical
engineering department, for example, but has to have a specially
tailored specialist team.
So we continue to seek
a legitimate funding partner to allow that work to be done.
Best wishes,
Tom Bearden
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