Thursday, December 25, 2008

Explaining the principles of gravity powered transportation

While speaking to a group of eminent persons, the inventor said the following.
Detailed specification in US Patent application number: 12184151 dt. 07/31/2008 provides more information regarding the "Gravity Powered Rail, Road and Runways transportation systems".

The principle is rather simple and ancient too. Look at the pendulum When pulled to one side not too much but by a little , the slight rise in its height from its first rest position in the middle of swing, it starts to swing, coming down in the process, the mass attached to the string gaining velocity in horizontal direction, converting the potential energy in to kinetic energy by the time the mass reaches the mid point of swing, it has only kinetic energy and a velocity in the horizontal direction.

But as the mass moves beyond under its momentum, it starts to experience the gravitational force as resistance to rise and the kinetic energy gets consumed raising the mass almost to the same extent of height relative to the position at mid point of swing.The mass comes to a stop and the reverse journey starts. This we all know.



An interactive working model to appreciate the principles.







But what is important to realize is the efficiency of energy conservation- unlike the case of mechanical energy to electrical energy and back to electrical energy for the purpose of recovery in linearly oscillating systems like transportation, where we get only 30% recovery, in case of gravitational force we recover more than 99%!

So we can design a transportation system where a heavy set of vertically moving masses in a Gravity Power Tower, connected through variable gears and power transmission cable attached to a rolling unit in horizontal direction, to start the rolling unit from rest and accelerate to the desired speed, by allowing the heavy masses to move down under gravitational force of attraction. So while moving down the heavy masses give out energy and the rolling unit gains kinetic energy.

Now imagine we reversed the gear direction in such a manner that instead of the heavy masses going down while the rolling unit is moving forward, the rolling unit to move forward it has to pull up the heavy masses against gravity. Then the kinetic energy of the rolling unit is taken away by the heavy masses in the tower, by rising back to a position very close to its original starting point, while the rolling unit comes to a stop. So we can travel in the rolling unit taking energy to speed up and then giving out energy while stopping. But the entire process involves pure gravitational force and no electro-magnetic forces like electrical energy used.

In very simple terms the principle is described. The control and management, is through knowledge embedded microprocessors and the system has distributed intelligence managing various operational parameters as human control cannot match the response times needed. But this uses low power electronics.

But remember the friction losses in rolling cannot be recovered, and this appears as the small gap between the original position of the driving heavy masses and the recovered position in the Tower. This 5% or 10% of the energy is what is to be made up using electrical motors. Thus we save substantial quantum of energy usage in transportation. Since friction losses are critical, rail based systems deliver the best results.

We can power the roads too to run cars without the IC engines using electromagnetic coupling for power transmission from road to the car , details are described in specification. But the where the energy savings come down to around 50% because of higher friction losses between rubber tires and road surface as well the freedom that a driver wants to decouple from the powered road and stop away from the road. But carbon emissions can be totally eliminated. The existing roads and rail infrastructure can be used with speeds of 60 mph.

Hope I am able to explain the principle- it is not complex particle physics but classic Newton's laws we still use to launch our space probes successfully. If it works of space it can work on our plane too, you will agree.

Then the projects are financially viable to give return on investment of the order of 30 to 40 % while creating a million sustainable jobs. As the capital is recovered and interest burden vanishes with the cash surpluses, the charges are reduced to maintenance and depreciation which is minimum being totally automated and using inflation proof free energy. One of my objects in life's work has been transportation should be practically free for every human born on the planet, which I believe is now a reality.

My dream is we ourselves should enjoy the beautiful planet using the free gift of the nature which is eternal inexhaustible gravitational force without polluting the planet and leave a clean wonderful place for our progeny.

I appreciate your time and concern. But Sir, let me assure you, it is our life and it is we who should cause this change. One should not underestimate the formidable barrier which Einstein described; you may doubt if universe is infinite or not but human stupidity definitely is.