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  1. Joe Holden's turbine

    Introduction

    La pompe-turbine multidisques à friction fluide a été brevetée par Nikola Tesla à la fin du 19 ième siècle.

    C'est une machine dans laquelle le champ de potentiel statique lié à la rotation des disques permet de créer une énergie additionnelle sur les particules fluides traversant la turbine. L'énergie dépensée pour maintenir la rotation du rotor est très inférieure à l'énergie communiquée aux particules fluides. La rupture de symétrie de la machine est à l'origine de la violation de la 3ième loi de Newton.

    D'autres inventeurs ont redécouvert les caractéristiques surunitaires de cette magnifique invention très récemment dont Joe Holden, inventeur de la postcombustion sur les moteurs à réaction Rolls Royce.

    The Multi-Disc fluid friction turbine was patented by Nikola Tesla in the late 19 th century.

    Unlike a conventional turbine with its carefully shaped blades, the mult-disc turbine uses a series of simple stacked discs on a rotating shaft. This machine uses the static potential field created by the rotation of the discs to create and use additional energy from the fluid particles passing through the turbine. The energy gained by the spinning turbine is much more than the energy impacted to the fluid particles at the input. This gain in energy or 'symmetry breaking' of the machine is due to a breach of Newton's 3rd law.

    Other inventors have rediscovered the features of this wonderful overunity invention recently, including Joe Holden, inventor/designer of the afterburner used on Rolls-Royce jet engines.

     

    L'inventeur - The inventor

    Holden—The Man, the Myth, A Legend in the Making In 1942, at the age of 12, Holden was orphaned during the German Blitz bombing raid and forced to live in the sewers and coverts of Birmingham, England. From the age of 12, Holden can recall numerous misfortunes in life that acted as catalysts along his path to brilliance. The most devastating of the misfortunes early in life was during a German Blitz-bombing run where thousands of pounds of ruble wiped his entire family out in a single moment. This is the moment that Holden became a reaction scientist. Holden added, “It’s not the action of the medium, it’s the reaction of the medium.” Recalling the scenario where both his mother and father laid dead, draped across his body, Holden said, “As I lay there I thought to myself, I want to do everything I can to ensure the safety of other unsuspecting families like mine.” Holden moved with other orphaned children into the sewers and lived there for two years, coming out only to attend whatever school he could find still standing. Never willing to accept failure, Holden held true to his convictions set at age 12 and became one of the most influential scientists and inventors of the 20th century.

    In 1946, at the age of 16, he entered advanced specialized training as an OSS commando—the forerunner of the CIA.

    From 1947 to 1960, Holden—inventor, scientist, engineer and OSS commando—worked in Rolls-Royce’s highly classified research and development center. In the entrance of Holden’s workplace at Freedom Mountain—a space he moved into about one month ago—a sign written by Holden reads, “The Impossibility Can Be Done, But Miracles Take A Little Longer.”

    In 1952, Holden was responsible for parachuting behind enemy lines in North Korea and stealing a MIG jet, then flying it while being attacked from every direction to South Korea. After receiving the MIG, the U.S. and its allies tore apart and studied the aircraft to gain information about the enemy’s combat resources.

    Holden and his team of commandos completed 17 missions successfully in Vietnam. Between 1962 and 1968 in Vietnam, Holden and his team released more than 500 prisoners of war. Of his time in the war, Holden said, “I would like to personally thank Sen. John Kerry for saving my life during a mission gone horribly wrong. He saved my life and the life of all my team members that night on the river. We were as good as dead when Kerry comes speeding in with his swift boat and picked my team and I up and took us to safety. Despite the criticism in the past concerning Kerry’s role in the Vietnam War, the truth is he was, and still is today, an American war hero.”

    With all these accomplishments in life, Holden still found time to invent the afterburner propulsion system, which was first used in the assembly of Rolls-Royce jet engines.

    Not limited to air propulsion systems, Holden is also inventor/engineer of the Holden Boat, known for its large size, 70-knot top speed and wake-less propulsion system.

    Holden is also acclaimed for his invention and engineering of the thrust tube. The thrust tube propels air, water or steam through a labyrinth with great efficiency using vortex tubes to create an increase of pressure. The increased pressure is then used to amplify propulsion through air or water. Even today, the thrust tube is the crucial ingredient in jet propulsion aerodynamics technology.

    Another invention Holden is working on is the solar steam engine. The first prototype of the steam engine reached 800 degrees in just four minutes until it blew its seals from too much pressure. The steam engine did not fail when it blew its seals; it simply means it created more steam pressure than expected when engineered. The increase of pressure is a promising sign of the potential energy this technology could create.

    Concept of the turbine

    Potential investors Ken Haboush (on left),
    Mark November (second to right) and Joe
    Neulight (right) join Joe Holden
    (second to left) around his invention,
    the mini-hydro thrust tube turbine.
    Using only 150 pounds of water pressure
    per thrust tube and utilizing the natural
    elevation of the High Country, the technology
    can continuously produce power for 25 to 33
    homes.

     

    Holden says that the turbine has four chambers to enable the system to run at 25, 50, 75 or 100% capacity.

    This adjustability enables the turbine to be scaled properly when being coupled with off-the-shelf generators.

    The turbine has two stages which combine principles from the three different types of turbines. It incorporates compression tube technology.

    The water is used twice instead of once as it passed through the turbine.

    The turbine can be modified to run on compressed air or steam.

    A series of turbines can be used as the river progresses.