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Taken from KeelyNet BBS (214) 324-3501
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Sponsored by Vangard Sciences
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PO BOX 1031
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Mesquite, TX 75150
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December 26, 1992
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CLEM1.ASC
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A few months back, we got a call from a friend who had heard of this
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incredible motor that was said to run itself and generate excess
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useable power. The details were unclear at the time and our friend
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gathered more details and we met for lunch to discuss what he had
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found out. A scanned image of the machine as it was described to
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him with those details will be included in CLEM2.ZIP (when I get it
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done). It is NOW done and is CLEM1.GIF, bundled as CLEM2.ZIP.
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As we understand it, inventor Richard Clem died of a heart attack
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soon after the deal was signed with the coal company. His workshop
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was raided by law enforcement officials and all his notes and
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drawings were removed.
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The story as I was told by our unnamed friend :
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A local man (Dallas) developed a closed system engine that was
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purported to generate 350 HP and run itself. The engine weighed
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about 200 pounds and ran on cooking oil at temperatures of 300 F.
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It consisted of a cone mounted on a horizontal axis. The shaft
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which supported the cone was hollow and the cone had spiralling
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channels cut into it. These spiralling pathways wound around the
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cone terminating at the cone base in the form of nozzles (rimjets).
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When fluid was pumped into the hollow shaft at pressures ranging
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from 300-500 PSI (pounds per square inch), it moved into the closed
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spiralling channels of the cone and exited from the nozzles. This
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action caused the cone to spin. As the velocity of the fluid
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increased, so did the rotational speed of the cone.
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As the speed continued to increase, the fluid heated up, requiring a
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heat exchange and filtering process. At a certain velocity, the
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rotating cone became independent of the drive system and began to
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operate of itself. The engine ran at speeds of 1800 to 2300 RPM.
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Immediately after the inventor had the heart attack and the papers
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were removed, the son of the inventor took the only working model of
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the machine to a farm near Dallas. There it was buried under 10
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feet of concrete and has been running at that depth for several
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years.
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In later conversations, our contact says the engine had been tested
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by Bendix Corporation. The test involved attaching the engine to a
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Page 1
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dynamometer to measure the amount of horsepower generated by the
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engine in its self-running mode.
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It generated a consistent 350 HP for 9 consecutive days which
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astounded the engineers at Bendix. They concluded the only source
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of power which could generate this much power in a CLOSED SYSTEM
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over an extended period must be of an atomic nature.
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Construction of the engine was from off the shelf components except
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for the hollow shaft and the custom cone with the enclosed spiral
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channels.
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Richard Clem worked with heavy machinery for the city of Dallas and
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had noticed that certain kinds of high pressure pumps continued to
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run for short periods after the power was removed. His curiosity
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into this phenomenon led to the development of the Clem Engine.
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The following is from a newspaper clipping.
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The Clem Over-Unity Motor
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In 1972, Richard Clem announced the invention of a way to operate
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automobile engines on cooking oil.
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He's still making that claim today, even though his first prototype
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motor fell apart and he had been "strung along" by at least 15
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companies before he found financial backing.
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Clem, 48, a heavy equipment operator for the city of Dallas and
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part-time inventor, says if the automobile industry adopts his
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invention, motorists could change the eight gallons of vegetable oil
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only every 150,000 miles and never buy any gas.
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Clem said he uses vegetable oil because his motor runs at 300
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degrees - a temperature where water has boiled away and conventional
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motor oil breaks down. Though he won't divulge many details of the
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engine, a 12-volt battery apparently is the only other source of
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power.
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When Clem finished his first vegetable oil engine in 1972, he mapped
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a 600-mile test trip to El Paso for the first engine model he had
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financed through his earnings. But he only made it as far as
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Abilene before the "shafts and everything bent in it."
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He blamed the failure on poor construction, too small a shaft and
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the use of chains instead of gears. Undaunted, he decided to try
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again, but said, "I needed money to build this thing better."
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Neither the automobile industry nor the 15 other companies he wrote
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- some as far away as Taiwan - were interested in financing a
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prototype and then manufacturing it.
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Then last year, he said, a large coal company offered to back him.
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Clem refused to disclose the name of his benefactor, but did say the
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coal company had signed contracts to sell the engines to power
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companies for use in pulling turbines.
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Clem said he expects to finish work on the motor by the end of this
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year. (1972)
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Vangard Note..
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The above article was reported as being generated from Flower
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Mound, Texas (northwest of Dallas and slightly beyond
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Carrollton). I called the only Clem listed in the book as of
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11/20/92 and they knew of no other Clem in that area, nor did
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they know of any Richard Clem or his family.
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Two separate visits to the patent section of the Dallas Library
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have not yielded any patents by a Richard Clem involving any
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type of engine. We are still pursuing for more details.
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As of 12/26/92, I drew up a .GIF file called CLEM1.GIF that is
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bundled with this file under the name CLEM2.ZIP. It gives a
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better understanding of how the machine was constructed, at
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least as it was described to us.
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For those who study such matters, one immediately sees the tie-
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ins with Boundary Layer Drag principles as evinced in much of
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Tesla's work. We have noted something odd about spinning
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masses in that at specific velocities, strange things occur.
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The velocities at which phenomena occur are dependent on the
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resonant frequencies of the mass as an aggregate, exactly as
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Keely said.
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The Clem system was said to be built with off the shelf
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components. The most complicated piece of the entire machine
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was the cone. And based on Boundary layer drag, it would seem
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that the cone was unnecessary. The question with the Clem
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device is "Does the extended surface area of the cone add to
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the rotational velocity of the cone, yielding greater pressures
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through centrifugal force or would flat plates as in the TESLA
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turbine be sufficient to generate the same effect?".
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We continue to look for further information on this device and
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appreciate your comments or supporting material.
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as this paper covers, please upload to KeelyNet or send to the
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Vangard Sciences address as listed on the first page.
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Thank you for your consideration, interest and support.
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Jerry W. Decker.........Ron Barker...........Chuck Henderson
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