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November 29, 1992
PLATEN.ASC
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This document was originally printed in the
Canberra Times, on Wednesday, May 7, 1975.
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A Radical New Thermal Engine
A Swedish scientist has revived a centuries-old controversy with
contentions that he has discovered the theoretical basis for a
perpetual-motion machine.
Most foreign scientists dismiss the notion of such a device as
contravening fundamental laws of thermodynamics, but the Swedish
claim has created much excitement among scientific circles in
Stockholm.
The man making the claim is Professor Baltzar von Platen, 77,
regarded in Sweden as the inventor of the modern refrigerator and
the first person to produce synthetic diamonds.
His theories involve the production of energy through a complex
process involving air, ammonia, and salt in an apparatus rotating at
very high speed, but scientific sources said the system was
difficult to explain in layman's language.
Professor von Platen has said in newspaper interviews that unless
his ideas are invalidated by some natural law, the energy could be
harnessed to run cars, warm houses, or power aircraft.
He is expected to file a patent application soon and the secretary
of the Royal Academy of Science, Professor Sam Nilsson, said he had
gone through the 50-page documents and could find no basic flaw.
He said the theory put Professor von Platen in a class with Thomas
Edison, who perfected the electric light bulb, and Marconi, who
developed the modern radio.
But other scientists were more skeptical. One physicist said the
theory ran counter to all known laws.
"There is only a limited amount of energy around, if you use energy
up and don't replace it, you run out", he said.
The physicist was asked if it was possible that Professor von Platen
had hit upon an entirely new law of thermodynamics that could
explain his ideas.
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"Every day there are millions of processes going on and they all
obey the laws as we know them", he said.
At the heart of Professor von Platen's idea is a spontaneous heating
process which is continuous.
It begins with the air-water-ammonia process in the centrifuge. As
it spins faster and faster, the pressure at the extremities
increases up to 1,000 times that of the atmosphere (14.7 x 1000 =
14,700 PSI), generating heat which could be used to drive a turbine.
Professor Sven Brohult, director of the National Academy of
Engineering Sciences, said that even if the theory was only partly
correct, the practical applications could be enormous.
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Vangard Note
We understand that heat pumps are routinely claimed to have
excess energy outputs in the range of 2 to 5 times what it takes
to operate the heat pump. An engineer we met here in Dallas
named Mike Eskely also claimed to have a turbine which generated
overunity by high velocity rotation of gases. Although we never
saw a working model, he is convinced he is onto something and
has over 50 patents to his name.
Mr. Eskely told us that in Texas, there were laws that protected
the power companies from having to purchase energy that was not
produced using "acceptable" co-generation sources.
One of the methods that is forbidden is HEAT PUMPS. If you try
to sell your excess power (generated through a Heat Pump co-
generator) back to the power company, they are NOT REQUIRED to
buy it. As we understand it, they ARE REQUIRED to purchase
excess power generated from Solar, Wind, Fossil Fuel, Geothermal
or Hydro co-generated systems.
We would greatly appreciate further information relating to this
subject, especially details of Professor von Platen's work.
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