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H ome schooling has been part of our lives

since the birth of our first daughter in 1970. From the small Montessori-based schools we established in Essen-Borbeck, Germany and Quito, Ecuador to the “Free Nation School” we operated for four of our 9 grandkids, Ken’s scientific genius has created memo-rable experiences for young minds. Last year he challenged

Randolf (15) and Elisabeth (16) to hand-fit an interfer-ence fit Tesla turbine flange onto its shaft. The prize: $1,000.

Of course, all the teen-aged muscle power in the world could never push that hard. (To their credit, our grandkids figured this out ahead of time.)

So, after much laugh-ter & grunting, Ken stepped us all through the process of heat fitting metal parts.

First, he measured the flange inner diameter using a micrometer. This data was recorded in his lab notebook.

Next, he heated the steel part on a gas stove to expand the metal.

The color changed from polished metal to shades of black & blue as the material transformed under the heat.

While the part was heating up, Ken clamped the shaft into a vise so it would be ready to receive the flange.

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Heat Process Interference Fitting By Pam Rieli

Phoenix Turbine Builders Club September 2009

Volume 1, Issue 9

Counting the Cost of Plugging into the Sun

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Melting Ice 2

Nothing but Hot Air from Pollution Giants

Tesla Corner 4

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Inside this issue:

New Turbine Power! A Revolution in Global Industry

Interference fitting – also known as shrink fitting – is a procedure in which heat is used to expand the inner diameter of a metal part in order to insert a cooled part i.e. a shaft. When the parts return to room tem-perature, pressure holds the two pieces together mechani-cally.— Ken milled the flange hole to have a very tight fit around the shaft.

In the works!

Do-it-yourself turbogenerator CD!

Get a head-start by study-ing the CAD drawings &

photos on our

Experimenter’s 4.5” DIY Tesla Turbine

Project CD

Counting the Cost of Plugging into the Sun By Pam Rieli

I just finished reading a National Geographic ar-ticle on solar energy (Plugging into the Sun by George Johnson, National Geographic, September 2009, pp. 28-51). The arti-cle itself was technically accurate as far as current & projected energy con-sumption patterns and sys-tem efficiencies, but the conclusions drawn were based on incomplete data & distorted priorities. While on the one hand

the author extols the vir-tues of CSP (concentrating solar power, using reflec-tive troughs/dishes) over photovoltaic and wind for the long term, an unsus-tainable coal-powered fu-ture takes center stage for the next 30-40 years. Sound familiar? That’s

because every blogger & his brother repeats the same tune – “switching from coal to solar power is too expensive” – without counting the true cost. Earth is arriving at a per-

ilous crossroads. Because of man’s insatiable con-sumption, his endless waste & unwise depend-ence on fossil fuels, the oxygen content in our at-mosphere has plunged from 26% during the ‘50s to around 19% today. – Say what you will about man-induced global warm-ing, oxygen depletion is no hoax. Energy experts are pre-

dicting that coal plant con-struction will double by 2020. Throw in a doubling of vehicles on the road & the ongoing decimation of

oxygen-producing rainfor-ests, and the stage is set for disaster. By 2030 we’ll see oxygen levels plummet to a world average of 10% to 12%. Oxygen, not terawatts of

electrical power, is critical to man’s survival. This basic life-right is be-

ing robbed by a govern-ment-industrial energy car-tel that has reached global proportions. Although the problem begins with the evil side of man’s nature (lust & greed), it is fed by cartel propaganda. Take the DOE stimulus

funds for renewable energy in the U.S. As expected, solar takes a back seat to wind, “clean coal” & nukes. On the solar side of the money flow, great empha-sis is being placed on end-less R&D into PV technol-ogy, while ignoring the fan-tastic potential of solar thermal power. Solar troughs are more efficient than PV’s in converting the sun’s energy because they can store excess heat for nighttime use. Oh sure, there are huge

solar CSP farms in the works with outrageous price tags – and guess who is pocketing the dough? Cartel member Bechtel and their globalist cohorts. Instead of more central-

ized utilities, we need a proliferation of solar trough arrays, down to the home level, to break the grip of fossil fuel dependency. One vital application of

solar thermal power plants should be to crack sea-water into hydrogen and,

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Melting Ice The bad news: Greenland is losing enough ice every year to supply 280 cities the size of Los Angeles with water – and the rate is increasing. More bad news: Antarctica loses almost as much ice. Worse news: Methane hy-drates – a form of methane that’s frozen in permafrost & continental shelves in polar regions – is a green-house gas that is 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide.

This underground meth-ane contains the same amount of carbon as all the coal, oil & gas combined worldwide.

As you read this, it’s bubbling up from the rap-idly thawing permafrost in Russia… The good news? ___________________ (Fill in the blank.)

Greentech Greentech Greentech

NewsNewsNews more importantly, oxygen. But does this figure into the get-rich-now schemes of the cartel? Not until the oxygen depletion problem becomes impossible to ig-nore, and therefore a mar-ket opportunity. As you all know, we have

developed disc turbogen-erator technology that brings down the cost of solar thermal power – from large scale grid farms down to remote villages at the base of the pyramid. Now we’re experiment-

ing with building a mini geothermal indoor heat storage furnace to cut heating fuel bills here in the North country. During winter months we’ll burn wood to heat the thermal mass & produce hot water for household & baseboard heating needs. Then in summer, we’ll use the sun to heat the bed. This is a real DIY project

that we plan to share with you once we prove it out. Of course, turbogenerators are planned to create a complete cogeneration system. So, as the world fiddles

in over-consumption and denial, we are switching from coal to solar power. We have decided the

oxygen problem is so mas-sive that only direct inter-vention of God with a cata-clysmic bombardment by extra-terrestrial bodies will stop the cartel’s activities – so our next project will likely be an oxygen-enrichment technology that can be used in homes, cars, work places…

Climate Summit:

Nothing but Hot Air from Pollution Giants

take a back seat to CO2 cuts & energy conservation in coming decades. Their plan relies heavily on ramping up renewable en-ergy (wind) & nuke plants – and being repaid for their $801.5 billion bail-out of the U.S. treasury. Obama slugged back

I n this corner we have the two biggest produc-

ers of greenhouse gas emissions jabberwocking at each other in what should be serious climate change negotiations. In round one, China

boasted that their growing economy would somehow

with empty rhetoric about China doing too little & poorer nations shouldering the burdens of the pollut-ers. The U.S. plan to push coal plants to 80% of total generating capacity shows they have no intention of switching from coal to re-newables. Or cutting back

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After achieving the ex-pansion he needed (verified through more measurements), he re-moved the flange using pli-ers, then quickly fit it onto the cold shaft.

Using a mallet, Ken tapped the part onto the shaft, making sure it was level (perpendicular to the shaft) before it cooled too far to modify. The grand-kids were amazed that the same two parts that were so hard to force together earlier now slipped effort-lessly together.

The final step was to plunge the assembly under cold water.

At this point, the two parts effectively became one – locked together for the lifetime of the turbine.

Why go through this laborious process at all, you ask? Well, Ken designs his turbogenerators for rugged use in serious power generation applica-tions. His insistence on top quality craftsmanship means the turbines will outlast the lives of their owners.

The world could use less junk technology (like overpriced PV panels that need to be replaced every 20 years) in favor of infi-nite life turbo-machinery.

We see much harder times ahead so we’re all going to need equipment that can be designed, built and maintained by DIYers. Interference fitting is a

useful technique for our club members to master as you build your own power generation capability. Let us know how the operation goes.

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on anything, let alone CO2 emissions. The Democratic “change

we can believe in” is just a rehash of Republican en-ergy cartel stall tactics. – It’s the fossil fuel boys by a knock out.

Scientists of God

The New Industrial

Revolution

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tion, as well as applications relating to disc turbine technology. As

of October 30, 2008 the club boasted 1,499 active members in 86

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The first Tesla turbine project began with a series of articles written

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exploring principles of boundary layer turbines, we are developing a

low-horsepower ORC turbine into a solar co-generation system to

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easily experiment with the technology in their garages.

Question:

I don't recall seeing anything

on the width of the disk

anywhere, and I was want-

ing to know how wide do

they need to be to be stable

enough, but also allow for

the maximum number of

disks. Also is there a ratio of

total width to disk size be-

fore you start losing effi-

ciency from the expansion

of the steam.—Larry (2006)

Answer:

Tesla used disks with a width of .032" and a spacing of .032". We are using

Question:

I have a compressed air

storage tank. Can I directly

use the compressed air to

run a small turbine or is the

heating of the compressed

air necessary? Isn't the heat

produced during compres-

sion sufficient. Please help

me out.— Neeraj, India

Answer:

Yes. You can use com-pressed air to run disc tur-bines. We do it all the time in our shop to test new de-signs. In fact, the 4.5" Ex-perimenter's Tesla Turbine was designed to run on compressed air so that peo-ple on low budgets could

Tesla Turbine Q&A

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Nikola Tesla

“My turbine... is a radical

departure in the sense that

its success would mean the

abandonment of the anti-

quated types of prime mov-

ers on which billions of dol-

lars have been spent. Under

such circumstances the pro-

gress must needs be slow

and perhaps the greatest im-

pediment is encountered in

the prejudicial opinions cre-

ated in the minds of experts

by organized opposition."

– Nikola Tesla

My Inventions, autobiography

Tesla Corner

disks .0625" spaced at .0625". These two sets of dimensions give the best range for efficiency. The .0625" dimension gives a more stable disk especially at elevated tem-peratures.