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NEWSCIENCENEWSCIENCENEWSCIENCE Latest Info on the Richard Clem Engine This past week, a new contact from the Roundtable meetings went out with some of us for dessert after the meeting. We dis- cussed a wide range of topics, and some- how Richard Clem was mentioned. This fellow said he actually knew Clem, had met him personally a couple of times, and had some additional information about him which he would gladly contribute to the pool. Clem had a daughter and son, whom our contact says meet often at a restaurant/bar in a suburb of Dallas. So we will be pursu- ing a contact with them, even though they were very spooked by the events leading up to and after their father's death, which might make some bridge-building neces- sary. When the FBI comes in and takes all your father's papers and work, I think I'd be paranoid, too. Our contact said Clem often drove the test car up and down Central Expressway in Dallas, back when there was nothing but open fields in the 1970s. In seeking details or verifications of what we already had collected, our contact said Clem worked for the city of Dallas and operated heavy equipment. This we knew; however, he said Clem used asphalt-spraying equipment which used melted asphalt that was pumped through the machine. Clem noticed this machine would contin- ue to run for up to an hour even after the power was turned off! The reason Clem never applied for a patent was because his design was basical- ly the same as the asphalt sprayer, and so he felt he could not infringe on an existing natant generated from Flower Mound, Texas (northwest of Dallas and slightly beyond Carrollton). I called the only Clem listed in the book as of 20 Nov '92, and they knew of no other Clem in that area, nor did they know of any Richard Clem or his family. Two separate visits to the patent section of the Dallas Library have not yielded any patents by a Richard Clem involving any type of engine. We are still pursuing for more details. As of 26 Dec '92, I drew up a .GIF file, CLEM1.GIF, that is bundled with this file under the name CLEM2.ZIP (see diagram on previous page). It gives a better under- standing of how the machine was con- structed, at least as it was described to us. For those who study such matters, one immediately sees the tie-ins with "bound- ary layer drag" principles as evinced in much of Tesla's work as well as Victor Schauberger's "impansion" and "implo- sion" discoveries. We have noted something odd about spinning masses, in that at specific veloci- ties strange things occur. The velocities at which phenomena occur are dependent on the resonant frequencies of the mass as an aggregate, exactly as Keely said. The Clem system was said to be built with off-the-shelf components. The most complicated piece of the entire machine was the cone. And based on boundary layer drag, it would seem that the cone was unnecessary. The question with the Clem device is: Does the extended surface area of the cone add to the additional velocity of the cone, yielding greater pressures through centrifu- gal force, or would flat plates as in the Tesla turbine be sufficient to generate the same effect? We continue to look for more informa- tion on this device, and appreciate your comments or supporting material. Update as of May 1996 A company called Creative Sciences is selling plans (US$60) for what they claim is a machine that generates 1500 hp and runs by itself. They call this a "CEACU" and claim it was released by a 70-year-old retired scientist. The truth of the matter is it was designed and built by the late Richard Clem of Flower Mound, Texas, as documented by this paper. The CEACU design does not require the cone, but instead uses a thick disc with nozzles on the outer edge. A hollow shaft feeds water into this disc at a high velocity. As the water exits from the nozzles, the disc spins, giving an ever-higher velocity. A 3,200 psi air tank is used to get the disc spinning to 1,000 rpm when it is claimed to begin to run on its own. There are other ways to achieve this velocity beyond 3,200 psi, as you can well imagine. The address for Creative Sciences is: Creative Sciences Research PO Box 8001 New Albany, IN 47150, USA & «e | f —_ rent ae PAA yee pmol AMV Ap Sear nant alyEn nnn SA Tate mira na | he Pyouay patent. That is the first key difference: it was a hot asphalt sprayer rather than a fire engine pump. The second key difference from our orig- inal information was that the axis of the cone was vertical, with a horizontal spin plane. This had been suggested by many, but we presented the information as it was given. Now it makes even more sense, because the gravity gradient would be slightly greater and amplified by the expanding centrifugal rotation. Clem's machine used Mazola cooking oil and ran at about +300°F. He also used a heat exchanger to keep it cool. So we have a temperature differential plus the centrifu- gal thrust. (Source: Posted 5 July 1996 on KeelyNet, hitp:/www.keelynet.com) Woyde ys = 46 - NEXUS DECEMBER 1997 - JANUARY 1998