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2ISCIENCE|2 the fact that Clem first tried engine oil but found it would break down too soon due to the high heat produced by the engine, so he used Mazola cooking oil which would operate over many months at the requisite 300+°F. THE CLEM ENGINE REBORN © by Jerry W. Decker, KeelyNet.com 8 November 2009 THE CLEM ENGINE REBORN increase, the fluid heated up, © by Jerry W. Decker, KeelyNet.com requiring a heat exchange and filtering 8 November 2009 process. At a certain velocity, the rotating cone became independent o ack in the mid-1970s, inventor the drive system and began to operate Brews Clem was working for the of itself. The engine ran at speeds o city of Dallas, Texas, operating heavy 1800 to 2300 RPM—literally capturing equipment when he noticed that a heated a "tornado ina box". asphalt sprayer for paving streets would = Shortly after, Richard Clem died continue running for many minutes after from a heart attack. | was told that his the gas engine was turned off. This papers and models had been aroused his curiosity, and from this he removed. Richard's son is said to designed and built a closed system engine have taken the only working model o that was purported to generate 350 HP and the machine to a farm near Dallas. tun itself. There it was buried under 10 feet o The engine weighed about 200 concrete and has supposedly been pounds [90 kilograms] and ran on running at that depth for severa cooking oil at a temperature of 300°F years. So I was told by my first source. {~149°C]. He installed the engine in a In later conversations, our contac modified automobile chassis and _ said that the engine had been tested drove the car up and down Central by the Bendix Corporation. The tes Expressway in Dallas, and even tooka_ involved attaching the engine to a trip to El Paso and back. This dynamometer to measure the amoun sensational discovery was in the news of horsepower (HP) generated by the at the time. engine in its self-running mode. | I was told the engine consisted of a generated a consistent 350 HP (the cone mounted on a horizontal axis fact was, it was 325 HP) for nine (we later found out it was vertical). consecutive days, which astounded The shaft which supported the cone the engineers from Bendix. They was hollow, and the cone had concluded that the only source o spiralling channels cut into it. These energy which could generate this wound around the cone, terminating much power in a closed system over an at the cone base in the form of nozzles extended period must be either of an (rim jets). Construction of the engine atomic nature or from a small hidden was from off-the-shelf components, _ internal combustion engine. except for the hollow shaft and the I really question both of these custom cone with the enclosed spiral conclusions because anything atomic channels. would require extensive lead When fluid was pumped into the shielding, and the hidden small hollow shaft at pressures ranging from engine suspicion makes no sense 300 to 500 PSI, it moved into the because | HP = 746 W, so 325 HP is closed spiralling channels of the cone about 243 kW. We all know how big a and exited from the nozzles. This home emergency power generator is action added to the spin of the cone. and it only produces 3-10 kW, so I As the velocity of the fluid increased, have to discount that suspicion. so did the rotational speed of the The years passed and we acquired cone. As the speed continued to _ scraps of further information, such as Recent developments Another four years passed with no new information coming in about the Clem engine until around Halloween 2009. | received an email asking what ad happened to the pictures of the red car that Clem had built. It was rom Jim Ray, an ex-aerospace engineer. In a subsequent phone call, e told me he had worked with Richard Clem for a while and helped im build motor no. 4, which couldn’ duplicate the efficiency of the origina’ motor which Clem had destroyed. According to Richard's daughter Teresa, Clem's second wife had trashed all of his work and sold off his equipment. Teresa told me she had managed to get a working blueprint, but Jim says he doubts it because Clem was very paranoid and refused © write down anything that would reveal his secret. That made some sense, except that Teresa told me she ad often helped her dad draw up plans and she had one of those drawings, yet when | met with her she said she had signed a contract with er lawyer and a professor at some ocal university but admitted that none of them had a clue as to how the engine worked. Following this first phone call from im Ray, we exchanged many emails and he sent me about 20 documents of his company's work with what he new of the Clem engine and how he ad taken it much further, building several working models which were ested and validated in 2004 by NASA NEXUS ¢ 43 DECEMBER 2009 - JANUARY 2010 www.nexusmagazine.com