snovak's blog

With the birth of my daughter right around the corner, I have been thinking a lot about her education.  And, I am very much in the favor of a home school education.  Well.. that's not completely accurate.  I am very much in favor of an internet based education.  The location of the delivery is still in the air.  

Ahhh yes,, hopefully this will the first post in a long line of honest, to myself at least, blog entries where I will share with you the fruitlessness of my labours for the past 10 years.  Fruitlessness in that I don't make much money.  In fact, I'm flat broke.  And, I'm not that happy, mostly because I'm tired of being broke. This is going to be an account of how I get out of my current reality an into a life that I will create for myself. If I have nothing else, I have optimism.  

For updates,, go to the bottom of the thread.

~~Added March 24 2012~~

Turns out I like to come up with crazy ideas.  This is one of them.  But, it's a good excercise in creative thinking for sure.  What I thought this thing would do is use magnetic forces to strategically move the weight of the magnets around in positions such that the pull of gravity would move the wheel around.  As mentioned later in this article, I'm no physics guy.  It doesn't work.  But, I like to invent.  And, if nothing esle, this was a neat idea towards a meaningful invention.  Back to the drawing board!  Read on if you'd like to see my amazing revelation! 

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Update: Since writing this article in 2008, I've done a bunch of research on the design and efficiency of these turbines.  They have their up-sides and down-sides.  The downsides being, they are far less efficient in transforming force from the wind to rotational force, when compared with the typical airplane prop type design.  This is probably why you don't see more planes with this kind of propeller.  They are however, less noisy, which may make them more suitable in an urban environment.