| AIRPOWER |
A I R P O W E R
J e s u s
Mühlegasse 6
CH-8114 Dänikon
Tel. 01 / 845 14 45
E-Mail: airpower@hispeed.ch
Open Letter to
Those Interested in Funding
AIRPOWER Research and Development
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
For quite a while I have been engaged in the study of alternative forms of techniques allowing transportation - techniques that do not provide any harm to our environment and rely on resources which are as compatible with human health as they are abundant on our planet.
In the foreground are air-pressure driven vehicles of all kinds. Basically, the idea to make use of air-pressure is only the resurrection of an old idea which began to revolutionize the industrial world during the 19th century. While during these early days the whole procedure of building up pressure was rather exhausting (fire had to be made, water boiled and steam generated), we do no longer face these problems nowadays. The one magic word is PRESSURE STORAGE.
Had we not made the distracting discovery of electricity and had we not developed the craze of burning fossils, steam engines would still be in use, although they might look quite differently from what they looked in the good old times of the first locomotives. No special compartment for the coal, no heating chamber, no black-faced men shovelling and heating, filling up water and controlling valves. Steam engines, if pressure-driven motors had only been given a chance to survive, would rather be labelled "pressure engines" these days. THE VERY FACT THAT WE ARE ABLE TO STORE PRESSURE makes coal-shovelling, fire-making and water-heating superfluous. Since we have managed the problem of PRESSURE STORAGE we could also make gas-related hazards, smog and oil-pollution superfluous. If we only wanted to...
Recognition of the impact of our ability to STORE PRESSURE would allow us to abandon debates about dying forests, shrinking ozone layers and global warming - why have we not yet learned to appreciate this ability? It cannot be because of lack of experience; in Germany, air-pressure-driven carts have successfully been used, during world war II, in mining endeavours. After the war, the principle has fallen into oblivion, pushed away by more powerful techniques. Now that the disadvantages of these techniques have become obvious, we should attempt to revive the idea of pressure-driven engines and foster all efforts to develop the prototypes used during the first half of the previous century. However, we should not perseverate on the idea to move pistons with air-pressure (which would be equivalent to turning 60% of the energy into friction!). This has already hindered Volkswagen's project Lupo to be a success. We should rather find a way to develop a turbine, as handsome as a drill yet powerful and easily to be regulated by valves.
The prototype of an air-pressure-powered car is to be found in my home garage in Dänikon. A look at it reveals the following:
a chassis with a holding directly in front of the rear axle (air pressure bottles to be inserted)
the technique in which the engine is positioned right in front of the rear axle guarantees optimal distribution of weights
two axles, five-gear-drive
holding for the turbine (pictures available on the main page)
So far, the construction has been generously funded by Ronal rim productions, Bridgestone tire productions, and the oxygen plant Sauerstoffwerk Lenzburg. Swiss TV has announced its interest to feature the first test run.
WHAT IS URGENTLY NEEDED NOW is financial support for the end phase of the construction of the prototype. In particular, the turbine needs to be constructed from the scratch; no available model is both sufficiently powerful and small enough to fit the holding place. YOUR FUNDING WILL BE APPRECIATED AS WILL IDEOLOGICAL SUPPORT OF ANY KIND!
I am looking forward to
hearing from you.
Yours truly,
J e s u s