Re: Invention Idea

"taylorluker@xxxxxxxxx" wrote:
>
> Hi everyone!!
>
> My name is Luke Taylor and I am new to the group.
>
> If you are interested I would welcome any advice you might have on my
> project. Basically I am looking for resources and/or advice to move my
> invention to the next step.
>
> I have an invention idea for a "method of propulsion."

Uh oh...

> The concept
> includes pneumatics and magnets.

The BS smell is very clear. /_\(PV) is energy, 101.325
joules/liter-atm. The real world uses hydraulics, electric motors...
anything but a compressible working fluid unless you can exploit the
included area of a cycle diagram.

> My idea is different from anything
> currently on the market.

SOP,
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html

> I have had 3 consultations with engineers or
> experts and they have all have told me that the invention will not work
> and contradicts basic physics. I disagree and now that I have clearly
> identified why they say that idea won't work, I would like to build a
> basic prototype to demonstrate that the idea will work. I am done
> designing the idea conceptually, and I know think that I need to move
> to actual physically making the prototype.

Six months in the lab will save you an afternoon in the library. If
the vacuum is homogenious (the same everywhere) and isotropic (the
same in every direction) and time is homogenious, then through
Noether's theorem linear momentum, angular momentum, and mass-energy
are locally conserved. Thermodynamics is icing on the cake:

1) You cannot win.
2) You can only break even on a very cold day.
3) It never gets that cold.

> I plan to design the
> prototype on the Autocad Inventor Series and then used a 3D printer to
> print out the design. Here is the ballpark $5,000 budget:

One presumes you included the manual transmission from a 1969 Honda
Civic. You can't have an over-unity drive without a manual
transmission from a 1969 Honda Civic. Magnets, strobes, cryogenic
fog, and superconductors are luxuries.

CNC machine blocks of jeweler's wax or crystal polystyrene. Do lost
wax casting thereafter if you need it in metal.

> Research via Google Answers $200

Waste of money. If you can't ask a decent question nobody can give you
useful answers. E-mail some appropriate professors. Vanity is a
wonderful sin.

> Text books (in order to research/purchase specific components) $200

Academic library, Google. $200 buys one book, maybe two books.

> Desktop computer optimized for Autocad $1500

http://www.abscomputers.com/

Any high-end AMD-based CPU with a couple of GB of fast DDR1RAM
(Corsair) and a hard drive will do. You don't need a (fancy) sound
card or a graphics card that will build 40 deep-mesh frames/second.
Cool the CPU vigorously. NO Intel inside.

> LCD flat screen $500

Are you dripping money? Do you have a display fetish? Are you 16
years old?

> Components of prototype $170

In whose world? $170 might be the sales tax.

> Autocad Inventor software $500

Borrow it. "Borrow" it.

> 3D Printing of prototype $750

You've never prototyped. It's not enough to make the boojum. Ya
gotta tell the machine real world how to make the boojum - and it does
exactly what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do. Ain't the
same things. Are ya gonna 3-D print it in plastic (photopolymer)?
Brass? Stainless steel (thermal fusion)? Plaster of Paris (water
squirter)? What kind of surface finish and tensile strength do you
need? Stiffness? Temperature survival? Chemical compatiblity? Have
you ever handled a 3-D print?

http://www.bathsheba.com/sculpt/process/

> Misc. costs $200

You've never done that, either. 20% contingency is optimistic for a
start-up, especially yours.

> Autocad Instruction Class $750

If you don't know what you are doing, you go give the $750 to somebody
who does. Taking a cooking class is not the same as preparing a good
meal. The universe hates you. Your only hope of survival is
experience - and standing upon the corpses of others. You will get
good at it after a decade of doing it - assuming you do it for ten
years instead of one year repeated ten times.

Hire CAD/CAM/CNC machinist and get the answer tomorrow. Demonstrated
competence counts toward the bottom line. Theory exists so we don't
do stupid things in practice. When money is substituted for brains we
call that "government."

> If the prototype works it would create significant leverage to develop
> a real prototype instead of just a basic conceptual prototype.

Plan for failure.

> At
> that time I would like to hire a team including mechanical engineers,
> etc.= whose expertise will be invaluable in developing a real
> prototype. If the basic prototype doesn't work than I know that idea
> will not work in its present state.

Do the physics and engineering on paper. Unless you have a direct
line to space aliens from the Star Nebula, stuff obeys math. You
sound like a virgin writing a steamy novel. Yer gonna be disappointed
by the reduction to practice.

> What do you think? Any advice? Any idea of how to find financial
> resources ($5,000)?

Jesus H. Christ! Lease your mother as a virgin. Write DARPA for a
government grant. Begin by colluding with a ***, a beaner, a
crippled military veteran, and a lesbian (somebody's got to do real
work). The only two people guaranteed to make a buck will be your
accountant and your lawyer. If you don't have both you will go to
jail. The DA loves easy targets that can't shoot back.

Pneumatics! Will it be hydrogen, steam, or sulfur hexafluoride?

--
Uncle Al
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/
(Toxic URL! Unsafe for children and most mammals)
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/qz.pdf
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