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Number: 2012 Name: VACUUM CLEANER KESTS

Address: J.E.D.CLINE1 Date: 920204

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Description:

Some analogical everyday systems that utilize KESTS (Kinetic

Energy Supported Transportation Structures) principles, and

some basic extrapolations

Keywords: KESTS,transportation,energy,structure

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VACUUM CLEANER KESTS

920204 by JED CLINE

A vacuum cleaner salesman in a Sears Department store

demonstrated a Kinetic Energy Supported Structure to me when

I was a small boy. As I walked into the store, I was

astonished to see a ball about 8" in diameter sitting almost

motionlessly in space. A few moments more revealed the

colored ball was sitting a couple of feet above the outlet

nozzle of a noisy cannister vacuum cleaner, and the presense

of the well-dressed vacuum cleaner salesman standing near it

with a knowing smile on his face, clearly pleased at the

intense attraction his advertisement display had achieved.

Although I didn't understand it then, the mysterious

means supporting the ball was the kinetic energy of a fast

stream of air shooting straight up out of the end of the

long cylindrical vacuum cleaner. The centering of the ball

in the upward gushing stream of air was the vortice created

by the whirling fan blades just below the outlet nozzle,

making the spout of air be somewhat slower in the center,

making less pressure there, forming a pressure depression

holding the bottom of the round ball. This advertising

display utilized a true "Kinetic Energy Supported

Structure."

There are many other examples of KESTS ---Kinetic

Energy Supported Transportation Structures --- in everyday

life, if we but shift our point of view a little. A fountain

of water is a clear example, although it supports nothing

but itself and transports nothing but itself. The velocity

of the mass stream of water places it along an upward

stretch, gradually slowing as the kinetic energy is

transformed into potential energy. As the arch formed by the

fountain of water extends further, it starts downward, as

the potential energy of its height is again traded for

increasing kinetic energy velocity until it returns to the

ground.

A rock tossed into the air arcs out across the distance

supported by its kinetic energy. If a rapid continuous

series of rocks were thrown exactly the same way from the

same place, it would appear to form a semi-continuous arch

from the throwing place to the landing place, much like the

water fountain.

If instead of rocks, they were heavy arrows with magnets

appropriately attached, through magnetic repulsion they could

support an object at their top, trading some of their

kinetic energy for support of the weight of the motionless

object at its top, exactly as the vacuum cleaner's fast

stream of air supported the ball above it. The stream of

magnetic objects could flow in continuous loops, like

juggling a series of bowling pins. A little more thought

shows that the stream of magnetic objects could support some

motionless weight all along its length, even a sheath or

tube around the traffic path of the magnets in their

trajectory. Viewing this from outside this tube, it would

appear to be a structure, motionless. If the air were

removed from inside the tube, the magnetic objects within

could move very fast indeed. If now a small vehicle moved on

a track placed on the outside of this tube, we have a

complete KESTS---Kinetic Energy Supported Transportation

Structure.

The pumps that power the squirt of the water fountain,

the motor driving the fan of the vacuum cleaner, they just

become more massive and powerful as variations of linear

accellators and mass launchers as they would be used to

power KESTS to span rivers, oceans, and out even to space

itself, even to the Clark Belt (Geosynchronous Earth Orbit)

where space stations, even massive space colonies, could be

built, in continuous connection with the Earth surface via

the KESTS.

Developing KESTS technology would seem to have

tremendous potential for providing those transportation

bridges from one place to another. Bring on the vacuum

cleaner salesman with the brilliant advertisement of a

brightly colored ball supported by kinetic energy, for all

to see! Buy a vacuum cleaner, anyone?

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