Thrust, Torque & Electricity Stats expected for a 1.6m collider-arm C-Drive

 Monday 19th February 2024

Let's upsize the C-Drive to the specs listed below. Note that the C-Drive converts centrifugal force into thrust and torque, if you want the equations for each step use Three (3) Simple Steps. At this stage you should know what the C-Drive does to get the answers to the questions below. Whatever energy it can store in its centrifugal stage (Step 1), it can convert into thrust (Step 2) or Torque (Step 3). 

Specs:

Overall diameter: 2m

Collider arm length: 1.2m

Rotated mass: 600Kg

Exciter (Input power) 95Kw

Available 1:1 torque: 1420N

Target rpm: 3,960 rpm in 30 seconds

Step 1

How much force will it take to spin the C-drive upto 3,960 rpm? 3,979N @ gear ratio 1:3

How long will it take the motor to spin the C-Drive upto 3,960 rpm? It will take 30 seconds

What is the centrifugal force that will be generated at this rpm? 123,691,442N 

Where does the energy come from? [Once the target rpm is achieved as centrifugal force (N) the requisite energy or force in newtons is acquired, all the C-Drive does is convert this same centrifugal force into thrust, torque or electricity .e.g. Watts, Horsepower etc Technically this means that, in terms of the figures below, what you see is what you get.]

Step 2

What is the thrust this C-Drive will be capable of producing at this rpm? 123,691,442N*

What are the emissions of this huge amount of thrust? Zero emissions, none

Step 3

How much torque can the C-Drive produce at this rpm? 148,429,731Nm/s

How much Horsepower will the 2 meter C-Drive produce at this rpm?: 111,915,791 HP

How much electricity can it generate at this rpm: 61.55 Gigawatts of electricity**

What is the Net Energy Gain (NEG) or Q-Factor of this output of energy? 647,919 Q

*For comparison SpaceX Starship is more than 9 meters wide and produces thrust of 74,300,000N, this C-Drive is only 2 meters wide and creating thrust of 123,691,442N

**For perspective South Africa uses a total of 58 Gigawatts of electricity. This single C-Drive's generation capacity is equivalent to 54 fully operational 1.07GW nuclear powerplants. C-Drives will make it easier to increase the supply of electricity, prevent load shedding thereby enhancing energy security. 

The moderate cost of increasing energy supply using C-Drives means improved reliability and profits for energy suppliers and lower electricity costs for energy consumers.

A C-Drive and Rocket side by side

A comparison of a C-Drive and Rocket below shows that the thrust created by the C-Drive converting centrifugal force from pan-directional force to unidirectional force creates thrust vectors that are identical. However, with the C-Drive there is no exhaust as there are zero emissions. This is because it uses a High Density - Static Recycled Mass Flow (HD-SRMF)

                                    

                          123,691,442N of baby safe thrust                              74,300,000 thrust  

                                            Zero emissions                                             with pollution

Intro to C-Drives

NET ENERGY GAIN & PEAK RPM for 95KWh Input

 14th February 2024

MEGAWATT/GIGAWATT C-DRIVE SYSTEM

According to NJ Ayuk, Executive Chairman of the Africa Energy Chamber  there are 600 million Africans without access to electricity and 900 million without access to clean cooking technologies. When it comes to what C-Drives do, which is enhance net energy gain or the Q-Factor the potential to bring an end to the energy crisis becomes very real. 

Dele Kuti, Global Head of Energy and Infrastructure at Standard Bank CIB, during the inaugural episode of Blue Space pod cast speaks to the importance of Energy Security. Energy Security is hinged upon the capacity of governments to be able to ensure their businesses and citizens have uninterrupted access to energy, which is critical not only for driving industry, but also sustaining the standard of living households across Africa and the world at large deserve. During the pod cast the presence of Sarah Collins, founder of Wonderbag speaks to Standard Bank's commitment to playing a major role in solving the energy crisis.  Watch episode 1 of the podcast here.

C-drives can be likened to accessing fusion or fission energy in terms of atomic  power and capacity without the downside usually associated with nuclear power such as radiation and fallout. This is achieved by focusing on angular velocity as the natural source of net energy gain and using the C-Drive technology or device efficiently to make the conversion from centrifugal force to thrust, and thrust to torque with which to drive generators creating electricity more efficiently than has been possible in the past. This innovation conceptualized and designed in Zambia is a first. Though this innovation easily complements fusion energy which struggles to achieve a Q-Factor greater than 1, it is versatile and useful in that it lacks the complexity that tends to be associated fusion technologies. C-Drives as a new innovation need only three (3) Steps to generate power, steps that are easy to understand and implement. 

The phenomenal capacity for C-Drives, as a recent innovation, to drive up the availability of energy sufficient to solve the energy crisis today makes them a bankable investment and potentially one of the most exciting prospects for development in the energy sector.  See how to work out NEG at peak rpm for a 95Kwh system

 Intro to C-Drives

B-Ken Maneuver

Build Up of Kinetic Energy When in Neutral 

Monday 4th February

In an earlier example we calculated how a 200Kg, 0.6m Collider Arm C-Drive would need 4s to spin up to 4,316 rpm at which it will have built up 24.5 million Newtons of kinetic energy.

However, a vehicle that is in stand-by can spin up to 4,316 rpm while in neutral. Having stored 24.5 million Newtons of kinetic energy as centrifugal force it can apply this force in milliseconds (instantly) achieving rates of acceleration it is unlikely any air propelled vehicle can duplicate. read on

Intro to C-Drives

How C-Drives Can Easily Achieve a Q - Factor of ≈70,000

Monday 29th January 2024

click here to go to the IAEA website

The IAEA promotes safe, secure and peaceful use of nuclear technologies and is led by Dr Rafael Mariano Grossi as the Director General of the IAEA. Fusion energy is one of the areas the IAEA is involved with. Fusion energy is considered "clean energy" and is therefore sought after the world over. Technically most fusion energy processes involve the use of heat, for example, to convert water into steam that will drive a turbine. 

Achieving Net energy gain, or a satisfactory Q-Factor has been the Achille's heal of fusion energy that has stood in the way of its promise to transform human civilisation and launch into a new era of increased availability of energy. The reality is that nearly all fusion labs and investments around the world today grapple with achieving a Q - Factor greater than 1. 

C-Drives on the other hand, are able to explain, how they can quite easily achieve the equivalent of a Q - Factor of  ≈70,000 in Three (3) simple Steps, a process anyone with a reasonably technical mind can understand. Read about this here.  

Many people tend to forget that the energy in an atom is derived from angular momentum, whether it is using fission or fusion as the process by which to generate energy. A C-Drive simply goes directly to the source: angular momentum: to provide what is today the most efficient device for achieving net energy gain.

Intro to C-Drives

What is the Input Torque required to rotate the C-Drive upto 4,316 rpm to obtain 6.6GWh of electricity?

 16th January 2024

0 to 24.5m Newtons in 4 seconds.

Can it really be done? Can the 1 meter diameter C-Drive produce enough torque to rotate the 200Kg collider arm up to 4,316 rpm in order to generate 6.6GWh of electricity?

Lets do the math for producing the Torque required for generating these gigawatts of electricity. 

Degrees of Complexity in achieving Net Energy Gain: Could C-Drives be the next big thing?

 

10th January

Source Financial Times: for the full video click here

In the fusion industry, so far, firstly, none of the 35,000 private companies in the fusion industry and 81 research organisations working on fusion have broken even in a very convincing manner. In addition to this, for fusion to become viable it needs to extract more usable electricity than it takes to run the whole fusion power plant. continue

Enter the Dragon Train: How C-Drive technology is more advanced than Maglev Trains

 5th January 2024

Enter the Dragon...

The ability to deliver passengers and cargo from sky to rail....

.......and rail to sky.

C-Drives can be applied to train technology. In fact the characteristic of flight and movement of a C-Drive will resemble that of magnetic levitation. Whether a C-Drive is on the ground or in the air it will have a grip over its position, movement and flight as tight if not tighter than the grip a maglev train has to its rail track. This grip can be determined in newtons. Since train cabins equipped with C-Drives lay their own track, they can go anywhere, allowing a C-Drive train to rise from the ground like a dragon riding Ki from the ground into the sky, and from the sky, into space if its cabins are DUS (Designed to be Uitilzed in Space). Read more about the comparison between C-Drive and Maglev technology here.