Opposite Poles Attracting the Disc
The ownership of a personal car, especially one that is owned, Free and Clear, carries with that status a nearly palpable sense of personal magnetism. Ownership of a car that is rarely available to the average buyer, increases both the magnetism and the status of the owner.
If the magnetism associated with the car is found to be the car's source of power, then the status of the owner could potentially increase exponentially.
Magnetism to replace dwindling fossil-fuel reserves as method of locomotion for vehicles.
Plausible? Possible? Financially feasible?
Explain how? I am glad that you asked.
The combination of two scientific principles could potentially offer cars with unlimited miles-per-start, completely making obsolete the concept of miles-per-gallon.
The Law of Inertia with the twin principles, (i.e. "A body in motion will remain in motion, until acted upon by an outside force," and A body at rest will remain at rest, until acted upon by an outside force,") combined with Magnetic Attraction/Magnetic Repulsion could provide an engine that once started with The Domino Effect would potentially run indefinitely.
Consider the current process for the creation of the power necessary to propel a car down the road.
Fuel is injected into four, six, and eight cylinders of the average vehicle. This creates a "six-pack" of volatile fluid inside the engine of the car.
In other words, the engine of the car contains multiple "explosions waiting to happen."
By igniting a spark (or a small fire) from the spark plug at the top of each cylinder, the fuel explodes to push the pistons of each cylinder around one rotation, creating combined horsepower that rotates the rod that rotates the front axle, thereby propelling the car forward a short distance.
These explosions are necessary in rapid-fire succession, constantly and consistently, throughout the duration of the operation of the car as it moves from point A to point B.
Now, if a method could be found for harnessing the same amount of energy, due to the same action of the drive shaft being rotated by a magnetic, solid disc of approximately four inches in diameter by one to two inches of thickness on the end of the drive shaft that has been set in motion by a lever similar to the firing mechanism of an old flintlock gun, then the setting in motion could potentially be indefinite, and stopped at driver discretion by brake-pads, similar to the ones that stop the rotation of the wheels, thereby stopping the car.
The starting-point for the entire process would still be the ignition key, which would be connected to a series of pulleys that would ultimately trip the flintlock mechanism on the top of one to ten magnetic discs.
There is always the potential that inertia could slow, due to the weight of the car. This could potentially be corrected by weaving North and South magnetic poles of the magnets around the disc in constant or varying ratios of attraction/repulsion. This would have the effect of opposite poles attracting the disc, pulling it forward, while at the same time the same poles repelling the disc, reducing friction, and eliminating the need for oil of any kind to lubricate the mechanism.
Bottom Line: This concept is in its roughest form, since I simply sat down to type out the concept tonight. Whatever research has already been done on this concept is a mystery to me, plus the necessary schematics, experimentation, and feasibility studies, all indicate that this replacement for fossil-fuel is still a long way from market.
However, it is this writer's hope that the minds of one or more inventors have been sparked to get Society's "vehicle" further down the road to progress.
Not being familiar with the engine of electric cars, maybe I have just described the mechanism that drives such a car...
...In THAT case my penchant for stating the obvious maintains its perfect record. ;)
