<VV> RE new fan technology

[Louis Armer]

Yes Arjay, BUT...................are you 
ready????.......................... Mr. Jay' s 
fan would vortex the wrong way and all the air from
the undercarriage would be sucked up through the 
engine and discarded out the top !!! Can you imagine being in a rain storm
or winter in the snow ???....................How 
would the heater fan work or the thermostats <GGG>

Emily Latella
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At 02:33 PM 6/8/2008, you wrote:
>For those who are convinced that the design of 
>the Corvair fan could be improved there is now 
>new information. An article in this Sunday's New 
>York Times 
>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/technology/08stream.html 
>tells about a man and a company who has 
>re-studied how air or any other fluid moves 
>naturally. "Jay Harman, an Australian naturalist 
>who believes that he¢s found a way to use 
>fundamental properties of physics and biology to 
>improve the design of everything from simple 
>fans and pumps to hydroelectric dams and 
>aircraft.Almost every piece of machinery in the 
>physical world has efficiency limits related to 
>the flow of liquids and gases: pumps consume 
>energy to move liquids; the amount of fuel used 
>by airplanes and cars is based on their 
>aerodynamic efficiency; and fans and wind 
>turbines both consume and generate energy based 
>on the efficiency of the shape of their rotating 
>blades.As a young boy, Mr. Harman saw that 
>objects in nature seemed to abhor traveling in a 
>straight line. Fluids and gases flow in languid 
>spirals, and although he was not trained as a 
>scientist, it struck him as obvious that there 
>was a profound lesson in that motion.Ultimately, 
>he turned the source of his childhood 
>fascination into something he believed would be 
>practical. He surmised that he could exploit his 
>observations about fluids to change the shape of 
>propellers, fans and virtually anything that 
>needs to move in a fluid or gas 
>environment.After informally studying vortexes 
>for several decades, he went to his bathtub and, 
>with a bit of cleverness, was able to create a 
>cast from the vortex generated by water flowing 
>down the drain" For more on this fascinating 
>development just follow the link posted above 
>for the complete story. I really feel guilty in 
>bringing the old "we can make a better Corvair 
>fan" thread back to life, but I would be remiss 
>if I didn't make the latest research available 
>to those who care. Arjay Morgan 64 Monza convert
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