GB2423068A

GB2423068A - Aircraft using lighter than air detached electrons

Info

Publication number: GB2423068A
Application number: GB0502928A
Authority: GB
Inventors: Kenneth Thorp
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2005-02-12
Filing date: 2005-02-12
Publication date: 2006-08-16
Anticipated expiration: 2025-02-12
Also published as: GB2423068B; GB0502928D0

Abstract

A lighter-than-air aircraft comprises a non-conductive flexible envelope 1 which is filled with electrons, detached from source atoms, to displace a greater weight of air than the weight of the envelope 1 and electrons. The electrons may be detached from the atoms by boiling them out of a hot metal plate 3, and they may be pushed into the envelope 1 by high frequency electro-magnetic waves (microwaves) created by a magnetron 6 or by varying magnetic fields. The aircraft may use its own charge reacting with the Earth's electro-magnetic fields for motive power or geographic positioning.

Description

Liihter-than-air Iiftin2-device This invention relates to an ability to lift objects in the Earths atmosphere by displacing a volume of air with something lighter than air contained within an envelope. Typical devices would be a balloon or gasbag forming part of a dirigible air-ship.

The various problems of controlling buoyancy when using gasses, the cost of initial creation of the gasses and the safety choice of Helium over Hydrogen resulting in less lift, has limited development of environmentally fliendly lighter than air transport systems or cranes.

An object of this invention is to create an environmentally sound, cost efficient and lighter than air entity, the buoyancy of which may be almost instantly controlled using existing dectronic technology.

Accordingly this invention provides a means of inflating a flexible, nonconductive envelope (Note 1) against atmospheric pressure by pushing electrons, which have been detached from their original nuclei, into this envelope rather than using lighter than air gas atoms. This will give close to 100% lift in terms of air displaced. The detaching of electrons from their original nuclei is achieved by boiling them out of a hot metal plate (similar to the anode of a thermionic vacuum tube). The free electrons are then pushed along a non-conductive rigid tube into the non-conductive flexible envelope using very high frequency (microwave) electro-magnetic radiation (Note 2) or alternatively varying magnetic fields.

Regulation of the buoyancy developed by the inflated envelope will be enabled by allowing electrons to leak back through servo control solidstate electronic devices and/or re-injection of more electrons as required. The large charge formed by the inflated envelope will have an interaction with the earth's electro-magnetic field, which may be used to control the position of the device relative to the earth's surface.

A preferred embodiment of the invention will now be described with reference to the accompanying drawing (Drawing 1) in which...

A rigid and nonconductive tube (item 2) is closed at one end and sealed to an opening in the flexible, non-conductive and non-porous envelope (item 1) at its other. This tube may be glass or ceramic. During the time the envelope is deflated, the tube contains sufficient Helium at atmospheric pressure to prevent the envelope being sucked back into the tube.

Plates of suitable material (tungsten) to emit electrons when heated are mounted near the closed end of the tube (item 3) and supplied with a heating current on the same principle as a thermionic tube.

The space charge of free electrons (item7) emanating from the hot plates is driven along the tube, in effect surfing (Item 9) the electro-magnetic wave fronts into the envelope by the travelling wave (item 8) moving down a surrounding metallic wave guide (item 4).

The travelling wave is generated from the aerial (itemS) of a magnetron (item 6) mounted in the wave-guide (item 4).

Description

The electro-magnetic wave passes through the envelope leaving behind the electrons which will repel one another and the skin of the envelope to adopt a general lattice spacing calculated to be around 100 A (Angstrom units) at which spacing the forces between this lattice of electrons and the envelope skin will equal the pressure of air at sea level (Note 3).

Note 1 The choice of envelope skin material is dictated by selection of suitable co-valent atomic bonding strength in its structure.

Note 2 Microwaves are selected in which the frequency will give the lattice spacing required to oppose air pressure and the eneiy level is selected to be less than the tunnelling energy of electrons within the envelope skin. The Exclusion Principle prevents the electrons joining either the atoms of envelope skin or the atoms of Helium within the tube. The spatial extension of the wave function of an electron makes it, at low energies, effectively much larger than the inter- atomic spacing of the atoms of the skin material hence they do not penetrate at such low energies.

Note 3 Coulomb's law calculation for force between two charge carners.

F

e = charge in coulombs, for an electron = 1.602 x l0 Conlombs permittivity of free space = 8.85 x 10.12 Farads per meter F = Foie in Newtons d = distance between charge carriers in meters F= l.602x 10'9x l. 602x io 4nx8.85x 1012 xd2 F 2.566x 1038 12.568 x 8.85 x l0'2x d2 F = 0,023 x 10 (basic formula for substitution of values of d') d2 Force Required for iooA square Calculation for force required for each square of 100 Angstrom units per side to match air pressure when 1m2= 108x 108 A = lO'6squaresinall If air pressure = 147551 Newtonsl M2

Description

Therefore = 147551 = 14.7551 x 1012 Newtons per (IOOA)2. . Actual Force Required Calculations for 100 A separation F = 0.023 x 1026 = .023 x 10' 2.3 x 1012 Newtons between any TWO electrons 10x 10 F = 4.31 x 2.3 x 1012 = 9.9 13 102 per (bOA)2...rough approximation offorce developed at a sepwv4ion of JOllA

Claims

claim 1 A mechanism for detaching electrons from source atoms and pushing these detached electrons into a non-conductive flexible envelope to displace a greater weight of air than the weight of the envelope and electrons combined.

Claim 2 An air displacement lifting device created as in claim 1 that produces more lift per unit volume within the earths atmosphere than that created by using lighter than air gasses to inflate the envelope.

Claim 3 A mechanism as descnbed in claim I that uses very high frequency (microwave) electro-magnetic waves to push the electrons into the nonconductive flexible envelope Claim 4 An alternative mechanism to that in claim 3 that uses varying magnetic fields to push the electrons into the non-conductive flexible envelope.

Claim 5 A mechanism as descnbed in claim 1 that is initially filled with Helium at atmosphenc pressure when the envelope is deflated.

Claim 6 A mechanism as described in claim I with an electronic system that is used to control the volume of air displaced and hence the lift in claim 2 Claim 7 A lighter than air entity as described in claim I that may use its own charge reacting within the earth's electro-magnetic fields for motive power or geographical positioning.