Re:Building Nikola Tesla's Bladeless Turbine [video]
by soligern on Monday July 31, 2023 @08:10PM
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This is not an engine. In the linked video it has 75 distinct moving parts. It also looks like a maintenance nightmare with particulate and deposits getting into every crevice including direct access to the bearings.
The only place that had actual information on it was an obscure service that advertised in the classified ads section in the back of Popular Science, Rex Research: http://www.rexresearch.com/1index.htm
It's wild to see videos about it today.
(Also, check Rex Research for other cool obscure tech. Much of it is crackpot, of course, but some of it is not. E.g. the vaneless ion wind generator, a wind-to-electricity generator with no moving parts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaneless_ion_wind_generator There's more...)