Written by Kris Land
One of our goals was to determine if we could in fact double or triple an automobile's mileage using techniques similar to those used by high mileage carburetor experimenters & advocates. Even though we didn't achieve a drastic improvement in fuel economy, the experimentation proved essential to our developments in ultra-clean
burner technology.
Now some of you may ask why we are concerned with ultra-clean combustion. Well, there are several good reasons. First of all, our main goal in working with boundary layer turbines is to replace the 100-year old I. C. piston gas and diesel engines with a new engine that delivers more power with less pollution, and a lower cost to produce & maintain.
As environmental scientists it is our responsibility to provide key solutions to the global pollution problems facing the entire world today, and to drive these solutions into widespread use before the near-sighted industrialists can completely destroy natural ecological systems that are now on their way down.
We've determined that no matter what you do to improve a gasoline or diesel piston engine, by nature they must pollute -- the basic chemistry and mathematics of their combustion cycles cannot be altered, or the engines simply would not work!
Since fuel cells will not be ready for widespread use for another 10-20 years, the only real solution to the global pollution problem is a low-cost disk-type turbine with improved efficiency and ultra-clean combustion.
We are actually working with two combustion models to fill all of the applications of motive power. One model uses pulse direct combustion and the other uses a closed-loop steam (or other vapor) cycle. Both systems have their good points and bad points, so both are viable solutions -- depending on the application.
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1944: Camano Class Light Cargo Ship was laid down for the US Army as FS-289 at Wheeler Shipbuilding in Whitestone, NY.
1945: Delivered to US Army.
1950: Acquired by the US Navy on July 1, 1950 and placed in service as USNS New Bedford (T-AKL-17).
1954: The movie, Mister Roberts, was made on the USNS New Bedford (T-AKL-17).
1955 - 1963: Used as a cargo supply ship for the Texas Towers, a network of advanced radar stations located off the Eastern Seaboard. In 1957, Capt. Sixto Mangual was commander of the AKL-17 and in 1961 it was rechristened the USNS New Bedford. The New Bedford, sailing out of State Pier, was keeping vigil when Texas Tower No. 4 callapsed off the New Jersey coast during a January 1961 nor'easter.
1963: Reclassified as Miscellaneous Unclassified (IX-308).
1971: The New Bedford (IX-308) served as a Torpedo Test Firing Vessel in the Puget Sound area.
1994: Ceremony in New Bedford.
1995: The ship was struck from the Naval Register on April 4.
2004: The Sea Bird's current disposition is a tuna long liner (fishing boat) out of San Diego, CA.
2006: Design of the Tesla Turbine began on June 11, 2006. The Sea Bird was sold by Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service for commercial service.
2007: The Sea Bird was drydocked for renovations.
2008: The Sea Bird setting sail to Sea-Tac in Seattle, WA.
2009 - 2010: The Sea Bird is currently docked at Seattle Sea-Tac.
