Ships_Cat
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Don\'t Lock Your Props
Given the continuing disagreement on the "lock or not lock your prop" matter when sailing, we have had the hydrodynamics team here do some investigations and tank testing. The findings have been quite surprising.
Firstly, the tank tests conclusively showed that locked props have higher drag than freewheeling ones. As this is completely contrary to the behaviour of propellers, rotors and turbines in other fluids such as air and fresh water this prompted an intense investigation which is now completed.
What we discovered is that ships' propellers when in salt water (and this only happens in salt water so does not apply on fresh water lakes, for example) have what appears to be an aether in them which when the prop is not rotating is evenly distributed around the prop. It is this eather which causes drag by the mechanism of its field being pulled through the surrounding salt water.
Obviously this is something that has not been realised before so we have named the eather "draghi". The team have managed to describe it in quantum terms now and understand how it works. When the propeller rotates the draghi migrates to the outer parts of the blades and concentrates there. This results in much lessened field and much less drag - this is really quite obvious as we all know that the faster you spin a prop the faster we go, this is because of this drag reduction. Those who have a strong knowledge of field theory (and know all about divergence and curl) will probably immediately see where we are coming from on this.
What we have also now managed to do is trick (a common term in quantum physics) the draghi to flow out of the propeller altogether into the drive shaft so that its field cannot interact with the water at all. This will result in a propellor with no drag whatsoever, whether rotating or not. Its field will also then be available to a suitable pick up in the boat and about the shaft and we believe that we will soon find a way to harness this as a means for very efficient electricity generation by means of the draghi field in the shaft rotating through a salt water cell about it - more to come on this as the final problems are solved.
So, it seems that the matter is now put to rest with conclusive results which will convince even the most sceptical. The results will be published shortly.
John
<hr width=100% size=1>I am the cat but I am only 6.
Given the continuing disagreement on the "lock or not lock your prop" matter when sailing, we have had the hydrodynamics team here do some investigations and tank testing. The findings have been quite surprising.
Firstly, the tank tests conclusively showed that locked props have higher drag than freewheeling ones. As this is completely contrary to the behaviour of propellers, rotors and turbines in other fluids such as air and fresh water this prompted an intense investigation which is now completed.
What we discovered is that ships' propellers when in salt water (and this only happens in salt water so does not apply on fresh water lakes, for example) have what appears to be an aether in them which when the prop is not rotating is evenly distributed around the prop. It is this eather which causes drag by the mechanism of its field being pulled through the surrounding salt water.
Obviously this is something that has not been realised before so we have named the eather "draghi". The team have managed to describe it in quantum terms now and understand how it works. When the propeller rotates the draghi migrates to the outer parts of the blades and concentrates there. This results in much lessened field and much less drag - this is really quite obvious as we all know that the faster you spin a prop the faster we go, this is because of this drag reduction. Those who have a strong knowledge of field theory (and know all about divergence and curl) will probably immediately see where we are coming from on this.
What we have also now managed to do is trick (a common term in quantum physics) the draghi to flow out of the propeller altogether into the drive shaft so that its field cannot interact with the water at all. This will result in a propellor with no drag whatsoever, whether rotating or not. Its field will also then be available to a suitable pick up in the boat and about the shaft and we believe that we will soon find a way to harness this as a means for very efficient electricity generation by means of the draghi field in the shaft rotating through a salt water cell about it - more to come on this as the final problems are solved.
So, it seems that the matter is now put to rest with conclusive results which will convince even the most sceptical. The results will be published shortly.
John
<hr width=100% size=1>I am the cat but I am only 6.
