The Richard Clem Engine
From KeelyNet (214) 324-3501 Originally posted on December 26,
1992 - CLEM1.ASC
A few months back, we got a call from a friend who had heard of
this incredible motor that was said to run itself and generate
excess useable power. The details were unclear at the time and our
friend gathered more details and we met for lunch to discuss what
he had found out. This file with diagram is listed on KeelyNet as
CLEM2.ZIP.
As we understand it, inventor Richard Clem died of a heart attack
soon after the deal was signed with the coal company. His workshop
was raided by law enforcement officials and all his notes and
drawings were removed.
The story as I was told by our unnamed friend :
A local man (Dallas) developed a closed system engine that was
purported to generate 350 HP and run itself. The engine weighed
about 200 pounds and ran on cooking oil at temperatures of 300 F.
It consisted of a cone mounted on a horizontal axis. The shaft
which supported the cone was hollow and the cone had spiralling
channels cut into it. These spiralling pathways wound around the
cone terminating at the cone base in the form of nozzles
(rimjets).
When fluid was pumped into the hollow shaft at pressures ranging
from 300-500 PSI (pounds per square inch), it moved into the
closed spiralling channels of the cone and exited from the
nozzles. This action caused the cone to spin. As the velocity of
the fluid increased, so did the rotational speed of the cone.
As the speed continued to increase, the fluid heated up, requiring
a heat exchange and filtering process. At a certain velocity, the
rotating cone became independent of the drive system and began to
operate of itself. The engine ran at speeds of 1800 to 2300 RPM.
Immediately after the inventor had the heart attack and the papers
were removed, the son of the inventor took the only working model
of the machine to a farm near Dallas. There it was buried under 10
feet of concrete and has been running at that depth for several
years.
In later conversations, our contact says the engine had been
tested by Bendix Corporation. The test involved attaching the
engine to a dynamometer to measure the amount of horsepower
generated by the engine in its self-running mode.
It generated a consistent 350 HP for 9 consecutive days which
astounded the engineers at Bendix. They concluded the only source
of energy which could generate this much power in a CLOSED SYSTEM
over an extended period must be of an atomic nature.
Construction of the engine was from off the shelf components
except for the hollow shaft and the custom cone with the enclosed
spiral channels.
Richard Clem worked with heavy machinery for the city of Dallas
and had noticed that certain kinds of high pressure pumps
continued to run for short periods after the power was removed.
His curiosity into this phenomenon led to the development of the
Clem Engine.
The Clem Over-Unity Motor
The following is from a newspaper clipping that has no name or
date.
In 1972, Richard Clem announced the invention of a way to operate
automobile engines on cooking oil. He's still making that claim
today, even though his first prototype motor fell apart and he had
been "strung along" by at least 15 companies before he found
financial backing.
Clem, 48, a heavy equipment operator for the city of Dallas and
part-time inventor, says if the automobile industry adopts his
invention, motorists could change the eight gallons of vegetable
oil only every 150,000 miles and never buy any gas.
Clem said he uses vegetable oil because his motor runs at 300
degrees - a temperature where water has boiled away and
conventional motor oil breaks down. Though he won't divulge many
details of the engine, a 12-volt battery apparently is the only
other source of power.
When Clem finished his first vegetable oil engine in 1972, he
mapped a 600- mile test trip to El Paso for the first engine model
he had financed through his earnings.
But he only made it as far as Abilene before the 'shafts and
everything bent in it.'
He blamed the failure on poor construction, too small a shaft and
the use of chains instead of gears. Undaunted, he decided to try
again, but said, 'I needed money to build this thing better.'
Neither the automobile industry nor the 15 other companies he
wrote - some as far away as Taiwan - were interested in financing
a prototype and then manufacturing it. Then last year, he said, a
large coal company offered to back him. Clem refused to disclose
the name of his benefactor, but did say the coal company had
signed contracts to sell the engines to power companies for use in
pulling turbines.
Clem said he expects to finish work on the motor by the end of
this year. (1972)
Vanguard Note..
The above article was reported as being generated from Flower
Mound, Texas (northwest of Dallas and slightly beyond Carrollton).
I called the only Clem listed in the book as of 11/20/92 and they
knew of no other Clem in that area, nor did they know of any
Richard Clem or his family.
Two separate visits to the patent section of the Dallas Library
have not yielded any patents by a Richard Clem involving any type
of engine. We are still pursuing for more details.
As of 12/26/92, I drew up a .GIF file called CLEM1.GIF that is
bundled with this file under the name CLEM2.ZIP. It gives a better
understanding of how the machine was constructed, at least as it
was described to us.
For those who study such matters, one immediately sees the tie-ins
with Boundary Layer Drag principles as evinced in much of Tesla's
work as well as Victor Schaubergers Impansion and Implosion
discoveries.
We have noted something odd about spinning masses in that at
specific velocities, strange things occur. The velocities at which
phenomena occur are dependent on the resonant frequencies of the
mass as an aggregate, exactly as Keely said.
The Clem system was said to be built with off-the-shelf
components. The most complicated piece of the entire machine was
the cone. And based on Boundary layer drag, it would seem that the
cone was unnecessary.
The question with the Clem device is 'Does the extended surface
area of the cone add to the additional velocity of the cone,
yielding greater pressures through centrifugal force or would flat
plates as in the TESLA turbine be sufficient to generate the same
effect?'
We continue to look for more information on this device and
appreciate your comments or supporting material.
Update as of May 1996
A company called Creative Sciences is selling plans ($60) for what
they claim is a machine that generates 1500hp and runs by itself.
They call this a CEACU and claim it was released by a 70 year old
retired scientist.
The truth of the matter is it was designed and built by the late
Richard Clem of Flower Mound, Texas as documented by this paper.
It is wonderful that someone has taken this information and done
something with it (or so claimed) and we will have more details
later if you might like to build one.
The CEACU design does not require the cone, but instead use a
thick disk with nozzles on the outer edge. A hollow shaft feeds
water into this disk at a high velocity.
As the water exits from the nozzles, the disk spins giving an ever
higher velocity. A 3200 psi air tank is used to get the disk
spinning to 1000 rpm when it is claimed to begin to run on its
own. There are other ways to achieve this velocity beyond 3200 psi
as you can well imagine.
The mailing address for Creative Sciences is;
Creative Science Research
PO BOX 8001
New Albany, IN 47150
They also sell plans for Fuel from water, a Fuel-Less Engine (Ed
Gray), a Gravity motor and a video of a Gray-type engine and the
Gravity motor. If you write them, please let them know that
Richard Clem is the true inventor (as I will).
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08 Feb 2004 05:07:26 PM |
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If only Richard Clem had used Canola oil....he might be alive today.
My BS detector is running full power, *still* too!
;)
sUSAn
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