III. Our Comparative Tests... Continued 

April 29, 2002

In our next set of photos we compare our Tesla assembly to several winglet configurations. You will notice changes in angle of attack (on the winglets), and in one case we flipped the winglet backward and rounded the trailing edge to become a leading edge.

Conclusions

Even though we have many more experiments to perform on the basic technology, and even more development work to turn it into a world class product, our initial tests revealed that we are definitely moving in the right direction. Our tests revealed that we can reach higher efficiencies with the robustness of the Tesla turbine with relatively minor geometry changes.

Coming up -- back to the combustion models, and how we get the most bang for the fuel buck!

Ken Rieli

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