7:13 AM
Atreyu
Sixto Fernando Ramos, a blind peruvian engineer of 63 years,
rose to fame this week in his country after receiving an international award
for creating a system that could solve the global energy problem by multiplying
the force generated by a engine as many times as they want.
With the "force multiplier system", an invention he
devised 15 years ago, as it lost vision, this humble engineer won the bronze
medal in the category of mechanical and industrial processes of the fortieth edition
of the International Exhibition of Inventions held in Geneva (Switzerland) last
week.Ramos told Efe that his system is "capable of moving a boat with the engine of a car" and is based on two parallel axles whose centers are connected to the end of filming a bar connecting the two, in turn, contains in the middle two shootings "descéntricos" varying its center of gravity.
This allows the application of movement on one axis, the other rotates in reverse and "return the force times the first, which also generates an external force that can magnify" if you connect other side to repeat the same action .
"It's that simple. You create an action and reaction. The force transgressest the other axis, then multiply, and so continuously, "Ramos said simply.
The system is exponential because "an engine of a horse can be multiplied by twenty, and then, for forty to have 800 horses," since it depends on variables such as wheelbase, mass, diameter, eccentricity and direction, that "the greater, the greater the increased strength."
Its simplicity is in classical mechanics, with the lever of Archimedes and the parallels of Tales: "It varies the gravity of a body to fall and the force of falling increases with a lever for transmission to the other axis. It's like Kung Fu. Using the opponent's strength to overcome it, "he said.
Ramos conceived the idea 15 years ago, when the disguised hydraulic pump and the other engineers in his company were unable to understand its operation to remove it.
But its applications go beyond a water pump, a car or a
tractor, and that "could be applied to power plants, hydroelectric or wind
mills" that would increase their power to make "the madness of power
the wind mill move to other mills. "
"This can reduce the cost of desalinating or purifying water," added the engineer, who said that "you can save the planet if we all only because ideas change the world."
"With the beginning of the multiplier benefit all developing countries have cheaper energy and advanced energy would solve their problems because they are dedicated to optimizing the fuel, but had forgotten to optimize the mechanics, where there is a link that escapes "he said.
Ramos confirmed that a university in Germany, which in 2011 scheduled to close its nuclear plants, has been interested in your project, but said he first wants to develop in Peru "because there is not profit but service."
The blind engineer was late to Geneva for the jury to review his invention, which was behind a robotic hand and a marble cutter, but the interest among the participants convinced the judges to award the bronze medal.
"This can reduce the cost of desalinating or purifying water," added the engineer, who said that "you can save the planet if we all only because ideas change the world."
"With the beginning of the multiplier benefit all developing countries have cheaper energy and advanced energy would solve their problems because they are dedicated to optimizing the fuel, but had forgotten to optimize the mechanics, where there is a link that escapes "he said.
Ramos confirmed that a university in Germany, which in 2011 scheduled to close its nuclear plants, has been interested in your project, but said he first wants to develop in Peru "because there is not profit but service."
The blind engineer was late to Geneva for the jury to review his invention, which was behind a robotic hand and a marble cutter, but the interest among the participants convinced the judges to award the bronze medal.
