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In another example of the superiority of pure capitalism, citizens in our confederacy have been perfecting a Dutch design, the 'Whisperer Engine". This engine is actually a regular wheel, but with an electrical engine built in. Since this means power need not run from a main engine to the decentralized wheels, friction is cut down, and therefore energy loss is also cut down, creating a much more efficient engine.
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"What makes ‘the whisperer´revolutionary; a ring functioning as a wheel. By just putting a tire on it you can drive a bus, a car, anything with it. Since the wheel is in fact the engine, no axles or any other friction-producing and therefore energy-wasting mechanical parts are needed.

Even the transmission is unnecessary; if you want to go faster you just run more electricity through the engine. And it works really well while braking, when the in-wheel engine works as a generator, produces electricity to charge the batteries."

The electricity is stored in large batteries where the old engine used to be, so the basic design of most automobiles need not be changed.

this engine is also much more energy-efficient and cleaner than any toher engine on the market, as well as being the only viable electric-type engine for public transit buses.

http://www.rnw.nl/science/html/031215wheel.html

Since our free country does not believe in patent laws, the entire design will be free to anyone. However, interested countries may want to use our scientists, who are much more knowledgeable with the system, and wil lbe able to show you how to best build it and improve on it.

It is advances like this which show the world the advantages of freedom, I hope the world follows us into freedom upon hearing of the great technological innovations, social progress, and ethicality that such a path creates.

From Freedom, Prosperity
Dave Schmidt
Representative of the Confederacy of Freed Citizens

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Right....so what makes the wheels spin?

"The outer wall of a traditional electric engine is a cylinder lined on the inside with copper wire. If electricity is fed into the copper wire, the current will circle the cylinder on the inside at high speed. Cylinder and wire together are called the ‘stator' (because it doesn't move).

"To change the electricity running along the inner wall of the cylinder into movement, another part of the engine comes into play: ‘the rotor'. This is in fact an axle, mounted in the centre of the cylinder, with permanent magnets attached to it. The electrical current in the stator pulls the rotor magnets along and the axle starts to turn.

"The wheel works precisely the other way around. The fixed part of the engine - the stator - is now on the inside. The wire is wrapped around it.

"The moving part of the engine – the rotor - is no longer an axle fitted with magnets but a ring running on the outside of the stator.

"The magnets are fixed on the inside of this ring. If power is fed into the engine the magnets will – as before - follow the current, but now it's the ring on the outside, which will turn."