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realjode | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 My first book was called ‘ living energies ‘  it’s mind blowing 🤯 
I’ve also lost hours and hours looking through his patents  and then going down the rabbit hole on things I liked - 
You can try the EU patents

https://www.epo.org/searching-for-patents/technical/espacenet.html

The ‘spit’ Google patents 

https://patents.google.com/

The US (where he was moved too after WW2) fascinating work on anti gravity stuff 

https://patft.uspto.gov/

That should keep you going for a while - this guy is another Tesla - but of water 🫂
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𝕾𝖊𝖗 𝕾𝖑𝖊𝖊𝖕𝖞 | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I’d rather go down this rabbit hole than binge a Netflix show lfgooo
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realjode | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 He’s an absolute legend- 
Here’s one quick story 
In nature - an animal under threat or startled would normally use the most efficient way to escape danger right ? He noticed that a trout disturbed in a mountain stream wound always swim upstream !! So he looked into it - turns out the gills don’t just filter water - the act of removing oxygen from the water through the gills causes the waste from the gills to attract Oxygen - so if you can imagine the shape of a fish - what better way to increase thrust buy using your shape and chemistry to push you ( a bit like soap in your hand ) so the faster the flow though the gills - equals faster thrust … you still with me ? 
So Gill waste has no oxygen, but it wants to join with oxygen so - oxygen rushed In and push’s the shape uphill - more intake = more thrust 🤯 genius