My Ampere Clamps

Spark gaps can't handle the amps, Clamps!
Spark gaps can't handle the amps.

     Motor electric is real,
     Energy going to steal,
     Arcing and sparking, ozone and marking,
     Brushes and segments anneal.

Spark gaps can't handle the amps, Clamps!
Spark gaps can't handle the amps.

     Though it is time to slow down.
     Motor keeps spinning around,
     In it’s own way, it keeps making hay,
     Electrical noise doth abound.

Spark gaps can't handle the amps, Clamps!
Spark gaps can't handle the amps.

     A nuisance that must be abate,
     Rather than brushes ablate,
     Clamp it with diode instead of a gap,
     The motor can then generate,

    Power, because…

Spark gaps can't handle the amps, Clamps!
Spark gaps can't handle the amps.

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My Biplane Propeller

Recently listened to a lecture on regenerative electric flight. Electric motor and propeller airplanes are actually flying these days in 2011. Electric motor glider can take off using electric motor and propeller, and fly into an area of lift there to circle and gain altitude in the regular way as a glider flies. During glide to landing, the propeller could function as a windmill and the motor could function as a generator, recharging the batteries during descent.
More after the cut.