FiberRubber: Amazing new hull system
-
- Posts: 509
- Joined: Thu Oct 06, 2011 9:20 am
- 12
- Your location: Middle Georgia
FiberRubber: Amazing new hull system
A NEW US Citizen spent a Year perfecting the product and has built a vessel utilizing the technology: mash here
As the coating generates Electricity from water impacting the Hull, the imagination of uses is amazing, especially in the remote operating areas.
As the coating generates Electricity from water impacting the Hull, the imagination of uses is amazing, especially in the remote operating areas.
I only do what the voices in the Tackle Box tell me to.
- gandrfab
- Posts: 600
- Joined: Fri Mar 28, 2008 12:33 pm
- 16
- Your location: Edgewater Fl
- Location: Edgewater Fl
Re: FiberRubber: Amazing new hull system
More information posted in the post body please.
- goatram
- Donator 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19
- Posts: 1959
- Joined: Wed Apr 09, 2008 11:53 pm
- 16
- Your location: Stanwood, Wa
- Location: Stanwood WA
Re: FiberRubber: Amazing new hull system
They say that necessity is the mother of invention, but sometimes all is takes is a garage, a chemist, and a really good idea. Such is the case with FiberRubber®, the brainchild of Alokin Alset, an immigrant from East Europe who was granted US citizenship one year to the day after being granted a patent on this new form of flexible NON ALLOY.
“The secret to FiberRubber® lies in the molecular bonds,” Alset explained. “The molecules are arranged in a 4-1-15 pattern that allows them to change shape when striking the waves. A FiberRubber® hull will actually ripple from stem to stern, as it passes through a wave. This allows it to absorb virtually all of the impact forces.”
FiberRubber flexible NON ALLOY revolutionary boat material
As if that wouldn’t be enough to excite boaters, the truly revolutionary aspect to this material is its ability to power the propulsion system. As the Fiber Rubber flexes and ripples, piezoelectric micro-oscillators embedded in the fibers create an electrical current. The current travels through a network of embedded fiber-optics, to a sort of sub-station (that also forms an aft bench seat) that converts the current to 24 volts, and then feeds it to a Li-Ion battery pack.
To prove the material works, Alset built a 25’ long prototype pocket-trawler in the garage of his Edison, New York home. The hull is 100-percent FiberRubber® to the waterline. From there up, the hull, deck, and wheelhouse are vacuum-molded rigid NON ALLOY. Propulsion comes courtesy of a French-built 100 HP Parc-llub electric engine, mated to a Chinese Yaw On drive unit. In honor of his Serbian mother, he christened the vessel LoofLirpa upon its completion.
In the spring of 2013, Alset applied for his patent and then tested the boat—first in the Finger Lakes, and later in the open Atlantic. The next two years were spent tweaking and modifying LoofLirpa until Alset was completely confident in its ability.
“The beauty in my system is that unlike solar or wind-powered electrical vessels, the FiberRubber® boat isn’t subject to the whims of nature,” Alset claimed. “You don’t lose power when the sun is obscured by clouds, or when there is no breeze. Once you give the boat its initial ‘push’ with the lithium-ion power cell, it’s completely self-sustaining. The faster you go the more the boat flexes, so the more power you generate. The only time an issue arises is when the water is dead flat calm. In this instance you must circle back and strike your own wake at least once every 100 yards, or, as a last alternative, someone can stand up in the bow and jump up and down like an excited monkey-boy trying to snatch bananas out of a tree. This, too, will create enough flexing in the FiberRubber® to power the craft.”
We’re looking forward to our promised test run on the first production model FiberRubber® boat in time for our next publishing deadline one year from today, on April 1st, 2016.
“The secret to FiberRubber® lies in the molecular bonds,” Alset explained. “The molecules are arranged in a 4-1-15 pattern that allows them to change shape when striking the waves. A FiberRubber® hull will actually ripple from stem to stern, as it passes through a wave. This allows it to absorb virtually all of the impact forces.”
FiberRubber flexible NON ALLOY revolutionary boat material
As if that wouldn’t be enough to excite boaters, the truly revolutionary aspect to this material is its ability to power the propulsion system. As the Fiber Rubber flexes and ripples, piezoelectric micro-oscillators embedded in the fibers create an electrical current. The current travels through a network of embedded fiber-optics, to a sort of sub-station (that also forms an aft bench seat) that converts the current to 24 volts, and then feeds it to a Li-Ion battery pack.
To prove the material works, Alset built a 25’ long prototype pocket-trawler in the garage of his Edison, New York home. The hull is 100-percent FiberRubber® to the waterline. From there up, the hull, deck, and wheelhouse are vacuum-molded rigid NON ALLOY. Propulsion comes courtesy of a French-built 100 HP Parc-llub electric engine, mated to a Chinese Yaw On drive unit. In honor of his Serbian mother, he christened the vessel LoofLirpa upon its completion.
In the spring of 2013, Alset applied for his patent and then tested the boat—first in the Finger Lakes, and later in the open Atlantic. The next two years were spent tweaking and modifying LoofLirpa until Alset was completely confident in its ability.
“The beauty in my system is that unlike solar or wind-powered electrical vessels, the FiberRubber® boat isn’t subject to the whims of nature,” Alset claimed. “You don’t lose power when the sun is obscured by clouds, or when there is no breeze. Once you give the boat its initial ‘push’ with the lithium-ion power cell, it’s completely self-sustaining. The faster you go the more the boat flexes, so the more power you generate. The only time an issue arises is when the water is dead flat calm. In this instance you must circle back and strike your own wake at least once every 100 yards, or, as a last alternative, someone can stand up in the bow and jump up and down like an excited monkey-boy trying to snatch bananas out of a tree. This, too, will create enough flexing in the FiberRubber® to power the craft.”
We’re looking forward to our promised test run on the first production model FiberRubber® boat in time for our next publishing deadline one year from today, on April 1st, 2016.
John Risser aka goatram
33' RBW with twin 250 Hondas (Aliens)
2015 Ford F350 Dually
Master of R&D aka Ripoff and Duplicate
33' RBW with twin 250 Hondas (Aliens)
2015 Ford F350 Dually
Master of R&D aka Ripoff and Duplicate
-
- Contributor
- Posts: 486
- Joined: Wed Jan 09, 2008 12:59 am
- 16
- Your location: Brisbane, Australia
- Location: Brisbane, Australia
Re: FiberRubber: Amazing new hull system
I see....................................
Regards,
Pete in Brisbane
Pete in Brisbane
-
- Donator '09
- Posts: 2246
- Joined: Sun Jan 13, 2008 12:19 am
- 16
- Your location: Seattle, WA
- Location: Seattle, WA
Re: FiberRubber: Amazing new hull system
That boat needs a bottom job . . . weirdest marine growth I've ever seen but the sandblaster will make short work of it. Give the guy my number . . . hmm . . . the inventors name spelled backwards is . . . ?
1987 24' LaConner pilothouse workboat, 225 Suzuki
please view and like: https://www.facebook.com/bottompainting/
please view and like: https://www.facebook.com/bottompainting/
-
- Posts: 67
- Joined: Tue Jan 10, 2012 4:20 pm
- 12
- Your location: New Zealand
- Location: New Zealand
- Contact:
Re: FiberRubber: Amazing new hull system
At first glance with a cursory read it would appear to be 'over-unity'.
-
- Donator ,15
- Posts: 17
- Joined: Mon Sep 29, 2014 4:35 pm
- 9
- Your location: North of Boston
- Location: Massachusetts
Re: FiberRubber: Amazing new hull system
^^^
That and the date of publication should be a hint................
That and the date of publication should be a hint................
-
- Posts: 509
- Joined: Thu Oct 06, 2011 9:20 am
- 12
- Your location: Middle Georgia
Re: FiberRubber: Amazing new hull system
And I fell for it.....:/
I only do what the voices in the Tackle Box tell me to.
-
- Donator '09
- Posts: 2246
- Joined: Sun Jan 13, 2008 12:19 am
- 16
- Your location: Seattle, WA
- Location: Seattle, WA
Re: FiberRubber: Amazing new hull system
No way!!! I figured you were laying a trap for the rest of us!dawgaholic wrote:And I fell for it.....:/
1987 24' LaConner pilothouse workboat, 225 Suzuki
please view and like: https://www.facebook.com/bottompainting/
please view and like: https://www.facebook.com/bottompainting/
- goatram
- Donator 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19
- Posts: 1959
- Joined: Wed Apr 09, 2008 11:53 pm
- 16
- Your location: Stanwood, Wa
- Location: Stanwood WA
Re: FiberRubber: Amazing new hull system
As did I
John Risser aka goatram
33' RBW with twin 250 Hondas (Aliens)
2015 Ford F350 Dually
Master of R&D aka Ripoff and Duplicate
33' RBW with twin 250 Hondas (Aliens)
2015 Ford F350 Dually
Master of R&D aka Ripoff and Duplicate
-
- Posts: 509
- Joined: Thu Oct 06, 2011 9:20 am
- 12
- Your location: Middle Georgia
Re: FiberRubber: Amazing new hull system
No. I simply didn't see it coming....Chaps wrote:No way!!! I figured you were laying a trap for the rest of us!dawgaholic wrote:And I fell for it.....:/
I only do what the voices in the Tackle Box tell me to.