Hi,
I received an answer from Adolf Schneider,
the publisher of the Switzerland´s Net-Journal:
http://www.borderlands.de/inet.jrnl.php3Dear Stefan.
Mr. Spiteri will come with his technical assistants now back to our meeting in Zurich.
A representative of a Swiss engineering group had seen in July on the spot Spiteri´s construction.
The individual phases just work as described, but a long run is not possible,
because it still has leaks and other mechanical defects of the machine ,
so a longer run is not possible at this moment.
It is thought about to build a small working model (which of course has much less power, but should easily run contineously).
The construction is done quite cleverly, mainly because the buoyancy ensures in the first phase, that the main weight
together with the buoyancy air-compartments will go up over the pivot point and then of course due to the excess weight of the entire cylinder above its center of gravity it tilts itself into rotation.
If the floats are then down, they move only upward again, when the valves are re-watering the lower side of the floats and the structure's lower side (in between).
With floats, it is precisely the interesting property that the lift (obviously) is only effective if the float is exposed on the top and bottom to a different water pressure.
This is not the case if for example an empty barrel stands completely flat on the floor inside the water
( so that below the barrel there could not be any effective water pressure and so the barrel gets no buoyancy ! ). In this case - those phases, we have at the pump Spiteri - only the water pressure pushes on the top of the barrel and the barrel remains at the bottom of a water vessel stand. Only when we can tilt it sideways, so that water flows from the bottom floor between the barrel and the vessel base, the lift begins to work. So here we have a way to virtually "shut down" the lifting forces and thus bring in an asymmetry in one cycle.
The downward acting force of gravity can not be so easily "switched off".
Basically we assume that a closed force-distance (current integral) in a conservative field gives the sum of zero.
If one succeeds, however, to change the conservative field during a cycle (change in field strength, interruption of the field strength, shielding, etc.), then we have non-conservative conditions.
In this case, it is conceivable that not only in a straight line (in the perpendicular case, the gravitational field), but also with a circulation (as in between a so-called "renormalization" or a "Regauging") has taken place, the energy from the field can be obtained.
Non-conservative fields there are for example in a pipe flow, where the current flows in the center than at the edge. A particle which moves in the middle, is carried by strong energy. If it is then perpendicular (across) the flow in the direction of the tube wall moves, it can along the tube wall to flow back (with less energy expenditure) and come back to the starting point (by turn away from the wall cross-flows in the middle). This ultimately leads to the fact that independent vortices may form in the flow.
A non-conservative situation, we have also at magnetic material in an external magnetic field. A round with "energy gain" (the field) is possible, if interrupted during a partial-distance, the magnetic field / off or shielded. Appropriate shielding should give it.
Kind regards
Adolf Schneider