[john70t]

A few years ago I filed for a patent on a triple-rotor electric motor that I thought up back in '98 (instantaneously when I was dead tired and surrounded by mountains of semi-crushed boxes at the old career), but a guy from Taiwan got there first (strangely.....it was not discovered from my own and a professional search, and the attempt cost me quite a bit of (car)money).
Reference USPTO 6,297,575 for something similar to mine.
The concept was theoretically based on a mass/flywheel/rotor accelerating off one adjoining rotor and decellerating on another, which is reverse geared to the first.
-The motor should have had greater efficiency because the floating reaction points, and a much higher electrical overload threshhold.
-The energy used for acceleration is recaptured by the decelleration-yet both output torque towards the same shaft and the process is reversable depending on rpms. Efficiency being lost with higher rpms.
-The heavy customizable middle mass would also be able to be suddenly decellerate on either rotor, with a quantifying pneumatic effect, or output excess inertia to a seperate electric/pneumatic/hydraulic PTO.


My point is that the next generation of technowlogy is usually based on the previous technowlegy, unless you consider Nickolai Tesla, of course, who pretty-much singlehandedly created our entire modern society from scratch.
But it is free-thinkers and dreamers that fill in the gaps, and reshape the circles and squares, and find the next object and (with enough random banging on something) find a new use for it.