The Bergen Engine
Technological Breakthrough

An Overview

If we were to look at the state of the world in general and industry in particular in die 21st century and project it into the future, many needs seem not only quite evident, necessary, and universal, but also quite urgent. Essentially we're talking about fossil fuels, about the natural supply that we've been using in order to create power and energy, and which-according to fact-is finite and is being depleted at an exponential rate. It is therefore necessary that we look to the future, and project our dependency on energy to a time when we will no longer be able to utilise fossil fuels. It therefore appears absolutely necessary, and urgent, that we begin to find ways of using other sources of energy which are less likely to deplete, whilst mankind continues to strive and progress. Even better-we have to find THE OPTIMUM SOLUTION that can take civilisation into future millennia without causing major pitfalls in the centuries ahead.

The present outlook is not really promising. Numerous inefficiencies in the present set-up have the potential to cause great disruption and stress in world industries, economy, lifestyle, and social and environmental health and safety. It is not only necessary that we find a means by which to alter our source of energy, but that this source of energy satisfies other essential prerequisites.

It must be environmentally safe, in the sense that detrimental gaseous emissions, as is common with today's fuel-driven systems, are eradicated, and therefore this system should not play any destructive role at all in global warming. Such environmental conditions require urgent treatment, in order to lessen the strain on populations across the globe, and ensure that man's health does not diminish as a result of the bad state of the environment. One of the most important questions we should ask is whether it is true that some of the major environmental organisations are funded by key oil interests. We need a major breakthrough to decisively turn around this situation.

Being assertive and efficient about ensuring social and environmental safety requires that we look to the universal application of this system. It can be intuited that this system be universally readily available, and not be associated to limited resources which only a few select countries have access to. Rather, it must be associated with cost-effectiveness and a healthy competitiveness, which will stimulate industry, as opposed to predatorily victimizing companies who do not embrace the technology at the outset.
At the same time it should be kept in mind that the very essence of energy is competition.

Alongside cost-effectiveness, and a simple understanding of the wide application this system will have to be able to achieve, it can be seen that in a world where transport and mobility, for example, are relied upon for national and international travel that this system must surpass the solutions that inventors and manufacturers of today's fuel-driven systems have come up with. It's application for example in motor engines, must positively effect travel and minimise congestion of traffic in some or other way, because we can expect that in the 21st century, and moving on into the next century, travel abroad and nationally will increase exponentially and will not really be freed up to become a truly proliferated global traffic system, unless vertical take-off and landing transport can be made economical. One of the reasons is that roads cannot be built over major oceans to accommodate vehicles in the myriad of routes that will have to be opened up. On a global scale, today's energy system, with its large jet aircraft and earthbound vehicles, with its constraints in numbers and in earthbound limitations, will have to be dramatically altered and improved to provide for this inevitable demand.

It has been the dedication by Jacques van den Berg over the past three decades to address these urgent needs that have led to his invention and development of the Bergen Engine ©. It is basically a no-fuel engine that runs by harvesting the kinetic energy of normal compressed air molecules. The concept can be adapted to an individual unit in a vehicle or a stand-alone unit of any size driving machinery in a factory, or to a unit driving a generator to generate electricity. A factory owner in particular circumstances, such as in a deregulated area, who installs a generator at one shaft end of a Bergen Engine © and a manufacturing machine at the other end at each point where he used to make do with an electric motor throughout his factory, reaps the benefit of additional income, selling electricity to the national electricity distribution grid while additionally enjoying the benefits of lower production costs! Truly a win-win situation! The Bergen Engine/Motor © It will be available in all sizes throughout the spectrum, to replace existing motors and engines. Ideally, it can run solely on a single charge of compressed air for many months or years, depending on the efficiency of the seals. The basic principle has been proved by means of a model. The reason that the engine is expected to run without replenishment is because the gas or other type of fluid is kept entirely within the system, and so the same fluid will be re-used, perpetually as long as the seals hold. (In primitive man-made energy systems, the gas is expelled after use.)

Compressors at the factory provides the initial pressure, while an auxiliary compressor replenishes the gas that does escape past the seals, providing a theoretically infallible perpetual energy system. It should be kept in mind that the small ancillary compressor that pumps back leaked gas will be oversupplying gas to the system, allowing a relatively long life for seals in the engine (maintaining an adequate supply while seals deteriorate normally over time). An additional ultra high-pressure reserve pressure vessel, which kicks in when emergency / additional power is needed in a hurry, can provide for turbo power.

The precise details of the actual mechanical workings of the Bergen Engine © have not been made available to the general public yet. However, certain details are available: the Bergen Engine © uses a well-known phenomenon in nature such as centrifugal force (not the latter), each component of the Pressure-Volume-Temperature (PVT) in the system remains constant with the whole system running at or near ambient temperature, making it a 100% environmentally-friendly system. The mechanism that drives the Bergen Engine © is purely mechanical (with no chemical, magnetic or radioactive elements). Additionally, the Bergen Engine © is able to start and operate under extreme weather conditions, because of the fact that compressed air cannot freeze up, and because of the constant PVT in the system. One of the concepts used in the development of the Bergen Engine © was that of driving a piston downwards under compression, and then allowing it to return to it's initial position (against atmosphere) whilst containing all of the gas inside the system. The sequence of events in the engine can be reversed at will, changing the angular velocity sharply or even bringing the mechanism to a halt, applying a brake when the revs are very low. A useful corollary of this is that the engine can work in reverse, eliminating the need for a reverse gear.

Professor W. J. Koen, retired Physics Professor at the University of Stellenbosch stated on 18 May 2000, "As far as I am able to judge the arrangement suggested by Jacques van den Berg violates none of the known principles in Physics that I am aware of. It contains an arrangement, which, to my knowledge, is unique. I think the present concept has that simplicity but special quality to be a winner."

Although the pressures in the system would be very high in some applications, the Bergen Engine © is not bound to high pressures - i.e. it can run at anywhere between moderate and high pressures depending on the specific application. In some cases, high pressures would be potentially dangerous, such as in cars, and hence the Bergen concept is flexible in that regard, making it suitable for a much larger range of applications. When extremely high pressures are used (all pressure charges initiated by compressors at the factory), a power-to-weight ratio comparison to conventional energy systems clearly shows the advantage of the Bergen concept - the average pressure on a piston in a conventional piston engine is 150 psi, while pressures of 6 615 psi are easily achievable when using compressors. As a mean average, the power-to-weight ratio of the Bergen Engine © can be said to be at least 5 to 35 times better than existing conventional technology. Hydraulic pressure will be used in certain applications, where the advantage will be further improved to anything up to 100 times. An advantage of 15 times seems to be the most likely in this sphere of Bergen Technology.

A Bergen motor lasts at least as long as any electric motor and runs quieter without the possibility of a burnout. Bergen Engines © have better acceleration in all classes of motors. No detail has been overlooked as far as safety is concerned, with critical parts having been 200% over-designed to cope with any possible eventuality. Even in the unlikely event of a complete seal failure, sensors will detect this immediately, and sever the gas supply to the affected section/s. The remaining pressure will then be raised, temporarily drawing from the ultra-high pressure vessel, to consolidate this loss, enabling the engine to continue functioning until the problem can be properly addressed.

Although theoretically not relying on external fuel replenishment, the Bergen Engine © requires that attention be given to the seals during certain major services, seeing that the sealing system is subject to enormous strain. These seals will then inevitably, together with basic lubricants, need to be replaced. These costs, however, are marginal compared with the constant fuel costs required by existing technology.

When work on this report was commenced, the advantage of accelerating forces over decelerating forces per cycle (excluding factors such as friction and gas leakage) in the Bergen Engine was 40%. It had taken 17 years (from 1981-1998) to achieve a difference of around 1%. Before this report was completed, the difference of 40% was increased to around 160%. At the end of 2002, the difference was 834%. The prognosis of this breakthrough is that the Engine will be able to overcome friction and pump back leaked gas by shedding a few RPM, which seems extremely positive. Bergen Management are now confidently awaiting the outcome of tests to be performed on the Prototype presently under construction in North America (the latter hopefully conclusively proving feasibility by the end of June 2003) that will hopefully substantiate the above claims, excluding friction and gas leakage at this stage.

Due to the enormity of the project, and the extent of research which has gone into it, it seems quite impossible to think that there might be mishaps of functionality, which might affect the entire product. It seems more feasible however to think that any problems or glitches, which might occur, shall do so on a more micro level.

On the other hand, the Bergen Engine © boasts great successes and strengths such as uniqueness which consists in its being at the forefront of an entirely new economy and industry, surely to have many fierce competitors and supporters. Due to this uniqueness, if managed well, and if it's passing into the industry is as successful as its initial idea, there is great promise for very high profit yields, and open planes of application and manoeuvring.

One of the most important and substantial qualities of Bergen Engine © is that it is proof that environment and technology can assist each other, and it therefore provides the world, whose major players are constantly searching for ways in which to replace fossil fuels before their eventual depletion, with a tangible, working model, from which to progress even further, beyond simply engines, creating an entirely new source of energy. In fact, the whole world is expected to Bergenize ©.

It can therefore be seen that technology, community, the environment, and industry, actively assist each other in influencing the progression of science, and it is all of these arenas which must be developed along with the functioning product, in order to make this possible. This is exactly what Bergen Engine © technology promotes, a holistic development, by means of a main design team of high intellectual ability and an experienced and innovative management team, to work with the product.

With the Bergen engine © being one of the most brilliant inventions of all time, its concept, design and working will have enormous benefits that will improve the lives and quality of life of all its users.

Because the Bergen engine's © power to weight ratio is approximately at least 5 times better than conventional technology used at present, large amounts of power can be produced easier and safely, with the engine occupying less space and reducing costs associated with products containing Bergen Engines and Motors ©; for instance in terms of lower transport costs of products containing Bergen Motors © and occupying less floor space. A common problem associated with power generation is the amount of space that large engines, turbines and auxiliary systems such as nuclear reactors occupy.

The Bergen engine's © revolutionary uses will make it invaluable to every one of its users. In transportation (as the power source in airplanes, cars, trains, ships etc), in the home (as appliances and for power generation), in industries (as cheaper forms of power generation and additional source of income while selling Bergen generated zero-fuel electricity to the national distribution grid) as well as in various forms of agriculture (in tractors, water pumps, etc.). The Bergen engine © can and most probably will replace all conventional internal combustion engines and all electrical motors, within the next one and a half decades.

The Bergen engine © will last as long as the conventional electric motor, only no burnouts will be experienced. Being a purely mechanical mechanism and being able to replenish its own source of power, no fuel is required. The user will never have to fill up with compressed air as the ancillary compressor does that on a continual basis. The engine will also not require any need for "additives" such as hydrogen-producing substances. Because the engine runs off compressed air, using the engine is the cheapest and most practical way to carry out our daily lives. The engine could save the consumer trillions of Dollars in fuel costs, which is not surprising considering that fuel costs exceed the initial purchase price of a vehicle in the long run. With only a very limited amount of fossil fuels available, conventional engines cannot continue forever. This opens the door for this revolutionary invention to make its mark, as it becomes the most practical way for source of power, to travel and save large amounts of money.

In terms of investment, the Bergen engine © could possibly yield returns of approximately 2000-4900 %, making the Bergen engine © an investors "dream come true".

Owners of vehicles fitted with the Bergen Engine^© will not have to worry about high maintenance costs, only the occasional seal, roller, bearing and lubricants that accompany its usual services. The general principle is that the zero-fuel benefit will be split 40-60% in favour of the user of Bergen Technology. The engine runs at near ambient temperature, making it very safe for the user and the environment, with little or no effect on global warming.

Most power generating engines emit large amounts of dangerous toxins into the atmosphere, making them extremely harmful to all forms of life. The Bergen engine © on the other hand is 100% environmentally friendly, there are no dangerous gases emitted whatsoever, neither in manufacture or in use. Also the compressed gases used in the engine are nothing more than harmless air from our surrounding atmosphere. Noise emitted by most power generating devices has a significant contribution to another form of "clean" yet harmful pollution, namely Noise pollution. The Bergen engine© however is not a contributor to this problem, it is quieter than an electric motor. It is also, in terms of safety as safe as a gasoline /petrol engine.

The Bergen engine © will also have endless possibilities in the military, as engines for fighter jets (making them more compact and faster), as well as in helicopters, submarines, warships and tanks. The possible uses for the Bergen engine © are however by no means closed. There are also vast opportunities for this engine to be used in future space exploration.

The engine / motor will be used in nearly every single facet of our daily lives, from refrigeration to transportation, from huge power generating engines for industries and cities to micro motors for batteries in cell phones, laptops etc.

As far as technology is concerned with the development and invention of better and safer power generating devices, and keeping in mind the problems of finite amounts of fossil fuels available as well as the effects of using these fuels, alternate sources of power have had to be developed. The Bergen engine © is the very best solution to these previously raised concerns, as it has far reaching beneficial possibilities to all of mankind. Its impact on society is, immeasurable.