Centripetal motion is a RadialàAxial flow. It is movement inwards on an axis, or to a central point of gravity. The brilliant forester-scientist Viktor Schauberger described centripetal flow as nature’s original creative motion and the predominant flow pattern of growing and healthy biological as well as hydrological cycles. He saw that the streams and rivers are not just pushed by gravity down to the ocean, but they are also wound by alternating longitudinal vortices. These self-organizing vortices cut out the meandering pattern by which the water winds itself like a snake down to the ocean. As the spirals alternate down the river bends, they chew up earth minerals and micronutrients, charge them and disperse them at the midpoint between bends. At this point, as the chewed and charged sediment is being deposited, the water begins to alternate its flow in a reverse spiral for the upcoming bend. Viktor Schauberger called this “the soul of the river” or “the river generator.” This pattern is very much responsible for the shape of rivers and can even be seen self-organizing with a droplet size stream flowing down a smooth diagonal pane of glass. Schauberger mentioned a definite electromagnetic effect from this alternating spiral flow pattern, and this is evident in his term “river generator” as he was referring not just to the generating of the physical flow pattern but also the building up of electromagnetic charge. The Swedish engineer Olaf Alexanderson, who authored a book on Schauberger, has done many years of research along those lines. He found that when he placed copper plates in the bends of the river and connected them with copper wire, he got pulsed direct current electricity. This is part of the logic of “the river generator,” and according to Schauberger, increased the capacity of the water to support life--part of a process he called “ennoblement.”
