Simulation - Gravity Powered Wheel

Made in armadillo run, using tension in spring to regulate the moving weights range of motion and effect on the wheel.

And here is what working model 2005 has to say about the design.
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Science & Technology

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• gravity
• wheel
• perpetual
• motion
• free
• energy
• bessler

[jaymcd84]

the law of conservation of energy prevents perpetual motion from happening. if there was unlimited energy being created where would it go? how would it be stored? there is no such thing as infinity except in math, but math is flawed. if there was an infinite amount of anything other than space and time, we would all be that infinite thing. if i had an infinite amount of water, that means i could never run out, so i could fill the universe with it, and then some?

[seanthelight]

@jaymcd84 You confuse the concept of perpetual motion with energy generation I think. This wheel is only manipulating the flow of energy that already exists in buoyancy. The wheel is just holding energy gained at highest leverage, and storing it until a point of lower leverage. By doing so, it is able to use that stored energy to flip the weight near the top, maintaining a total system (wheel) imbalance. This works much like a water wheel, but instead of flowing water it uses gravity/buoyancy.

[jaymcd84]

@seanthelight

perpetual motion would be the same as energy. remember the equation e=mc*2? mass=energy, motion of mass is to move energy, to keep mass moving you would need perpetual energy

[seanthelight]

@jaymcd84 Well that is interesting. What energy is creating the constant pull between masses then? An object at rest on the surface of earth is still experiencing a force, and will forever, until it rests where buoyancy is achieved.

This wheel works on that same principle. "Gravity" is constant force, requiring no fuel. A system properly designed can use/store that force without creating additional energy.

Gravity does not stop pulling, so why should my wheel stop spinning?

[jaymcd84]

@seanthelight

gravity and the nuclear force, strong and weak force. your machine is not billions upon billions of tons of mass. and your machine will be smaller than the earth so it will have no effect. take a look at other planets. earth is still hot in the core, but other planets we have observed have stopped, cooled to a halt. because of the loss of energy over time. check out some readings on the universe cooling.

[seanthelight]

@jaymcd84 Planets cooled to a halt? Can you give an example of such a thing?

Seems to me, allowing gravity to manipulate the geometry of the device, causing a constant imbalance, is a fairly ideal way to generate locomotion without burning fuel. I do not claim that the device is able to power itself. I do claim that the difference between air and ground density is able to power a device.

[FireFox1914]

I really like your design. A Frenchman created something similar but it was more complex and I think simplicity is an essential ingredient to create a PM machine, so kudos to you! His device, however, was over 40 ft high. I'm not sure of its power output potential. How big would yours need to be to generate a significant enough amount of power, do you think?

[UnderManiac]

@jeremyclix This same theory has been tried hundreds of times with no result. Trying to use angular momentum does not work, even when you orient it with the spin of the Earth. You still have an "unbalanced wheel" idea. You cannot have zero friction, but most people don't take friction into account. If the people with these ideas would do the calculations, they'd find that all the vectors are in balance to begin with. One side of the wheel weighs the same as the other.

[jeremyclix]

@UnderManiac It cannot be a correct triangle because that would imply a corner at the bottom. The triangle would be stationary with a track running weights around

I actually intended with this example to use the angular momentum of the Earth to power the device, which is why the side need to be properly aligned. The weights would be equally distributed around the V. Having same weight on both sides, if you had 0 friction the weights should start shifting in reaction to the turning of the Earth.