Main > Everything Else

BYO Free Energy Gravity Wheel Machine

<< < (7/8) > >>

boykster:

--- Quote from: SavannahLion on September 11, 2007, 12:35:04 am ---
--- Quote from: patrickl on September 10, 2007, 11:06:09 pm ---
--- Quote from: boykster on September 10, 2007, 06:36:30 pm ---Did any of you crackpots that think this could work (Xiaou) take physics?

--- End quote ---
No, but it's fun trying to figure out why Xiao keeps bugging us with this "wheel with the pool balls falling out".

--- End quote ---

Because it'll ensure he never looses his high scores again.

--- End quote ---

Shrewd....

danny_galaga:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on September 10, 2007, 12:43:05 pm ---
Which I'm sure would work fairly well in a frictionless environment.

--- End quote ---

actually, when anyone 'seriously' considers someones perpetual motion contraption, they generously allow for an imaginary frictionless environment. this is because all these ideas are flawed anyway and wouldnt work even with zero friction. but it gives the crackpots a fighting chance (",)

as shardian pointed out, there could be a circumstance where MOTION is perpetual but the moment you try and extract energy from it it isn't perpetual anymore. electrons form a 'cloud' spinning around a nucleus perpetually for instance, but you can't 'take' anything from it without either losing energy (creating a photon for instance) or using energy to do something with it anyway...

RayB:
Savannah pointed out the flaw in the system rather well. You'd eventually run out of balls on the fall side and have a backlog of them down on the pick-up side.

'nuff said!

boykster:
Frankly, all these model systems do for me is re-confirm conservation of energy......

ChadTower:

...to ensure that you never run out of balls.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page

[*] Previous page

Go to full version