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Sunday, 11 June 2017
quote [ This is a Fb livestream filmed by a friend at the demonstration in its entirety. It begins with me being interviewed by a local reporter and that video will be linked once the story airs. ]
26ft torsional pendulum
50lb machine 50lb counterweight powered by two Harbor Freight angle grinders speed-controlled with dimmer switches. Harbor Freight "waterfall pump" for circulation. Wheels made from cheap aluminum cook pots. Valves made from swamp-cooler float valves. Anyone with a lathe should be able to build a version capable of flight. Enjoy.
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kylemcbitch said @ 10:37pm GMT on 12th June
Take the earth-sun system. It's open in so far as Earth is concerned. However, entropy being the bitch it is, the Sun is not an open system and thus it is subject to blowing the fuck up on day when it starts to run out of fuel.
The same is happening here. To use this device as an engine means using the stored potential of the motion of the system. That potential is capped at the underlying torque mechanism: once you reach the mechanical limit of the torque, you will be unable to add more. Presuming the droplet then adds to the system, you might be able to just barely rise above that torque limit but then are left with the fact you can't get those droplets back without taking from the system. Centrifugal force will pin it to the extreme end of your rotational devices.
Thus when you use it, you lose energy (as if you just took some charge from a battery.) While the device may operate in extreme energy efficiency, that is all it's doing.
kylemcbitch said @ 10:58pm GMT on 12th June
Take the earth-sun system. It's open in so far as Earth is concerned. However, entropy being the bitch it is, the Sun is not an open system and thus it is subject to blowing the fuck up on day when it starts to run out of fuel.
The same is happening here. To use this device as an engine means using the stored potential of the motion of the system. That potential is capped at the underlying torque mechanism: once you reach the mechanical limit of the torque, you will be unable to add more. Presuming the droplet then adds to the system, you might be able to just barely rise above that torque limit but then are left with the fact you can't get those droplets back without taking from the system. Centrifugal force will pin it to the extreme end of your rotational devices.
Thus when you use it, you lose energy (as if you just took some charge from a battery.) While the device may operate in extreme energy efficiency, that is all it's doing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOVz1wDFRDI
If you can tell me how you'd use this device to power something without ending it's reaction then I'd acquiesce you'd have something here. You both are using the same principle, and you are both (wrongly) convinced you have an engine rather than a battery.
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kylemcbitch said @ 10:37pm GMT on 12th June
Take the earth-sun system. It's open in so far as Earth is concerned. However, entropy being the bitch it is, the Sun is not an open system and thus it is subject to blowing the fuck up on day when it starts to run out of fuel.
The same is happening here. To use this device as an engine means using the stored potential of the motion of the system. That potential is capped at the underlying torque mechanism: once you reach the mechanical limit of the torque, you will be unable to add more. Presuming the droplet then adds to the system, you might be able to just barely rise above that torque limit but then are left with the fact you can't get those droplets back without taking from the system. Centrifugal force will pin it to the extreme end of your rotational devices.
Thus when you use it, you lose energy (as if you just took some charge from a battery.) While the device may operate in extreme energy efficiency, that is all it's doing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOVz1wDFRDI
If you can tell me how you'd use this device to power something without ending it's reaction then I'd acquiesce you'd have something here. You both are using the same principle, and you are both (wrongly) convinced you have an engine rather than a battery.
It travels approximately 45ft in seven minutes.