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Don't forget that Besslers wheel had a constant speed of about 60rpm which is pretty slow. This can mean two things. It had huge friction loses and hit terminal velocity pretty quick (which I highly doubt). It wasn't overunity in the sense of it not accelerating indefinitely until air drag comes int...

Pulling the weights back will require energy. What is your take on that?

Electric fields and magnetic fields are two different things. I don't want to sound arrogant but do you know the theory behind electric fields? If you don't it's a very simple thing to learn either way.

This is first of all all electric no magnetism involved. As far as I know any motor out there works using magnetism. A conventional electric motor uses the fact that a moving charged particle inside a magnetic field has a force acting on it perpendicular to the magnetic field. But this idea doesn't ...

What wall? We're talking about near uniform electric fields here. The forces are all parallel and the same...

Nothing more to say since the picture is self explanatory.

I don't like the particular execution but the concept I do like. The problem is that you're going to have a very hard time realizing that. You'll need some very fine pumping mechanisms and what not. The swing also needs to be fast enough to make a considerable strong thrust for a short time which al...

frettsy wrote:That is not unlike shaking a prize up from the bottom of the cereal box.
You have to have the shake to pull it up.

Hahahha. It was in front of us all along. Is there a more scientific paper of this behavior?

Edit: Here we go.

http://www.maths.bris.ac.uk/~majge/bed.pdf

jupter wrote:best dance i have seen
http://www.ursach.ch/Bessler/bessler_e.php

Wow that guy sure made sure that every metaphorical description by Bessler was used :p. Did this got discussed before?

Ok I think MT 48 and 49 are kind of in the same spirit as this design. Only are you using the fall to generate rotation, while they used the rotation to cause the lift. http://www.besslerwheel.com/wiki/images/3/35/Mt_048.gif http://www.besslerwheel.com/wiki/images/d/da/Mt_049.gif "The principle...

Try to simulate it and see what it does! I agree that with one set it'll turn back. But we two sets it'll be lift vs rotation. If lift wins then you have a winner.

Because there are two large groups. One following what Bessler left behind and the other by just trying to reinvent the (gravity) wheel. So this is indeed a good discussion for the first group.

This is what I also thought. If you could make it work with just one bar then it can work with as many as you like. Btw a bar being a some type of rod going across the wheel pinned in the middle and having some weight magic on both sides.

Thanks for the tips! And mickegg that's exactly a process that can be automated!

I was curious as to whether there was a radial clone script anywhere. The people that are and have used wm2d might know the importance of this. Basically the way I have it imagined is how autocad somehow does it. You select your objects, run the script. Specify the angle to clone about (360° if it'...