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i was quite excited that this might work, but i'd made a basic error in my calculations. initially i thought the only force slowing the pendulum down was air resistance, which could be reduced with a good design. the see-saw action of the lever significantly slows the pendulum however - as the pendu...

this is a very good topic. the concept of a prime mover is a bit of a wake up call and for me just highlights the fact that we need to come up with something really well thought out. randomly thinking of new wheel configurations isn't going to do it. I've spent the last year doing that, i'm guessing...

one more thought on this. take a see saw, fixed weight on one end, pendulum (same weight) on the other. give the pendulum a swing and the see saw will rock up and down with the movement of the pendulum and will do so until the pendulum stops. as far as i can see, the movement of the see saw does not...

just thought i'd post this incase anyone is interested in the subject. finally got back to the UK so tried the hypnosis - i found it very interesting and has highlighted a nice wheel design. It can't reveal anything that isn't already in your head, but under hypnosis you think in a very different wa...

had a think about this overnight. if there were any merit in this at all i think the optimal situation would be for the pedulum to be still on the decending side and have movement on the ascending side. i'm thinking since the force exerted by the pedulum is a function of cos(theta) movement in eithe...

Thats pretty much what i'm thinking - just wondering if since you get many swings for one lift of the pendulum, would you be able to accumulate enough energy to swing it again.

Thanks for the 'devils gate' reference. Just looked it up, i think it's the devils staircase and looks an interesting read.

was thinking recently about extracting energy from the movment of tiny particles in water which lead to a wheel design. take a pendulum, lift the weight to one side and let it swing. it will rise to either side many times with a cumulative height many times that of the original lift. the question is...

This looks excellent, very useful.

not sure if this has been covered before, but i'm starting to think about the linearity of the forces at our disposal. for instance mass is linear with weight, leverage is linear etc. the problem i keep encountering with linear relationships is that whatever i gain on one side of the wheel, i lose t...

For a while i considered that the reason he wouldn't let anyone see the weights was that each weight was made of two metals, one magnetic and one not. Having spent a small fortune on rare earth magents i'm not so sure...

Hello all, just thought i'd run this by the community. I'm about a year into my bessler facination and it's beginning to take up slightly more of my daily thinking time than it should :-) I have few models in the process of being built (which i'll photo and post), but incase they don't work.... i ha...