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I'm pretty sure that even if the weights moved exactly as desired you would not get any energy bonus. Since the weights would be all moving at the same rotational speed, the energy gained by the bottom weight moving up would be spent on speeding up the weight moving outwards at the 3:00 position. Fo...

The benefit of making everything in polycarbonate is the possibility to see exactly what happens inside the mechanism and the wheel.

That is such a great idea!

You should stick little turbines in the tube to harness the energy when the water moves due to moon/tidal influences :)

This should be required reading for all new members! I like the author, he knows exactly who we seekers are, and we haven't changed a bit in the last hundred years! It is believed by the author that the perusal of the present volume by anyone whose mind has been attracted by the subject of perpetual...

For Jim_Mich again,

Yes, you are exactly correct. When you change the momentum of an object, energy is either required or given off.

This one is for Jim_Mich; The kinetic energy formula is directly related to the momentum formula and represents the amount of work needed to change an object's momentum. It is really quite clever and simple once you see the relationship. The same idea applies to rotational momentum and rotational en...

If the weight isn't stretching or compressing the spring even more (if it isn't still moving), then the force of the spring will be equal to it, not one pound off. That's what I am seeing in your description.

Hey, who let that guy with a grasp of reality in? :) Surprisingly, my wife (who also has that same foundation in reality) seems quite content with my wheel endevours. The only other thing to do in my neck of the woods is to drink or go curling (which also involves drinking.) So I guess she figures i...

Lots of good points here by everyone! So John, I can understand your analogy of weights with different torques being similiar to a windmill. I think that is acceptable also as long as you keep the comparisons very loose. As others have stated above, the analogy will quickly fall apart if you use it ...

Defining what gravity actually is. That's a million dollar question just by itself. Everyone agrees on the affects of gravity and how it works, but what actually creates it is still up for debate. (Lots of neat work being done with electric fields and magnets though!) Using wind or water as an analo...

Well Rounder, it sounds like you have the exact opposite problem from what the rest of us have. You have the advantage though in that you might be able to turn off whatever force is holding your weights up. Again it is difficult to comment, but your task sounds like how to turn your uprighting force...

That is true, at least the way I imagine your description. Notice that when you turn it though, that the center of gravity rolls up the string. The upright postion is the lowest resting point for the center of gravity. (At least if you are talking about what I'm thinking about)

Weights that won't fall down? I would love to get a few of those for my experiments! Seriously though, you haven't said what is keeping them up (springs, bouyancy, a dog chasing the cats, etc.) so it is pretty tough to give any useful advice on how to get them down. Just a wild guess on my part, I w...

(Wheeler) If the last images 9 and 10 were not the final images as I assumed they were, then my apologies for implying that I understood what the device was about. I thought those drawings were fairly self-explanatory. I can also believe how someone who hasn't built many hands on experiments would b...

Well this looks like something you could build quite easily with an old bicycle tire. I'm sure you will learn a gret deal by building it. Just don't spend a lot of money on it. (I get my old bike parts by going to the dump)