Tarsier79 wrote:Grimer. Do you understand what happens when you multiply any mechanism around a wheel? Why don't you think the same will happen with your device?

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Shouldn't the re-arranged 2nd example (above) be ...However, the total KE is................. M.0² + M.(2.v)² = 4.M.v²
The "momentumists" have been banging on about this for an age, as you observe.Grimer wrote:
"If we could manage to transfer momentum (partly or fully) from a ball moving slower to a ball moving faster (so the slow ball would slow down or stop), a simple calculation shows that the kinetic energy would be gained. Apparently, Bessler achieved just this, using rotating weights."
I know that this kind of hiatus has been commented on before in the forum but I've never seen it expressed in such simple terms - so I thought I would work through an example.
Suppose we have two equal weights of mass M moving a a velocity v.
the total momentum is.................. M.v + M.v = 2.M.v
the total KE is .............................. M.v² + M.v² = 2.M.v²
If we move the momentum from the first term to the second term then
the total momentum is.................. M.0 + M.2v = 2.M.v
which is the same as before so momentum is conserved.
However, the total KE is................. M.0² + M.(2.v)² = 4.M.v²
So the kinetic energy has doubled.
Yesterday I had an interesting conversation with a forum member (Charles) on Skype, a fabulous free facility for having free intercontinental discussion.Grimer wrote:.............................................Mv?mV
I've now realised where the Gravity Pulse Motor's energy is coming from.
Unlike linear momentum, angular momentum has a datum, an "absolute zero".
You can simply illustrate this with a bucket of water.
If you rotate it clockwise about its vertical axis the surface will deform into the shape of a parabola. Likewise if you rotate is counter clockwise. These deformations show that the bucket is rotating significantly with respect to the absolute frame of reference for acceleration.
There is no known datum for linear momentum, no datum, no "absolute zero, no known frame of reference for velocity.
Thus the angular momentum is analogous to temperature and considerations of entropy come into play.
This means that a small mass at a higher velocity is at a higher "temperature" than a large mass at a lower velocity. Hence the colours I have chosen in the above equation. A short period pendulum is obtaining a higher quality of heat from the gravitational field than a long period pendulum.
Now energy can be obtained from temperature differences as the Carnot cycle shows.
The Gravity Pulse Motor is simply demonstrating on a macro engineering scale what the Carnot cycle demonstrates on a micro scale.