I've been experimenting with my Ferris wheel shown earlier and can see how
mooie are harnessing the 3rd derivative energy.
Below is a diagram of the position of a 360° pendulum at 1 second intervals
as it falls to 6 o'clock and rises to 12 o'clock.
In the blue zone it is accelerating, in the red zone it is decelerating.
![Image](http://www.besslerwheel.com/forum/files/expn-comp_120.jpg)
If the wheel is turned at a slower speed than the orbital speed of a
360° pendulum then in the third quadrant, around 7 to 8 o'clock, a weight
will fall back from the leading cross bar to the trailing cross bar under
Newtonian Gravity.
This energy can be harvested by a spring or other device and locked in to
that device. It can then be carried round to the 1 to 2 o'clock region and
released thus adding to the Newtonian Gravity in that quadrant.
By using a spring one is taking the energy outside the system and storing
it as strain energy. No significant energy is lost from the spring by raising
it from 7 o'clock to 1 o'clock therefore gravitational potential energy is
gained by the system
If the variables are chosen optimally we have free energy.
How far have I got to this end?
Good question.
Well, I've used some elastic bands and confirmed that with the wheel turning
at the right speed the weights do fall back in the manner described. The
bands are stretched but start to lose this stretch in the fourth quadrant which
is not good enough. Clearly I need to lock the energy in by having some kind
of catch to keep the weight in contact with the trailing cross bar before
triggering the catch in the first quadrant.
So far this task has defeated me.
However, I'm sure many of you are better experimenters than I and so
you might like to tackle it yourselves. It would be nice if the forum could
beat mooie to publication.