Posted by Nick Hall (195.74.122.243) on May 08, 2003 at 04:24:06:
In Reply to: Re: Time to ditch 'O/U'? posted by ovyyus on May 08, 2003 at 03:51:30:
Ovyyus wrote:
: You stated: "The key thing about Bessler's wheel was that he figured out a way _CONTINUALLY_ to extract energy from gravity - a "conservative force". That was his great discovery."
: This is an assumption and your assumption discounts all other possibilities for driving the weights within Bessler's wheel. There's always more than one way to skin the cat, so to speak.
I`m sorry - I should have said "Looking at all the evidence, I believe that the primary driving force for Bessler-s wheel was gravity". The fact that other forces might have helped is possibly true, but I do believe that the primary principle was energy extraction from gravity. It is in the context of that belief that I wrote what I did about O/U etc...
Nick