..so below are a couple of examples of weight levers:
...could be any kind of weighted armatures, attached to the rim or the axle.
And we could be looking at the ascending, or descending side of the wheel.
For sheer practical purposes however, let's suppose we're looking at the descending side of the wheel:
- We need to co-opt a situation in which the weight levers want to drop away from the wheel, out-accelerating it due to their gravitation. In short we want levers that want to flop downwards, and which will overtake the wheel's speed of descent as they drop.
- However we're not going to let them do so - instead, propping them up
against that downwards acceleration, with an opposing force twice as strong, applied
between these levers, and the wheel.
- So during their descent phase, counter-torque or linear counter-force is applied to the levers or the weights on their ends, preventing their gravitational acceleration, and instead commuting twice that acceleration to the wheel.
- At the end of their drop phase, they've done their job and it really doesn't matter too much what they do next, until it's their turn to descend again and be torqued against.. so they could just hang limp from the rim, or if they're co-axial with the wheel they could be towed around by it, like a 360° pendulum... whatever. GPE-in = GPE out. We're making our money by buying cut-price momentum.
This is not intended as the basis for a design, it's purely to provide some kind of visual reference for how an asymmetric inertial interaction might be applied between two inertias, one of which is gravitating.
As for how to apply these torques, and how to power them via CF workloads from the resulting RKE gain, i couldn't make any better guesses than you... the image above is only meant to convey a simple means of causing and perhaps rectifying an asymmetric distribution of momentum, which is the prime mover here. The potential range of possibilities for doing this are practically unlimited, but i'm too frazzled to think of anything more elaborate right now... just trying to offer a desperate
anything to jog the visual imagination, rather than a big empty nothing.. or a damned falling scissorjack.
So yeah, the theory looks great, can't knock it. Solid.
I just have no sorry idea how to build it.
Yet.