The Cole Mechanism

[Aemilius]

Hi OffsetAxles....

OffsetAxles "cool if it is going to set on a desk and be a conversation piece...what size will it take to actually make power to light a dozen houses?"

That's a good question, I'm just taking it one step at a time. It's been a long road to get here and my primary objective at this point is achieving self-rotation. If I can accomplish that I'll start to think in terms of actual power generation, but considering the long history of failure in this area of investigation it's a huge "if".... I'm really only cautiously optimistic.

The Mechanism can be scaled up, and it has speed.... If the third and final element of self-rotation can be achieved (after my heart is restarted) I'll start down the road to calculating the parameters of scale, weight and speed required for practical power generation.

On the other hand, if self-rotation is achieved and I find it doesn't produce enough force to be useful I would still consider it a stand alone triumph of mechanical engineering.... even if it turned out that all it was going to do was "set on a desk and be a conversation piece".

I've now completed three stages of the analysis
at.... http://thecolemechanism.blogspot.com/

STAGE ONE - BALANCE
STAGE TWO - COMPENSATION
STAGE THREE - EQUILIBRIUM

Coming up (more may be added)....

STAGE FOUR - SYCHRONIZATION
STAGE FIVE - TIMING
STAGE SIX - ACCELERATION
STAGE SEVEN - FORCE
STAGE EIGHT - SCALE

Depending on how all that goes and the outcome
of several more experiments (forming and fitting parts)
I'll follow with....

SUMMARY CONCLUSIONS
POSSIBLE APPLICATIONS.

Emile