Redundancy...

[iacob alex]

 
.....can be seen,as something excessive,superfluous,exceeding what is necessary or natural.
If you remind Bessler's quote ("...greed,as an evil root..."),his MT sketches and all designs intended to imagine a self-rotating "wheel",due to gravity,we can ask a simple question,about a possible not needed repetitivity ("redundance").
Really,why do we need so many  (variable) spokes/arms ?!...for the reason that ,we can play gravity unbalance,some-what as :
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdSU4H9RbEQ&feature=relmfu
...so,WITH A SINGLE VARIABLE SPOKE/ARM!!!
Here,a motor and a ratchet gear,moves a mass on a single arm,so to pick up the gravity unbalance (torque difference ,on the same side of the fulcrum/support ).
As a whole,it's difficult to say,if this arrangement is "self-moving"(maybe,likely not...),but have we,a proof to meditate about redundancy,and the surprising simplicity of a workable design/model???
As a matter of fact,a rotating first class lever (with a single variable arm),can be considered a wheel,also...but a "minimal " one...
  All the best ! / Alex

[iacob alex]

.....applied to a not so old proposal (2007) , at : www.youtube.com/watch?v=29zRKexj7XE. , can turn into a simplified design (2014) , at :  www.youtube.com/watch?v=BljcwTQXDKY
    It seems that we have a certain "evolution"...
        Al_ex

[iacob alex]

.....applied to a well crafted model :
  www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgp6gcSaF2Y
...can be a suggestion to think about the size and the so simple shape of a possible (self running...) gravity powered device , on the line of variable/oscillatory leverage ( you can play it as you like ! ).
     Al_ex

[iacob alex]

.....applied to Bessler's MT13 ,  at :  www.orffyre.com/mt1-20.html  can remind us , about his own quote (..."greed , as an evil root"...).
     Al_ex