SMOT! - (previously about the OC MPMM)

[Omnibus]

@shruggedatlas,

Try that and report the result here. Your time is yours to waste.

[Low-Q]

@shruggedatlas,

Try that and report the result here. Your time is yours to waste.

I have the balls to try - litteraly - and the magnets - LOTS of them. I just need a track. That should be easy to make. I'm a free man this evening, just some cleaning and washing clothes to do before my better half is coming home tonight. If I got time, the SMOT-result will be posted here - hopefully with a video.

Br,

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[gaby de wilde]

Moving the ball sideways in the x direction does not require energy.

Nice,

Could you build me a car like that?

[Low-Q]

@Low-Q,

Stop cluttering the thread with this nonsense.

I'm not. THIS is cluttering with nonsense: "Stop cluttering the thread with this nonsense."!!.

I like to explain things, about how the real world work. I like to provide examples on how a device will work based on common sense, basic physics, and experiments. It would be nice if you could do the same.

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[Low-Q]

Moving the ball sideways in the x direction does not require energy.

Nice,

Could you build me a car like that?

Those cars are already on the market**
You have to fight against friction. Without friction the sum of energy spent by moving a 1.5 ton of car  any distance does not require energy at all. What you use to acellerate the car, you get back by deaccelerating it till full stop.

**Electric cars are recharging batteries when breaking down, by utilize the energy it spent to accelerate to drive a generator that charges the batteries.
However, there is the friction through air and between the tires and the ground, and some friction in the gearbox that consumes energy. A gasoline car does not make gasoline when breaking, it uses pure friction to stop, and waste the energy the engine used to accelerate.

Br.

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