What makes Perpetual wheel attempts not work?

[Philip Hardcastle]

@mondrasek

Interesting discussion that led me to a brilliant invention.

The image shows 2 persons, one at the North pole of the Earth and the other at the South pole, connected by a near massless arm of a few thousand mile length (don't worry about the difficulty of such - we will sort it out later).

Hey presto they can hover above the ground.

Now if we take this one step further we can have a ring built around the world and use it as an alternative to jets so long as everyone weighs themselves properly (do not trust women) and gets on and off at the correct time.

Brilliant, what do you think?

Phil

[Philip Hardcastle]

Here is the image

[mondrasek]

Philip,

Looks like it should work with regards to allowing people to be lifted above the ground as you show.  But how would that move us to a new location with respect to the surface of the Earth like a jet?  Do we have to walk or drive there on the levitating ring?

M.

[Philip Hardcastle]

M,

You raise a good point.

We have 2 options.

First is to pedal with every seat having peddles, so if we have 10 million on at any one time and each produces say 100W then we have 100MW of propulsion and as everyone is in aerodynamic (no front so to speak) we should be able to manage a few hundred kmh if we have a tube cover.

Of course gettin people on and off is a bit of a prob but we should be able to come up with some insert and recover mechanisms.

The second is to put the whole thing in a vacuum tube with some sort of centreing guide (perhaps magnetic) and the passengers are in pods with air. Thus we can get the ring up to oribital type speeds.

With this idea and the previous the old emergency cord as used on trains would be a bad idea.

Of course the inherent advantage over jets is that there is no lift to drag ratio so even if motors were used the power consumption should be low.

And if it was not used for transport it could be sold as realestate or as an alternative to round the world cruising with a trip taking a year which equates to about 5kmh, that the passengers can manage to get on and off without special equipment.

Also works well because you can have Mc Donalds every 10km and a sort of drive through (except it would be rotate through, I guess).

P

[Philip Hardcastle]

sorry should read 1GigaWatt, not 100MW.