Sjack Abeling Gravity Wheel and the Worlds first Weight Power Plant

[AquariuZ]

In both of your examples (hydraulic press and cherry pit) external force is applied first. This force isn't free and is in fact, directly proportional to the projectile energy produced. Squeeze the cherry pit a little and it only goes a little way. Squeeze it harder and it travels farther. There's no magical additional energy produced from this interaction. If you can show that there is, I would be very interested.

This is exactly the source of my concern: even if there is a scissor effect it certainly is not free. The generated momentum caused by the scissor is taken out of the system by friction.

Still continuing to test though...

[Cherryman]

Well...

Introducing the "valve" ..  and "skipping"

To give the ball a shorter path, you will gain speed (time)  So i try to skip one leg every time, by having one ball less then you have spokes..

Here is a (motorized) concept.

[AquariuZ]

Well...

Introducing the "valve" ..  and "skipping"

To give the ball a shorter path, you will gain speed (time)  So i try to skip one leg every time, by having one ball less then you have spokes..

Here is a (motorized) concept.

For someone new to wm2d you deliver the most delicious models

Very creative thinking as well 10/10

Thumbs up!

[broli]

Well...

Introducing the "valve" ..  and "skipping"

To give the ball a shorter path, you will gain speed (time)  So i try to skip one leg every time, by having one ball less then you have spokes..

Here is a (motorized) concept.

Wow this model really shows a lot of promise. I tweaked it a bit by removing the motor, gears, the background wheel (repaced it by rods to hold things together), the masses are of reasonable size and also increased the accuracy. There's a very big tendency for rotation and maintaining that rotation.

[broli]

Looks like I cheered too soon. The frame without the weights seems to accelerate on its own  . I think this was a known problem with custom polygonal shapes.