Sjack Abeling Gravity Wheel and the Worlds first Weight Power Plant

[AquariuZ]

Omni, I guess in doing so you also broke one of the constraints.  The system thought the ball you moved was also supposed to be in collision mode with the wheel.  Since it was sitting on the wheel you had two objects occupying the same space at the same time.  So the sim blew up.  If you want to fix that sim, first click the ball (so it is selected), then hold shift and click the clear wheel (now both the ball and wheel should be selected).  You then go to the top pulldown menu "Object" and select "Do Not Collide".

If you are wanting to learn WM2D, please PM me the questions.  Or start a WM2D users thread.  I don't see why we should clog this thread with WM2D Q&A.

Fixed file attached.

M.

It just started with a rotational speed of -0.700 rad/s (hehe)

If you set the circle and slots to say v=-0.100 rad/s you see something nice. Not acceleration though but very nice still. Playing with balls I am...

@Persume WHAT white circle?

[mondrasek]

Grimer,

How confident are you in your analysis with regards to:  http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q171/frank260332/Sjackcycle.jpg ?

If you are highly confident, can we start another thread so we can get more opinions from others with like analytical capabilities?  It is currently over my head, but I once could speak thermodynamics.  Just might could have to dust off the cobwebs and become more educified.

Thanks,

M.

[mondrasek]

It just started with a rotational speed of -0.700 rad/s (hehe)

Of course!  Energy was added to the one ball to raise it up into the slot at 2 o'clock.  That energy is now spinning the wheel.  But is there enough energy in the system to lift a second ball into a slot at 2 o'clock?

Lift anything up and it will fall again.  But how to lift one thing up while another of equal mass falls the same distance and still have energy left over?

M.

[persume]

AquariuZ you said the white circle in the logo ( you have it pictured in black on a modification you did ) was the axle of the wheel.

[Grimer]

Grimer,

How confident are you in your analysis with regards to:  http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q171/frank260332/Sjackcycle.jpg ?

If you are highly confident, can we start another thread so we can get more opinions from others with like analytical capabilities?  It is currently over my head, but I once could speak thermodynamics.  Just might could have to dust off the cobwebs and become more educified.

Thanks,

M.

Confident enough to discuss the thinking that underlies the analysis and I have no objection to you starting another thread to discuss it.

I am happy to answer questions and discuss things in a polite and calm manner. However, my experience of most forums, especially loosely moderated ones, is that when one introduces radically new viewpoints (like gravity being a vertical wind blowing steadily downward for instance) it so disturbs peoples view of things that discussions quickly dissolve into slanging matches.

And I've been in quite enough of those on the Steorn Forum.

I have been reading the history of the Bessler wheel. It provided plenty of examples of the kind of vitriolic opposition radically new ideas engender.