Sjack Abeling Gravity Wheel and the Worlds first Weight Power Plant

[ramset]

This is causing fights in my office!!

People trying to explain it away as insignificant !

Chet

[Cloxxki]

Here's another, even simpler one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzZ9AKwZw28&NR=1

I've been reading Evert http://www.evert.de/eft301e.htm on this, but those Youtube videos make is so much apparent! Thanks a lot for posting it.

Brain fart. What if the low road not only had that 2nd little hill, but also a top ramp a la Abeling, to vertically decellerate the ball beyond g, and transfer into forward momentum? I wonder if the ball could meet the target sooner, or a higher top speed, possibly even OU for the height lost.

OT:
The low road principle should be awesome when applied to urban transport. Vacuum tubes, capsules, and trajectories well underground. A passenger would have a pent house boardroom capsule entry in the East of town, shoot down to street level and lower, attain hundreds of miles per hour to make it through the horizontal bit, and be braked by making it up a similarly high tower in the West of town. Trip duration to be expressed in seconds rather than minutes by helicopter, or hours by car.

[Omnibus]

using gravity to convert stored potential energy to inertial energy..

Both balls start at the same point and end at the same point work done = work done

One expresses more velocity but the end result is the same

Traveling longer distance for a shorter time means greater kinetic energy, doesn't it? And yet, both balls have equal initial-final potential energy. How does this happen?

[Pirate88179]

Omni:

I am glad you are bringing this to all of our attention.  I believe it deserves it.

Thanks,

Bill

[Cloxxki]

It's of course not about nominal height, but height difference that brings the greater speed.
The time factor is also in the angle of trajectory. Starting near flat, just takes a long time to get rolling anywhere.
To some degree, you might think that height comes at a cost, but depth can often be gotten for free.
Like in my capsule tube example, getting a machine to dig a deep tunnel is easier than to build  high higher building, and then getting to start high up. The depth is used, you just don't spend your stationary phase there. It's a fuel. Interestingly, with such transportation, it actually pays to have a heavy craft, to overcome air friction easier. Think, long train. Great weight for limited frontal surface.