Sjack Abeling Gravity Wheel and the Worlds first Weight Power Plant

[Cloxxki]

That's an old chestnut. There's nothing happening there.

Well, it seems they're claiming to make one self-runner-destructor at a time.

[getterdone]

  Hi Preston, a few years ago I had built a wheel very similar to the Sjack. After a while I came to the conclusion that I was trying to lift the weights to fast from the six o'clock position , to the nine o'clock position. I then built two tracks one going from the 4:30 position to the 6:oo position and the other from the 12:00 to 2:00. With that track arrangement the weighhts were being shifted while rolling down on tracks. I was getting close, but I think that my wheel design had more friction in it than yours

   I which I could find pictures of this build, but I thinK they got deleted by my kids playing with the camera.
 
    Best of luck

    Leo

[neptune]

They claim that experiments are difficult and expensive , because the device runs out of controll . Bullshine I say . A large generator with a resistive controll would take care of it with a car type brake as back up .

[getterdone]

     Hi Neptune, I agree. I can easily think of a dozen ways to slow down a wheel. A hydromatic braking system would solve that problem quite easily.

     I also think that what they are doing is, say they got something and try to raise money, then drag it out. Should someone else solve the riddle then they'll claim it was their design.

       Regardless I still think that the design has merit

[Omnibus]

     Hi Neptune, I agree. I can easily think of a dozen ways to slow down a wheel. A hydromatic braking system would solve that problem quite easily.

     I also think that what they are doing is, say they got something and try to raise money, then drag it out. Should someone else solve the riddle then they'll claim it was their design.

       Regardless I still think that the design has merit

I agree, the design has merit. The problem is how to decrease friction.

Like I've said many times, the winner is the one who can make a working device and have it replicated independently. They are fooling themselves if they think they can claim priority over such a trivial idea, known for centuries.