A simple experiment that to prove the potential energy is unlimited.

[Zhang Yalin]

 The alcohol (through wick)are burnt and the wick are not burnt.

[chrisC]

No offense intended but that argument would be like saying that since you can't return the batteries you purchased to the store, you don't have to allow for the energy inside them in your equation.  Or, that since the batteries were already made anyway, their energy does not count.  I mean this in a constructive way and I am not trashing your idea.  Thinking is good.

Bill

Sounds like our old friend Lawrence Tseung's type of reasoning? Perhaps they are related?

cheers
chrisC

[Zhang Yalin]

No, I know nothing of Lawrence Tseung's theory.

[chrisC]

No, I know nothing of Lawrence Tseung's theory.

No offense, Zhang. Just that you both seemed to have the same mindset. Lawrence's problem is not to take into account of the potential energy used to position a pendulum at some starting point (above the lowest equilibrium position) before letting go. His physics is flawed.

You also conveniently did not include the previous work done .....
You won't get too many people on this forum listening to your deluded arguments either.

cheers
chrisC

[Zhang Yalin]

The work used is smaller  than the energy gained.