What do you think about it gentleman?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZA1_NnL9-s
Although its easy to understand, its hard to build a working model and only few are successfully built it.
I have tried that several times a few years ago with no sucess. I have however had much better luck in building a Bedini Machine (watson machine)
Bizzy
Here is the way to analyse this wheel . Draw a line through the wheel from the 12 oclock to the 6 oclock position. Weights to the right of this line make the wheel want to turn clockwise, weights to the left make it want to turn anti clockwise. Assuming all the weights weigh the same, the effect of a given weight is proportional to its distance from the line you drew. So add up all the weight distances on the right, and all the distances on the left. You will find that at a given instant, the turning effect of the weights on the left are equal to those on the right . The net effect is ZERO.