Gravity wheel from Bill Neil

[lltfdaniel1]

I had a somewhat similar design that appeared to be overbalanced, but did not work.  It takes the same energy to lift a weight as you can get from it when it descends.  The overbalance idea is only an illusion that appeals to intuition.  A gravity wheel that works must have something other than just plain overbalanced leverage to work.  Centrifugal force, magnetism, inertia or some other force must be used if success is to be possible.

A drawing of my wheel design is attached.

I Agree that another source of input is needed for the process of kicked 'Perpetual motion' has to be borrowed from somewhere else,and i would use the input of a magnet to kick the revolutions off,as with other energy topics ,its about inteference and a magnet or pulsed electric motor is no exception.

[pequaide]

Gearhead you are correct. This is a letter to someone that dropped by, so it is less technical than I usually write.

There is a Law in Physics called the Law of Conservation of Momentum. All motion that most people (other than nuclear physicists) are familiar with is explained by this Law. The Law has not been violated in the (nonnuclear) laboratory.

Experiments that confirm the Law of Conservation of Momentum are the ballistic pendulums and collisions on a frictionless plane (air table).

In such collisions a small projectile combines or embeds in a larger mass and linear Newtonian momentum is conserved. Motion energy (Kinetic energy) is not conserved.

The cylinder and spheres devise that you saw, when you visited, reverses the phenomenon of the ballistic pendulum and sends off a small projectile (spheres) with all the motion that was previously held by the much larger combined mass of the spinning cylinder and spheres.

If the combined mass of the spinning cylinder and spheres is 6 kg and the mass of the spheres is 1kg then the spheres must be moving 6 times faster after the cylinder has been stop by the spheres. This is because momentum is mass times velocity, 1 kg * 6 m/sec = 6 kg * 1 m/sec.

But energy is 1/2 times mass times velocity squared 1kg * 6 m/sec * 6 m/sec does not equal 6 kg * 1 m/sec * 1 m/sec. When the cylinder is stopped the spheres have six times as much energy as when the cylinder and spheres are spinning together.

The Law of Conservation of Momentum comes from Newtonian Physics. I have used strobe lights with film photography, photo gates (electronic timers), and frame by frame video tapes.  All data that I collect confirms Newtonian Physics and shows that energy has been made in the Laboratory.

Gearhead quote; A gravity wheel that works must have something other than just plain overbalanced leverage to work.

The ?something other? is the transfer of momentum from the over balanced wheel to a smaller object. It can be the same object that caused the motion of the wheel.

The Atwood machine defines the quantity of momentum available in an overbalanced wheel. After the momentum of the wheel is transferred to the mass of over balance the over balanced mass can be flipped much higher than what it was dropped.

A momentum transfer and then an upward toss; is what is missing in all arrangements that I have seen.

[Joh70]

aren't the latest pictures not different from the first device?
now he writes: "i believe..." and "should equal perpetual motion"
so only a video could clear up, if he already has a self-running device!?