Gravity wheel idea! Free for all.

[Ghost]

Of course just a smot alone underwater will not work. 
I don't think you fully understand my idea here.
It will have to wait until someone or I built it.

[eatenbyagrue]

Of course just a smot alone underwater will not work. 
I don't think you fully understand my idea here.
It will have to wait until someone or I built it.

Just look at your idea.  The only novelty is the underwater SMOT.  The shifting levers do not create a perpetual imbalance, only a temporary one.  Just refer to all the other plans for gravity wheels, and you will see yours is not any different.  Submerging some of it in water makes no difference.


So just test your SMOT underwater, and if it works better, you have something.  If not, then not.

[truesearch]

@Ghost


It appears like what you want to do is leverage the buoyancy of the part-wheel under water to overcome the "sticky" point in the SMOT. That's a nice idea.


However, won't "energy" be lost when the wheel "arms" are forced underwater? --- oops! my bad. I went back a read a little closer your explanation and realized I wasn't following your idea completely.


Who knows if it would work ~ you'll have to try it. 


truesearch

[Ghost]

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there is no buoyancy.
just magnet lifting the arm causing the wheel to turn to the point where the arm shifts its weight creating leverage outside the water.

try this:
1 magnet and some weight of metal.
say the magnet is not strong enough to lift the weight of metal.
now try the same thing but underwater.
you should get a different result and should be able to lift the weight.

[eatenbyagrue]

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there is no buoyancy.
just magnet lifting the arm causing the wheel to turn to the point where the arm shifts its weight creating leverage outside the water.

try this:
1 magnet and some weight of metal.
say the magnet is not strong enough to lift the weight of metal.
now try the same thing but underwater.
you should get a different result and should be able to lift the weight.

I think you are missing something critical.  The weight of the ball in a SMOT setup is not the problem.  You could put a SMOT in zero gravity, and it would still not produce energy.