Big try at gravity wheel

[TinselKoala]

Of course you have to lift the weights first. But that's just a minor detail. You can also buy pre-lifted weights, but not in the basement.

LOL... 

[Groundloop]

I am impressed, all right, by the size and the evident cost. One of those bearing-arm assemblies is undoubtedly worth more than my automobile.

But my automobile starts right up when I turn the key, and runs for as long as it has gasoline in the tank.


If I had a working prototype of this device I'd certainly make a YouTube video of it running. Wouldn't you?  "But the smaller ones only turned a few turns, and the bigger ones turned a few more turns, and by making a graph we can see that if we make a _really_ big one, it will keep on turning and turning and turning".... so forget about the YT vid of a running small prototype, let's just go ahead and build the big one, since the theory, and the data from the smaller ones, indicate that when it's over a certain size it will start running on its own.


Notice how confident the builders themselves are? There is no apparent provision for a brake or RPM limiter. Of course maybe those parts haven't been installed yet.

TK,

I have looked carefully at the images, and so far all I see is linear rocker arms that convert a linear movement
to a rotary movement on the axle, 16 of them situated at every 22,5 degrees around the axle. I agree with you that
the machine must cost a fortune. :-)

GL.

[conradelektro]

Just an idea:

May be it is just a big soybean processing machine and they are pulling everybody's leg? Some sort of advertising stunt?

They say that two machines are built, one in the US and one in Brasil. Also makes sense in case these are soybean processing machines?

http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:RAR_Energia_Ltda_Gravity_Motor
http://www.incobrasa.com/pictures_and_media/pictures.html

If they are serious about an OU attempt, it will be the biggest folly I have seen so far in OU forums. Great show!

Not so fast: how big a folly is this http://www.iter.org/mach ? 13 billion Euros ! http://www.iter.org/factsfigures

Greetings, Conrad

[Low-Q]

What I actually meant by that question was that when
someone mentioned gravity being a fuel source the
topic went ballistic.  Weight by itself will power nothing.
Whatever causes the weight to move would have to be
the fuel.

You're right about weights and gravity. This machine (If it is suppose to be a gravity engine) it will not work as a solely gravity based one.
However, if the machine is big enough, the rotation of the earth might sufficiently offset something during operation so it actually works (Harnessing the coriolis effect). I don't know. Just a thought.


Vidar

[Pirate88179]

Item # 25 quoted from the patent: (Bold type added by me.)

"25. A fluid compressor comprising: a cylinder having a central axis; an axially reciprocating piston housed within the cylinder;  and a cylinder head cover over the cylinder, the cylinder head cover comprising: a first plate having first and second opposite surfaces, a first and second channel in a first surface of the first plate, wherein the first and second channels extend in the first surface and do not extend in the second surface, and the channels merge together within the plate at a first opening extending at last into the second surface of the first plate;  a second plate over the first plate, the second plate having a pair of bores therethrough each aligned with one of the first and second channels in the first plate;  a fourth plate over the second plate forming a cavity between the second and fourth plates;  a third plate rotatably disposed between the second and fourth plates, the third plate having a pair of spaced bores therethrough for sequentially aligning with one of the pair of bores through the second plate, wherein the fourth plate has a pair of spaced bores therethrough aligned with the bores through the second plate, wherein during a full rotation of the third plate each bore through the third plate aligns with each bore through the second and fourth plates;  and an axle supporting the third plate, the axle having an upper bearing and a lower bearing, the upper bearing being supported in a recess in the fourth plate and the lower bearing being supported in a recess in the second plate. "

Fluid compressor?  I was taught that fluids can NOT be compressed which is the entire principle behind hydraulics?  Physics teaches us that there is no such thing as a fluid compressor.

What gives?

Bill