Gravity CAN do Work

[mondrasek]

webby1,

Your minipalm is very similar to one sim of what eventually became the PALM device.  However I modeled only one side, so it was not balanced.  I could measure how the weight created a different torque at the upright arm as it was moved in and out on the horizontal member attached to it (the clamp arms in your case).  But it did not lift the weight.  I assumed because a weight cannot create enough torque to lift itself, but now I wonder.  With a long enough lever arm it should be possible?  Though impractical to build a device except in a sim where you can have infinitely long perfectly ridged members with zero mass!

Adding a second movable weight as you did instead of a counterbalance is a nice optimization.  Now if the weight could shift back and forth to both sides of each upright it would do even more?

[profitis]

in order for any overunity device to work it has to circumvent the 2nd law thermodynamics.this does not exclude gravity machines.there must be a point in the cycle of steps where ambient heat intake is going to happen otherwise all energy costs will balance.

[rado]

for the sake of sanity (Mine) please have a look through this website
http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/museum/unwork.htm

Then come back with some arguments
Mark

"Psychic energy is nothing but pseudoscientific moonshine, unworthy of further comment here. There's no evidence of its existence."

Actually, all energy is psychic energy, produced by a mind (in Cosmic terms, God's mind).

[Gabriele]

No she cannot

[TinselKoala]

mini-facePALM, actually.


Tinman, Finsrud's device has been explained by Finsrud himself. It works by essentially the same mechanism as a cuckoo clock: a slowly descending heavy weight drives an escapement mechanism involving pendulum regulators. The weight needs to be raised up every week or so to keep it running.