Finsrud's Perpetuum Mobile

[AnandAadhar]

I am not sure why people are twisting the facts and making this into a perpetual motion, or over-unity machine - when the inventor himself says it is not.  I saw the machine running with my own eyes, and the speed of the ball slows down - just as Mr. Finsrud pointed out, while I was there.

-Nils

As a matter of fact, Finsrud has attached a plate to the machine saying 'perpetuum mobile' . Even though he calls it also kinetic art, he insists that it keeps running - be it for not more that 14 days - on magnetism and gravity combined with the inertial energy of the ball. It doesn't have to deliver energy, the fact is that is spends energy in an amount we cannot explain from just low friction action and the initial push. He definitely makes a loop that gets very close to a stable run (with autodynamical SE rectifictation or time energy conversion), we under no circumstance have observed before. If not a full perpetuum mobile, it certainly gets very close to it. I think he broke the regular paradigm here and that the common explanations do not apply. We have to take his lead seriously. Successful experiments like this require further theorizing, improving and testing.

[mscoffman]

The Finsrud machine has a triple pendulum that would
be able to absorb external rocking motion energy from
building motion in any planar direction. Wind or Coriolis
force. Even from traffic or wave energy, if near a sea shore.
The other thing is from a mechanical diagram I saw it has
bunches of long springs in it's base perfect for absorbing
temperature changes. Remember that there are clocks constructed
that derive all their energy from enviromental minute temperature
changes. Note, that these would couple randomly into the machine's
operation and could ultimately cancel existing energy and the
machine would stop due to probabilistic chaotic situations.

So I think the machine gets small amounts of energy from
multiple existing mechanical enviromental sources.

:S:MarkScoffman

[ElectroGravityPhysics.com]

If not a full perpetuum mobile, it certainly gets very close to it. I think he broke the regular paradigm here and that the common explanations do not apply. We have to take his lead seriously. Successful experiments like this require further theorizing, improving and testing.

Being close does not cut it.  It is sort of like getting close to the speed of light, and thinking that it is easy to jump to faster than speed of light travel...

There are lots of experiments "getting close" to perpetual motion.  Just look at a regular spinning magnet close to a super conductor.  It will spin for a very very long time...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLwftUd_qbA

-Nils

[ElectroGravityPhysics.com]

So I think the machine gets small amounts of energy from
multiple existing mechanical enviromental sources.
:S:MarkScoffman

I agree with "MarkScoffman".

I fully support people that are researching alternative energy sources, but this device is not it - although an interesting experiment to learn from.

-Nils

[Low-Q]

Anyways, no matter how this machine is built, it is one genious piece of art. If it is ran by the weak coriolis energy, so be it. The low friction machine have to be tuned properly to run as long as possible if I understand correctly. Maybe even the pendulums make the machine inefficient when it starts to wear out after the adjustments?

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