My Theory! I can't find why it wouldn't work! Big suprize!

[nwman]

Doesn't work sorry!

[nwman]

Doesn't work sorry!

[iacob alex]

...can be an other point of view ,regarding the old  and classic "interdiction" rule of a gravity power collector.  Hi Tim!  Your  entry on this forum is a fresh and intuitive one.Thank you about informations regarding  Aldo Costa:"c'est formidable!".In my opinion,his enterprise is the best one ever made by a man.What a pitty that his "first imago" was an unbalanced wheel..so I figure.Now,a small comment ,face to some of your judgments. You said at Principle 4/Effects of scaling up/..."if you make the wheel bigger and keeps the weights the same size and moving the same distance out but and add more of them,you increase the potential energy or torque in the wheel"..."This is the real key that makes it work".In  my opinion,that's enough to think,imagine a greater arm(R),nothing more.The interdiction  "mgh" can become a dilemma(waiting a proof...mathematical or better,practical).Long time ago ,I said that gravity is as a lake(statics):no way for a self turning "wheel".I asked myself:and if the radius(R) is bigger and bigger,for the same up(inthe top and bottom positions) amount(h)  on that?After a long time,with this lack of clarity and amazement,in the same time,I realized that gravity is not a quiet "lake", only.It's more:a huge  potential flow(dynamics).So statics and dynamics.That is for I am here,when I read your "if you make the wheel bigger"..:like the story with a blind one-eyed man in a certain country,maybe.You said at Principle 2/..."so by increasing the number of weights around the wheel you can infinitely increase the amount of torque".Really,but in this way you will stiff,temper the free fall as in a weighting machine:a slight up and down motion about the horizontal line,only.Dynamics "submerged' into statics...I suggest you to try to imagine,in the beggining, a "wheel" with two spokes only.And let the mass fall,as you said   on a bigger and bigger arm(R) with the same difference long arm-short arm(h).You mind is clear,as you said:"if you try to harness a natural phenomenon it has to be in a fairly simple manner(...like fan blades to wind...)".So,I  hope you success!All the Bests!/Alex

[nwman]

Doesn't work sorry!

[iacob alex]

Hi Tim!   Ok! The problem of long arm-short arm switch:try a repetitive  mass  rolling fall(it's self,due to gravity),instead of lift(is  "assisted").Take a look ,for your own solution(I wish you to be a best one ,than mine), at "Gravity  wheel concept" on the same "Gravity powered wheels".In my web site(New!New Drafts!) you will find out some drawings,designs.The "knotty point" is that my "decoding" of the wheel is a different one(at "Wheel vs. lever",in the same areal). Best Regards!/Alex