A machine to convert gravity to mechanical energy # 2

[brian334]

At my website http://bsandler.com there is a description with drawings of a machine designed to convert gravity to mechanical energy and heat.
The machine is patent pending.

[TinselKoala]

That sure is a lot of work, in your designs and drawings. I commend your efforts, and your creativity.

Unfortunately you have failed to see a fundamental flaw. It is the same flaw that all other gravity wheel designs have.
You see, gravity is a conservative field. Your design depends upon the conversion of Potential Energy to Kinetic Energy and back again. But the potential energy of a mass depends only on its height in the gravitational field, not on how it got there. No matter how complex the geometry or how clever the mechanism, the potential energy at the top of the travel of the mass is the same. So your design depends on equal weights lifting, or trying to lift, equal weights through a different path than they descend, but to the same height. Thus, you only get out what you put in--that is, the initial energy to create the very first imbalance, is all you are going to get, and that will quickly be dissipated as heat, and the device will stop.

Your design is essentially the same as the "sponge wheel", even though you have a more complex mechanism for moving the water around.

As I said, I commend your efforts and creativity. But it's sort of like going to the drag races, isn't it? I mean, there's a terrible lot of effort just to get to the end of that dead-end quarter-mile. But that's as far as you can go.

[brian334]

In detail what phase of my machine won't work?

[TinselKoala]

For a detailed answer, you could please read http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/museum/themes/bellows.htm

Your machine is a more complex version of these:

[AB Hammer]

brian334

I commend you on your diagrams and such. But as TinselKoala has shown that it is not new. Out of all the fluid transfer designs I still think my second wheel design which is a fluid design is the best. And I am not in any hurry to build it either due to the natural problems of this approach.

Here is mine from Aug. 2007