FOUCAULT PENDULUM - demonstration

[FreeEnergy]

how about we use the earth's spinning motion plus gravity to keep a pendulum swinging perpetually? then we use this kinetic energy to turn an electric motor?

i read that the pendulum of itself is not perpetual, what makes it perpetual is: "an IRON COLLAR is installed on the wire surrounded by an electromagnet that attracts the collar as the bob swings out, then shuts off automatically as it swings back, thus, keeping pendulum going."   

http://www.calacademy.org/products/pendulum/page8.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9lbwFnZ254

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS343&um=1&q=Foucault%20pendulum&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=iw&start=0


* * *  this just might work great with a Veljko Milkovic system: http://www.overunity.com/index.php?topic=1763.0

[mscoffman]

how about we use the earth's spinning motion plus gravity to keep a pendulum swinging perpetually? then we use this kinetic energy to turn an electric motor?

If I were wealthy, I would try to build a Foucault Pendulum that was
perpetual. Unfortunately many nontechnical people upon seeing a
demonstration of a real Foucault Pendulum think they are seeing
a demonstration of perpetual motion. But all Foucault pendulums
I know of are electrically driven. All you have to do is place a
Bedini motor drive coil below the base of any pendulum with a magnet
as the pendulum weight and the electromagnetic coil will respond as a
magnetic mirror, attracting the magnetic pole moving towards it, and
repelling it away on the way out. This adds enough energy to keep it going
by offsetting what is lost to friction. I first saw this Bedini mirror circuit
that he uses in his motor, in a desk top pendulum toy that worked like that.

The trick in the perpetual Foucault pendulum would be to gather the
energy, which is due to the earths rotation that causes the weight to
rotate out of the plane of it's motion once every 24 hours. Then gear it up
to drive a generator. Then apply it to the Bedini circuit to keep the
pendulum oscillating. The key to this would be to use maybe a vacuum
to lower air friction on the weight and cable. The generator could
be driven by an inverse clock mechanism used as a gear up device
whose hour hand would be pushed on by the cable. Finally there
is a way to test this device; by first building it on a turntable and slowly
slowing down the rotation of the turntable till one reached
goal of keeping the pendulum going by a turn, once every 24 hours.
It is a problem in mechanical design. As added feature you might
try to have the generator operated from earth's magnetic field.

:S:MarkSCoffman

[tinu]

Agree, but to "gear it up" at 1:min100k or more is a huge technical challenge.
I couldn’t come up with a reasonable design to practically attempt doing it.
Probably R. Finsrud was more inspired.

[Cloxxki]

I seem to remember having done such a gearing with LEGO when I was 12 or so years old. Now I now to stay away from low tooth count cogs, but they come in handy for this.
My LEGO motor was spinning (near) loadless at full RPM, and the output lever didn't visually move, at all. The significant rpm was all eaten up by the gears, a neat toy. For my simply mind, not the ballpark gearing, but the precise rpm tuning would be the hard part :-)

Having just returned from Turkey, where no day goes by without a (small) earthquake, I am now thinking of an as simply as possible one-way clutch kind of sytem that would get a big fat gyro spinning. Seems this effect would be much greater than tapping into the earth's spin, and it would be less "stealing" from mother earth.

[tinu]

Ok, but the gear needed here has to be used in reverse, which is a nightmare.
1:100K will give just over 1 rev/sec (60RPM) which is in itself quite low for generating electricity to be fed back into the system.