ever seen a water pendullum? me either...

[mr_bojangles]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgK7nrrTVfU&feature=related

funky little thing isn't it?

[Rapadura]

There is water inside the pendular rod?

Hmmm ... The chaotic motion creates chaotic distribution of weight inside the rod? The water moves chaotically, and its weight distribution is always chaotically changing ?

This thing stops moving??

[e2matrix]

I think I can see it.  When the right side is down far enough the weight of the left side (empty of water but high) has gotten to the point where the middle short leg with a weight is high enough on the left that the combined weight of that plus the empty left bar are greater than the right side with water and it starts to swing the right side back up.  As soon as it approaches level the inertia of the water flows to the left side and the left starts it's downward run until the weight in the middle is on the right far enough to where it starts the sequence all over again.  I would guess there is no real useful power there since it depends on a very fine balance.  I think even a large device would yield very little power. 

[FreeEnergy]

how does this thing work exactly??

any diagrams/pictures/drawing/schematics?

[mr_bojangles]

i thought it was an odd contraption and thought i would share it


i think it pulses water and somehow the momentum is maintained even though the lever is balanced in the absence of water

i liked how pulsing water on the downstroke side to manipulate a large lever was clever, i dont think it was intended to be PM,

my intentions were to provoke thought