potential energy

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        You are correct in seperating the two forms of energy.  I was trying to convey the idea that kinetic energy or something in motion is also a scource of energy that has the potential for conversion into other forms of energy.   I just cant get over the way Tarzan of the Jungle travelled on the vines.  Traveling from station to station converting his initial climb into transverse motion.  He always had to tieoff the initital vine and walk up a small ramp to overcome losses in the transportation system but it sure beat walking.  If he grabbed up something like a glass of water at each station and let her go at the bottom then he would find it unecessary to walk up the ramp.  His total translation velocity would be increased also.  Pretty much like an old water driven grist mill wheel works.  Say your perpectual motion machine somehow opens and closes a chamber.  Air is allowed to enter this chamber at the top of the wheel.  At the bottom of the wheel the chamber is opened and the air is slung out of the chamber.  Then the chamber is closed for the rise and opened again at the epogee.  The evacuated chamber would be lighter than the full chamber and the motion would be perpecutal.  The machine of course very intricate but theoretically doable.