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Originally posted by FarArcher
reply to post by crimvelvet
No perpetual motion machines, eh?
Well, it appears you're ready to prove Newton wrong. A body in motion will continue in that motion unless acted upon by exterior forces.
Originally posted by FarArcher
Now with the really good stuff, you can charge the battery with 600 amps without blowing it up. In fact, it won't get hot - it will get cold. It loses temperature.
Great analysis XtraTL, nice to see someone with your caliber of knowledge posting on the forum here.
Originally posted by XtraTL
In other words, that 156 W Hrs is consumed from the battery to power a motor that requires about 120 W Hrs to perform the demonstration is entirely consistent with the laws of physics. No overunity here.
Actually the example I would use is a rotating planet. It's a little easier to establish the rotational motion relative to the rest of the universe. It turns out the Earth isn't a very good example of perpetual motion, because there are a lot of frictional losses in the tides, etc so the Earth's rotation is actually slowing down. But if you took a rocky planet and put it in the "middle of nowhere" so to speak with no moon or other sources of friction nearby, then it could spin for a very long time without violating any known laws of physics. A rotating planet is what the Wiki on perpetual motion refers to as "low friction":
Originally posted by XtraTL
Originally posted by FarArcher
reply to post by crimvelvet
No perpetual motion machines, eh?
Well, it appears you're ready to prove Newton wrong. A body in motion will continue in that motion unless acted upon by exterior forces.
A body not acted upon by exterior forces may be moving wrt one inertial reference frame, but with respect to another, it is at rest.
But even if you accept that if there's nearly nothing to slow down the rotation of a planet it will keep rotating, it might have a rotational motion that you could call nearly "perpetual motion", but I'm not sure it meets my personal definition of a "machine", it's just a rotating body in space. And I imagine most people that want to patent their "perpetal motion machines" are trying to do so for devices that operate on Earth, right? I don't see much point in patenting a planet spinning in outer space, if it spins more or less forever, so what? That's not going to heat your home or propel your car, unless you take energy out of it by slowing the rate of spinning down, and then it's no longer perpetual motion. Any machine you operate on earth is going to have some friction, so the rotating frictionless planet in space really isn't a persuasive argument for the feasibility of a perpetual motion machine on Earth which will be plagued with frictional losses, both examples are just straightforward applications of physics.
Once spun up, objects in the vacuum of space—stars, black holes, planets, moons, spin-stabilized satellites, etc.—continue spinning almost indefinitely with no further energy input. Tide on Earth is dissipating the gravitational energy of the Moon/Earth system at an average rate of about 3.75 terawatts.
You mean there's more?
Originally posted by FarArcher
I'll tell you another thing that will make you think I'm entirely crazy.
I can explain the function of any electrical or electronic device on the planet (that I've ever seen) using the "standard electromagnetics" you say is backwards.
In a standard circuit, where you have impedance, you lose energy through heat.
......
That's the key. Everything in standard electromagnetics is exactly backwards.
Originally posted by Movescamp
reply to post by Unity_99
I understand your ideas but if you don't patent monsanto will and then sue you for using their Idea. But you are right if you could get people to make it for themselves you can get away without patents. The trouble is they always find a way to make it hard. Like lobbying to make things illegal. For instance composting toilets in some states. Even though they are a tremendous solution to cut energy and water needs way down (think how many kilowatts it takes to treat and pump water). Obviously doesn't work well for Very populated areas but still....
For a planet spinning at the speed of the Earth, I know the frame dragging effects of the earth-moon interaction are completely dwarfed by the tidal effects, so it's really the tidal effects that are significant and not frame-dragging.
Originally posted by XtraTL
Is energy lost from a spinning planet due to frame dragging? I don't know the answer by the way.
The forces that cause tidal motion are so massive on a human scale that a single experiment will have a negligible effect so that disproving this statement from the experiment would be difficult.
Tidal energy is renewable. The tides will continue to ebb and flow, and the energy is there for the taking.
Originally posted by XtraTL
reply to post by WinnieDaWho
Your video is not working for me.edit on 26-2-2011 by XtraTL because: Can't spell.
When I turn on my radio the EM (radio) waves are coming from the transmitter, but that's powered by electricity from fossil fuels, which have their origin in fusion from the sun which converts hydrogen to helium and in the process converts mass to energy according to the formula E=mc^2. The energy excites electrons and they give off EM radiation across a wide spectrum of EM frequencies:
Originally posted by FarArcher
Where does EM energy COME from?
I don't know about the god part, but I can't argue about it being the source of life and energy on Earth (not the only source but certainly the major one).
In Hinduism the sun is considered to be a god as it is the source of life and energy on earth.
I don't know about the oil companies, but you're right about governments and their militaries. I've noticed it's a department of the US Navy still doing cold fusion research. The aircraft carrier may be nuclear powered, but the other ships in the carrier group must have a heck of a big fuel bill when they fill up the tanks. I've even heard that military pilots don't get to fly all the hours they'd like to in real planes and sometimes use simulators to cut down on fuel and other operating costs.
Originally posted by Aim64C
ALWAYS blame oil companies and governments - they are the true evil ones, here - trying to make it so that people still have to pay for gas and electricity. (Never mind that it would be better for them to have devices that could produce electricity with only a tiny fraction of the overhead - you're not speaking to a particularly bright crowd, it'll slip right past them).
Some people are STILL waiting for the Keely motor. He bilked investors for $5 million in 1872 (about $110 million in today's dollars) and never delivered a real working motor. Wouldn't you think after a century people would get wise? Well many got wise by 1890 but there are still some people who will believe anything and think Keely was a genius instead of a charlatan.
Hell - you can, and some people do, lead people on for decades and take them for millions of cumulative dollars.