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Originally posted by nightbringr
Each and every one of these devices has been debunked.
A good start for understanding why they will not work would be the wikipedia entries on perpetual motion machines, and water fueled cars. Perpetual motion defies the very laws of physics, and converting water to hydrogen and oxygen, as needed to power hydrogen cars uses more power then is released in the process.
And what exactly do think the universe is? Planets? moons? Stars? Galaxies? Asteroids? etc...are ALL moving perpetually...the universe itself and everything within it is one giant perpetual motion machine. Absolutely NOTHING is "at rest" or "motionless"...
Originally posted by nightbringr
Each and every one of these devices has been debunked.
Perpetual motion defies the very laws of physics,
and converting water to hydrogen and oxygen, as needed to power hydrogen cars uses more power then is released in the process.[/p]
Yeah for maybe a year.
Originally posted by hawkiye
The Wright Brothers were soaring over the heads of same pin heads while they proclaimed it impossible.
Unlike Henry Ford's Model T in the early 1900s, Leonardo's car wasn't designed for mass-production. It wasn't truly a passenger car, since it didn't even have a seat. The vehicle was actually designed as a special attraction for Renaissance festivals, meant to instill wonder and awe in attendees. Like many of Leonardo's sketches, however, the car remained on paper throughout his lifetime -- we can only speculate that the machine was either considered too dangerous to operate or the inventor didn't have adequate materials to build it.
Leonardo drew out his plans for the world's first self-propelled vehicle.
Galluzzi and a team of engineers spent four months designing a digital model to make sure they knew the machine would work. Leonardo's designs called for a car 5 feet 6 inches long (1.68 meters) and 4 feet 11 inches wide (1.49 meters), which they built. However, the designers in Florence worried about the machine being too dangerous -- once a brake is released, it can travel for about 130 feet (40 meters) -- so they built an additional one-third scale model for testing and demonstration.
In 2004, Paolo Galluzzi, director of the Institute and Museum of the History of Science in Florence, Italy, oversaw a project to finally build a working model of Leonardo's invention. Although there were several attempts to build the car during the 20th century, each one had failed due to unclear instructions in Leonardo's sketches. Experts originally believed two leaf springs, the simplest form of the spring typically used for automotive suspensions, somehow powered the vehicle. Closer inspection eventually revealed the power came from bigger, coiled springs located in tambours, cylindrical drum-like casings, inside the
The machine works like a robot or a wind-up toy simply by rotating the wheels opposite of their intended direction, which winds up the springs inside and gives it power. The frame and many of the car's clockwork-like mechanisms, such as cogs, were made from five different types of wood.
The car also has programmable steering, which is achieved by arranging wooden blocks between gears at pre-set locations, and, oddly enough, it can only turn right. Still, Leonardo must have once again been looking forward to Florence's one-way streets. Although the contraption was allegedly designed for entertainment, Galluzzi's model proved not only that Leonardo's car worked, but the Renaissance man was centuries ahead with yet another influential invention.
Originally posted by nightbringr
Each and every one of these devices has been debunked.
A good start for understanding why they will not work would be the wikipedia entries on perpetual motion machines, and water fueled cars. Perpetual motion defies the very laws of physics, and converting water to hydrogen and oxygen, as needed to power hydrogen cars uses more power then is released in the process.
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
Yeah for maybe a year.
Originally posted by hawkiye
The Wright Brothers were soaring over the heads of same pin heads while they proclaimed it impossible.
Not for the decades the OP is claiming, citing decades old technologies, er, um scams.
By the way not everything in the OP is a scam. Tidal energy can be tapped.
What bothers me is the lack of critical thinking that lumps feasible technologies together with technologies that are not only not feasible, but have been shown to be so. There are a few interesting real technologies in the OP that are lost among the BS fake claims.
Regarding the claim that they don't want us to know about these, that's funny. With all these conspiracy theories about killing inventors and suppression, how can people believe those stories of suppression are true, and still think TPTB couldn't shut down some websites or delete some youtube videos? The logic is so inconsistent it's hilarious.edit on 28-8-2012 by Arbitrageur because: clarification