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Originally posted by Wifibrains
What would stop it?
It's important to note that the weights are not attattched to the crank shaft. They hang on hinges from the top.
If there was no friction and it was started to move by hand then it would continue to move. However, as soon as you attached any load such as a generator to it it would slow down and stop. But as there is friction if started by hand it would soon slow down and stop, even with no load on it.
Originally posted by Wifibrains
This is a gravity engine, if it works, it will strangely enough rely on friction as a component to transfer energy from the earths gravity into the crank shaft. As the gavity is constant after one turn it should keep going.
ETA..they must know this approach works, as they claim to have built and tested a smaller engine as a proof of concept device. They wouldn't then go on to build this gargantuan machine on a 'let's build it, it might work' whim.
put the reputation of your large and successful company on the line too?
Originally posted by ignorant_ape
reply to post by Wifibrains
first off - RAR energia actually claim this is a perpetual motion motor
second - gravity has only ever been observed to act in one direction
Generating power forever, the mechanic movement continuos and perpetual is powered exclusively by gravity. RAR Energia Ltda.
Originally posted by ignorant_ape
reply to post by Wifibrains
first off - RAR energia actually claim this is a perpetual motion motor
second - gravity has only ever been observed to act in one direction
Generating power forever, the mechanic movement continuos and perpetual is powered exclusively by gravity. RAR Energia Ltda.
We started the assembling in Porto Alegre, of the first power generator powered exclusively by the gravity.
Originally posted by boncho
Originally posted by Wifibrains
Originally posted by boncho
If it's being powered by gravity it's not a free energy machine, nor is it perpetual energy. Every hydro dam out there is the same thing. Also not free energy, also not perpetual motion.
-facepalm-
Gravity engine?
The energy produced will be free, as it will not be paid for, unless you count maintenance costs. And it will run on its own momentum.
It has to get energy somewhere, and if it has maintenance costs it's cheap, not free.
Perpetual energy and free energy are words created to describe something not possible. So therefore it is not possible. I don't get if it's a simple misunderstanding of English or is it just people's unwillingness to let go of childhood notions. Why must you incorrectly describe well understood concepts??
I also consider energy produced by a crystal radio set free. Free as in we are not using up resources from the source to produce the energy. Sure parts break and need to be fixed but thats much better than spending tons of time money and energy to obtain the raw materials like coal gas and oil then turn them into energy while they are being all used up to be used no more.
Originally posted by JohnPhoenix
I consider wind power and solar energy free. I also consider energy produced by a crystal radio set free. Free as in we are not using up resources from the source to produce the energy. Sure parts break and need to be fixed but thats much better than spending tons of time money and energy to obtain the raw materials like coal gas and oil then turn them into energy while they are being all used up to be used no more.
Originally posted by boncho
So we can power the world with crystal radio sets now? Wow.
Originally posted by Wifibrains
reply to post by wmd_2008
Epic failure? How so, it's not finished being built yet!
I can see how the mechanism works by pulling the weights in close to the crank as it turns clockwise and lifts up. On the down drop the weights slide out away from the crank. Along the length of the shaft, the shape of the sign wave indicates the way the gravity energy is transferred.
Friction is this machines biggest issue due to all the moving parts, there are hundreds. If the weights work correctly and over come the friction, it will work.
Originally posted by verschickter
In the meantime, I learned about hidro (www.hidroonline.com...), take a look at this it´s really clever how they overcome said barriers.
James Kwok who in 2007 was sentenced to 14 months' periodic detention for failing to disclose his wife and son owned land leased by Envirostar Energy, where he was a director?
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission permanently stopped Hidroco's prospectus on January 23.
Originally posted by verschickter
reply to post by wmd_2008
I think we met in wifi´s water machine thread and like you do now, I tried to explain this back then. In the meantime, I learned about hidro (www.hidroonline.com...), take a look at this it´s really clever how they overcome said barriers.
Therefore central to the viability of the HidroPlus Technology is ensuring 97% of the water column height is constantly maintained for the energy conversion. To achieve this the HidroPlus Technology incorporates advanced engineering solutions ensuring only 3% of the HPPE dynamic-force is applied to each-work cycle to drive the hydrodynamic and kinematic mechanical devices and to recycle the water back to the main water tower ready for the work-cycle repetition and constant conversion of Potential Energy.