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Originally posted by Wifibrains
reply to post by CrastneyJPR
I know it's a pretty poor example, and is not Perpetual motion, I was just using the video to show how the movement of the weight causes it to turn.
I don't think the weights are added yet, in the machine in the op, and in the last pictures of the machine you can see more.... Yes more! Steels lined up ready to be assembled.edit on 20-5-2013 by Wifibrains because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by litterbaux
Even if this machine works it will only be a matter of time before the energy giants either pay him to turn the machine into scrap metal or kill him outright.
There is too much money to be made selling energy the traditional way.
For example, there are plans out there harnessing the energy of ocean waves. Buoy's float on the surface and pull underwater panels up and down driving a shaft. Why aren't these systems being installed? Oh that's right, the companies providing energy already have a monopoly on your energy service, they will do whatever possible to stop you from impeding on their profits and/or power.
This is the world we live in.
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.
Originally posted by markosity1973
Originally posted by litterbaux
Even if this machine works it will only be a matter of time before the energy giants either pay him to turn the machine into scrap metal or kill him outright.
This is the world we live in.
Actually, I could more imagine the energy giants buying the tech (assuming that he got it to work) and finding a way to charge us more for the electricity it produces that the energy we are supplied with now.
i.e look at wind generated electricity - it is generated for free but we are asked to pay more for it (here in Australia anyway) based on the grounds that it is 'green' energy.
Originally posted by MysterX
reply to post by LUXUS
They apparently built small models during this things' development, at least one other machine, though i suspect through the stages of developing it, there are more.