Yes, the next environmental disaster. Global slowing.. On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 12:24 PM, H Veeder <hveeder...@gmail.com> wrote:
> So they want to use the Earth's rotation like a flywheel? > > Harry > > > > > On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Terry Blanton <hohlr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Grimer seems to think it work: >> >> http://www.besslerwheel.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=112238#112238 >> >> Grimer: >> >> Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2013 3:52 pm Post subject: Another Claim to a >> Working Device >> >> *Grimer wrote:* >> *I think I am beginning to grasp one of the essential requirements for a >> gravity mill. * >> >> *One must have a closed path for the weights on one side of the main >> axle but no * >> *closed path on the other. * >> >> *In other words we must have at least two centres of motion for the >> weights. * >> >> *We probably need three but preventing structure as a whole moving >> relative * >> *to the earth will possibly give us the third.* >> >> LOL. It's all to do with the conservation of energy. >> >> Each energy derivative is conserved. The two familiar ones are of course >> the first and second derivatives, Momentum and Force x distance. We can >> think off these as velocity "energy" and acceleration energy. We could add >> conservation of heat within an insulated space as a third familiar >> conservation. >> >> But all derivatives must be conserved since we are talking in all cases >> of more and more complicated examples of the basic conservation, the >> conservation of momentum. >> >> So jerk is conserved, snap is conserved, crackle is conserved, pop is >> conserved and all higher as yet unnamed derivatives are also conserved. >> Heat covers a range of derivatives depending on the number of independent >> particle motions involved. >> >> To return to the subject in hand, if we have a simple closed path which >> weaves in and out towards a single axle centre then though we have plenty >> of change in acceleration towards the centre (jerk), the positive jerk on >> the one side is necessarily balanced by the negative jerk on the other and >> so there is no net gain in energy. >> >> However, if we have a major and a minor centre and we loop around the >> minor centre on one side but not on the other then we have more jerk energy >> on one side than the other. So we can use the jerk vector to unbalance the >> wheel - which is basically what Trevor is trying to do - and the Boys from >> Brazil as well for that matter. >> >> <end quote> >> >> Extensive discussion in this thread. >> > >
