When the core started hopping around, it reminded me of the houndeye sonic creatures from Half-Life. :laughing: .
This is the kind of stuff that leaves the mind wondering if somehow, some way, the right use of magnets could really result in a perpetuation machine. Of course, if youāre a physicist youād scoff immediately. But these days, there are people who put more faith in their own beliefs than experts. :person_facepalming:
well, that brings up another pointā¦does it have-to-be perpetual?
how about 100 years? if it took 100 years to ārun downā that would
be forever in my life-time. nuclear power could handle that and more.
One of the laws of physics is that energy cannot be created or destroyed.
So one would need a system with 0% energy loss to operate forever.
But - it would still need energy to get started.
There have been various contraptions that use gravity to spin a wheel by having weights around the edge move inward and out as the wheel spins.
Friction is is the killer.
There is a thing called an ATMOS clock that appears to be perpetual.
It uses changes in room temperature to wind the spring and an ultra slow and heavy wheel as a pendulum.
Once setup, they will run unattended basically forever - until some mechanical part fails.
We have one we gave my parents in 1995 that has been running since then - untouched except when we moved it to our house (and to set the time). Others have been running far longer than that.
Hereās a vid explaining the mechanization.
Then there is the Crooks Radiometer. When I was a kid I thought it was just the photons pushing the blades around.
Smarter people than I have argued about how the thing works. But they are still super cool to watch.
All the Best,
Jeff
oldie but a goodie:
reminds me of those Dune worms.
Iām going to ask if Acebeam would send me the X50 to mount on the drone. Who doesnāt want to to 40,000 lumens on a drone lol
EXACTLY. Even for machines that could run for an extremely long time (many months), the friction is what erodes the perpetual possibility.
Itās getting fuel from the environmentā¦ which means itās not perpetual. BUT, itās making wonderful use of an ambient āfuelā. Heat or light. Itās essentially free, as it ultimately comes from the sun with no cost. Thatās what always perplexed me about alternative energy, why solar tech was moving so incredibly slowā¦ while thereās all of this free fuel raining down on us. āNo, weāve got to suck & pull it out of the ground!ā Of course, hydroelectric is the most prolific and has been around for a century. But thatās pretty much a fixed asset.
Curiously enough, this is a red state that prided itself on coal consumption. Thereās a lot of fossil fuel diminishment in states that once openly scoffed about renewable energy.
Solar:
California - 32,394 MW
Texas - 11,063 MW
North Carolina - 7,308 MW
Florida - 6,681 MW
Arizona - 6,112 MW
I forgot which midwestern state has the fastest growing solar power implementation, but itās something like 40% of all power consumption. Thatās compared to less than 5% just 20 years ago.
A 10 minute motorcycle police chase on narrow streets in South America? somewhere. The chase starts in the video at 1 minute 20 seconds. 2 other short clips in the first minute.- YouTube
Unbelievable! I really thought that guy flying on his bike was going to crash. Insane the chances he took, especially with a rider on the back for most of it.
You canāt make this s&*$ upā¦
4 days?
Guess thatās what they call a hard-luck storyā¦
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In the spirit of the seasonā¦
Glitter Bomb V 4.0 vs porch pirates.
I love this guyā¦
All the Best,
Jeff
