Unlimited power, discuss!

[sidekickdmr]

Ok so I'm kind of posting this tounge in cheek but years ago I saw a meme with this theory and just can't think of the reason it wouldn't work!

I'm expecting to be proved wrong in a matter of seconds and feel adequately stupid but hey ho, it's all a bit of fun!

So I couldn't find the original "meme" image so just made my own version, it took me ages so go easy on the artistic criticism!



Discuss.......

[G20]

What is the purpose of the air-filled balls and the water?

[skinley]

If it's perpetual motion you are trying to create, give up now.

[timbob]

Perhaps balls filled with air won't provide enough torque to turn a generator to provide any meaningful power?

[PoleDriver]

Can't work as the frictional forces involved would stop the system operating.

So



NEXT!

[sidekickdmr]

PoleDriver said:

Can't work unless the balls have the water squeezed out of them just before they get to the bottom pulley. The force needed to squeeze them would stop the system operating.

So



NEXT!

No silly ninny, sealed balls, like a football or a gym excersice ball!

[PoleDriver]

OK see new version!

[bigandclever]

Here's 1925's patent effort...

[mattnunn]

Man's enduring stupidity never fails to suprise.

[PoleDriver]

bigandclever said:

Here's 1925's patent effort...

This has more promise if the balls are quite heavy! :snigger:

[zbc]

and something similar here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_motion#Gall...

that also doesn't work

[ludicrous speed]

I thought it was gonna be "what would you do with unlimited power"

I'd kill about 3 billion people who are basically just wasters/parasites, kind of like hitler but better and more reasonable. I also wouldn't discriminate against any race or country, it would be a fair share of killing across the whole human population. I would then take whatever money these losers had and build a fk off huge theme park with rollercoasters that go 250 mph and go up into the sky.
I'd also have a castle.

[RobCrezz]

How is the water moving? A river?

[Super Slo Mo]

PoleDriver said:

Can't work as the frictional forces involved would stop the system operating.

So



NEXT!

The friction won't help, but the overriding factor is going to be the force needed to push the water out of the way at the bottom, to lift the trapdoor.

[rohrl]

Given that superfluids and Bose-Einstein condensates will climb a up vertical flask wall and friction apparently disappears it must be possible to make something which looks like perpetual motion if one gets down to extremely low temperatures.

The energy required to generate temperatures lower than deep space of course mean that it won't really be perpetual motion of course but it'd certainly look that way.

[sidekickdmr]

RobCrezz said:

How is the water moving? A river?

Its not, the air filled balls float, so they will try and rush to the top of the water!

No moving water needed

[Tango13]

What was Homers line when Lisa invented the perpetual motion machine?

'Lisa! In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!'

[mattnunn]

rohrl said:

The energy required to generate temperatures lower than deep space of course mean that it won't really be perpetual motion of course but it'd certainly look that way.

Why waste the energy?

[z4chris99]

the trap door you could have a double door type thing that closes round the string when the second door opens to let the ball through. kind of like at the zoo so the bats dont get out.

[PoleDriver]

I'm surprised that this one hasn't cropped up lately!

If a plane is travelling at take-off speed on a conveyor belt, and that conveyor belt is matching the speed in reverse, can the plane take off?