Re: First Law????

[Chuck Britton <britton@ODIE.NCSSM.EDU>]

> Sure. This looks like a bit from David Park's periodic news briefs, and
> knowing his tongue-in-cheek style, I'm not surprised at the wry comment at
> the end. He's saing that *if* you could make a partial or complete gravity
> shield, you *could* make a perpetual motion machine which would turn
> forever *and* produce some useful work output. So, there's good reason to
> doubt that the gravity shield idea could actually be achieved.
>
> But, I ask, would a gravity shield (if possible) actually make a perpetual
> motion machine possible? If so, let's see your design of the machine.
>
>        -- Donald


Here's a first quick stab at a gravity shield motor.

Load up a Ferris Wheel with as much mass as feasable.
Position the wheel so that one side of the wheel is shielded and the other
half is not.

'Clearly' the shielded side will rise because is has less 'weight' than the
unshielded side.

Put a generator on the axis and away we GO!

(Some ivory tower theorist may claim that the shielding mathematics creats
some sort of 'transverse' effect that would nullify this idea, but we'll
never be *SURE* until we try it!)

It's no accident that stressed          Chuck Britton
spelled backwards is desserts.          britton@odie.ncssm.edu