Re: First Law (now perpetual motion)

[Herbert H Gottlieb <herbgottlieb@JUNO.COM>]

Chuck Britton suggested a perpetual motion machine by gravity shielding
one half of a Ferris wheel to make it lighter than the other half.

Someone has already suggested a perpetual motion machine
(which doesn't work) using readily available magnetic shielding.
To do this, just connect a wire from wingtip to wingtip of a
transcontental
airplane. Then , using magnetic shelding, cover the return wire that
runs back to the cockpit.  As the plane flies horizontally, the wire
cuts magnetic lines of force which are essential vertical across
most of the USA. This will induce a potential difference which can
be used to run the airplanes electrical instrumentation... or even
run electric motors which propel the airplane in place of jet engines.

Herb Gottlieb from New York City
(Where I once constructed a small wagon with rear wheels
larger than the front wheels so the wagon was always
going downhill)  It didn't work either.

On Sat, 23 Jan 1999 17:36:37 -0500 Chuck Britton <britton@ODIE.NCSSM.EDU>
writes:
> > 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
> creates 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