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Re: Conservation of angular momentum, Foucault Pendulum and 'free energy'.
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"Scott A Crosby" <scrosby@cs.rice.edu> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 12:50:28 GMT, abelshapiro@pinex.com writes:
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> FYI: 300MW is about .1% of what the US uses.
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> Here's a counterproposal for 'free' energy from a gyroscope. Well, not
> free, I believe the force it is exploiting is coming from earth's
> rotation, but I suspect there's a mistake somewhere because I don't
> think I'm conserving angular momentum.
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> Put a partially gimballed gyroscope on the equator with its axis of
> rotation aimed straight up/down. As earth rotates, the gyroscope will
> continue to rotate in the same plane, but the earth will rotate
> underneath it flipping it end over end once a day. Now, we only allow
> the gyroscope's axis of rotation to rotate through a vertical plane
> --- the equator. Now we have a gyroscope whose axis of rotation will
> flip end-over-end 360 degrees a day.
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> Attach a generator, generate electricity.
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> Ah, it does purporteldy work!
> http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/museum/advanced.htm
> 'gyrogenerator'
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> Now how do I work out the math for how much energy it would produce?
Scott
Look at the story of Eric Laithwaite.
http://cgi.bbc.co.uk/history/histor...aite_eric.shtml
"His curiosity pricked, Laithwaite spent the next few years immersed in the
world of gyroscopes. He gradually convinced himself that they did break
known scientific laws and might be a new source of power. He decided to make
this the subject of his prestigious Faraday Lecture at the Royal Institution
in 1973.
He brought with him an array of gyroscopes, including one weighing 50lb that
he spun up and raised effortlessly above his head with one hand, claiming it
had lost weight and so contravened Newton's third law. The world of science
was scandalised. For the first time in its history, the Royal Institution
failed to publish the Faraday Lecture and Laithwaite's nomination for a
Fellowship of the Royal Society was cancelled."
Eric upset the established thinking and was instantly an outcast, despite
being a brilliant man who invented the linear motor and Maglev train - he
had an exceptional track record. He practically demonstrated that an object
became lighter when spun. It could not be so, as their maths didn't agree.
Of course it wasn't lighter. Of course he never picked up the 50 pound
object with one hand. They wouldn't even publish the lecture pretending it
never happened, the only one is history - that is how bad the scientific
establishment is. Look on the web hard enough and you will see some of
Laithwaites papers on gyros.
A helicopter needs air around the rotors, a gyroscope doesn't and it can be
in a vacuum. The ractionless drive, if on a vehicle can propel it along.
This may take a small amount of electrical energy. Only a small amount of
energy may give the same performance of a modern car or ship.
Look up Laithwaites Reactionless Drive.
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