| A Fluid Leverage Perpetual Motion Waterwheel Concept Utilizing Leverage from Tanks at Alternate Radiuses SUMMARY The device is an octagonal wheel, which if torque is applied, turns about an axis. On each side of the octagon is mounted an arm. The arm is a pipe, which projects from one corner of the octagon, along the side and outwards some distance in the same direction towards an attached projecting outer tank, which is spherical. Attached to the pipe along the length of its side of the octagon are three tanks, collectively equal, or approximately equal, to the volume of the outer drum. If we assume for now that sufficient torque could be generated, apertures in the pipe opposite the triple tanks allow the triple tanks to be filled during the low point in the cycle, when that portion of the wheel is submerged. As the wheel turns, hatches that were open at the low point close by gravity and force of the water, trapping the water within the lower tanks and a length of the arm. Continuing upward the hatches close more tightly under water weight, and then at just past the midpoint the contents of the triple tanks are emptied down the arm (over the hatches) and into the corresponding outer tank, increasing--at least temporarily--leverage force acting on the rising water weight. With the correct proportions it is possible to have two outer tanks filled for a portion of the path every 22 degrees that it succeeds to move, pulling on approximately 10 or 11 filled triple tanks positioned at a lesser radius. Thus if each triple tank is exactly 1/3 the waterweight of an outer tank, the leverage force of two outer tanks need only be greater than the waterweight of (11/3) = 3.67 outer tanks at the radius of the triple tanks. So if twice the distance from the axle is twice the leverage, I might estimate that at least at one point in the cycle, sufficient torque would be applied to suggest movement. IF that force is sufficient to move the wheel 22 degrees, then it is again in the same position, and the cycle would repeat, if we make certain assumptions. Assumptions such as that it is possible for the fluid to fill the triple tanks completely while the wheel is in motion, and possible for the outer tanks to be emptied without hindering the device. I also have not accounted for the inevitable resistance of the outer tanks dragging through the water. However it seemed to me that water resistance would only allow the triple tanks to fill; it would not reduce the bulk of the water acting in one or two outer tanks. For criticism of this design, see my Personal Critique. Fluid Leverage Components nathancoppedge.com |
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NATHAN COPPEDGE--Perpetual Motion Concepts
| STATISTICS: Fluid Leverage VOLITION: 1 (1 active wheel / 1 dual axial wheel) EQUILIBRIUM: 8 (not good) (1 fluid substance / 1 stem / 8 subcycles) EFFICIENCY: 0.125 (1 / 8 at best, reaching 0 for "fluid particles") VOLITIONAL STATEMENT: Simply put, the fluid lever has no real moving parts |
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A critical insight
may have been the
distance in radius
of the holes of a
seive-like device
or straining pan
may have been the
distance in radius
of the holes of a
seive-like device
or straining pan
