Thermodynamics

[Aaron]

practical applications

Not exactly how I want to spend my day...but I'm happy for third world economies that someone found a way to harness the "bouncing ball".

This is being used as water pumping technology in various poor areas.

Note also that the large hammer on the "anvil" end goes up and down twice per pendulum swing and not just once. It is extremely brilliant.

By spending a small bit of energy to lift the small pendulum, the large hammer will bounce twice (for each pendulum swing and not just once). Total work done by lifting the very heavy hammer on the anvil is WAY more than what it takes to lift the pendulum. It harnesses gravitational potential as an active force.

The water pumping technology is doing a good thing for people that really need it and there are more variations than this.

I'll show another technology later that has helped poor starving areas receive fresh clean water with very little energy compared to the water that has moved over vast distances.

[quantumuppercut]

I think I figured out what is killing OU. The simultaneous apply of input/output or force. In order to extract kinetic energy from the system, one must allow the mass to play in the event. If you apply both forces at the same time, it's irrelevant if the system has mass or not.

For example, the Muller dynamo use odd/even coil magnet configuration so that one cannot push the wheel and extract power from it at the same time, allowing the mass of the wheel to give kinetic energy. If the coil/magnet arrangement is in symmetry, then it's irrelevant how much the wheel weight because input will directly transfer to output. Such process is just transfer of momentum, we need the mass to give out kinetic energy while we input momentum, the relative frame.

I remembered Chas Campbell once commented his fly wheel system doesn't work with tight belt, he needs loose belt pulsating. This way the pulse actually utilized the weight of the fly wheel.