Alternative Orbo Energy Tech from Ireland

[nutball]

We're already building machines powered by the energy of the Earth-Moon system.

 

[Mize]

Nutball, you're likely referring to tidal scavenging. Has nothing to do with slowing the Earth's rotation. Like wind & solar the investments are high, but it is renewable.

 

[Grall]

Tidal scavenging should absolutely slow the earth's rotation. I don't see how it would not, considering it interferes with the free movement of said tides.

That the effect is minute goes without saying, but it should be there. I'm not sure we should actually develop such tech TBH, from a purely ethical standpoint... It's not as if we could ever get much power out of it anyway.

 

[MfA]

You can scavenge both ways, so no it doesn't come out of the earth's rotation around it's axis ... it comes out of the moon's rotation around the earth.

 

[_xxx_]

"Free energy" = perpetual motion machine.
The company admits that their invention violates the law of conservation of energy.

The term "perpetual motion machine" is used to refer to devices that violate this law of physics.

It's not really free, you need to get it moving and you need electricity for every rotation.

Magnets don't need a power source, thus in my book this doesn't violate any laws of physics. Magnetism is a "constant", it won't wear off or get used up. But this engine won't produce any surplus energy when you hang a load onto it, prolly it'll rather choke within seconds.

But in order for this to have any serious power, it would have to be 100x bigger and would still have some huge drag, so at this stage it's still totally useless in real applications.

 

[zed]

(since those supposedly work without input/fuel)...

yes bad wording on my part
rereading backward this thread I think we have achieved the perpetual motion, as it was originally conceived. to quote clarke 'Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.' now if we took a solar cell back to the 16th century (it being in space mind,like they exist now) it would fulfill the criteria to quote mize

Solar panels could work "forever*" but they don't. They die.
Wind turbines could work "forever*" but they don't. They wear out.

and yes the spinning gravity balls things center will wear out or the balls fall off, etc
BUT like I said from my first post it qualifies, in the original sense of the phrase (if it worked or else it would be a valid attempt), gaahh my english sucks, I should write a song about it

 

[Richard]

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