[Electric Car-Nut]

Is it the red color they hate or the unpainted metal parts?
In this day and age I feel they should be more afraid of the improving price (Lower.) of Solar Photo Voltaic panels, Now what can really replace their monopoly. And is very scary to them !

[dragonsgate]

The only thing perpetual about Perpetual Motion is the number if people constantly buying into the hype.

[Electric Car-Nut]

YES, Ignorance is bliss say the ignorant for they know not what the heck they are doing.
There is a certain Perpetuality to it. They simply do not know enough about the physics of mechanical or electrical systems to understand them. We used to ask prospective Electronics students if the liked "Science Fiction" and if they did they would be easier to explain electricity to them, they had good imaginations and could visualize circuit operation and electron flow easier.

[mizlplix]

The only thing truly perpetual is this thread....LOL

Miz

[dragonsgate]

Any of you that have had an ev on the road for any amount of time has most likely had someone suggest putting a generator on the car and charge the batteries while you drive. I am amazed every time and when I try to explain it to them they say something like how bout if you run it directly off the wheel? It’s like they think you can fool the system. I have even thought about it in the past. When I was 11 or 12 I discovered that I could spin a small pm motor the kind that are usually in battery powered toys and make a flash light bulb flicker. Try as I might I couldn’t get one motor to run another for more than an hour or so. JUST KIDDING! As I got more schooling I found out why I couldn’t get it to work.

[dragonsgate]

Originally Posted by Electric Car-Nut

We used to ask prospective Electronics students if the liked "Science Fiction" and if they did they would be easier to explain electricity to them, they had good imaginations and could visualize circuit operation and electron flow easier.

Like Si Fi ? Then I should be a freaking genious!
I got hooked on science fiction in the 60’s when I was in the navy and hardly read anything else for entertainment.

[few2many]

Fun little vid.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=287qd...e_gdata_player

[Caps18]

Originally Posted by few2many

Fun little vid.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=287qd...e_gdata_player

I'll admit that I had to test the first one, and I probably didn't do a very good job recreating it (no siphon action). Water should find it's own level...but siphons and gravity and smaller tubes... I'm not going to pass any fluid dynamics class anytime soon.

[Ziggythewiz]

I thought that one looked pretty funky, like a bad photoshop or something. Many of the others seemed weird because while they looked like decent near Perpetual Motion concepts, the motion wasn't smooth enough, and jerky at the wrong times, like there was a motor in the base driving it.

[DanGT86]

Anybody who has ever filled a beer bong should know that the first one is bogus.

If that worked then every time you put a straw into a beverage cup it would shoot liquid out from the weight of the liquid above the inlet of the straw.

We could just drop a tube to the bottom of the ocean and tap all the hydroelectric power we could ever want from the resulting fountain!

How's that for an energy policy?