Re: YES, mechanical perpetual motion generator based on the Coriolis effect is going to work (JP)

"Dan Bloomquist" <public21@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> daestrom wrote:
>>
>> If I understand your experiment, you align the shaft parallel to the 
>> earth's at the north pole and then spin up the rotor (let's say same 
>> direction as the earth for argument's sake).  The reaction force of the

>> spin motor will have slowed the earth a tiny amount.  But the
interesting 
>> part is if we push the top of the shaft to the right it will precess
away 
>> from us and we can use this to turn the rotor upside down.  Now, by 
>> simply applying a small torque to the right of the shaft, we have
changed 
>> the direction of the rotor's momentum by 180 degrees.
>>
>> If we can show that the torque impulse *does* impart 2Lrotor1 momentum
to 
>> the planet, then your issue of spinning up / inverting and braking the 
>> rotor is closed.
>
> I wish I had a gyro to test. As I recall, with one axis of freedom it 
> takes an initial impulse to start the swing and an equal but opposite 
> impulse to stop the movement. So, there is no net torque to account for 
> the 'potential' phenomena. The precession torque to start and stop will
be 
> in the same direction but orthonormal to both the other torques!?
>

I don't *think* it continues to swing from an initial impulse.  I think it

only swings as long as you apply a tiny force (which tries to precess 
against the restraint and the reaction of the restraint causes it to
precess 
through another 90 degree angle and that is the direction you happen to be

pu****ng).

But experimentation would solve the question.  If I could get a nice 
gyro.....

daestrom