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legendary
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Thick-Skinned Gang Leader and Golden Feather 2021
April 28, 2022, 02:18:08 PM
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This has to be one of the craziest ideas I've heard here
If you'd build this "disk", it would create a very large force with a very small movement. That's not easy to harvest, there's a reason any conventional engine runs at high RPM. If you end up with 1 round per day, that's not very useful.

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There is a far easier to harvest energy that is generated somewhat by the same rotation with a little help from the moon, that is tidal waves, it would be far easier to create artificial estuaries for this rather than putting disks around the earth.
I was going to suggest this too. Tidal energy comes entirely from the earth's rotation. It even "leaks" a bit of energy towards the moon.
legendary
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Blackjack.fun
April 28, 2022, 02:11:56 PM
#4
Prototype World Engine I - A simple disk
With a disk located at the equator and spinning on an axis that is always longitudinal,
the rotational axis of the disk will appear to flip 360 every 24 hours on a 2nd axis
which is always latitudinal. The first axis is not actually flipping though, it's just not
rotating with the Earth. The difference of motion creates a potential source of power.

This has to be one of the craziest ideas I've heard here, at least try to a normal gyroscope as the Russian tried twenty years ago but still failed.
There is a far easier to harvest energy that is generated somewhat by the same rotation with a little help from the moon, that is tidal waves, it would be far easier to create artificial estuaries for this rather than putting disks around the earth.

If built right, these gyros will last for millions of years and have zero impact on the environment.

Yeah because they will be made be of unrealizablium probably.
legendary
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Linux since 1997 RedHat 4
April 23, 2022, 11:56:51 AM
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If built right, these gyros will last for millions of years and have zero impact on the environment.

Nothing has zero impact.

However, 25% of Iceland's power is geothermal ...
full member
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April 12, 2022, 08:55:23 PM
#2
The physics behind this idea have been known for over 200 years. If it were possible to generate lots of power cheaper than existing sources, somebody would've tried it by now. It would probably cost trillions of dollars to build a bunch of flywheels that had enough mass to generate even 1 megawatt.

It's probably a better idea to build more hydroelectric dams, or make nuclear power cheaper.
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April 12, 2022, 08:28:25 PM
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