Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site steinmetz.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!ncsu!uvacs!edison!steinmetz!davidsen From: davidsen@steinmetz.UUCP (Davidsen) Newsgroups: net.physics,net.misc,net.research Subject: Re: Joseph Newman's Energy Machine Message-ID: <290@steinmetz.UUCP> Date: Wed, 23-Oct-85 12:02:43 EDT Article-I.D.: steinmet.290 Posted: Wed Oct 23 12:02:43 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 26-Oct-85 20:04:18 EDT References: <173@tulane.UUCP> <71@oce-rd2.UUCP> <1760@watdcsu.UUCP> <1004@oddjob.UUCP> <1221@mhuxt.UUCP> Reply-To: davidsen@kbsvax.UUCP (Davidsen) Organization: GE CRD, Schenectady, NY Lines: 25 Xref: watmath net.physics:3442 net.misc:8773 net.research:299 Summary: In article <1221@mhuxt.UUCP> js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag) writes: >> Device #2: a closed box with a button on top. The box can be set on a >> passive wheeled platform or on some wooden dowels and it >> will move a distance much greater than its own length when >> the button is pushed. The floor of the room will not be >> slanted - the box may be turned around and it will move in >> the other direction on activation. The box will not take in >> or put out any matter for its propulsion. > > This one isn't that tough. I assume that Matt had something different >in mind than my solution, since he asks that the device be placed on a >wheeled platform or on dowels. My solution? The button releases a tightly >wound spring, which spins a massive verticle wheel inside the box, causing >the box to roll, end over end, across the room. >Jeff Sonntag >ihnp4!mhuxt!js2j > Actually, the easiest way to do this is to draw a weight slowly to one end of the box. Friction keeps the box from moving. Then move the weight rapidly back to the opposite end, giving a thrust great enough to move the box. For $25k I'll even do it with desmodromic cams! -billD "It seemed like a good idea at the time..."