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or we could hook it up to a small steam engine or water wheel and run it from the over head pulley that would keep the power source period? Just kidding or we could have the house troll keep it wound?

What you need is a perpetual motion machine , David Jones who used to write in New Scientist under the pseudonym of Daedalus is always making them , he used to offer a prize if anyone could work out how they were powered , they just run and run ! Here is one in the Technical Museum of Vienna
It's been going for years !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHQ33OFljOg

IT Looks like it uses a pendulum type energy a pendulum once set in motion will stay in motion like the one in the museum of science in Boston
dwight

celticguitar666 wrote:IT Looks like it uses a pendulum type energy a pendulum once set in motion will stay in motion like the one in the museum of science in Boston
dwight

If you mean the Foucault Pendulum, that uses magnetic impulses to keep moving continuously. A pendulum works on stored energy and inertia and without an occasional impulse of energy will stop.

Just get the energy from an alternate universe to keep the spring tight, that should work for a while. Well, until the people from that alternate universe discover you're stealing their energy, and they come over here through the wormhole at a time before you went through so they can kill you. Oh, boy... let's just get up and wind our machines every 5 mins, it'll be a whole lot easier.

Retrograde wrote:Just get the energy from an alternate universe to keep the spring tight, that should work for a while. Well, until the people from that alternate universe discover you're stealing their energy, and they come over here through the wormhole at a time before you went through so they can kill you. Oh, boy... let's just get up and wind our machines every 5 mins, it'll be a whole lot easier.

Too true or use my Dr who sonic screwdriver!
I have my son do it for me He loves the Victrola he will wind it for me until the cows come home or until he becomes a teenager which ever comes first
Dwight

celticguitar666 wrote:

Retrograde wrote:Just get the energy from an alternate universe to keep the spring tight, that should work for a while. Well, until the people from that alternate universe discover you're stealing their energy, and they come over here through the wormhole at a time before you went through so they can kill you. Oh, boy... let's just get up and wind our machines every 5 mins, it'll be a whole lot easier.

Too true or use my Dr who sonic screwdriver!
I have my son do it for me He loves the Victrola he will wind it for me until the cows come home or until he becomes a teenager which ever comes first
Dwight

How many years of free winding have you got left ?

Until he discovers cars or girls, whichever comes first.

Jim

While reading this thread, I was reminded of an
electric/spring driven clock that I used to have.

It was a junker, picked out of the garbage
at curbside.

It was an early version of a battery-powered
electric clock. Here is how it worked:

It took (2) "D" sized flashlight batteries.
It had a little DC motor inside that was of about the same type commonly used for toy
cars and such.

The clockworks ran on spring power, but it
was a very short spring, it would only run
the clock for a few minutes at a time. At
the end of this time period, a set of contacts
would run the motor and rewind the spring.

It kept pretty decent time, and the batteries
would last about a year. It finally died.

But there is an example of a spring powered
works that had a winding mechanism to keep it
going.

(only until the batteries were used up)

There is no such thing as "free energy".
When ever you hear that term, or anything like
it, know that you are being lied to and scammed.

Even wind and solar power uses an available
source of external energy.

Thermodynamics: It's not just a good
idea, It's The Law!

Chuck

soundgen wrote:What you need is a perpetual motion machine , David Jones who used to write in New Scientist under the pseudonym of Daedalus is always making them , he used to offer a prize if anyone could work out how they were powered , they just run and run ! Here is one in the Technical Museum of Vienna
It's been going for years !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHQ33OFljOg

It's a Sterling Cycle heat engine. They can operate at very small differences in heat energy.