Quote smudge: So any system relying on mechanical inertia must create opposite reaction in whatever is responsible for our inertia
Lets look at my rough sketch below,and asume that it is opperating in space.With out the 4 balls in place,once the flywheel (if we want to call it that)is up to motor running speed,only the energy required to spin the motor is required-no extra energy is required to keep the flywheel running at a constant speed. Now we add the 4 1kg balls,but still no extra energy is required to keep the flywheel spinning at that constant speed-BUT we now have four 1kg balls exerting a force against the rim of the flywheel. So we have added force without increasing the primary force which created these 4 extra forces in the first place.
Now lets have a look at my even rougher second sketch. We now have an offset in the flywheel that carries these 4 balls that create these 4 extra forces.If we take a momentary snapshot of the rotating flywheel(as the sketch shows),we can see that balls 1 and 2 are following a smaller orbit than that of balls 3 and 4.So at this very instant(as depicted)we have an offset of force which would give us an inertial unidirectional force that flows in the direction from center of motor shaft,through the center of balls 3 and 4.Now what if it were possable to keep that elliptical orbit shape of the flywheel while it rotated,and used only the rotational power of the motor to keep the elliptical shape of the flywheel,so as an equal and opposite force was not required to pull balls 3 and 4 back into a smaller orbit like balls 1 and 2. So if we look at sketch two,and picture it rotating in the depicted elliptical orbit,we can see that we would have a greater force in one direction.
So how can this be done.Well as i stated above(first paragraph),4 extra large forces can be applied to a system that are at a 90* angle to that of the force that gives them creation(motor rotation).The very opposite can be used in that,we can add a force (load) to the motor and remove the 4 extra forces created by the 4 ball's.This is the force we use to increase and decrease the orbit path of the 4 balls,so as they follow the elliptical orbit path. Now i know you are going to ask-what stops the motor spinning insted of the orbiting balls. Well thats an easy fix. We simply have a second unit bolted ontop of the first unit,but this is a counter rotating unit,and all rotation by the motors is canceled out.The thing to remember here is,we only have to reduce that opposite force by 1%(or less) to achieve a net force in one direction.
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