The concept of this invention is employment
of a downwards moving object to produce
electricity
There is nothing new
in this idea, and as
everyone before me, I
encountered the same
problem: lifting the
object takes far more
energy.
To resolve the problem, I took a different
approach and employed
balance, leverage and
counterbalances
as
shown on the picture
#1. The large circle represents the downward
moving object or balance*, smaller circles
represent counterbalances (combined mass
of both counterbalances equal to the mass of
the balance**), black
triangles represent fulcrums, and lines connecting centers of the
circles represent levers.
The leverage ratio is
1:2. Due to this ratio,
when balance is moving downwards, only
half of the energy is
used to lift the counterbalances.
But not so fast – if
we try to flip the system around axis X and
repeat the move, we
will soon discover that
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the side where balance
is located is heavier
than the side with the
counterbalances; all
energy gain will be lost
on flipping. It is obvious on the picture #1
that the center of the
large circle is twice farther from rotation axis
X than centers of both
counterbalances.