The forever quest to try to break a law of physics

[ws23jrt]

This one is especially clever IMO.
I can sometimes spend hours watching these devices trying to figure out how they hide from the "law of conservation of energy" --If the device is enclosed from outside forces there will be no gain of energy.---No free lunch

 

[ws23jrt]

This machine runs on temp. changes. Others have been made to operate on barometric air pressure changes that move the weather around.

 

[Brandy]

This one is especially clever IMO.
I can sometimes spend hours watching these devices trying to figure out how they hide from the "law of conservation of energy" --If the device is enclosed from outside forces there will be no gain of energy.---No free lunch

If you made it large enough and the balls heavy enough, the dropping and lifting ends of the board could do work.

 

[ws23jrt]

If you made it large enough and the balls heavy enough, the dropping and lifting ends of the board could do work.

True-- the dropping ends of the boards could do work. That work would eat up the initial input energy that makes them go up and down and the device would come to a stop. Just like the Atmos clock. Take away the outside power source (temp changes) and the clock will stop.

 

[NJRR]

This one is especially clever IMO.
I can sometimes spend hours watching these devices trying to figure out how they hide from the "law of conservation of energy" --If the device is enclosed from outside forces there will be no gain of energy.---No free lunch

The system is not isolated from outside forces. You have the y-component of F(g)= Force of gravity. Plus, it looked like the guy in the picture gave Red ball a little push initially. Now, if you took the apparatus out into interstellar space, lightyears from any other mass, with no initial push, the balls would not move, even on the incline (no mass= no gravity)

 

[ws23jrt]

The system is not isolated from outside forces. You have the y-component of F(g)= Force of gravity. Plus, it looked like the guy in the picture gave Red ball a little push initially. Now, if you took the apparatus out into interstellar space, lightyears from any other mass, with no initial push, the balls would not move, even on the incline (no mass= no gravity)

True. What is also true is that gravity is not a source of "power" any more than it is for a pendulum is in clock works. It does carry --momentum-- until that force is spent. --The video does not show it slowing down.

BTW the "mass" of something does not change no matter where that mass is. Mass defines gravity. Where there is no mass there is no gravity.