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The webpage for one of the companies cited in the Wikipedia article spends a lot of time talking about how their generators are powered not just by gravity but
by learc83 9y ago
The webpage for one of the companies cited in the Wikipedia article spends a lot of time talking about how their generators are powered not just by gravity but also by the earth's rotation.
My first thought was that didn't sound right so it must just be marketing bs.
- dredmorbius 9y agoStraight up lies.
- RobertRoberts 9y agoCouldn't it be simple ignorance? And not intentional deceit?
- kup0 9y agoYou're saying the company that built the generators wouldn't know how they work? I don't see how it could be anything else other than intentional.
- RobertRoberts 9y ago>"You're saying... Nope, I "asked" a hypothetical question based on this: >...one of the companies cited in the Wikipedia article..." And then this: >liars If the company in question are saying stuff like "powered by the coriolis effect" then to call them liars, you'd have to actually look at their site and see if they actual sell anything real. Then either do research on the claim, and then come to a judgement, like this: 1. If they are crackpots in their garage and sell hand-made junk from PVC scraps, then yes, it could be ignorance. 2. If they have a real engineer and a marketing department, then it's probably lying. Which is it? I don't care to look at every site on Wikipedia to figure out which one the comment was about. So instead, I asked the question, maybe someone else has done some research?
- lopmotr 9y agoConservation of angular momentum says you can't get energy from the Earth's rotation unless you have a reaction force on something in space.
- snovv_crash 9y agoIndeed. Coriolis force doesn't give any energy since it applies the force perpendicular to the direction of motion.