Where does the energy come from ?

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deschoe
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Where does the energy come from ?

Post by deschoe » Thu Feb 16, 2017 10:03 am

As you can see in these following videos, capillaries are able to suck away little waterhills in the surrounding areas of floaters, so that a floater in a capillary rises more than a floater outside a capillary.
For this you can create a circulation between the two floaters, that creates energy, but the question is, where does this energy come from ?

here is the 111 sec version :

https://youtu.be/SbB7kPnwZXQ

and here the detailed explanation :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2dsHW-fOUg

Please let me know, why do you think this is compatible with energy conservation as far ?

Qwaps
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Re: Where does the energy come from ?

Post by Qwaps » Thu Feb 16, 2017 12:39 pm

This is not the proper section to post this, as this doesn't have anything to do with the PGRE. But let me try and explanation. He does the whole argument of perpetual motion with drawings and animations. If he tried to do the actual experiment, he'll most probably see that it doesn't work as he thought it would.

deschoe
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Re: Where does the energy come from ?

Post by deschoe » Thu Feb 16, 2017 1:24 pm

thats not true, in the long version you see all in real. a varaiant for example is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34WiOc6LmDY and there you can see a real perpetual motion even some work is done by hand, but this performed work appiers in a warming of the air and the water -> http://www.hwcv.net/energiebilanz-details/



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