But what is the motivation to acheive it?
I found out, that in my process of development of this device, my personal attitude to actually acheiving this goal changed a lot. Here are some possible reasons for working on a device like that... (I am not saying, that I went through all of sthese, but some :-)
- + A pot of gold... who does not want this...? Endless money etc...
+ Being regarded as a pure genius... reputation to the world.
+ Having acheived victory over the laws of physics... and together with that...
+ Silence all people who say, that it is impossible to build a perpetual motion machine
+ Create an energy source, that does not need any kind of fossil fuel and is able to run 24/7.
+ Giving this invention "to the world", so that anyone could build it by himself.
+ Any other reasons?... Tell them to us all...
Bessler himself was successful weith his invention but in my opinion was shipwrecked with his whole cool invention by the fact, that he never did share the secret and actually did not document, what he had invented.
He was severly injured by falling of a roof at a building site, where he was engaged at the age of 65 to build a windmill with horizontal blades (his idea!)...
Nothing was left from his glorious idea, when he died two days later...
Why didn't he build a mill, driven by one of his wheels and he had to "switch backwards" to simple wind driven energy? He planned to be a windmiller, when having found the secret of gravity motion...?
Sad story...
I personally think, that he acheived his goal of a PM machine, but after that "f..ked it up" by simply sunbathing in his (singularily sensed) fame of having invented "the thing".... and not thinking further on... and to "work" with it... he just wanted a lot of money to do something else later on...
I had a very interesting find the other day... I read in a historical book form 1723 (Theatrium machinarum generale - Jacob Leupold - Find it here on goolge books:
http://books.google.de/books?id=sNMUAA ... dir_esc=y )
His job was to show a catalog of machines, that were state of the art in his time.
In that book, he states, that there were many people who tried to build a PM machine... and failed. But people who attempt to do it shouldn't be givin it up... because there already IS one guy who has a functional device, that is running at Cassel and was inspected by the COunt (who had studied mechanics as well).
So... this encouraged me a lot... but the question still remains: What would you do, when you acheived "it"...?