Tarsier79 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 08, 2023 8:57 am
The last one looks like a bit of an inefficient way to increase rotational speed... It reminds me of a video I see occasionally on youtube, where someone cranks a wheel back and forth which causes the wheel to accelerate faster and faster regardless of its speed. I can't find this video :(
It's just demonstrating that kiiking is possible under CF force alone, but also that this isn't a momentum source / sink like real gravity. It's spun up to a preset speed then the internal rotor's unlocked and allowed to do its thing. As-is, it's just a waste of energy.
The potential however - and the reason it seems like a conceptual breakthrough to me - is that once an OB mechanism's added and in effect, the CF-kiiking mechanism will have access to
'real' momentum - it'll be able to scoop it up as it swings around while changing MoI, and because the torques produced by the ice-skater effect are reactionless, we'll thus have real, meaningful reactionless accelerations / momenta to play with.
This is, inexorably, the working fluid of any viable solution. The trick will be accumulating it at fixed unit-energy cost.
In the past i've tried similar concepts of weighted vMoI's kiiking under gravity and then dumping those momentum gains into the main wheel body's axis by braking or colliding with rimstops etc., always finding that per-cycle momentum yields are inevitably inversely proportionate to per-cycle G-time as a function of RPM in relation to gravity's constant acceleration..
..hence the real potential breakthrough this new approach may offer is in decoupling the available 'G-time' of the kiiking mechanism from that of the OB moment as a function of wheel RPM; bashically, the hunch is that so long as there's an active OB moment
there, the CF kiiker can access this real momentum source / sink via the intermediary or proxy of CF force,
asynchronously to RPM and thus circumventing the constraint of diminishing per-cycle momentum yields with rising system RPM.. geddit? Each stroke of the CF kiiker has the potential to gain the same amount of momentum, for the same work-done against CF force.
Hence if i can get as far as establishing that effect - of stabilising the kiiking momentum yields invariant of RPM / OB speed - the the final hurdle will be
accumulating these momenta until their combined velocity inevitably breaks unity.
So i'm still vague on the details of how to apply it; the first objective is simply to overcome this RPM / momentum yield constraint that's defied all previous attempts. I may just add a simple OB mechanism synced to the background coords that remains perpetually out of balance (at unity of course) just so i can test the main hypothesis which is that CF force can be a proxy or intermediary for tapping into the real ±dp/dt of G*t vicariously, so to speak, this being the whole basis of the prospective exploit..