The overbalance wheel.
Can sliding weights make a wheel power itself?
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Can sliding weights make a wheel power itself?
Fit the components before testing.
Gravity can speed a weight downhill, but returning every weight to its original height costs the same potential energy. A closed cycle supplies no net gravitational work. Bearing drag steadily consumes the initial spin.
Inferred sliding-weight wheel, not a perpetual-motion device. Prescribed closed weight paths; thin-rim effective inertia; constant drag torque. No energy is created by the sliders.
Show zero gravity gain and a frictional stop within 30 seconds.
Find why gravity cannot sustain the wheel’s spin.