Group: alt.energy.renewable
From: david.williams@bayman.org (David Williams)
Date: Sunday, April 13, 2008 5:41 PM
Subject: Re: Foucault Pendulum

-> The gyro idea is nonsense from a practical point of view. 1 rev/day
-> torque would be in the billions of N-m for even a few kilowatts not to
-> mention the frictional losses from such a huge disks spinning in air
-> or maintaining a vacuum.

It's not only impractical, it's impossible for such a machine to
extract even a teeny bit of energy from the earth's rotation.

dow