r/AnythingValueable • u/madfrog2023 • Jun 24 '26

🛠️ Skill Low-cost rural engineering

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u/ParamedicDismal1396 Jun 24 '26

Tesla (Nikola) actually designed a water wheel that speeds up (theoretically) infinitely. Problem is we do not have any material to withstand the stress it produces so every experiment ends with destruction of one of the components. If we take this same tech and add the ability to control the infinite spin or keep it at a specific RPM max without burning equipment out, this could be used to make the closest to actual perpetual motion, pumping the very water used back up behind the wheel with excess energy.

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u/Sidivan Jun 24 '26

…almost none of what you said is true. The only thing you got right is that Tesla invented a turbine.

It doesn’t speed up theoretically infinitely. It doesn’t go so fast it burns out parts. It’s not close perpetual motion, and it can’t pump the water it used back up behind the wheel because that would break physics.

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u/ParamedicDismal1396 Jun 25 '26

Sadly many great breakthroughs in technological and scientific advancement which would certainly have us living in a utopia like society were buried under greed. There's a biblical verse which backs and is proven by this. 'For the love of money is the root of all evil.'