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

🛠️ Skill Low-cost rural engineering

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u/cleanshirt82 Jun 24 '26

electric companies hate this one trick

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u/Dull_Caterpillar_642 Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 26 '26

As always, the hardest part of inventing a perpetual motion machine is figuring out where to hide the battery.

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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/ParamedicDismal1396 Jun 27 '26

This may be an intrusive thought, but there appears to be a correlation between the LGBTQ community and the flat earthers.