A few months ago I was persuaded to share my latest thinking on finding a solution to Bessler's wheel. I posted a design I had been working on at the time, but the action generated by each falling weight was slow and cumbersome. Although it generated some discussion I knew before I posted the details it was never going to work, regardless of any alterations I made to the design. My inclusion of five sets of scissor mechanisms was too much for a light weight design, intended to react instantly and easily. So I thought long and hard about simplifying the problem and I came up with an improved mechanism.
But this improvement sparked a completely different design, one that I’m busy installing on the old MDF disc which serves as basis for all my designs. I can’t show you yet, because it’s not finished, but I’m just making a point here about working with actual mechanisms, which I’ve done all my life. It’s so much more rewarding using actual physical material rather than relying on simming actions alone. This new design occurred to me during the process of improving an action already built. Yes, sims have their place I suppose, although if you’ve got a working model, why would you bother to sim it - if you could? But I can’t anyway.
So the model currently under construction requires adjustments to enable the fall of a weight to move the mechanism, easily. Sounds familiar but this is definitely not the same problem. Getting the pivot points in the right place takes some trial and error, not error actually, just an improved lift.
Anyway I’ll update you all on my progress as often as I can, this design is not one I’ve seen before so I’m hopeful that this time it’s a good one. It looks right on paper, but getting the sizes of the levers right and their pivot points right is not so easy.
:JC
JC pontificates with: "Yes, sims have their place I suppose, although if you’ve got a working model, why would you bother to sim it - if you could? "
ReplyDeleteBut the reality is that you have NO working model wheel now! You bother to sim a design to see if what you have that you THINK "looks right on paper" might actually have a chance of working when actually constructed. If you don't sim your latest Eureka design or have someone else do it for you, then you risk wasting more months, maybe even years of your remaining and dwindling supply of heartbeats chasing after what will only be yet another design to be dumped on top of our now towering Mt. Dead Duck. How many times do you have to go through this before that REALITY finally sinks down into your brain and registers there somewhere?
This is not the 18th century and you are not Johann Bessler. If Bessler had a sim, then he would not have hesitated to use it. This is the 21st century and the wise pm chasers will be making much use of the sims that are available. The unwise ones will keep making excuses why they "prefer" not to use them. The real reason, imo, is that, other than being too lazy to invest maybe two hours learning how to use one, they actually unconsciously want to stretch out the time to their next dead duck as much as possible so they do not once again have to face the fact that they are right back to square one and clueless as to what to try next. That is a very uncomfortable place for a seriously addicted Bessler pm wheel chaser to find himself. Better to avoid it at all costs by avoiding simming whenever possible. His justifying motto then becomes "Bessler didn't need sims, so neither do I!" A bold proclamation, indeed, but it will do absolutely nothing to speed one to finding a working design...if that is his destiny.
A sharp rebuke! But don't expect it to light a fire under JC to get him to start using simming. Ain't gonna happen. We'll be lucky to see one quick photo of his latest "improvement" before the end of this year...maybe! As someone previously said "leopards don't change their spots"...and neither does JC. 🥱
DeleteI kind of agree with you, in one way; I would take the time to learn how to simulate a wheel design, but the truth is, I can’t be bothered and my previous attempts with a decent piece of software from a friend, led to confusion and a succession of brick walls. Unless I have someone to accompany me as I work my way through the tangle of instructions - well, as I said, I can’t be bothered.
DeleteHowever I think you missed my point. What I was trying to say, is that working with real world pieces of apparatus can lead one’s mind into pastures new and unsuspected, as happened to me, not for the first time, I admit. So as soon as I’ve completed this latest iteration, I’ll post and let someone else have a go at simming it.
But of course if it should happen that it actually works, well it might take a little longer before I share it as I have a well-formulated plan mapped out and there are certain things to accomplish first.
JC
Anonymous June 20, 2026 at 2:34 PM
DeleteYou still don't appreciate John's CONTRIBUTION. When will you understand that?
John gives you time and breath, and YOU are also useful, so even more humility, humility, humility.
John runs this blog in an exemplary manner. Be calm, perhaps you will see what you so much dream of. Be reserved with yourself.
As always! Best of luck.
ReplyDeleteLooks like that heatwave in western Europe is going to be really brutal. One prediction is that temperatures could climb to 41°C which for those in the US would be 106°F!! If it does, then let's hope it does not have the same results as a similar heat wave did back in 2022 that killed off an estimated 70,000 people throughout Europe! Older people are more sensitive to the heat than the younger and every one of them should be provided with a free air conditioner by their state's government. The cost of that is only a small fraction of what having to hospitalize thousands for heat related illnesses can be. 🥵
ReplyDeleteThose Net Zero lunatics over in the UK have a new plan to reach their impossible fantasy goal...they want to get rid of everyone's AC! Impossible you say? Read this:
Deletehttps://principia-scientific.com/air-conditioning-torn-from-homes-under-net-zero-clampdown/
After they get rid of our air conditioners and increase our electric bills even more, the next plan is to get rid of our hamburgers! Yes, they will be replacing them with...LENTILS!
Deletehttps://www.gbnews.com/politics/labour-climate-change-push-british-farmers-stop-raising-cattle
Mmm...I can wait to bite into a nice, juicy lentil burger! Thank you so much, Greenies and Net Zeroers! 🚫🚫🐂🚫🚫🍔🚫🚫
During this current heatwave, the elites are making sure they are staying cool and comfortable (and also eating plenty of meat), while they urge everyone else to keep a stiff upper lip, sweat it out, and become vegetarians!
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Looks like that Sir Keir Starmer guy over in the UK called it quits this morning. It's hard to fight on when you realize that your only real supporters are getting down to your family and closest friends. He didn't even make it to the two year mark. All of the talking heads in the media are now busy analyzing his downfall. Actually, I think it's very simple. Too many mosques popping up all over the place and too many increases on everyone's utility bills. No one will tell you that on the news though because they want to maintain the illusion that the white British are blissfully happy to welcome as many nonwhites into their country as possible and are also happy to pay through the nose for whatever the cost of achieving "Net Zero" will be so they can impress the rest of the world and encourage them to do likewise. Lol! Nothing could be farther from the truth! 🤫
ReplyDeletePM? It's already been done many times and you can make your own PM machine for a few bucks in only minutes. Bessler? You don't need to struggle with his crazy wheels if you make this:
ReplyDeletehttps://archive.org/details/youtube-LC4M24abVCE
Looks like some retard over on archive.org is trying to keep us from seeing this video...maybe because it shows TOO MUCH?! But, you can still see it on youtube...but hurry before another retard over there yanks it off of that site too!
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC4M24abVCE
@anon 17:05 There is something fishy going on over there on archive.org. After many attempts to view their copy of that video, I finally got this message:
Delete"The item you have requested has a problem with one or more of the metadata files that describe it, which prevents us from displaying this page.
"Items may be taken down for various reasons, including by decision of the uploader or due to a violation of our Terms of Use."
Maybe anything that suggests pm is possible violates their Terms of Use? That wouldn't surprise me at all! 🤔
looks like archive is working now...maybe they had a glitch before...they are having funding problems lately so glitches may not be fixed as fast as they should be...that pm gadget is very impressive...it's hard to think how it could be faked...maybe a hidden electromagnet under the floor to accelerate the ball while its rolling along in the tube assuming he has it on a floor...he should have put it on a glass table to eliminate that possibility...and also put a clear plastic box over it to show no external off camera air jets were pushing the ball along when it came out of the tube...then again maybe the whole thing is just hi res ai...nowadays we can never be sure if what we are seeing is real or computer generated...it's a unique design and simple to build...i'm tempted to give it a try...i'll have to think that over because i've wasted a lot of time chasing no hope designs in the past...
DeleteI'm going to try to build it. I have all of the materials needed except for the hand shovel and the hot glue gun. The gun is easily obtained, but the major problem I see will be finding the hand shovel. I think its shape is critical to making the thing work...if it's not a hoax that is. I notice that the end of the handle of the shovel with the hole in it slopes downward toward the plane of the shovel's flat bottom without actually reaching it. I think that feature is necessary for allowing the steel ball bearing to roll down the handle and away from the pull of the stack of magnets.
DeleteThis thing reminds me a little of another device I saw year's ago called the SMOT which stands for "simple magnetic overunity toy". It can make a ball bearing roll up to a higher elevation using an inclined magnetic ramp, but I'm not aware of anyone ever making the ball roll around to the bottom of the ramp to begin the cycle again. Maybe the gadget in that video does that? Would be great if it actually did. Maybe I'll know for sure a few weeks from now.
@anon 02:12
DeleteGood luck with your planned attempt to replicate that magnetic pm machine. I'm another one who cannot figure out how it could be faked. If it is faked, then I think only AI could make it look so convincing.
I have to correct something in that video. He calls it a "hand shovel" and that is not what it is. It's actually just a cheap plastic dust pan. It's concave handle is meant to hold the straight handle of a brush which he does not show in his video. Both the pan's and its brush's handles have holes in them so they can be hung together on a nail in a wall.
I spent some time yesterday looking online to see if I could help find you a dust pan that was identical to the one he uses in his video. That's when I realized the one he uses is rather unique. Here's the closest I was able to find which you can order from Walmart:
https://www.walmart.com/ip/ZFSBZBS-Dust-Pan-Dustpan-Brush-Set-Small-Dust-Pan-Brush-Set-Hand-Broom-Dustpan-Set-Home-Handheld-Angled-Dust-Pans-Brooms-Daily-Cleaning-Tools-Green/20406950831
I think it's necessary for there to be a curving transition from the flat bottom of the pan to its angled sides in order for the ball bearing to be able to smoothly roll past the magnet and up into the pan's handle. Almost all of the dust pans I saw did not have that feature, but the one I linked to on Walmart does.
Anyway, I hope this helps you and if you manage to get it working then please don't forget to come back here and let us know. If that happens, Walmart can expect a lot more orders for that dust pan!
Thanks for saving me a lot of time with your link to walmart anon 16:48. I ordered the beige colored dust pan because for some odd reason it's $5 less than the green one! Could green plastic be that more expensive than beige plastic?
DeleteAnyway, I have a few feet of vinyl tubing left over from an aquarium I set up years ago that I will use, but now I encountered another problem. I can't seem to find a ball bearing small enough to run through the tubing. I'll have to keep looking through my boxes of scrap parts because I'm pretty sure I did see such a small ball bearing in the past. Maybe his device only works when you use a small ball bearing? Fortunately, I do have a small stack of those high strength magnets that I can use.
The nice thing about his design is that you can place the magnets anywhere you want on the side of the plastic pan because they are not permanently attached to it. I suspect that you have to use a lot of adjustments until you find the sweet spot that makes the thing work. However I think his video is a bit deceptive. At the beginning he just quickly places the magnets on the pan, drops the ball bearing onto the handle, and presto it starts running perfectly around the pan. I'm studying his video to see if the location of the magnets changed between the time he first puts the magnets on the pan and the time when he drops the ball bearing onto the handle to get it running. If the location does change, then he was hiding all of the adjusting he had to do to make it work. If the location does change, then that would make me think that he really does have a working pm design because of the need to fine tune it by adjusting the location of the magnets to get it to work.
However, if the magnets location does not change, then that would make me tend to think it's a fake in which the location of the magnets is unimportant. In his design, the only factor that can easily be adjusted is the location of the magnets.
I'm also interested in this design and wish you luck in your effort to reproduce it. Assuming it actually works, I'm wondering if it could be used somehow to keep lifting ball bearings on a wheel's descending side to keep it turning.
DeleteLol! I wouldn't waste five seconds on this pm design or any other on youtube. That site is loaded with fakes that only waste people's time and money trying to duplicate. Their construction demonstrations in a video are really intended to keep suckers watching long enough so that the channel owner can make some ad revenue off of that. Most of those owners are in foreign countries like India and Pakistan and make hundreds to thousands of USD per month uploading the nonsense they manufacture to youtube. For them in their countries that's a nice little income. If he actually had something that worked, he wouldn't be revealing it on youtube. He would run to his nearest patent attorney and get it patented and be trying to figure out how to get rich off of it. Wake up, guys! When you see something that looks too good to be true that means it is NOT true!
DeleteHe definitely made some adjustments to his device that he carefully edited out of the finished video. At the beginning when he quickly attaches the magnets, there are ten of them inside the pan. But, when he then shows the little ball racing around in the pan you can count that there are then twelve magnets inside of the pan. I cannot notice any change in the place inside of the pan where the magnets are attached although there may be, but he definitely made an adjustment on how far into the pan the stack of magnets extended. If anon 01:39 is right about signs of adjustment meaning that the device must be fine tuned to work, then that would tend to support the possibility that it is genuine.
DeleteHe does make an almost unnoticeable change to the number of the magnets outside and inside the dust pan. During its beginning construction it's 12 outside and 10 inside. When it's running it's changed to 10 outside and 12 inside. But, there are always 22 magnets in the stack of them. I also noticed that the two end magnets inside the pan are a little larger in diameter than the rest of them, but that may not be critical to the device working. He might only have had ten of the smaller ones and needed to add two to bring the total to 22 for some reason and only had the two slightly larger diameter ones to use.
DeleteHow could it work if it's genuine?
Physics says that the gravitational potential energy the ball loses as it moves down the handle, through the tube, and back around to the end of the tube at the bottom of the pan exactly equals the amount of gravitational potential energy that the ball must gain in order to rise up to the beginning of the handle again. That cyclic motion adds no extra kinetic energy to the ball to replace any it loses as it continuously moves. So, in order to keep running as it does, the ball must somehow get some extra kinetic energy from the magnets in order to replace the kinetic energy it loses from air drag and rolling friction as it travels around the upper surfaces of the pan and through the tube (those energies are eventually dissipated as a very slight increase in the temperature of the air surrounding the device). But, physics also says that the amount of kinetic energy the ball gains as it travels toward the magnets must exactly equal the amount of kinetic energy it loses as it moves away from the magnets so there can be no kinetic energy gain to keep the ball rolling.
Maybe physics is wrong about that? Inside the pan the ball approaches and departs the magnets with two very different orientations relative to the magnets' external magnetic field. Maybe that difference causes the ball to gain slightly more kinetic energy as it approaches the magnets than it loses as it leaves them? If this device is genuine, then that is the only way I can imagine it working. The inventor may have discovered a new magnetic effect with his device.
Why did the inventor not secretly patent the device to make himself rich? There could be valid reasons for that. Maybe like many here, he does not want to be bothered with the expensive of obtaining and defending a patent? He could just want to "give it to the world" to help humanity. Then again, it could all be hoaxed and his only real motive, as anon 05:01 suggested, is to attract views on a monetized youtube channel to make himself some quick money. I will look forward to seeing if anyone else shows up on youtube with a similar device or if anyone here manages to successfully duplicate it.
Correction...I wrote in the first paragraph of my comment above that "He might only have had ten of the smaller ones and needed to add two to bring the total to 22 for some reason and only had the two slightly larger diameter ones to use." I should have wrote that he might only have had TWENTY of the smaller ones. So 20 + 2 = 22.
Delete"The inventor may have discovered a new magnetic effect with his device."
DeleteIf that is the case, then he is highly likely to win a Nobel Prize in physics for his discovery. I checked it out and that medal they currently award has about $8,000 USD worth of GOLD in it! That's in addition to a usually tax free (in the US) prize amount of over one MILLION US dollars! You can do better by winning a big lottery jackpot, but the Nobel prize has a LOT more prestige to it and guarantees one a place in history.
If I had his invention in front of me and it actually worked, I'd try dropping several of those little steel ball bearings into it, one at a time. I'm wondering if it would be possible to keep two, three, four or more of them all running about at the same time, but not all bunched up together. If his gadget works, I can see it making a very popular toy. The whole thing would be cast from one piece of plastic with an open channel replacing the vinyl tube although there could be a clear plastic cover over the channel to keep the balls from coming out of it. The buyer would just put the toy on a level table top and drop the ball bearings into it and let it run. There could even be a small wheel with paddles on its rim mounted on the handle. As a ball rolled down the hand, it would hit a paddle and make the wheel spin a little.
DeleteI'm keeping my fingers crossed that this one is for real. If it is then it will finally shut up all of those "scientists" who delighted so much in educating us lowly pm chasers (who they actually regard as pitiful ignoramuses) about the laws of thermodynamics. After this gadget is in everyone's home with its little ball bearings running round and round, we won't have to hear another arrogant lecture from any of those "scientists" ever again. Oh, how wonderful that golden silence will be...☺️
DeleteI've noticed a little detail about this now much discussed "Dust Pan PM Machine" that convinces me that it could be genuine.
DeleteLook at the top of its handle in his video as he shows the ball in motion. Notice that he put a blob of glue next to the hole in the handle that the ball drops through so it can enter the tubing. When the ball hits that blob, it loses all of its kinetic energy. He could have done it differently, however. He could have had the tubing start at the end of the handle (after cutting its end off that has the hole for hanging it on a wall in it) and had the ball go directly at full speed right into the tubing (flaring the end of the tubing a bit so it acted like a little funnel would have helped that). Why didn't he do that? The answer makes more sense IF his device is genuine.
By having the ball hit the glue blob and start its drop into the tubing with no kinetic energy, that insures that the ball always exits the tubing at the bottom of the pan at the SAME speed. If, OTOH, he did not have that glue blob there to absorb the ball's kinetic energy but had the ball go directly into the tubing, then each time the ball exited the tubing at the bottom of the pan, its speed would be greater than it was the previous time it exited the tubing. As a result of that steadily increasing speed, the ball's trajectory, which is affected by the magnets, would be a little different each time. If that happened, then a point could be reached when the ball's exit speed was so high that upon reaching the curving side of the pan it could just fly up and out of the pan completely! The presence of that glue blob was an ingenious way to prevent that. Although this does not prove the invention is genuine, that interesting little detail makes me lean more toward accepting that it is.
My interest has been and always will be Bessler's wheels which I'm most certain did not use magnets in any way. However, like anon 07:04, I'm also hoping that this dust pan pm invention is real. Even though it's not the secret of Bessler's wheels, it being real will show people that pm IS possible and help motivate them to work harder to find the secrets of Bessler's wheels.
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If anyone turns that into a finished toy or a DIY kit, I'd gladly pay up to $50 to purchase one. I can imagine the conversations it would trigger as people arrived at my house for a party and it was on a table in a corner with its little ball bearings racing around it. Expect the Chinese to flood the world with those toys in a matter of months!
DeleteI found this description of the video for this dust pan pm device. It certainly sounds like they claim it is genuine pm and not a hoax!
Delete"Welcome to our Do-It-Yourself project where we'll make an astonishing never-ending movement machine utilizing just a hand scoop and a hose! We'll walk you through the process of building a physics-defying perpetual motion machine step by step in this tutorial. We demonstrate how to create an inventive mechanism that enables continuous motion without the need for an external power source by combining a hand spoon and a hose.
"From assembling components to fine-tuning your machine for optimal performance, our in-depth instructions will walk you through every step. You'll get familiar with the standards of interminable movement and witness the wizardry of this self-supporting machine.
"This fascinating experiment is ideal for those who enjoy science, do-it-yourself projects, and are interested in the potential of perpetual motion machines. Join us on this exciting journey as we unravel the mystery of this machine that moves indefinitely! "
Note that it says that the device must be "fine tuned for optimal performance". Bessler also had to fine tune his wheels to get them to run reliably...hmm....
I WANT ONE OF THEM!!! 😃
DeleteYou ain;t the only one who wants one anon 20:13. I;m surprised this thing isnlt getting more attention becaue it looks like its for real. Being on youtube along with all the other fakes there it is probably a case of the baby being thrown out with the bath water which is why some toy company isnt manufacturing them now.. It;s so simple to build I'm thinking of taking a crack at it. I'll be watching to see if anyone else here gets one running.
DeleteThis thing is either real or fake. If it's real then it's revolutionary and maybe a scaled up version could be used to make some sort of electrical generator operate. If it's fake then it's one of the best I've ever seen. ChatGPT says it has to be fake and thinks there's some sort of electromagnet hidden under what is actually a thin fake section of floor boards. The electromagnet would have to be carefully pulsed to accelerate the steel ball as it exits the vinyl tubing so it gained enough kinetic energy to be able to get past the magnets. I guess that is technically possible, but it would require an operator turning the electromagnet on and off at the precise time to just allow the ball to roll up into the handle and then keep rolling along it. To me that sounds too complicated. Someone else said it's probably an AI fake. I guess that's also possible, but most amateur AI fake videos are less than ten seconds long and this video runs for over a minute. My feeling is that it's most likely genuine. But, if so why is it shown in a hard to find youtube video? Why hasn't some toy manufacturer begun making and selling them for kids of all ages to play with? A lot of things here don't add up.
Delete@anon 07;34
DeleteYou ask some good questions. Why isn't it being mass produced if it's real. Maybe it's like one of Bessler's hidden in plain sight type clues? It's an extremely rare genuine pm machine that is being ignored because it's mixed in with tons of fakes ones. If it's real and people here start successfully duplicating it then it won't be long before it comes to the attention of the world. I'd also like a small toy version for my home office. It will help make up for all of the hours I spent during my life trying to think up some way to make a real pm machine. I never had any success with that. The Bessler story encouraged me to keep looking but never led to a runner. With this thing I can finally have my runner. No it won't be Bessler's wheel but I'll settle for it. And who knows maybe someday we will find the secret of Bessler's wheels and be able to copy them.
I just had a thought.
I wonder how Bessler would have thought if we could send one of these dust pan things back in time for him to inspect? He would have realized it depended on the magnet to work.
Just had another thought.
I wonder if Bessler could have made one of these? He didn't have our fancy rare earth magnets to work with. Could something like it be made just using the low strength lodestone type magnets he would have had to use? Maybe.
Anon 02:12 mentioned the SMOT or simple magnetic over unity toy which can use magnets to make a metal ball roll uphill. They were popular years ago, but not much useful was ever done with them since no one was able to get the metal ball to roll around to the beginning of their ramp again to continue the process. This short video shows how one version of the SMOT can be made:
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoonbYUTGhU
To me it looks like that dustpan pm machine solves that problem.
A most interesting video and a very unique invention. I've studied it closely and am convinced it is not AI. Look at the end where the guy's hand reaches down and picks up the plastic dust pan. Notice anything unusual? If you look carefully, you will notice that his hand is trembling a little. That is a condition a lot of older people get called "essential tremor". I know AI fakes can look good, but I doubt if one would include a neurological symptom like that in it to make it look more realistic. Based on the wrinkling on his hands, I'd estimate his age would be somewhere in his 70's. Maybe like many Bessler wheel chasers he spent his whole life searching for pm and finally found it with this invention? I also would love to have one on my desk.
DeleteI was also going to try making that magnetic pm machine, but when I went to order that specially shaped dust pan that is needed from the Walmart website I found out that the page for it is now gone! Did they suddenly sell out of all of those uniquely shaped pans...or is someone trying to make sure no more people try building it?! 🤨
DeleteToo bad about not being able to get that specially shaped dust pan, anon 05:22. Maybe they sold out after everyone here saw that pm gadget video and wanted to build one? But, you do have some alternatives you can try.
DeleteFirst, you could study the video and try duplicating the curving inner walls of the dust pan using cardboard and tape. It looks like the only important part is the sloping of the pan walls between the magnet and the concave handle.
Second, and this is the one I would try, possibly eliminate the dust pan completely! Just have the steel ball bearing exit the vinyl tubing and then begin accelerating toward the magnet along a narrow plastic track that would carry it under the magnet. On the other side of the magnet have the track suddenly curve upward. If you adjust everything just right, you might be able to get the steel ball to shoot up the rising track and over its top after which the track would slope downward and the ball would roll along it until it reached a stop at its end and then fell down and into the tube again. Once you found the arrangement of the track and the position of the magnet that worked, you might even be able to form the tube into one continuous curving loop with the ball bearing sealed inside of it. To stop the bearing from running around the looping tube you would simply remove the magnet. To start it up again you would put the magnet back and turn the whole thing upside down to make the ball go down to the end of the straight section. Then when you turned the whole think right side up again, the ball would travel down the tube until it again emerged from the section of the tube where it began accelerating toward the magnet again. Just an idea to consider if you cannot find the right dust pan to use.
After looking at HUNDREDS of dust pans on eBay I have concluded that, like snowflakes, no two are identical! However, I did stumble upon this one that looks like it might work:
Deletehttps://www.ebay.com/itm/800295043114?_skw=plastic+dust+pan+and+brush&itmmeta=01KX6AMBJBSTBSPZVMNQ1RQYAH&hash=itemba554d402a:g:HYEAAeSww4BqSvr7&itmprp=enc%3AAQALAAABAGfYFPkwiKCW4ZNSs2u11xDUzpjiQogDfUfGFgLE%2BFUNSkeZqUEaOderJ6k%2Fu5NYJaJ5a5%2FubDlTlDhJsbzQZFmDARbtJSejJZQmfMnWlCxLqDunRfin73ih7tGNy94lMNeWwPgSGXwhZRf6BENL7WN%2FG%2Bb9g61yETUzmMq2CDhxeGkkKi3BCEZoU%2BnREtNQnEqKzNdGTd0ScIVngRBEiwZ9UV6D%2BUKR4SQbOv6Wn%2F2spGapzLTySysvLNBjRQe%2B%2FUwQC1YE3uNsXurAVqnpewbPjqQ6veQxs0iyChNE2RY062EK1rmS91uihjy2zEF9pfWW86LIU1YRD8S3qRZCVZQ%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR7a50crpZw
At a price of $26 USD it's not cheap, but that includes 2 to 4 day delivery which is convenient if you are in a rush to begin building your first WORKING pm machine!
If anyone building this doesn't have the magnets for it, you can also get sixty of them from ebay for only $8.59 USD which includes free shipping in the US:
Deletehttps://www.ebay.com/itm/178259802040?_skw=little+neodymium+magnets&itmmeta=01KX6XZVAYVZN2EC2ZETMT7DYD&hash=item29811cb7b8:g:y-4AAeSwArRqP7MY&itmprp=enc%3AAQALAAAA0GfYFPkwiKCW4ZNSs2u11xBm4Uqb4MSFAR5cc7Of9PAAI9OFZ6F67PL%2BPEeSePGjG0OHrskoouHkAdeK0VXFQQ0AeGqUMN%2FThTAqHRBmbC32IcWvOLMDnSWcpZ4JsOduR%2FITdKK15ppvVztulygQvKCGJwIPgeJ2U139QNkDp7GVv2MJ8sFKLiPXfp8BfYJmzWlLEOEpGEqT99rScacnWFmOw52GH0gCdSIAPkrsp6A2eXq5O4aoO%2FLRrfzuhfySsQzLwl%2Ft8e9tV6sonBH0ulo%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR8q1_93pZw
Thanks for your links guys. I ordered the pan and the magnets. I have some vinyl tubing and one of those cheap hot glue guns. Like that other guy though, I'm not sure if I have a steel ball small enough to roll easily through the tubing. If the tubing has an inside diameter of 4 mm, then I'd need a steel ball with about a 3 mm outside diameter. That's kind of small. If I don't have one, then I'm going to have to find a source for them. Maybe they sell them in a bag of assorted diameters for magnet experimenters?
DeleteIf you need some stainless steel balls for magnet experiments, this eBay seller has an assortment pack of them from 1 mm up to 10 mm diameter for $12.99 with free 2 to 4 day delivery in the US;
Deletehttps://www.ebay.com/itm/297819344414?_skw=assorted+steel+balls&itmmeta=01KX7TJ9PVGBSBV5Z2VXYAF6X3&hash=item45576a8e1e:g:0okAAeSwYNZpMoSv&itmprp=enc%3AAQALAAAA8GfYFPkwiKCW4ZNSs2u11xA8IBaGUaCQmIPKL5aXfY68G91V8zyNTubYxY4SH%2Fb%2FUFv7hli%2BmsOCjPLciYKgOIs%2BWDK9ooGF1sMZwiFBRvYy9DCE0F79hDy8Cdedkwm3AfNaMw6euyDlL1lXhIh0Wld%2F2DAwhTguNXqMC2PH6LxXm8elQuZIKp0lIoBsJm4pyDTeDwKIGvhTV4k2%2Fgd54gt%2Bp7YIGDk8XqC2oHYZ37sTNpgK1kES17TMdIxvmzTG3Csoma83mLal15zqouZdWXjknzXkWKx91GxRyg9wKKpzSwiaf4gRHo1jGWWI1BZhPA%3D%3D%7Ctkp%3ABFBM3pvJ-uln
Looks like he's sold a lot of them. I wonder what others are buying them for? Could they all be working on magnetic pm machines? If anyone wants to try building that dust pan pm machine using the 10 mm diameter balls from this seller's assortment pack, then he's probably going to need larger neodymium magnets...and a larger dust pan as well as vinyl tubing!
Okay...we got sources for the dust pan, the magnets, and the steel ball bearings. All that leaves is the hot glue gun and the vinyl tubing. I suspect one could probably get them from any local hardware store. But, if not, here are links to sellers of them on ebay:
DeleteFor a 20 watt hot glue gun with 10 sticks of glue:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/407012678675?_skw=hot+glue+gun&itmmeta=01KX7ZKKJMC0B139XHJGVCF8PK&hash=item5ec3d89c13:g:ejMAAeSwU3ZqNSUo&itmprp=enc%3AAQALAAAA8GfYFPkwiKCW4ZNSs2u11xB4TwtnfVNuvfrJMCAYhFrvPvureq4oz%2FWEpPqCuH6qTfvF5iXgrt4sYed2pI7vaYzCTKtrqFdzHVQi5aJBKdCc2%2BCi16ZRaEdM4cO7s5RFhc6fjTJD8oAV8m%2F73DPimxk657R3oW%2B33ZNZqoKQ8nmLcPDgRmo7bj7%2Fs0vmNJFNK42qsgaWgNXue%2FlPbHJUNrLyVplEjERuxVJ6RZSyG7oqAQspkVoyDIQMTPxWNBQQNmU%2FTvnQ1V2T52Cn6YuYUYWizyBYMLGqwVqborKIuybuhtxZs8TOCx5hhKypSOq6UQ%3D%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR965zv_pZw
For clear vinyl tubing in various diameters and lengths:
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=vinyl+tubing&_sacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p2334524.m570.l1313&LH_TitleDesc=0&toolid=20004&mkcid=1&campid=5338192028&_sop=15&kw=hot+glue+gun&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0
Hmm...today is "Independence Day" in the US which is also known as "The Fourth of July". It commemorates the adoption and initial signing of their "Declaration of Independence" which was their version of Brexit much to the annoyance of Britain's King George III. No king likes to be reigning and also losing a bunch of colonies at the same time!
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I realized that date has something to do with Bessler! Look at the year which was 1776. Add the two end digits and you get 1 + 6 = 7. Now put that in with the other two 7's and you get 777. That's the same string of digits found in Bessler's "Lucky Ratio" which is actually 0.777... . Also note the month. It was July which is the 7th month so we have another 7.
It looks like those early American revolutionary statesmen were, like Bessler, also believers in some sort of divine power attached to the number 7. Like Bessler, I'm sure all of them were aware of that Bible verse where Jesus suggests the use of that number several times and that doing so will bring one the favor of God. That's something those American colonists would surely want to have because they were still at the beginning of their Revolutionary War that did not officially end until September of 1783. Hey, that was about SEVEN years after that signing!!! Coincidence? When it comes to destinies, I do not believe in "coincidences"!
Brad
For those who never bothered to read the Bible's New Testament, that reference to Jesus mentioning the number 7 occurs in what is known as "The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant" and you can find it in the book of Romans, chapter 12, verses 21 and 22:
Delete21 Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? 22 Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.
So Jesus mentions the number 7 there a total of three times (but also a dozen times if one thinks of the number 70 as being equal to TEN number 7's added together!) which one can then make into 777. Interestingly, 7 x 70 equals 490 and its digits add up to 13 which is another number associated with God in the Bible. If you write 490 as 4 x 90 you get 360 which is the number of degrees in a circle. I think Bessler would have immediately noticed that and interpreted it as a message from God that a circular wheel, having 360 degrees in it, needed to have the number 777 used in its construction if it was going to have perpetual motion. And so he did and that's why we now keep finding that lucky ratio of 0.777 that he kept hiding in his drawings. Imo, anyone who ignores how religious and number obsessed Bessler was will have little chance of ever discovering the secrets of his pm wheels.
Whatalota
DeleteWhatalota KB
DeleteHow generous of JC to let us all now know:
ReplyDelete"...and I came up with an improved mechanism...a completely different design...I can’t show you yet...this design is not one I’ve seen before...can lead one’s mind into pastures new and unsuspected...it might take a little longer before I share it...I have a well-formulated plan mapped out and there are certain things to accomplish first."
Lol! His latest bright shiny object, previously dubbed "BSO 2.0", is now fully ready for use and glowing most brightly! He's found making a new one far easier than he thought it would be. Just talk about a completely NEW pm wheel design he's recently discovered and then casually mention his SECRET plan for it which, quite unfortunately, he has no intention of revealing any time soon! Then get everyone here wondering what they could be and, more importantly, regularly BEGGING him for more details about them. Even a few tiny crumbs will do...please put them in your next "update" whenever that may come along!
Oh yes, JC is right back again to playing his old and well practiced hide and seek game with everyone here and no doubt he's beginning to enjoy it immensely. Keeping as many here as possible BELIEVING he's just one little string or pivot placement away from FINAL and TOTAL success is what he lives for! This time around, however, he knows that will be more difficult to achieve after everyone saw the fiasco that his much overhyped previous BSO 1.0 scissor mechanism thing turned into. But, he's in no rush and is a most determined chap.
In the highly unlikely event that he actually does eventually show us anything, you can be quite sure that will only happen long after he's concluded that it's most likely useless. Then he'll just sit back and wait for some simmers here to quickly do a more precise analysis of it for him. Their only real purpose will be to provide him with one last desperate chance to salvage a runner from whatever rickety nonrunner he had previously been occasionally tinkering around with for months or even years.
Oh, before I forget...as someone else said earlier, "A leopard does not change its spots"...and likewise JC will never change the kind of head game that he specializes in playing with the followers of this blog!
Newbies here be warned! You'll need to wear your skeptical psychological sunglasses to protect your minds from the persuasive effects of his latest bright shiny object. I always make sure to wear several pairs of my own as I read through his posts on this blog and you should too! 😎👍
The Sage
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You are evil, Sage...PURE EVIL! 😠
DeleteHe may be an evil troll but I've noticed there's always a grain of truth somewhere in his ravings. I think ultimately each of us must decide for himself how accurate those grains really are. However, I do find it somewhat puzzling that John cannot now reveal his plans should he find success with his latest wheel. Why so secretive?
Delete@anon 06:29. If you believe The Sage, then John only announced the existence of his secret plan so that everyone here would start thinking about it and begging for more details. If he actually gave the details, then that would put an end to the begging and to the ego trip he gets from having people beg him for more information. That analysis may or may not be accurate.
DeleteHowever, I think I know the essentials of his secret plan. Years ago he mentioned that he knew a rich scientist (many think it is a controversial American electrical engineer named Hal Puthoff) who has promised to financially back the construction of John's version of Bessler's pm wheel, BUT only AFTER John gets a small working prototype working as proof of principle. I'm sure that rich scientist wouldn't agree to invest any of his or his associates' money in an invention that was not patent protected which, for a device claimed to be pm, requires a working model be made available to the US Patent Office for examination to confirm the claim.
So, John, who apparently does not believe in patents, must follow their requirements to secure their cooperation and investments. Consequently, John cannot reveal his "new and improved" Bessler pm wheel design here until AFTER his rich friend gets the patent for it. So, assuming that is his plan, IF his new design actually works, then we won't be seeing it until after it is patented and that could take maybe up to a year after he gets a working prototype working. However, if he does show us his new design soon, like maybe before the end of this year, then that most likely means it's just another dead duck for our growing pile of them.
I’ve just caught up with the comments! I have little to say in response to the numerologists, each has the occasional point in their favour, although I’m not even slightly convinced that any of them were intentionally included by Bessler.
DeleteAs for me not believing in patents, I assume you mean relative to Bessler’s wheel, it’s true I don’t think it’s worth trying to obtain patents for anything relating to his PM device, but obviously they have a valuable purpose outside this field of study.
My so-called .’rich friend’ can do what he likes about patents, I will post details of my wheel here and elsewhere, which will probably make it impossible for anyone to obtain a patent anyway.
JC
Poor John...while he's struggling to get his improved Bessler pm wheel running some guy out there with a dustpan, some vinyl tubing, a magnet, and a ball bearing has already achieved pm! Life just isn't fair... ☹️
Delete@anon 16:54
DeleteWe do not know for sure yet whether or not that dustpan pm machine is genuine. It could like everything else on youtube be another fake. I agree it looks good, but let's reserve judgement until someone else successfully duplicates it. I do hope that happens because if it does then it proves that pm is possible. If it is possible then that means it could have also been possible for Bessler to achieve and lowers the possibility that his wheels were faked. Of course very few if any here believe his wheels were faked but every extra bit of evidence that they could were genuine helps. Now let's see if any of those guys buying up all of those dustpans and magnets can get something running. Then let's see how the physicists react to it. No doubt their initial reaction will be that they are hoaxed and they will have to supplied with some working ones to finally convince them it's real. Then...time for new physics! 😁
Anon 19:58 wrote: "Imo, anyone who ignores how religious and number obsessed Bessler was will have little chance of ever discovering the secrets of his pm wheels."
DeleteJC then curtly dismisses that with: "I have little to say in response to the numerologists, each has the occasional point in their favour, although I’m not even slightly convinced that any of them were intentionally included by Bessler."
No wonder JC is making no progress with his various versions of the Bessler wheel!! 😲
We must continue to pray for him to finally see the error his false beliefs and get on the path to true Bessler wheel enlightenment... 🙂
How do you know that I’m making no progress with my various versions of the Besslerwheel? I am and I will provide details when I’m ready.
DeleteJC
Depends on what one calls "progress". I think most would consider the word to describe a pm wheel that can complete at least one full turn starting from rest when released or given the slightest nudge. Others mean making a change here or there that one hopes will allow the wheel to at least make one complete full turn starting from rest when released or given a slight nudge. "Progress" is really a somewhat subjective term. What one person calls "progress" another will consider just more wasted effort with a hopeless design. I spent years designing and building various types of wheels that I was convinced would work, but did not no matter how many changes I made to them. If someone was to ask me now if I made any progress with any of them, my honest answer would be no. So, when you claim to be making progress are you really being honest about that? 🤔 It's really amazing how easy it is for pm chasers to deceive themselves for years even decades!
DeleteI;m a student of the many new clues being found in the Bessler drawings (see that May 8th blog's comments for an amazing outpouring of them!) and i think pretending they are not important is a BIG mistake to make. For example, that lucky ratio of 0.777 appears so many times in Bessler's various drawings that it's obvious that he wanted everyone to be well aware of it. It's even cleverly hidden in the AP wheel! Why I kept asking myself would he go to all of the trouble of doing something like that? My conclusion is that it is actually a sort of "master clue". Unless you accept its reality AND its correct interpretation, then you will not be able to make sense of any of the other numerology and geometry clues he hid in his drawings. Without those additional clues your chance of successfully reverse engineering his wheels will then be next to zero. However, like that guy earlier in these comments with his dustpan magnetic pm thing, you may be extremely lucky enough to find a runner, but it won't be the same one Bessler had. Just my two pence on the subject.
DeleteIf I succeed in building a successful Bessler wheel, it will be the same configuration as Bessler’s and I will prove it, but there won’t be any evidence of the lucky number 0.777. Although I’m sure some people will find that evidence even if it is as tenuous as current suggestions.
Delete"...but there won’t be any evidence of the lucky number 0.777."
DeleteThat could be a serious problem. As I understand it, that ratio, the "lucky ratio" of 0.777..., is supposed to be used to determine how far from the center of a Bessler wheel's axle the pivots for its levers had to be located. For example, if a Bessler type pm wheel's drum has a radius of 6 feet or 72 inches, then one gets the location of the lever pivots as being 0.777... x 72 inches or 56 inches from the center of the axle. If one's lever pivots are not at that precise location, then one's design will not be the same as the one Bessler used.
But your 6ft wheel has three feet, or 36 inches of space between its rim and the axle. If your pivot are 56 inches from the axle they are off the side of the six foot wheel by 10 inches!
DeleteIn my three foot wheel I should have pivots 27.982 inches from the axle. But there is only a gap of 15 inches between the axle and the wheel edge!
JC
you must have misunderstood anon 09:05's sample calculation. he applied the lucky ratio factor to a wheel with a RADIUS (and not a diameter) of 6 feet or 72 inches to obtain the distance of a lever's pivot from the center of the wheel's axle of 56 inches since 0.777... x 72 inches = 56 inches. his calculation in correct. For a smaller wheel with a radius of 36 inches, the lever pivot distance from the axle center would be halved down to 28 inches since 0.777... x 36 inches = 28 inches. continuing...if the wheel's radius was only 18 inches, which is about the size most bessler pm wheel chasers work with, then the lever pivot to axle center distance would be further reduced to only 14 inches since 0.777... x 18 inches = 14 inches.
Deletei think this is an important clue because it means for a wheel with a 6 feet or 72 inches radius and a lever pivot located 56 inches from the center of the wheel's axle, the distance from the lever's pivot to the farthest end of its lead weight cannot exceed 16 inches and was probably a little less to allow for the thickness of the drum's curving outer wall and an air space between the end of the weight and the curving inner surface of the drum's outer wall to prevent rubbing when the arm swung the weight straight out toward the rim. maybe a lever length of 14 inches sounds right?
now that i think about it isn't there a carpenter's ruler in the second dt portrait that just happens to be 14 inches long?! maybe that is another in plain sight clue from bessler about the length of the lever arms he used in his 6 feet radius merseberg and kassal wheels?
Sorry I did misread the 6ft radius. So yes 0.777 you calculated us correct but doesn’t prove the ‘lucky’ ratio is present anywhere. Yes there is a rule shown in the second portrait, but there is no indication of its length that I could find.
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@JC
DeleteI think you are in dire need of actually reading through that last May 8th blog's comments because you obviously never read it the first time! SoS made one of his rare appearances there and provided us with yet another amazing "hidden in plain" sight clue about the lucky 0.777 ratio clue that is located right in the upper left corner of that second DT drawing of the Kassal wheel. It's as plain a day...but only after he pointed it out to us of course. It is only one of MANY clues for it throughout the Bessler drawings.
Also, I can not understand how you can make the claim to be working on Bessler's design when you don't use any springs in yours! Bessler's wheels DID use springs and that became obvious to those witnessing the Merseburg wheel tests when, while reinstalling one of the weights back into the drum after its axle had been moved to a new set of neighboring vertical supports, Bessler's hand must have somehow slipped allowing a spring attached to a lever to suddenly make a loud twanging noise that actually scared people. Where are your wheel's springs? Imo, if you are not using them in it, then you aren't working on Bessler's design no matter how much you've convinced yourself that you are. 🙄
JC wrote: "Yes there is a rule shown in the second portrait, but there is no indication of its length that I could find."
DeleteI decided to actually count the inch marks on it and it's a 14 inch ruler:
https://i.postimg.cc/HWXSdc7z/2nd-DT-portrait-14-in-ruler.jpg
I tried to find a photo of a genuine early 18th century ruler that was 14 inches long and could not find one! That doesn't mean they did not make and use them though, but if so then they were rare. I suspect that the one shown in Bessler's 2nd portrait is either a fictional one he added to the drawing for clue purposes or it may have been a custom made one that he used.
Brad
Hi Brad. I was looking at a different object, in fact I didn’t even notice that one. However, the left end of the rule is not visible so you can’t just count what you think you can see. Also, your estimate of 14 inches seems to me to show confirmation bias, which we all tend to have.
DeleteThe second portrait has always troubled me - what was its original purpose, what is the subject? Both pictures were engraved by C. Fritzsch, a member of well-known family of engravers, most seem to have had the same initials, though they lived at different times, but the style of the second picture is different and I suspect it was done by another member of the family, maybe an earlier engraving, not specifically ordered by Bessler but used by him for his own purposes.
JC
IINM John seems to be suggesting that the second DT portrait is irrelevant as far as finding new clues in it is concerned because it's just some drawing done for someone else that Bessler only recycled for use in his DT book. I couldn't disagree more!
DeleteAll of this discussion about that 14 inch ruler got me to study it and the items immediately surrounding it more closely and I think I've found another new (actually TWO new) of those hidden in plain sight Bessler clues in that second DT portrait!
To see it you have to rotate the second DT portrait 90° counterclockwise and look at the items on the shop table that the lower (previously left before portrait rotation) end of the ruler touches. Here's a paint sketch I made that shows the new clues I found:
https://i.postimg.cc/nLRtQVZX/more-ruler-clues.jpg
On the left side of my sketch you see the end of the ruler, outlined with white, touching that big pelican beak instrument for measuring angles. The ends of the beak's two arms touch a pen on the left and a metal bar on the right. All four items then form a large letter M which I put blue lines on. Imo, that letter stands for Merseburg and Bessler's Merseburg wheel.
On the right side of my sketch you see something different. The end of the ruler now can be considered to be touching both only the left arm of the big pelican beak instrument AND also the shorter arm of the L square drafting tool. Those two items then form a large letter K which I put red lines on. Imo, that letter stands for Kassal and the Kassal wheel Bessler constructed at Weissenstein Castle.
So what is Bessler telling us with this somewhat hard to see clue? I think it's actually obvious. He's telling us that the Merseburg and Kassal wheels, both 12 feet in diameter and both bidirectional, used levers that measured 14 inches from their pivots to the point at the end of their arms where their weights were attached.
However, because of the differences in the thickness of their drums and the power levels of the two large wheels, the lever weights used in both wheels would have had different masses. Most assume that the Merseburg wheel used 4 pound cylinder shaped lead weights (perhaps symbolized by the cylindrical portion of the metal lamp the hides part of the ruler?) so that would mean that the more powerful Kassal wheel would have used similar shaped weights but they would have been heavier than 4 pounds each. Maybe they were double that or 8 pounds each? That explains why there was no change of axle supports for the Kassal wheel during any of its testing. It would have been too much labor to remove and install all of its much heavier lead weights than was the case for the Merseburg wheel during its testing.
Noob 625
Thanks for those new clues, Noob 625. I don't think I could have found something like that if I took a year looking for it!
DeleteThat L shaped tool had to be very carefully arranged by Bessler to form the letter K with the upper arm of angle measuring gadget that you call a "pelican beak instrument".
I also notice from your rotated section of the 2nd DT portrait how the L shaped tool forms a perfect number 4 as its longer arm crosses below the lower arm of the angle measuring tool. Maybe that's another clue? The number 4 could represent the mass of the lead cylinder weights used on the Merseburg wheel levers which was 4 lbs. Maybe that longer arm pointing to the cylindrical section of the telescope also confirms that shape of the weights Bessler used?
I'm not sure how you could get a weight mass of 8 lbs. for the Kassal wheel levers out of any of that though.
However, I do notice that the crossing of the L shaped tool with the lower arm of the angle measuring or pelican beak tool forms either an arithmetic X sign or a + sign which means in numerology that we have to either multiply or add together some numbers. But which numbers? If we take the 4 and add it to itself we get 4 + 4 = 8. Also look how that lower arm of the pelican beak tool extends until it touches one the TWO arms of that small divider on top of the metal bar. Maybe that means we are supposed to multiply the number 4 by 2 to get 8? Just guessing here.
Anyway thanks for taking the time to make and upload that drawing for us.
I'm wondering how many other clues will pop out when we rotate sections from the other Bessler drawings? We've probably only scratched the surface of all of these hidden clues so far!
I just saw on the BBC news that they estimate about 2,700 have died so far in the UK due to the recent heat waves there. What's their government doing to help the old people there who are particularly heat sensitive? New air conditioners for them all? No. They are handing out folding paper hand fans to them and giving them some free ice pops! No air conditioning though (unless they are rich retired politicians, of course) because that would put too much of a strain on that nation's shaky green energy power supplies. You know...the ones that don't work on cloudy days and at night or on days when the wind is not blowing much like during a heat wave! Maybe when the next heat wave soon comes along and kills off another few thousand, the commoners over there will finally say "ENOUGH!" and make sure they put in politicians that get everyone a FREE air conditioner and reliable AFFORDABLE electricity to power them all?! 🤬
ReplyDeleteOur crazy current government has decreed that we must hit net zero by 2050, just 24 years.
ReplyDeleteNet zero is the internationally agreed-upon climate target of balancing the amount of greenhouse gases produced by human activity with the amount actively removed from the atmosphere. It means no longer adding to the total volume of warming gases in the air.”
The minister in charge has stopped all North Sea oil drilling despite the fact that the Scandinavian countries are pumping oil and selling to us and Russia. He is covering the extensive farmland in U.K. with solar panels and wind turbines at a huge cost. Our energy prices are among the highest and if we achieve net zero what then?
The UK accounts for less than 1% of annual global greenhouse gas emissions, 0.7% apparently, but at a massive cost to our country and its inhabitants! Why us?
JC
"Why us?"
DeleteBecause you are BRITISH, sir! You are an heir to the once might British Empire that formerly controlled about 20% of the world's nonwhite populations (in order to grab their resources at rock bottom prices). Even now they all still look up to you Brits for leadership (as well as plenty of £'s!) in these turbulent times. The world is slowly dying from a global heat stroke caused, as the high IQ climate scientists have assured us, by modern industry belching out too much carbon dioxide into our collective atmosphere. The ongoing suffering of the British people as they become more impoverished, more unemployed, and die off faster than ever during heat waves by deliberately reducing their inexpensive and reliable fossil fuel power generation will serve as an outstanding example of human perseverance. You should actually be proud and thankful for the opportunity to do all of that in order to inspire the rest of humanity to do likewise and save our planet from certain doom!
I admire you, sir. However, as I watch your collective national suffering on my telly, I, not being British, shall be turning my air condition up to maximum which will allow me to stay cool and comfortable as I contemplate and admire your suffering. Sir, I salute you! 🫡
"Britannia rules the waves"...once upon a time...but now it seems that Britannia is BEING ruled by the waves...heat waves, that is! But, I think it's only a temporary situation until you get a saner bunch of politicians in your parliament that believe that air conditioning is not just for the rich and powerful.
Just when you think that the climate change insanity cannot get any crazier...it does! The UN has a court that says that the UK, being the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution that shot so much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere over the centuries by making the burning of fossil fuels popular, should now begin paying "reparations", mostly to Third World countries, to correct the problem by helping them "transition" to "green energy". How much must the UK pay? Oh, just a mere £4.24 trillion!!! Right now it's only a recommendation, but there is a lot of ligation being planned against the UK to grab that money from them...or to be more accurate...from their taxpayers! You can read some of the detail here:
Deletehttps://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/general/britain-risks-paying-4trillion-in-climate-reparations-if-labour-bows-down-to-united-nations-court/ar-AA27qftj
Oh! I so happy to read this, anon 00:19! I am big fan of Mr. Bessler but also am a genuine Nigerian prince!
DeleteIt looks like the UN wants to help my poor country fight the climate changes. Yes, yes, yes! We ready to do our part, but we need a lot of money to do it. UK made the mess with their coal? I always thoughts so. Now they must pay us to help cleans it all up with clean and green energies. I am prince of my small village of Abeokuta so you can sends the money right to me! I will make sure it gets used wisely by me and my loyal subjects who HATES climate change and wants to stop cooking our foods with wood or that smelly kerosene. We wants to have solar energy to make the electricity so we can cook with microwaves and electrics ovens just like you all in the civilized world. We really envy you all and glad you wants to fight the climate changes no matter how much it costs you.
So, UK government please send me a lot of your taxpayer's pound notes. Just put them all into a big crate and send to me: Prince Grabayurmoni, Abeokuta village, Nigeria, Africa, 900211. The Nigerian Postal Service will make sure it gets to me. Also make sure the crate very secure because they sometimes cut holes into my crates and remove some "handling fees" from them which make me angry enough to start chopping heads off! I think if you sends me £100,000,000 to start that be good. I prefer the £50 banknotes so you needs to stuff two million of them into the crate!
In case anyone say I not genuine Nigerian Prince here is recent photo of me in my village hut begging for help to fight climate change:
https://postimg.cc/CRTCq5T4
Thank you to UK government and especially to all its taxpayers to help me and my poor subjects fight the climate change before it destroy whole world! Together, us with all your money, we can beat this thing! God's blessings to you all...
Lol! I think Prince Grabayurmoni actually looks richer than John did as a king! 😄
DeleteHello Prince Grabayurmoni!
DeleteWelcome to the blog. It's not often that we get royalty here. Sorry to read of your village's struggle to fight the demon of Climate Change. We Brits are also all struggling with it, but determined to beat it by 2050 despite the suffering we will endure or the amount of debt our nation has to go into. We're now getting rid of any of the air conditioners being used by the commoners in our nation to further cut down on our CO2 emissions. Every drop of sweat we produce brings us a little closer to Net Zero by the target year of 2050. When we finally achieve it, those of us still alive will celebrate for days!
I sent a copy of your above comment and nice photo to the official residence of our now outgoing Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer at 10 Downing Street, London and I'm sure he will get that crate of £50 notes you requested to you ASAP. He and his buddy Ed Millibrand, who is our Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero since July 2024, just love spending as many of our taxes in the fight against Climate Change as possible. Expect your crate within the month! If it is not enough, then just let them know how much more you need. No price is too high to pay or borrow to fight Climate Change!