| At the Online Think Tank we are always coming up | | | | wood frame kept coming apart. It wobbles terrible. It |
| with crazy ideas. One invention I had was a prototype | | | | needs more magnets, but the magnets eventually try |
| of a Perpetual Motion Car. Unfortunately, the Prototype | | | | to come to equilibrium and the whole thing wobbles like |
| failed to Impress Investors or even impress many in | | | | the Dickens. In theory it should work. |
| our think tank. The perpetual motion car was about the | | | | It needs better materials to work, pulse magnetic |
| size of a GI Joe sitting in a little go cart with rings | | | | system not magnets, like a UFO might have, I think I |
| around it, where magnets went around the track. | | | | have seen theories of how a UFO might work if there |
| On my design the driver slides his feet and pushes the | | | | was such a thing in books somewhere. Anyway the |
| metal plate forward. The closer he pushes it the faster | | | | cool deal would be to have carbon nano-tube |
| he goes. Sliding the seat back pushes the rear plate | | | | construction, pulse magnetic system, larger scale (ditch |
| does the same thing. It is how I adjust the speed. The | | | | the GI Joe Doll) and put the thing in a balloon and float |
| unit pulls the center of gravity of the driver. The | | | | it around? UAV style. |
| magnets keep spinning against themselves once | | | | I should talk to who is it Lockheed or thinking if I ever |
| started and they spin as they go around. Each passing | | | | got anywhere with the design, I would write a white |
| tugs or propels the center of gravity, where the driver | | | | paper and pitch it to Aerovironment, Northrop, Boeing, |
| sits in the middle. | | | | Lockheed or DARPA or someone. Maybe recruit a |
| The problem we had was that the weight of the | | | | GA Tech, MIT or Berkeley kid to the game? I certainly |
| system was more than the magnets we could find to | | | | hope this article is of interest and that is has propelled |
| move the GI Joe forward, the darn thing works. The | | | | thought. The goal is simple; to help you in your quest to |
| magnets keep moving fine and you can see the thing | | | | be the best in 2007. I thank you for reading my many |
| inching forward. It needs a pulse system and the balsa | | | | articles on diverse subjects, which interest you. |