Flywheel & Mechanical Systems
Mechanical systems leveraging angular momentum, flywheel inertia, and oscillating weights. These devices exploit the non-linear energy storage properties of rotating masses — kinetic energy scales with the square of angular velocity.
Chas Campbell Flywheel Generator
Chas Campbell
A mains motor drives a gear train connected to a heavy flywheel, which in turn drives an electrical generator. The critical and counter-intuitive detail is the use of deliberately slack drive belts, which create rapid pulses/jerks rather than smooth continuous drive. This allegedly extracts gravitational energy per Lawrence Tseung's 'Lead-Out Energy' theory.
Raoul Hatem Magnetic Flywheel System
Léon Raoul Hatem
A motor drives a heavy rotor disc embedded with 36 neodymium magnets, which is magnetically coupled to one or more generator discs. The theory proposes that the spinning magnets draw environmental magnetic energy through a 'degravitation' effect created by the flywheel's angular momentum interacting with Earth's magnetic field.
Clem Motor
Richard Clem
A conical pump motor running on pressurized vegetable oil, claimed to sustain its own rotation.
Lawrence Tseung Pulsed Rotor (COP=3.3)
Lawrence Tseung
An electrically pulsed rotor/flywheel that demonstrated COP of 3.3 at a public demonstration in October 2009. Based on Tseung's 'Lead-Out Energy' theory, which proposes that sharp impulses can extract small amounts of gravitational/environmental energy that accumulate in a flywheel's rotational inertia.
Veljko Milkovic Two-Stage Mechanical Oscillator
Veljko Milković
A physical pendulum on one arm of a lever drives oscillations in a weight on the other arm. Claims 9:1 to 12:1 energy amplification through mechanical advantage interacting with gravity. Won innovation awards including iCAN (Canada). Purely mechanical — no electronics needed.
Johann Bessler Orffyreus Wheel
Johann Bessler (Orffyreus)
An alleged mechanical perpetual motion wheel demonstrated by Johann Bessler in the 18th century. It reportedly rotated continuously and lifted weights without external power. Bessler destroyed the internal mechanism before his death, leaving its operations unverified. Skeptics point to possible hidden pull wires or human power.