Moon's Gravity Engine
Sat, 09/22/2012 - 23:30
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Being working in the renewable energy field since some years, sometimes unlikely ideas about some "free" power generation systems came to my mind.
The basic concept of a Moon's Gravity Engine, roughly simplifying, is this:
- Moon is apparently rotating around Earth a bit slowly than one turn per day.
- So if at time $T_0$ I have the Moon over me, at time $T_0+12h$ it is at the opposite side of Earth.
- Moon gravity produce some effect also here at the Earth
- While Moon is over me the weight of a generic mass near me will be reduced.
- While Moon is at the opposite side the weight of a generic mass near me will be larger.
- Than if I lift a mass when Moon is over me and I lower it (recovering the potential energy) when Moon is at the opposite side than I should have a net energy available for each cycle.
- That's an engine: a Moon's Gravity Engine!
This could sound like a crazy idea but why not to try to do some calculations to see how much (or little) crazy it is?
Model description
We're going to keep things simple:
- Moon and Earth are assumed to be spheres with homogeneous mass distribution.
- Moon's orbit is assumed to lay on the Earth's equatorial plane.
- Moon's orbit is assumed to be a circle centered on the Earth center.
- Sun and other bodies influence is not considered.
- Moon's Gravity Engine operating at an equatorial location.
- Newtonian's mechanics is valid.
In other words what are we missing?
- Earth is a geoid and moon id a moonoid...
- Moon's orbit is on a plane that is about $5°$ skewed with respect to the ecliptic that is itself about $23°$ skewed with respect to the Earth's equatorial plane
- Moon's orbit is obviously an ellipse and the Earth-Moon distance varies about $\pm5.5\%$ with respect to its the mean value.
- Earth-Moon system does not move in a completely empty space so is actually influenced by other celestial bodies. The most important effect we're going to ignore is that the Earth-Moon center of gravity is not moving in a straight line but it is actually revolving around the Sun (and also with it around the center of our galaxy and so on).
- Albert told us that Newton was wrong... ...but we're going to look at the half full glass!
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