Prajna
Fixing things for the love of it
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I think, from my analysis of the geometry, that the machine should work as soon as it's assembled with not even an initial push and that the magnets, in their different phases, should provide a near continuous force on the rotor. I may be wrong, of course, and I haven't yet done a torque calculation but it appears that all the forces (except at top dead center and bottom dead center) are acting in a convenient direction. So no, I don't think it needs any assistance.My very uneducated understanding of "perpetual motion machines" is that without fail, they fail on the basis of you don't get something for nothing, a big dose of friction, air resistance etc. Thus they may work at or s time until they run out of energy.
Again a very uneducated assumption is they need extra energy in the form of a "little push". Thinking the Newton's Cradle.
Could the device in this thread benefit from extra, "free" energy from say wind or solar?