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OK, I see what you mean...I cave.

Please look at this drawing of my idea, and tell me if you think it would work. The compressed air chamber on the left keeps this system un-balanced, and water is continually forced up the tube, and into the right hand chamber.

Please, may I ask for a comment on my idea for the Aero Bike? I want to store energy in the frame of the bike, by pumping with your arms on the handlebars to create air pressure, (at the same time as you do your normal pedaling). Also perhaps regenerative braking can store energy too...

Can you please tell me whether you think this magnet motor will work or not? If not then what is the reason why not. Most magnet motors seem to have a bad press, so I don't hold much hope for this one: http://www.flantoons.co.uk/magnet-motor001.jpg Thank you. Mike UK

I was thinking of trying to use expand ice or expanding gasoline to make an engine. Here is a sketch of how it works: http://www.flantoons.co.uk/no-gas-engine001.jpg Questions: 1. How much does gasoline expand...say from 20 degrees C upwards? (as a liquid) 2. What pressure does...

Thanks, but that doesn't help me, because I don't understand how to use all those equations. I'm not lazy, just stupid, so I am asking someone to work it out for me please.

Hello, Help me work this out please. (this is NOT a homework question, I am trying to make a machine) I have a metal tube filled with gasoline. The tube inside is 1 cm sq x 10 cm in length. If I raise the temp of the gas from 20 deg C to 40 deg C, how much gas will spill out of the...

I have an idea of how I can encourage the animals to crowd onto the one side of the treadmill...they move towards the light, perhaps trying to escape. So by shrouding the left half of the wheel in darkness, this creates a continuous movement to the right. Also create a wheel with concentric...

Tell me about cockroaches: If I have a box of cockroaches, say 100 roaches in a closed box, but some air coming in (also light and water maybe) What happens to them over a long period? Will the population size stay the same. What about breeding dying eating defecating etc?

Thanks Dave...I suppose what I need is a not-closed system, where I introduce food for the Xbeast, also a way to recycle his faeces and his body when he dies...he needs to reproduce as well...So the problem is to find the most cost efficient Xbeasts and also the best wheel-machine situation to...

Thank you so far...this is very useful. If I go into the story a little more, maybe a few more ideas will come. It's not set in the future so present day science will have to apply. A scientist decides to invent an energy creation machine, based on the hamster/treadmill principle...

Thanks for your answer...just what I need.

May I ask a question please? What type of creature, large or small, could sustain it's population by feeding only on it's dead plus air water and sun? Living creature, but not plant life. I'm researching for my science fiction novel, so this is important to me. Thank you.